Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3

[barbudo2005]

@Hadden89

You said it yourself, the only thing missing are these two exhaust options:

"maybe later..." or a close button.

[Catweazle]

In Spain I use in the Mobile the Official app from the Stag¡te Agency of Meterology (AEMET) (OpenData), because it0s the most accurate and the source of all other Weather apps, apart also the most private. It permits even to customize your own page with your specific weather forecast.
Same as this one, I think that the official agency of metereology in every country is the best and most accurate solution.

[Vladimyr]

@sjudenim You're right, but my system font is small enough, you see.
Can't make it even more smaller.
I hope that Vivaldi team will make a change in the widget layout: to squeeze gaps between the strings or make a different align for blocks, to eliminate scrolling (until the font is really large).

[isynceo]

Good day,
after the newest update I can't see any notification badges (unread messages count) on web panels.
Tried to remove and re-add the panels, clear cache, cookies, etc., tried a fresh browser installation on virtual machine, nothing helps.
Or is it just me?

[sjudenim]

@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

Unfortunately I don't find the source provider to be very accurate for my location either

Just to follow up on this, the widget tells me the last update was 6:17pm, that was 6 hours ago. I don't know if that's a server side thing or V not fetching, but I would like it a little more up to date than that

[yngve]

@sjudenim As I recall from discussions, the results are cached for a while (up to 6 hours after the date of the last upstream update). One reason is to not overload the provider of the data, and in any case the information is not updated more frequently outside Scandinavia

[qjava]

@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

It wouldn't let me close the browser unless I clicked the copy button.

@Hadden89 said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

the fact it "soft-locks" the browser and is not clearly dismiss-able ("maybe later..." or a close button)

@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

Forcing me to initiate an action in order for me to proceed is hostile behavior

The screenshot in the thread above appears to be cropped, here is the full dialog for context - I think the close button is really hard to miss.

PS: We're working on making it less intrusive anyway.

[SharpBlade]

Very nice!
Unfortuntately, I cannot update past 6.9 due to (VB-110858) Blurry tab titles since 7.0 on linux.
Please take a look at this bug as it is a deal breaker for me if the tabs have a blurry font!
Thanks, and have a nice day!

[barbudo2005]

@sjudenim

Said:

This reminder is really hostile.

Which reminder, I don't see any in your post at the moment.

[sjudenim]

@qjava

There was no close button on my prompt. My image showed that but for some reason it has been removed from my post (not by me). Besides, is a nag really necessary for the people that are already using the browser? I would think most of us have already tried sharing Vivald with others

[iAN CooG]

@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

@qjava

There was no close button on my prompt. My image showed that but for some reason it has been removed from my post (not by me).

maybe it's white on white? for some reason drawn in the same color when in some particular light theme?

[sjudenim]

@iAN-CooG

Perhaps. But since the browser was soft locked (clicking anywhere outside the box would not remove it) so there was no way for me to change the theme to see if that was the case

[izero]

Hi, version 7 fixed my long time problem with freezing of tabs when I quickly open 10 - 20 links from Google results each to a new tab. But there is new problem on main and snapshot version - periodic high CPU usage in "video_capture.mojom.VideoCaptureService" process. How to disable this process? I kill that process, so CPU goes down, but then in unknown cases it starts using CPU again, so I need to kill it again...

[mib2berlin]

@izero
Hi, I don't even have such a process, are you on Windows?
A quick search for capture.mojom gives some results, this is a new buffer to speed up opening many tabs in a short time.
But it is from 2016, maybe some more advanced users can shed some light on it.
I don't think you can disable it.

Cheers, mib

[Pathduck]

@izero VideoCaptureService is a utility process responsible for display sharing in Chromium browsers. It's launched when for instance an online meeting uses display sharing.

There's a known bug in the latest Vivaldi, that makes this process not exit when screen sharing is turned off. This is probably what you're seeing.

The bug report I find is:
[VB-111628] Sharing bar on top of Browser window dead after leaving google meet
Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Seems to be not limited to Vivaldi so probably a Chromium bug as well:
https://community.omnissa.com/forums/topic/69002-high-cpu-in-edgewebview2-and-chrome-130xx-videocaptureservice-processes/

Not using a lot of CPU here, averaging about 20% on an 8-core CPU so out of 800% or about ~2% real CPU.

[yngve]

@Pathduck @izero Had a quick look at Chromium BTS, and found this: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/377126111 , which may be related to the issue being discussed.

That reporter is mentioning External cameras, AMD CPUs as possibly related to the issue, and being able to reproduce on several Chromium-based browsers.

If this is the same issue, then we will have to wait for Chromium to fix it.

Not sure if it is realated to the Vivaldi issue Pathduck links to, though.

[Pathduck]

@yngve Well I don't even have a camera and it's not AMD.

Then again I don't notice any "high cpu" - I'm just observing the VideoCaptureService process sticking around even with no screen sharing going on. Not sure if that's WAI or not.
I do not consider 2% actual CPU use as "high" either.

Of course, if someone sees 50% in the browser task manager, that's higher than the 20% I'm seeing, but they also have a 8-core Ryzen CPU so some quick math leads to about 4% actual CPU use. Not really high.

People often don't understand the browser task manager showing accumulated CPU use over all cores and so think 50% is "high". Then again, if they're on a measly 2-core laptop it's another matter

Also, far as I can tell this "VideoCaptureService" is new in Chr.130.
It does not appear in Vivaldi 6.9 (Chr.128).
So I'm guessing previously the work was done by the GPU process.
Strike that, it's not new...

I suspected possibly the "Sharing Bar" sticking around might be linked to the VideoCaptureService process.

[yngve]

@Pathduck There may be more involved in the issue. As I understand it, the reporter of that issue at least associated it with AMD, since all other reports they had seen reported using such a CPU; which may just have been due to some kind of selection bias.

[Pathduck]

@yngve In Vivaldi 6.9, if I go into a "meeting" - I tested with Whereby - and share the screen, the Video Capture process appears.

But when I exit the meeting and stop sharing, the process is gone after a short while.

In Vivaldi 7.0/7.1 the process sticks around.
I'm guessing these things are related in some way.

[DoctorG]

@sardo
@DoctorG said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

VB-111628 - no dev assigned.

VB-111628 Dev assigned, fix in progress.

I hope we will get rid of nasty sticky bar in some next 7.1 Snapshot.