Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3
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@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:
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?
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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
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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...
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@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
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@DoctorG said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:
I hope we will get rid of nasty sticky bar in some next 7.1 Snapshot.
I also hope they fix so it doesn't look so friggin' ugly
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@DoctorG Thank you
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@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:
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
I'm really happy if you did share Vivaldi, but it may not be true for others. We tried to make it not so invasive, but at the same time very visible. IMO, it can also be easily removed with a big “X” button.
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@qjava said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:
@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:
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
I'm really happy if you did share Vivaldi, but it may not be true for others. We tried to make it not so invasive, but at the same time very visible. IMO, it can also be easily removed with a big “X” button.
Except the "X" was not visible for me and the image I shared had shown that. Since it wasn't visible I would think that clicking outside the box would also dismiss it, but it didn't. Instead the browser was soft locked until I clicked "Copy". Locking the browser is invasive imo.
Maybe adding to the context menu could be an option? It would be more of a constant reminder since one would have to edit the menu to remove it while still being less disruptive
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Don't need a widget - I just look out of the window. If I'm travelling somewhere else, I'll take a look on AccuWeather or the BBC but I can guarantee it will still rain when I get there....
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@TravellinBob said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:
Don't need a widget - I just look out of the window. If I'm travelling somewhere else, I'll take a look on AccuWeather or the BBC but I can guarantee it will still rain when I get there....
Thanks for the LOL...
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@mossman My pleasure!
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It's coming...