Snapshot 1.0.283.8 - Fixes to typed history, keyboard shortcuts for web panels and visual polishing
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Known. Being worked on.
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Known.
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Unfortunately, my knowledge is apparently insufficient here. I am totally unable to get Chromium built with H.264 support (I can't get the boxes on the YouTube page to check themselves, like they do in the new Vivaldi snapshot).
Additionally, I have tried building FFmpeg with H.264 support from Chromium's tree. It works identically to Vivaldi's shipped FFmpeg (read: many unviewable videos) when the build is branded as "Chromium" and it crashes the tab for many video-containing pages when built as "Chrome" (read: the H.264 support seems broken, but Vivaldi doesn't ship with debugging symbols to try to figure out what's actually going on). However, with some patience, YouTube videos will start playing without audio this way.
This feels more and more like a Vivaldi issue, the more I poke at it. It may be saying "maybe", but I can't get the failing pages in my current test suite to show a MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED or similar in the Developer Console. This would be a prerequisite for falling back to another media type. If the page can't tell why the video is failing, it's just going to fail, which seems to be what we're seeing now with YouTube and others not loading the alternative representations we would have received in the previous snapshot. "Maybe" doesn't work when the page does not know that a source is unsupported. Even the fairly robust Kaltura player fails now: http://player.kaltura.com/docs/
As this seems unresolvable by the community (unless someone else takes the initiative to figure out WHY the Chromium FFmpeg branded as Chrome cause Vivaldi to fall over), I'd like to humbly request that the Vivaldi team reconsider advertising proprietary codec support (at least on Windows, and maybe OS
until such time as it's actually possible for users to enable it, or Chromium bug 21318 ( http://crbug.com/21318 ) is resolved.I'm also somewhat irritated that almost everyone I've gotten converted to Vivaldi is telling me now that " <insert video-playing="" site="">has stopped working! Help!"
There is literally nothing useful I can tell them to make it work.Cqoicebordel, it may be worthwhile to list that the .so you provide came from Ubuntu. IIRC, the Vivaldi RPM and DEB deliver binaries differing in required GLIBC versions, so the Chromium FFmpeg also may. As I'm not running it on Linux at the moment (as evidenced by having rebuilt Chromium on Windows a few dozen times in the past 24 hours…), I cannot verify that at this time. But it may save a non-Debian/Ubuntu user some grief if they can quickly identify a potential reason for "it doesn't work!" And I'm quite aware of the issues with providing a fully-enabled FFmpeg; I never offered a DLL, but I would have provided instructions as to how someone in a more legally-generous location could have built and used it if I was successful.
Maybe soon, I'll finally figure out how to see how a Debian package is built so I can build the same way on Windows, if they are doing something special. Of course, there may be a .spec (which is trivial to read) if I can find an SRPM of the replacement library...
For the record:
C:\...\chromium\src> python build\gyp_chromium.py --depth . -Dcomponent=shared_library -Dffmpeg_branding=Chrome -Dtarget_arch=x64 -Dproprietary_codecs=1 C:\...\chromium\src> ninja -C out/Release_x64 ffmpegBut that yields an ffmpeg.dll that Vivaldi hates, but it seems like it should work fine. YouTube eventually plays without sound and many tabs will crash, even if it's obvious they have embedded media. Not necessarily an improvement over videos simply not playing. (For the record, an X86 build goes directly into out/Release. The 32-bit result is untested by me as I only have 64-bit Vivaldi readily accessible right now.)</insert>
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Thank you for so much nice work again. It's a huge job and when I look through the setting page I can see how much you have done already. So much remains to do … so hang in there and keep up the good work!
But I have one small complaint; thanks to your memory management improvements I am now back to my old sin of having way too many tabs open at once :-(.
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Do you have a list of urls where you have a problem getting a favicon? m.facebook.com works fine here. Perhaps because the icon has been cached earlier on my machine and installs immediately when the panel is set up (otherwise we wait until the panel content has been loaded so the icon can be fetched via the page itself).
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Nope, doesn't work. 'all users' is greyed out. When I change the folder to, for example 'desktop' then Vivaldi changes it to 'program files/vivaldi'. After that I can change to all users, but the problem persists. Should have something to do with permissions in windows 10, but can't find out what.
Run the installer as administrator and pray that the greyed out option can be selected.
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When will the final version of Vivaldi
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When you delete a bookmark from the express panel browser should ask for confirmation.To avoid wrong actions. Or even remove the delete button and remove the possibility to make a correction mode only
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I don't know if it's the best place to post this, but… How about adding the release date next to the build number on "About" page? It's hard to keep up with the frequent updates on Linux without automatic update...
Thank you so much, you guys ROCK!
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Well, it just does not work at all and it seems to be a known issue. Should we still report it? Does anybody know the bug number?
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The order is correct on the View menu.
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I had problems with inoreader and instagram for a while. Seems to work now. But m.facebook.com and translate.google.com/m still doesn't load their favicons for some reason. Haven't tried a clean install. Got many things set up so I can't really do one though. They won't even load on my Windows machine. I'll try to keep adding other URLs to test
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Panel toggle doesn't seem to be working… whenever I click it when hidden it doesn't open the side panel, it works if the panel is already visible though.
Also, any plans to allow us to hide enabled extension icons from the address bar?
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A long time still. We are not even to Beta. We still don't have email. If I said a final version was only six months out I would still probably fall short.
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First problem is well known and widely discussed. It will be fixed soon.
Second issue has been asked for numerous times with no response from the developers, which tells me it is likely a low priority. But since their goal is the most customizable browser around, I would expect to see it some day.
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I am pleased to see the "search in page" bar persistent through pages and reloads. This was one of the great things about O12 - the ability to quickly search for the same term in successive pages.
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Regression for win64bit: unable to play sound samples on amzon. downgraded again to Vivaldi.1.0.279.3.x64 which plays the samples alright.
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The video lectures on Coursera.org do not play anymore after updating to vivaldi 1.0.283.8 (Gentoo 64bit). It played fine in previous versions.
Their video player displays this message: "The video could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported". The videos work fine in Firefox.
Edit: example link: https://class.coursera.org/crypto-preview/lecture/1
