Top tab bar regularly "breaks" (clicking tabs does nothing, cannot drag empty space to move window)

cailmba

I use Vivaldi both at home and at work (a little more heavily when not working), and have noticed that the top tab bar will often break for me in several ways:

The top tabs will stop updating. When clicking on tabs, nothing changes.
I can no longer click and drag an empty part of the tab bar to move the window around.

I've been able to "fix" #1 by "shaking" the tabs by repositioning them (first to the left, then to the top), but this is pretty inconvenient. Even worse, the only way to solve #2 is to close and reopen the whole browser.

I use Vivaldi in basically the same configuration both on a work and home PC, and only the home PC has ever exhibited this problem. Right now, no problems are manifesting, as I recently restarted the browser. And I can actually grab the empty area just to the right of the tabs and start moving the Vivaldi window without any trouble.

I've been experiencing this since Vivaldi Desktop 6.7, and figured I should mention it because I couldn't find any similar posts here.

Anything else I should say? I like using tab stacking (two levels), I have middle-clicks open tabs in the same / a new stack. And even if I cannot drag the window on the top row of tabs, I can move the window by clicking and dragging in an empty area on the second row of tabs.

Ayespy

@cailmba Do you use any extensions, or have you made any CSS mods?

cailmba

@Ayespy For extensions, I'm only using

uBlock Origin Lite
Authenticator
SponsorBlock

all from the web store. I don't think it's anything too audacious.

Ayespy

@cailmba You might try operating in a guest profile, or disabling either ublock or sponsorblock and see if it makes a difference, but I don't see an obvious reason for your trouble, unless it's a conflict with a video driver.

cailmba

@Ayespy This part of your comment felt personal

unless it's a conflict with a video driver.

I try to keep my NVIDIA GeForce 3060 drivers up to date, but the computer is often very temperamental

Ayespy

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nickyP

@cailmba I'm still having the same issue, did you ever find what was causing it?

DoctorG

@nickyP said in Top tab bar regularly "breaks" (clicking tabs does nothing, cannot drag empty space to move window):

having the same issue

Be precise, which issue do you have?
And give some information on Vivaldi version and OS version.

nickyP

@DoctorG Same as OP, sorry. I didn't think I had to retype it because its literally the exact same issue. The tab bar occasionally stops updating (new tabs don't appear, and they stay on the bar when closed), and when this happens you can't reposition the window by clicking and dragging the top of the window. You can reposition the tab bar to fix the tabs not updating (I've set up a macro to move it to the left then back to the top) but the issue of not being able to move the window persists until the browser restarts.

I'm on Windows 10 Pro and Vivaldi version 7.0.3495.6. I can be more specific on those if you want.

cailmba

@nickyP I've had no such luck, and it seems to have persisted across updates too. The only thing that seems to help it is avoiding messing with tabs too much, especially with stacking/unstacking them.

IIRC I once managed to un-mess-up the tabs by trying to drag them around more, but your mileage may vary a lot there. Probably best to do the trick where you change the tab bar location (I press F2 and type "left" for Tabs on Left, then F2 again and "top" for Tabs on Top).