Minimize to tray results in empty page

sgunhouse

@carlinhosnewstyle All pages, or only certain ones? Just wondering if it might be only pages that reloaded/updated while minimized, as I can't reproduce on this page.

internetexplorer

OP here, reporting back: it definitely wasn't the cookie extension, but disabling Memory saver seems to have done the trick. I'm still not 100% sure, needs further testing but this seems to be it for me

---edit: No it's back. wasn't the memory saver that's for sure!

Chetter

I have the same issue.
Tried disabling extensions (I currently use only ublock origin).
Tried disabling Memory saver.

Issue is still present.

dawidpajak

Same here. For me it started with 7.2 update. Very easy to reproduce:

Open any page.
Minimize window to taskbar.
Wait ~10 minutes (can do other things in meantime).
Restore window from taskbar.
Page content is missing.

It can be easily fixed by changing tab or minimizing and restoring window again, but still it's very annoying. I think it's the browser issue:

Never happened before 7.2 update.
Looks like rendering problem (even page background is not visible).
Occurs also on clean profile (without any extensions).
Occurs with memory saver disabled.
Occurs for both pinned and regular tabs.
Occurs in multiple windows too.

I really hope devs can fix this soon.

Rohjake

@dawidpajak said in Minimize to tray results in empty page:

Same here. For me it started with 7.2 update. Very easy to reproduce:

Open any page.

Minimize window to taskbar.

Wait ~10 minutes (can do other things in meantime).

Restore window from taskbar.

Page content is missing.

It can be easily fixed by changing tab or minimizing and restoring window again, but still it's very annoying. I think it's the browser issue:

Never happened before 7.2 update.

Looks like rendering problem (even page background is not visible).

Occurs also on clean profile (without any extensions).

Occurs with memory saver disabled.

Occurs for both pinned and regular tabs.

Occurs in multiple windows too.

I really hope devs can fix this soon.

Here to report this exact same behavior.
The issue indeed started with 7.2 update

Tinti1000

@internetexplorer
I have the same problem on my 2 laptops and my desktop PC. Started with 7.2.
I minimize Vivaldi, leave it for couple of min and then page goes blank. Have to force window to refresh itself. Can't you guys just add forced refresh on Restore event triggered ?
It's so annoying I am planning to dump Vivaldi if this is not fixed any time soon.

linguaoccultus

Same here; already filed a bug report about it.

OS: Windows 11 Pro 24H2
Vivaldi: 7.3 (started with 7.2)

In my case I already have this issue when just minimizing the browser window and bring it back up. Does not happen every single time but mostly. Seems to be more likely to happen when the window is minimized for a longer time.

I cannot see any relation to wether extensions or power saving as it happens independently from that and on at least two completely independent machines.

I guess this is more something about rendering and I can also workaround by just switching the tab and come back to the further blank one; however, there are many bugs related to tabs open for years now also. Not to be confused with RELOADING the tab which does NOT fix it.

»Blank« means here, that the window shows the full UI normally but the whole content part, where the website normally is shown, is only one solid color (depending on the theme, it seems).

WHEN rendering is behind this, aspects like GPUs, driver version and driver setting might be the connection between the affected users maybe. However, I do not have any issues at all in any other program and it immediately started with the Vivaldi update so I guess it is more a browser-basesd problem (or even Chromium itself).

Have not found any relations or workarounds aside that either ...

mib2berlin

@linguaoccultus
Hi, can you check to disable hardware acceleration in Settings Webpages?
This can help to pinpoint if it is a GPU issue.

linguaoccultus

@mib2berlin Wanted to mention this anyway since it was my first thought also, but I am currently at work (where I do have a third affected installation of Vivaldi, but not the time for testing).

I came here to see if others are reporting it also to get an idea if this is just me; but on now three independent machines with completely different hardware/software (aside from the OS, so there is another possible cause but nothing else is affected by now) this is very unlikely.

I will do some testing at home later then and report back in.

Currently I am using a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 with the latest driver version 572.83, for which there are currently also some reports about issues, but I still only see them in Vivaldi at the moment.

dawidpajak

@mib2berlin I just checked hardware acceleration. I had it enabled, but after disabling and browser restart the issue persists.