More HTML5 audio fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.15.1147.23
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@gwen-dragon: I had this too and it was very annoying. Also because all open tabs were killed too.
As it is not mentioned it is probably not fixed.
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@Gwen-Dragon But has it been officially reported? I have seen many users explaining they encountered this issue, but no ticket ID in any message... @dicks If not done yet, it may be worth it
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@gwen-dragon ok thanks!
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Still does not launch maximized.
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Yes, yes , yes - thank you for 4this one!!
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@gwen-dragon: Thanks
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With exciting new features, like our Window background image support, Vivaldi 1.15 is starting to look (and sound) pretty good.
Except for the fact that you can't interact with certain things (embedded YouTube videos, Google reCAPTCHA, some abnormal form fields, the LastPass extension popups, etc) when "Strict site isolation" is turned on. I guess if we want extra security in Vivaldi, we have to live with a half-functional browser...
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@gt500 There is no reason for Vivaldi to turn itself inside out to try to offer full support of an experimental "security" feature that doesn't even work fully in its own "parent" browser, and causes unresolved problems in all Chromium-based apps. When it's working and released without bugs "at home," the developers can worry about how well it works in Vivaldi.
One thing that is unlikely to ever be resolved about Strict Site Isolation is that it causes the browser to gobble resources like there's no tomorrow because, by design, it spawns a new process for every single tab opened in any manner whatever, plus for individual iframes, while even Chrome has tried to solve the RAM- and CPU-hammering problems it has brought into the browser world by letting all tab opened by links within the same tab, to run in the same process.
So if Vivaldi's failure, (like Chrome) to use a half-broken feature makes it a half-functional browser, that will have to be the case for the near future.
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Not sure: but opening links in mail still results in forced closure... this is still an issue or is it just me? use I mac version
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@ayespy: You forget that Google recommended turning this feature on as an extra protection against the exploitation of certain CPU side-channel vulnerabilities.
Also, note that "Strict site isolation" is working fine in Google Chrome. It also works fine in Vivaldi 1.14, but not in 1.15.
Considering the recommendation to turn this feature on for security that was given by Google, and passed on by many security experts and news sites, this is not a good thing to leave this horribly broken, or try to blame on Google when it does not appear to be their fault (<- and that comes from someone who doesn't like Google).
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@gt500 From the authors of Chromium, after the release of Chromium 65 (which Vivaldi had to intake into 1.15)
Known Issues
Support for Site Isolation is still in progress, and there are a set of known issues when turning it on in its current form. The issues described below reflect Chrome 65, and they mostly affect sites that are isolated or that contain subframes from sites that are isolated. This may include all sites or just certain sites, as explained in "How to Configure" below. Some users or enterprises may find the security benefits worth the current tradeoff.For users:
Higher overall memory use in Chrome (about 10-12% in Chrome 65 when isolating all sites with many tabs open).When printing a page, cross-site iframes appear blank.
To print the complete web page content, save the page locally, then open and print the saved file. (This is fixed in Chrome 66.)In some cases, scrolling in cross-site iframes may not work properly. (Many of these are fixed in Chrome 66.)
In some cases, iframes may have the wrong size or are clipped incorrectly. (This is fixed in Chrome 66.)
For web developers:
Some features in Chrome's Developer Tools have issues with cross-site iframes, such as inspecting elements. (This is fixed in Chrome 66.)Website testing frameworks using ChromeDriver should update to version 2.37 to support cross-site iframes.
We are working to resolve these issues so that Site Isolation can be enabled more broadly -
@ayespy: And yet, Strict site isolation is working fine in Google Chrome 65.0.3325.181 in all of the places where it's failing in Vivaldi 1.15. Care to try to blame it on Google again?
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@gt500 Chrome has proprietary patches they do not share with other browsers. So we don't have access to their in-house fixes and must wait for Chromium 66 (or 67, if the timing works out that way).
Be aware, I'm not blaming anyone for anything. This "blame" stuff is your language. I'm relating facts.
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@ayespy: Then why does it also work fine in a third-party build of the Chromium source code (again version 65.0.3325.181) from the following URL?
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@gt500 Offhand, I wouldn't know. Perhaps it has something to do with Vivaldi's additional UI layer.
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slow audio problems seem resolved, at least for some example links provided on forum
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/25924/broken-sound-on-mtvbase-com/8 -
VB-35065 confirmed fixed.
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@ayespy: Just an FYI, you could have just asked me if it was happening in any other Chromium-based browsers. I don't mind checking things like that (which is why I leave my e-mail address in my bug reports).
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Nice, I don't see flickering cursors on text hover
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@saudiqbal: I've moved on to another browsing solution until this is fixed. I've no faith that this will be resolved anytime soon.