Enable/Disable Hardware Acceleration in Settings
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I would like that were more accessible to users the option for turning on/off the Hardware Acceleration. This is just possible with flags is not always a non-power user will find it. It should be on Settings. And also I see some people having problems not only with Vivaldi which would be (partially) fixed disabling it, then it wouldn't be a thing for a moment but something you could use customarily.
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Could be placed under "webpages" for example.
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+1
That's an interesting feature I would never have looked for or missed its absence unless ...
Well, I started seeing tab crashes or browser process corruption that require a browser restart first in Chromium (I use the chrlauncher to always get up-to-date binaries) and then soon after in Chrome and Opera. After a lot of diagnosing I was able to get rid of it entirely by disabling HW-acceleration in those browsers and the system returned to run stable again with HW-accel still active in any other browser (Firefox, Edge) and half a dozen other applications.
Since I couldn't get it fixed with different graphics drivers and the same happens on a newly installed operating system as well, Vivaldi is the only browser where a fix looks impossible. Sadly there's no entry in the better hidden vivaldi://flags settings either.
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This option is now available in Settings, Webpages in the latest Snapshot, so it will soon be available in 1.16 Stable.
Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit • Snapshot 1.16.1259.3 (64-bit)
