Post 2.4 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1497.4
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@xyzzy: Sorry for the many replies, but I just tested Safari and it works fine.
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@arcticblue Vivaldi decodes proprietary media types (such as H.264/AVC) with the macOS platform libraries. If the native decoders refuse to work, and they don't on some hardware, then video playback will fail. That said, if Safari works, then so should Vivaldi. (Chrome is not a good comparison in this case because it ships with its own suite of codecs that are independent of the underlying hardware. Unfortunately, this is not an option for Vivaldi because the licence fees that are required to do this are astronomically huge.)
Vivaldi also implemented some changes a few months ago on macOS builds to fix media playback issues that occurred when GPUs got blacklisted by the underlying Chromium code. Things are certainly much better now but there's still some work that needs to be done, and the devs are looking into all cases where video playback fails.
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My mouse cursor keeps disappearing if I don't move it for a few seconds. It is an HP wireless mouse. The same thing happens with my Novatech wired mouse.
I have YouTube video fullscreen on my secondary monitor and this forum on my primary monitor.
The cursor disappears from both monitors at once.
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@xyzzy: Well I went down the rabbit hole and figured this out. Since macOS 10.14.1, Apple seems to force all video decode/encode acceleration on to the Intel chip (which is pretty dumb in my opinion...the dedicated GPU would perform much better) which I had disabled on my system. I had to enable it, then override the framebuffer ID to be one that tells macOS that my Intel graphics has no physical connections. Once I did that, vivaldi://gpu shows h.264 info in the Video Acceleration section and video playback works perfectly.
And all this time I thought it was a Vivaldi bug. Still odd that Safari would play video while Vivaldi wouldn't though.
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@arcticblue Interesting... thanks! My guess is that Safari uses different logic to fall back to software decoding. Just out of curiosity, does setting the "Hardware-accelerated video decode" flag to "Disabled" allow video playback to work on your system without the framebuffer override and with your Intel GPU disabled?
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@Jenoki I also cannot drag a tab into the bookmarks tab or panel.
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@xyzzy: That was actually one of the first things I tried. Setting it to "disabled" had seemingly no effect and videos still would not play. I also messed with the GPU blacklist option with no luck.
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Reported bug as:
(VB-51434) Mouse cursor disappears when watching fullscreen video
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@ian-coog: Perfect, thanks!
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Hi,
I have two profiles (1 = work, 2 = private). Do I need 2 accounts to sync each profile or should / can I use one account for both profiles to sync?
Greetings
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@libcub said in Post 2.4 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1497.4:
@Jenoki I also cannot drag a tab into the bookmarks tab or panel.
Already reported, is the VB-51276 - "Impossible to drag the tabs in the Bookmarks Panel"
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@Irontiger You definitely need a separate Vivaldi Sync account for each profile.
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Add the option to 'move the menu vivaldi' as well as occurs in the address bar.
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@vlevi70: turn off hardware acceleration, should fix it
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@vlevi70 It's not problem of anyone PC. It is general problem of Chromium, that its rendering is horrible. All 4 different PC/Laptops shows font more grayish and blurry than Edge (original Edge). Black on Edge is real black, black in Chromium is more lighter. Everything in Chromium is lighter than it should be.
@Gwen-Dragon Antialiasing in GPU drivers doesn't affect software fonts. It is affecting only 3D applications.
Vivaldi
Edge
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Extension icons randomly disappear from the address bar.
Need to go to the Extension page and disable/enable to see them again ...Win10x64 Vx64
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@helsten2 said in Post 2.4 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1497.4:
Extension icons randomly disappear from the address bar.
Need to go to the Extension page and disable/enable to see them again ...Win10x64 Vx64
same with Win8.1x64 and Win7x64
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The address bar does not display extension, to better understand the problem created a topic in Portuguese
Edit: Almost forgot the link... https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/36052/barra-de-endereços-não-exibe-extensão/6
Apparently doesn't happen in stable version. -
From time to time - when I click an existing (possibly pinned) tab, the page will show up blank. If I reload the page, it is still blank. If I load another page (in the same tab) and then go back to the original page (previous page button), it will render correctly.
However, if I visit other tabs and then go back to this tab, it will show up blank again. Need to restart Vivaldi to fix the problem... but it can happen again.
I have seen this in previous snapshots as well. It does not happen very often, but I guess it should not happen at all ...Win10x64 Vx64
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Anyone facing issue that it is not possible to drag out tab to new window? Possible only via menu -> Move to window.