Bug: Capture image in jpg

[gh0stzk]

Hello, i notice a little bug on images captured in JPG.
I take 2 captures, one in png and other in JPG.

You can see the two formats, same capture.
The one in png is showed without problemas in my windows photo viewer

Now the on in JPG is showed in black...

Latest vivaldi stable release.
Windows 8.1 x64 spectre & meltdown protection off, k-lite codec pack standar, all latest updates from microsoft.

[gh0stzk]

Yes i dont have installed IE but in paint and vivaldi and gimp image is fine

[GeeTee]

Hello,
I have seen a similar issue, so will add my observations to this report and explain why I think there is a regression in Vivaldi.

Windows 8.1 - Stable Vivaldi 2.4.1488.35 32 bit
Capture ‘Full Page’ as JPG, about 1160k in size, displays correctly using Windows Photo Viewer
Capture ‘Selection’ as JPG, about 8k in size, Windows Photo Viewer gives error message: “Windows Photo Viewer can’t display this picture because there might not be enough memory available on your computer.”

This ‘Selection’ is viewable using the Irfanview viewer, but that is inconvenient to use, compared with the Windows Photo Viewer, accessed using the right click ‘Preview’. The issue is repeatable whatever web page is being captured.

To validate correct operation of Windows Photo Viewer:
Capture the same selection as JPG using Windows Snipping Tool – all image sizes displayed without a problem.

The same issue also occurs using the latest Vivaldi snapshot: 2.5.1525.36 32 bit

I installed Vivaldi 2.2.1388.37 32 bit as standalone. The image capture in this version WORKS CORRECTLY. JPG images, both Selections and Full Screen are viewable by Windows Photo Viewer.
Thus, given the Image Capture Selection feature created viewable images in Vivaldi 2.2 but does not do so in Vivaldi 2.4 or 2.5, then that appears to be a regression.

[Pesala]

I find IrfanView easier to use because I associate it with JPG images, so I just double-click, but right-click could also be used.

Clearly, there is a bug in Vivaldi if it saves the two types of capture, and PhotoViewer can open one but not the other.

IrfanView is smart enough to not get confused by some wrong data that stops Photo Viewer in its tracks.

Opening the capture in IrfanView and saving it then allows Photo Viewer to open it. Windows Paint can also open the captured selection, and this forum has no issue with uploading and displaying it.

Stable build 2.5.1525.41 has the same issue as the latest Snapshot.

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Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit 1809 build 17763.475 • Snapshot 2.5.1525.37 (64-bit)

[gh0stzk]

@GeeTee exactly.. captures taken "full page" works fine. only "capture selection" is buggy.

I read Gwen-Dragon reply "is your windows bug" but im not a noob, i just installed from 0 new copy of windows 8.1 and error still there... captures in opera works well al my images in jpeg works well.. so i dont think is my windows viewer..

is not big bug but annoying one... so just take de capture in png and done.

[iAN CooG]

For what it's worth, also in Windows 7 the windows photo viewer seems unable to open the jpgs captured by Vivaldi. The error seems in the added header after the JFIF marker (ICC_PROFILE), once removed with jpegtran -optimize, the jpg is perfectly readable even in win7 photo viewer. It's the viewer not knowing how to deal with jpgs with extra informations headers. Use Irfanview or any other better image processing program

[Ayespy]

@iAN-CooG XnView also opens everything, irrespective of extra information headers.

[iAN CooG]

@Ayespy any good viewer should open them, I know. Blame Microsoft and their bad sw.

[GeeTee]

Thank you Ian_CooG for your analysis of the internal structure of the unreadable JPG created by Capture Selection. That is a clear explanation of the issue. The file is also readable by full Photoshop, but one would expect that. However Windows Photo Viewer IS the default Preview in Windows 8.1 so if the Vivaldi team have deliberately chosen to make its image Capture file unreadable by builtin default software then that is an interesting decision.

The point of my posting and basis of a bug report, is that the 'Full Page' Capture JPG IS viewable in Windows Photo Viewer, so that means the two types of capture files now have a different internal structure. Also the problem did not occur in Vivaldi 2.2.
The bug reference is VB-53310
Meanwhile the Snipping Tool is recalled as my trusty friend.

[iAN CooG]

Fixed in today's Snapshot
https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/fix-for-windows-7-black-window-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1554-13/

[enc0re]

Windows 10 1607, Vivaldi: 3.0.1874.33 (Stable channel) (64-bit) and images created with Capture as PNG or Capture as JPG not opening. Actually, images were never be able to open in Windows Photo Viewer. I have some images from 4/2019 which can't be opened, so I would say majority of 2.x snapshots. However Windows Explorer could create thumbnails from them.

[Pesala]

@enc0re Try a different image viewer like IrfanView. That may be able to fix errors on opening some faulty images.

Perhaps it is just a size limit with Windows Photo Viewer?

[Pathduck]

@enc0re Your version of Windows is pretty old (2016). Any reason why you've not updated? Might be a bug in Windows for all we know.

[Pesala]

@enc0re

• Use DropBox or Filebin.net and post a link to any screenshots that won't open.

[enc0re]

I know that it is archaic version, with few really annoying bugs, however it is LTSB version. It is my corporate notebook, so no chance to update OS or install anything else than portable. Honestly, I do not want to use different picture viewer.

It doesn't have problem open 20MB images, capture page files have only few KB's. I think that it is similar thing that was written before, that Vivaldi is adding something to image and WPV is confused becase of that.

@Pesala image

[Pathduck]

@enc0re As pointed out earlier in this thread, it looks like Vivaldi adds an embedded colour profile and WPV is not able to understand such image headers.

Honestly I think this is a lost cause. Modern image viewers are kind of expected to be able to handle embedded colour profiles.

Of course, you could say it's a regression as apparently it was "fixed" as a side-effect of another bug fix (VB-53645).

[Pesala]

@enc0re The file opens OK in Windows Paint, but not in Photo Viewer.