Differences between Standalone and Full installed

cmstazan

Trying to figure out why this is occurring. There seems to be a direct functionality difference between the Standalone and the Full Installed version.

0_1558583102306_Vivaldi- standalone vs installed.jpg

On the left is Vivaldi Standalone and displays correctly.

On the right is Vivaldi Full Install and displays incorrectly.

Exact same settings and no change in settings seems to have any impact.

This is only one difference in functionality that I have found between Vivaldi Standalone and Vivaldi Full Install.

cmstazan

And yes, this has been duplicated on more than one computer and operating systems.

Pesala

@cmstazan Working perfectly here on the latest Vivaldi Stable 2.5 (full install) and on my default browser (standalone install). Displays 7 columns by 5 rows at 100% Webpage zoom on 1920.x1080 monitor.

Try in a Private Window or disable all extensions
Try zooming in and out to see if the page redraws.
If that fails, Reset your profile for the full install.

Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit 1809 build 17763.475 • Snapshot 2.6.1546.4 (64-bit)

Ayespy

@cmstazan What kind of system is that on? Are you using any kind of extension for your start page?

I have nine installations, regular install and standalone, on six different systems, and none of them look like either of your speed dial pics above. In fact, without modifications, both of the Speed Dial appearances you show are impossible in Vivaldi. It should look something like this:

sgunhouse

Yeah, since you've obviously modded the start page, make sure all your mods are the same. And that none refer to files that are in different places.

Pesala

@Ayespy @sgunhouse These are not speed dials.

This is a web page with icons leading to other pages. It has a fluid design that changes with the browser window width.

Ayespy

@Pesala Aha!

cmstazan

@Pesala hmmm...

I have had this issue since v1.5 (using snapshot 2.6 at the moment).

Changing zoom has no impact.

Private window has same results.

Haven't tried resetting the profile yet, however, I have had the issue on fresh installs with no profile and no extensions.

I've seen this issue on:

32 bit and 64 bit machines.
800 x 1400 displays (work computer) and 1080p displays
Windows 8.1 (work computer), Windows 10, and Kubuntu
fresh installs (so, no profile or extensions) and updated installs

And all of them has had this issue.

However, I just tried the guest profile on the Full Install and it showed correctly. Didn't think about the guest profile, but I don't understand why they would have that result.

cmstazan

@Ayespy

@pesala is correct, it is a web page, not the speed dials.

This page specifically: https://myeagle.hccs.edu

cmstazan

@Gwen-Dragon Yes, I submitted a ticket but didn't get a response.

If it is a cookie issue why would it occur in private window or fresh installs on systems that have never had Vivaldi installed on it in the past?

cmstazan

I have found the issue just messing around with some settings.

The issue is actually with the zoom as @pesala stated, but to realize the issue coming and going, requires a full reload of the page with each zoom change. Which is why I never realized it.

Putting the zoom to 180%, 140%, 90%, Or 70% (I only tested every 10% from 50% to 200%) causes the distortion.

85% and 95% does not have the distortion.

I have tested this on the Standalone and using the guest profile and private window, all with the same results concerning the zoom

Could you test on your end to see if it does the same?

(One of the first things I do with a web browser is adjust settings before I ever go to a web page).

@Gwen-Dragon @Ayespy

Ayespy

@cmstazan Yeah. Visited that page, and it showed me uniformly sized and spaced icons - almost like a speed dial, but with smaller spacing. None of the size differentials your one image shows, and none of the weird wide spacing your other image shows. But it appears that by playing with zoom, you have sussed it out.

Pesala

@cmstazan I have tried every zoom level from 95% to 300% in 5% steps and never reproduced the issue.

There must be something else causing this problem for you. Maybe an extension?

Ayespy

@Pesala User says "...to realize the issue coming and going, requires a full reload of the page with each zoom change." Did you reload the page each time?

cmstazan

@Pesala It can't be an extension, it happens with and without them. I have no extensions or synced profile setup on the standalone version, also the guest profile (as far as I can tell) disables all extensions. And yes, you have to reload the page entirely after adjusting the zoom.

@Ayespy you tried 70%, 90%, 140%, and 180% zooms and reloaded between each and every change? But didn't get the issue? Trying to make sure I understand you correctly.

Now, I recognize that those 4 zooms may occur on the computers I have access to with their particular setups (even though they vary drastically) and may not be the same zooms that may cause the issue on others systems (different screens, different graphics cards, etc). But I would question why I am consistently seeing the issue on the computers I have access to, but others would not. For instance: my work computer has no extensions and no sync profile (we share a single computer profile, so I don't sign into any personal things) and only the standalone (IT dept. won't let me do a Full Install), yet it demonstrates the issue.

My laptop, which is my primary computer, is a MS Surface Book with Windows 10 and everything fully up to date with the latest versions of everything.

cmstazan

Ok, issue somewhat cornered.

After thinking about it, I tried the zoom change and reload in Brave, Chrome, and Firefox.

Chrome: issue occurs
Brave: issue occurs

Firefox: issue does NOT occur,

This means that the issue rests with Chromium itself since only browsers based on Chromium produce the issue.

Ayespy

@cmstazan And it's chromium-based browsers on your device(s) because playing with the zoom here cannot reproduce the effect. I tried each of the zooms you specified, and reloaded after each one, and only got properly-formatted pages.

I haven't tried the Stable or Snapshot yet, 'cuz I'm in the middle of something. Have only used the internal test build. Which version are you using?

cmstazan

@Ayespy If that is the case and I am truly the only one experiencing it, that perturbs me greatly. I really wonder how 4 very different devices (completely different hardware, OSes, settings, etc.) would show the same issue and why would only the devices I have produce the error. The common connection between all 4 machines is Chromium based browsers (Vivaldi and Chrome, Chromium in the case of the Linux machine). It simply doesn't make sense.

For this computer:
Vivaldi: 2.6.1546.4 (snapshot full install and standalone) and 2.5.1525.46 (standalone)
Chrome: 74.0.3729.169 (official build)
Brave: Version 0.64.77 Chromium: 74.0.3729.169 (Official Build)

For my 2 work computers:
Vivaldi: 2.5.1525.46 (standalone)
Chrome: 54 (yes, that far out of date, IT dept fails horribly at keeping things up to date, of course they are still using Windows 8.1)

My Linux machine:
Vivaldi: 2.6.1546.4 (snapshot full install)
Chromium: 74 (latest build)

cmstazan

Made a screen recording of what is going on, however, I am not sure how to properly share it here.

cmstazan

Or there is always Google drive and what not:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZGfdiLhnGGQTbGOzfZeBDEcw5azli1_Q

The video shows in this order:

Brave >> Chrome >> Vivaldi (Full Install)