Automatic element hiding in the blocker – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1874.30
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@luetage: It does not for me but maybe I am missing something. I activated blocking of trackers and ads and appropriate lists. Where exactly should the statistics show up? I did:
- hover the shield icon
- click the shield icon to bring up its menu
- click the blocked contents icon on the right of the address bar
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@Gwen-Dragon I've tried to reproduce this error but it's not that simple. It seems to be a non-deterministic problem. Sometimes Vivaldi freezes, sometimes not.
I've spotted this bug while browsing https://www.pexels.com/videos/ or https://pixabay.com/videos/search/ (I'm not sure which one it was). Try to browse the catalog, mouseover to see a preview, open some videos in new tabs, play them, close tabs etc. That's all I can tell for now.
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@SteveKong Clicking the shield icon is enough. See here:
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@luetage: Nope. Nothing shows up for me. I tried several sites such as reddit, zeitonlin, theverege etc. Interestingly, my shield icon is missing the flash symbol as well.
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@SteveKong I guess that means nothing is being blocked. Check your blocker settings in privacy to find out what the problem is.
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@mozzer: that's drastic solution but try clearing... browser history. I once had unidentified performance issue related to video, nobody could help me or spot the source of the issue and the only thing that finally helped was to clear browser history entries (not cookies, cache, etc, but the browsed pages history).
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@jacekn: Oh no, please no
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@Ryanchuang said in Automatic element hiding in the blocker – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1874.30:
Video sites still hang/froze the entire browser.
When this happens open Task Manager (or your OS's equivalent if you're not on Windows) and kill the Vivaldi process which has
--type=gpu-processin its command line:
This restarts Vivaldi's rendering engine and kan fix a lot of freeze issues, including ones related to videos (I've had those happen as well).(In Windows Task Manager you might have to tell it to display the Command Line column. In the Details tab, right-click one of the column names and choose "Select columns". Then find "Command Line" in the list.)
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@Ryanchuang said in Automatic element hiding in the blocker – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1874.30:
Video sites still hang/froze the entire browser.
@mozzer said in Automatic element hiding in the blocker – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1874.30:
@Gwen-Dragon I've tried to reproduce this error but it's not that simple. It seems to be a non-deterministic problem. Sometimes Vivaldi freezes, sometimes not.
I've spotted this bug while browsing https://www.pexels.com/videos/ or https://pixabay.com/videos/search/ (I'm not sure which one it was). Try to browse the catalog, mouseover to see a preview, open some videos in new tabs, play them, close tabs etc. That's all I can tell for now.
I can confirm that, and https://pixabay.com/videos/search/ freezes my guest window indeed, it happens in sites that provide many videos with previews that start playing when you hover over them, or if you open some videos in the background while playing one on the initial page, it has to do with GPU hardware acceleration and must be related to VB-61526 as it's also still unfixed. The only way to proceed is to kill the Vivaldi GPU process (the one with the highest memory consumption) which always comes with the following strange line
--gpu-preferences=MAAAAAAAAADgAAAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKAAAAAQAAAAgAAAAAAAAACgAAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAAAA4AAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAAAAEAAAAAAAAAABAAAABQAAABAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAYAAAA=P.S. I have only tested it on Windows so far.
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@mozzer: looks like i brought this back at wrong time. Current snapshot causes issues with video on streamable.com for me
Browser itself works fine, but the video is low fps, pauses, audio has some break, finally it stops on buffering for no reason. It is all smooth on Chrome. That's weeeeeirrd.
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Happy to report VB-65493 "Use Desktop Wallpaper" option for Start Page settings does not work is now resolved. Thank you for your quick work, team. Cheers, MM
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Well, this new Ubuntu 20.04 beta is problematic, update did not find new Vivaldi update again and they remove .deb software install, looks like with new Snap store. I have install Vivaldi by gdebi with terminal. Will Vivaldi come as Snap store?
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@npro said in Automatic element hiding in the blocker – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1874.30:
I can confirm that, and https://pixabay.com/videos/search/ freezes my guest window indeed, it happens in sites that provide many videos with previews that start playing when you hover over them, or if you open some videos in the background while playing one on the initial page, it has to do with GPU hardware acceleration and must be related to VB-61526 as it's also still unfixed. The only way to proceed is to kill the Vivaldi GPU process
This describes the bug pretty much spot on. It is so intermittent, but it is always a site with lots of previews where I have had this happen.
The killing of the GPU Process in Windows Task Manager makes Vivaldi usable again, but it seems to lock up again faster or more often once it has happened once.
I gave lots more of my system details in the last snapshot, it should be one of the only things in my posting history if anyone wants to look at that. Maybe it is common to some particular video card or card brand?
It does sound pretty similar to the VB-61526 bug. I do think it is hardware acceleration related somehow.
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Bitwarden vault is not autolocking, tried stable and this snapshot.
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@victorbayas said in Automatic element hiding in the blocker – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1874.30:
Bitwarden vault is not autolocking, tried stable and this snapshot.
Autolocking based on time, computer lock, browser restart?
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@komposten: Someone might call me a heathen, but I think what both Chrome and Opera do now is similar to what you're describing and kind of sensible - installing the new version in a separate dir with the new version number in it, then using the new version on next launch - thus it can happen in the background without causing interruption.
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@killchain said in Automatic element hiding in the blocker – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1874.30:
@komposten: Someone might call me a heathen, but I think what both Chrome and Opera do now is similar to what you're describing and kind of sensible - installing the new version in a separate dir with the new version number in it, then using the new version on next launch - thus it can happen in the background without causing interruption.
Vivaldi also uses this kind of folder structure on Windows. The one exception is
vivaldi.exe, which is kept outside of the version folders any would have to be replaced on the next program launch. I would assume Chrome and Opera do the same, because having a new .exe after every update can be extremely frustrating for the end user.
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@mimismum said in Automatic element hiding in the blocker – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1874.30:
Happy to report VB-65493 "Use Desktop Wallpaper" option for Start Page settings does not work is now resolved. Thank you for your quick work, team. Cheers, MM
This is not working for me. It has a blank page and when I select it my background is blank
Tested it on a clean install as well
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@komposten: Thanks for solutions,much appreciated.
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coredump when visiting sites with basic authentication . Please check.
