Take a break – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2020.3

[QuHno]

@drv42: It was set to "Cannot reproduce"

[mossman]

Talking of pause mode and boss key, I must admit that I don't see much point in just making the Vivaldi window blank... But I would see a use in stopping all activity and taking the window off the screen.

I can imagine a case for myself where I know there's action going on in the background (music playing, some kind of interaction on a webpage) which I would also like to halt while I do something else - otherwise I would just minimise the window.

So for those times, and where multiple windows are open (requiring multiple clicks to minimise them all), a single-click way to hibernate everything Vivaldi is doing and reduce it to a taskbar icon would be the only time I would want this option.

[QuHno]

@Pesala Worse: The UI is still active in break mode!

• Click where the tab bar was before it was obscured and you see the X on a tab. if you click it, the tab will be closed despite break mode is still on.
• Click 100 times on the (+) in the tab bar and you will be surprised how narrow tabs can get when you are leaving the break mode.
• The same happens with the page navigation buttons, they stay active.
• Open the notes panel and select a note, start break mode and click on the minus (-) at the top - the note will be in trash.
• The same happens with the other panels.

Reported as: VB-71039 - [Break Mode] It should not be possible to interact with other UI elements

[Pesala]

@QuHno All are non-issues IMO. Why would anyone even try to do any of those things in break mode? They just chat with their family or colleagues and then turn off break mode and get back to work.

[iPristy]

@vort: It's also on speed dial, Vivaldi needs to wrap things out and get ready for 85 it's already out.

[QuHno]

@Pesala or they leave for a short visit to the restrooms and a workmate clicks on it in several places ...

Apart from that: Minimize to tray and stopping all websites and video/audio playback would have been nicer.

[adacom]

something odd with settings ??

if i open settings from taskbar icon i get this - note the url

if i open it from the drop down menu - again note the url

when opening it from the taskbar icon the expected page flashes up for a split second and then changes

cannot say for sure if it started with this snapshot but i think it did

[npro]

@Steffie said in Take a break – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2020.3:

@npro said in Take a break – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2020.3:

Updated fine here via herecura

Of course it did -- you presumably have the luxury of not facing the nefarious southernhemisphereblocker flag that the Devs snuck into the last TWO Snapshots.

A benefit of it is that they keep you... warm during the cold season there

I'm now becoming quite worried about the next Stable, if the Devs have not fixed this terrible fault in these two+ Snapshots by then, & it then rolls into Stable, then all V's will be DoA for me, leaving me no choice but to indefinitely use obsolete versions, or change to FF-Nightly.

nah you 'll be fine, once they release the stable source code as they do we can find that damn zygote entry, alter it (yeah right ) and compile Vivaldi from scratch

[Steffie]

@npro Perhaps i'm being just a teensy tad too cynical by surmising that you might be quite enjoying my abject misery safe from your lofty vantage point ...

:face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:

[Steffie]

Just saw https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/mobile/android-3-3-2020-3/

Crash fixes ... aaaaahhhh, i'm sooooo jealous...

[Vort]

@iPristy mark just stays visible until other website is opened.

[JoshStrobl]

@steffie: Can also confirm that for some Solus users, both this vivaldi snapshot and the previous fail to launch with the same issue you're reporting. While it launches on my systems (laptop is an AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon GFX, desktop is a Ryzen 7 1700 w/ a NVIDIA GTK 1070Ti using proprietary drivers), it fails to launch under a 3900X w/ a GTX 1060. It's not desktop specific either, as it works for me under Budgie and GNOME, while the tester reports it not launching on Budgie or Plasma (so not related to anything in that particular stack). This crash is happening with existing and brand new profiles.

Funny enough, they also live south of the equator in Australia, whereas I do not So you may be on to something there! Kidding aside, it doesn't seem to be your fault.

[Steffie]

@JoshStrobl said in Take a break – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2020.3:

they also live south of the equator in Australia

Conclusive proof: V Devs are blatant hemisphericists! It's scandalous.

[TbGbe]

@Steffie said in Take a break – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2020.3:

surmising that you might be quite enjoying my abject misery

Never!!

they also live south of the equator in Australia

It couldn't be as simple as a language/dictionary setting, could it????

[A Former User]

So with the next snapshot we’re getting into the future? I’m really interested how it’s gonna look like… Was there a 2020.8 internal build?

Just a reminder, VB-70804 is still present. Ctrl-clicking the address while the field is focused behaves as if the cursor was one level deeper.

[A Former User]

@Priest72 said in Take a break – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2020.3:

Not certain if this is related somehow.Whenever i return to my homepage the URL is highlighted blue.Not a world ending issue but thought i would inform the forum.
i have attached a screenshot.

This is an old bug/feature. Possible workarounds:

• focus page content on new tab
• define the homepage with http instead of https (or a similar change that causes redirection)

[npro]

@Steffie I really do The view from here is really great, me feeling like Xerxes

(couldn't find the :Zeus: emoticon )

[Steffie]

@TbGbe said in Take a break – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2020.3:

It couldn't be as simple as a language/dictionary setting, could it????

Now, i know you were totally taking the piss here, but...

1. I was already doing some stuff at the time in my ArcoLinux Plasma VM anyway
2. Absolutely nothing else has worked so far
3. I enjoy the piss-taking too

...so i thought "why not?". This VM had never had V-SS installed before. I added herecura to /etc/pacman.conf in the usual way, Before installing it, i made these changes:

... then logged out & in. Then i installed V-SS with pacman, & still in Yakuake i ran:

[steffie@ArcoLinuxVM ~]$ vivaldi-snapshot
Gtk-Message: 21:28:44.806: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
[9971:9971:0826/212844.824970:ERROR:chrome_content_client.cc(347)] Failed to locate and load the component updated flash plugin.
[9971:9971:0826/212847.505425:ERROR:CONSOLE(0)] "Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a response was received.", source: chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/browser.html (0)
[9971:9971:0826/212954.368576:ERROR:CONSOLE(14)] "Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot set property 'hidden' of null", source: chrome://version/version.js (14)

Well blow me down, butter me sideways, & call me toast.

It launched.

What the very wtf?

Clearly this was an uncontrolled experiment, so atm i suspect this was a fluke rather than causal. In a few ticks i shall launch one of my other VMs already with V-SS [failed], change the region & language, & then see what happens.

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Update:
Still in ArcoLinux VM, i returned the Region to Straya, the language to Pommie, logged out/in, relaunched V-SS again from Yakuake... & the damn thing still launched ok. Ergo, whilst i'm damned if i know why it works in this one VM & no where else here, indicatively the Region setting seems non-causal.

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More to come...

[Pathduck]

So - this is new I guess?

The setting in Experiments seems to be gone?

[JoshStrobl]

@gwen-dragon: That has no effect. I'll relay the backtrace reporting so the affected user can file a bug.