Solved Latest Vivaldi update becomes unresponsive on Fedora Silverblue

passthejoe

I'm not sure if my issue is due to something in Vivaldi, or another package/update in Fedora Silverblue.

I just did an update, and now my Vivaldi windows become unresponsive soon after I open them. I can't click on anything or even close them unless I "zoom out" in GNOME and then click the X's.

Since I'm on Silverblue, I reverted to the last system so I can continue working in Vivaldi.

I'm not sure whether or not this is a problem that just I'm having (or just Fedora Silverblue).

If anybody else is having an issue since the last update, please let us know.

FYI, I think Vivaldi is OK after the update on my Debian Bullseye system, but I'll have to check again to make sure.

passthejoe

I decided to check back in this thread. Vivaldi has been performing great in Fedora Silverblue 35. No crashes anymore.

Thanks, Vivaldi team!

passthejoe

I just checked in Debian Bullseye, and the latest Vivaldi is working fine there.

In Fedora Silverblue, version 5.0.2497.51 is working well.

5.1.2567.39 is where I'm having the freezes.

passthejoe

I went back to 5.1.2567.39 in Fedora Silverblue.

I'm only working in one window now, and it seems to be stable. My "usual" method is to have 3 windows open with about 12 tabs each. Opening groups of tabs in new windows in one move seem to be what was crashing Vivaldi.

I'll see if there's a way I can open more windows w/o crashing it.

passthejoe

Opening the windows at different times seems to keep the browser from crashing. I used to be able to open groups of tabs in new windows, one right after the other, and there were no problems. For now anyway, spacing out the opening of new windows appears to be a fix for this issue.

shirishkamath

Facing Vivaldi browser window freeze on Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon.

Besides the freeze, the mouse cursor keeps toggling between mouse-pointer and link-hand every few milliseconds. Wish I had recorded a video.

Triggered by interacting with page elements. I Ctrl-clicked links in a modal. Another time I clicked the volume slider on Youtube. Then the mouse cursor goes funky and nothing in the browser window works. Have disabled all extensions now. Lets see.

Only solution is to "Force Quit" the browser. This is a pretty bad bug.

passthejoe

For now, my fix is to be less aggressive when doing things in a window when I'm opening up new windows.

My usual workflow is to open 3 folders of 6 to 11 bookmarks each in 3 separate windows. Then I close some tabs while the others are loading. That's when the freezes happen.

But if I let the windows fully open, then start working with the tabs, it doesn't freeze.

Maybe related, maybe not: I used to open a new tab, then drag it into another tab before the new tab has rendered, and that used to "crash" the tab, but that hasn't been happening lately, so there's some progress.

mark1956

@shirishkamath I am facing the same issue on Linux Mint XFCE. If you have a solution, please be so kind to share.

shirishkamath

@mark1956 No solution yet, disabling extensions didn't help.

Today something weird happened - after the browser window froze, clicking on different tabs worked after a while. Then the window showed a weird effect where content from multiple tabs is displayed at the same time with a transparent background. CPU of one core is pegged at 100%. System is responsive, browser window isn't. Definitely not RAM (have 24GB, about 10GB in use at the time of lock up)

I waited for a while leaving the browser window alone, then came back to it and managed to close the last few opened tabs. Suddenly everything went back to normal.

If I had to guess, whatever it is, it seems to be affecting one tab pegging that CPU core. One thing I noticed is that "Dark Reader" extension locks up on some pages of Google Drive.

Extensions of note I usually use are: uBlock Origin + Extra, Dark Reader, Popup Blocker (strict)

jebah

On a Fresh install of Pop!Os 21-10 on multi-monitor setup
One monitor/Vivaldi window lags a lot and the other window/monitor works Fine

T/s carried

Reinstalled OS but issue persists
After OS reinstall -> reinstalled Vivaldi -> Even on fresh install-of Vivaldi (nothing added to default ) the issue persists .

midge48

Same issue on Debian Bullseye derivative with latest update.
I use a lot of windows and tabs as part of my work process.
No such issue with Firefox, Brave or Chromium.
Regretfully I had to uninstall Vivaldi and revert to Brave until and if this is fixed.

The only way to get out of Vivaldi in that frozen state was to use CLI kill command.

passthejoe

I decided to check back in this thread. Vivaldi has been performing great in Fedora Silverblue 35. No crashes anymore.

Thanks, Vivaldi team!

CantankRus

@shirishkamath said in Latest Vivaldi update becomes unresponsive on Fedora Silverblue:

the mouse cursor keeps toggling between mouse-pointer and link-hand every few milliseconds

I still get this in youtube.
Vivaldi window is unresponsive when it happens.

System:    Host: Bionic Kernel: 5.4.0-104-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS

liperium

@cantankrus Same, randomly when I hover an item that changes my mouse to the "clicker" icon, at one point it just freezes and I have to restart!

CantankRus

@liperium
I use a local .desktop launcher in ~/.local/share/applications.
Added StartupWMClass=vivaldi-snapshot to the file and so far so good.
Will get back if still buggy.

shirishkamath

Issue still exists for me with Vivaldi 5.1.2567.66 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit).

Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon, Kernel 5.4.0-104-generic

Finally managed to capture a video. Please confirm if you all are experiencing the same.
Cannot click anything in the browser window. Have to 'Force Quit' the Vivaldi process and restart.

https://youtu.be/cy3or-8GeYg

CantankRus

@cantankrus said in Latest Vivaldi update becomes unresponsive on Fedora Silverblue:

@liperium
I use a local .desktop launcher in ~/.local/share/applications.
Added StartupWMClass=vivaldi-snapshot to the file and so far so good.
Will get back if still buggy.

No difference... still see cursor flutter and unresponsiveness in both stable and snapshot.
Seems related to sites with video content.
https://youtu.be/MHfAGq65MXU

glen@Bionic:~$ vivaldi-stable --version
Vivaldi 5.1.2567.66 stable
glen@Bionic:~$ vivaldi-snapshot --version
Vivaldi 5.2.2603.6 snapshot

shirishkamath

@CantankRus Thanks for the video. That's exactly what happens on my machine.

PutzCoB

I have the exact same issue.
Kubuntu 21.10, Kernel 5.13.0-generic
Vivaldi 5.2.2623.39 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)
It does seem to have something to do with video or other active content. It virtually never happens when nothing is playing, though it is very random - I can go for like two weeks without seeing it, then suddenly it happens 3 times in 2 hours.

pallade

Same here.

I can replicate this very reliably on this page:

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/corpore-sano-healthy-body.html

Warning: do NOT attempt this if you have unsaved work in other tabs!!

When you hover on the text of the lyrics, the line gets a yellow background, and on the right side of the column a small number appears.

Hover over that small number, and usually you get the freeze.

On Kubuntu 22.04.

guigirl

Thread Etiquette Personal Opinion.

Others might disagree.

OP created this thread with [IMO] their unusual variant of Fedora, ie, Silverblue, being potentially a pivotal aspect of their problem.
Nobody else with a "conventional", ie, non-immutable, distro can possibly have an equivalent use-case.
Ipso facto, IMO it is poor behaviour for myriad others to jump in here to hijack the OP's Fedora Silverblue thread, with false-equivalencies to their random non-FSB distros.
All those posts, IMO, should have been put into either dedicated new threads, or into existing generic distro-agnostic non-FSB threads.