Windows aero effects from 7/vista showing up for a split second when opening on new window.
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@Omnimaxus Yes, the issue was fixed in 5.5 Snapshot some time ago.
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FOLLOW-UP: I am sorry to say that even with the latest snapshot, the problem is not 100% fixed. When Vivaldi opens up in fullscreen mode, the problem is GONE. Vivaldi opens up beautifully in fullscreen mode. No problem. BUT when it opens in a non-fullscreen window, it starts up cold with no window animation. Granted, there is no Windows 7 border, but the lack of a proper opening animation makes for a jarring transition into the Vivaldi interface. I'd say that this problem needs more polishing. So, not quite gone, as I thought it was. To be continued, I suppose ...
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@Omnimaxus The win-7-areo effect is gone in 5.5 Snapshot now, but the window creation gives us for a some milliseconds a ghost window with no content, then the gray UI for 1 sec, the then UI appears. A irritating effect, UI creation flow has to be improved.
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@DoctorG - you're right. The aero effect is gone now. To be clear - the full screen opening sequence works wonderfully now. Perfect. But when opening Vivaldi in windowed mode (non-fullscreen), Vivaldi opens abruptly. No window animation. Does not fit in with the rest of Windows' UI (the opening and closing of windows and so on). I hope the developers are fully aware of this newly created issue, and will fix it before 5.5 "officially" comes out. Thanks! (And thanks for replying, too.)
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@Omnimaxus This sort of thing always puzzles me.
Some users complain nonstop that Vivaldi is "too slow" to open. At the same time, other users want to consume extra time and CPU cycles, be slower and eat more resources, for window animation on opening to be more like unnecessarily slow and resource-hungry apps on windows that use animations during opening.
That said, ALL of my Windows instances of all versions of Vivaldi open with "expanding from the center outward" animation. that said, my oldest, slowest system on Windows 10 for some reason only captures the first and last stages of the animation. Apparently it is too weak and slow to process the intermediate stages of it so as to make it look "smooth."
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@Ayespy - don't know what to tell you. I have an i7-2600K processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a GeForce GTX 1060 card with 3 GB of RAM. That's plenty of power for modern web browsers still. Edge, Firefox, Opera, Brave, and even Pale Moon open up just fine (opening window animation and all) on my PC. All except Vivaldi. Now Vivaldi starts beautifully in full screen mode (as of the 5.5 snapshot), but windowed mode is a different story. The browser just pops up. Cold start. No opening animation. Really displaces Vivaldi within the Windows UI environment (when windows animations are enabled, which is what I suspect the majority of users leave on). I saw what you said about "some users" who complain "nonstop" about Vivaldi being "too slow," but don't these people have opening animations on, too? That means when they open Windows Explorer, the window opens up quickly with the proper opening animation, and they seem to be happy with that. I don't know. I don't claim to be an expert programmer, but I used to program basic code a long time ago and it just seems to me this problem is a Programming 101 problem. I mean, opening animations? That ought to be an easy fix. No disrespect intended to the development team, but ... yeah. Maybe I'm speaking out of turn, and if it appears that way to the development team, OK. Fair enough. I'm not in their shoes, after all, and I don't know all the nitty-gritty details behind the problem. But from an user perspective, it's frustrating and borderline ridiculous that such an (seemingly) innocuous issue (that happens to be front and center when opening the program) still isn't fixed properly months after the fact. Gonna stop here. Thanks.
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@Omnimaxus Interesting. Here, in the windowed mode is when the animation is most pronounced/obvious.
I wonder if it's an issue concerning whether you are using your GPU (hardware acceleration) for Vivaldi or not.
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@Ayespy - disabled hardware acceleration. Issue still exists with windowed mode. Cold start. No animation at all.
Tested fullscreen. Works fine. Re-enabled hardware acceleration. Same result for both modes (windowed and fullscreen).
