Windows aero effects from 7/vista showing up for a split second when opening on new window.
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@Omnimaxus It will be fixed. There is a major UI project underway (being incorporated in releases bit by bit) aimed at increasing the speed and efficiency of the UI. No doubt this regression is related to that, and it will be cleaned up in due course.
That said, I apparently don't have a slow enough machine to see this this momentary glitch even though I have multiple installs on a box nine years old. The devs are aware of the issue, but there are more important things in front of them at the moment.
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@Pesala - thank you for replying.
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@Ayespy - thank you for replying.
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It still happens in latest Vivaldi snapshots(beta). So, no it's not fixed yet. I hope they fix it soon.
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@daysofnil - I agree. I mean, Vivaldi is a good web browser. It's one of the few pieces of software I'm willing to say publicly that I'd be happy to actually pay for, if that was an option, like for a lifetime license (to support them). That's just my way of saying that I think the developers have done a bang-up job with Vivaldi, but the longer they let this bug go on for, the more disappointed I am in them. I suspect the same can be said of other users, including those who haven't spoken up ... yet. @jon @Ruarí
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UPDATE: Using Vivaldi 5.3.2679.70. While browsing today, the entire window flashed on and off, showing a Windows 7 border only with nothing in the middle (with me being able to see my desktop wallpaper through the opening). This never happened before the Windows 7 border window bug started. All the more reason for this problem to be patched in time for the next point release of Vivaldi (but the latest snapshot shows that it's still not fixed, unfortunately). Thank you. @Ruarí @jon @Ayespy
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@Omnimaxus It's just a symptom of a current major project. When the project is complete, the "bug" will be gone. But I don't think anyone will take a detour to address just this one symptom. Any code patch to "fix" it today would almost certainly have to be reverted before ongoing work could be released.
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@Ayespy - thank you for replying. Hope the project is going well.
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@Omnimaxus I suppose you never know until it's done. You don't really know how long the hike is or what the terrain is like, until you arrive - because literally no one else has been there before.
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UPDATE: The latest Vivaldi snapshot as of today (9/13/22) appears to have fixed this issue. VIVA LA VIVALDI!
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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).
