Minor update (7) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 5.2

soad

Some extensions that open pop-ups are now opening as windows

DoctorG

@soad Please tell, which extension is causing this?

S_Paternotte

I got this update just today. ~~Is it normal that I lost all my e-mail settings?~~

Ayespy

@s_paternotte Which update? Wiping mail settings is completely abnormal. Literally no update, ever, has done that to me. And I have Vivaldi (between two and five instances on each machine) on nine machines.

S_Paternotte

@Ayespy okay, thank you for this resolute answer. Upon return from a brief holiday I found that my laptop was missing the mail account. I think now that I had not quite gotten to setting it up on that machine yet. A well deserved break can be something of a brain dump sometimes.

melibellule

@mickdurousseau: I have the same problem! Drivers are up to date, but sometimes white squares will appear randomly on web pages (from Twitter to Gmail to about anything)

MickDuRousseau

@melibellule Which OS do you have?

melibellule

@mickdurousseau Windows 10

DoctorG

@melibellule Please ask in appropriate subforum of https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/2/support-troubleshooting, it is easier to give you support there.

mossman

@melibellule said in Minor update (7) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 5.2:

@mickdurousseau: I have the same problem! Drivers are up to date, but sometimes white squares will appear randomly on web pages (from Twitter to Gmail to about anything)

Oh I've seen that a couple of times as well - only on the speed-dial. There were four or five different shaped white rectangles scattered around the screen, showing through other elements of the UI which have aeroglass type transparency. It's like someone cut squares out of the desktop background so the backlight is shining through a glassy Vivaldi interface laid over the monitor.

Very weird effect.

Anyway, I just closed/opened and everything was fine again.

MickDuRousseau

@melibellule Well, i'm still on Win 7 and i'm glad, that's not a Win 7 specific Problem.

It is a little bit better, when you turn off the Hardware Acceleration, but of course this is not a final solution.

If your PC has a very powerful CPU and a rather mediocre graphics card, then activation of the hardware acceleration is not absolutely necessary. In the opposite case, with a fairly weak CPU and strong GPU, hardware acceleration makes sense.

DoctorG

Strange, on VirtualBox 6.1.34 (VMSVGA, 3D accel, Windows 11 host) running Ubuntu 22 LTS (Linux Guest) a Vivaldi 5.2 freezes at start, get no Welcome screen, and has to be force terminated. Starts only if running with --disable-gpu
But 5.3 Snapshot starts without any issues and with HWA.
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