Solved Broken text on tabs
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@mib2berlin I reported this as a bug a while back and was hoping for some kind of response from the Vivaldi team, even if the answer is "won't fix". I understand your point of it being an imperfect world, but that doesn't mean we should consider shutting off hardware features as the accepted fix; it is a workaround for certain folks. If the Vivaldi team is the incorrect team to report the issue to, perhaps they could give some insight into who might be able to correct it long-term.
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@ngamradt
Can you post the bug number?
I can take a look in the internal bug tracker.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Sure, I would appreciate that. I didn't realize you are part of the Vivaldi team. The bug number is VB-91050. Please let me know if you need further information.
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@ngamradt
Haha, this bug is marked as resolved and link to: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/75400/broken-text-on-tabs/100
You should got a mail if a bug is "Resolved", anyway I guess you to live with some shortcomings of Vivaldi.
By the way, I am part of the Vivaldi Sopranos team, testing bug reports (Close the most) and so forth, I am not a Vivaldi developer.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Okay, so the answer is essentially "Won't Fix", ugh. Thank you for looking that up, I do appreciate it.
I guess I will just use another browser on this system until this issue is somehow resolved. Wish I had some idea where to report this if Vivaldi is confident that this isn't on their end.
Oh, and I never did receive any updates from the ticket, only the original email giving me the ticket number. I assume there is no way for folks to see their tickets if they aren't on the Vivaldi team?
Been using Vivaldi for many years and a lot of my family has switched to it as their primary browser. This is the first really annoying bug that I have personally dealt with, generally a solid product.
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@ngamradt
You are welcome.
No, you cant watch the bug tracker it is not public.
As far as I know this is an issue with Intel Xe GPU on Linux, I don´t have any issues with Intel, AMD and former Nvidia GPU´s on Opensuse so I cant test or verify any report in the tracker.Next release change to Chromium 110, may you check in again to Vivaldi at this time.
Have nice holly days and cheers, mib
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Are any of you using UI scaling (either in Vivaldi or Linux)?
This is only on Wayland, right?
Developer at Vivaldi
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You can hope for better:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-New-Xe-Linux-Driver
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@dagurp said in Broken text on tabs:
Are any of you using UI scaling (either in Vivaldi or Linux)?
This is only on Wayland, right?
I am not using UI scaling, and I am not on Wayland, I'm on Xorg. The same issues exist.
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@AmazingKitchen Thanks, it worked for me on Ubuntu 22.10 64-bit Dell Inc. Precision 5560
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I just installed Vivaldi on my new Linux Mint 21.1 OS. I finally have everything just they way I want it. And everything looks good! BUT I just realized that the text is garbled in my tabs. I have never seen anything like this before! It's crazy!
I read through all of the comments on this page. And I'm surprised to see that this has been going on for quite awhile! Why?!! This should have been fixed a long time ago!!
I gave up on Vivaldi about a year ago, because of some issues that weren't being addressed at the time. But I thought I would try it again. This issue is not making me feel very good about Vivaldi!!
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@Persister mib2berlin said in Broken text on tabs:
@ingo-steinke
Hi, distro update should not change Vivaldi settings but maybe different GPU driver.
Open chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
I cant remember if you need to set it to enabled or disabled but you can check quickly.Had you tried mib2berlin's advice?
With some GPUs and drivers Vivaldi can have issues.
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@DoctorG - Disabling it worked! Vivaldi seems to be working fine. I played several videos from Bitchute and YouTube as well. The Tabs are now consistently readable.
vivaldi://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
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@Persister Sometimes enabling the flag helped, sometimes disabling.
Nice to read that you fixed it.
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@DoctorG thank you, dude. this work for me. I just disable the "Use Hardware Acceleration". it was annoying me!
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Disabling GPU rasterization worked for me, but Vivaldi perform poorly in some pages. Any chance to adress this problem in another way?
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Disabling hardware acceleration shouldn't be the solution. I don't have this issue on any other chromium-based browser.
Some Youtube videos are almost impossible to watch without hw acceleration.Running Arch Linux with an Intel i7-1185G7 and Iris Xe GPU (Dell Latitude 7420).
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@levithanius Welcome in forum
Had you tried with chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
Should be working to get better rendering of the text.
Disable GPU rasterization is not the same as disable hardware Acceleration. -
@levithanius
Hi, Vivaldi does not use the Chromium UI, this is maybe the reason why these issues appear for some user.
Works fine for me on two different systems with Opensuse Linux running hardware acceleration.Did you test enable/disable vivaldi://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization ?
Cheers, mib
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Oh, my bad. I thought GPU rasterization = HW Acceleration. Sorry!
Yes, if I turn it off everything looks fine.
What are the disadvantages of turning it off though?
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