Blank page shown on some web sites

3WaD

@luetage said in Blank page shown on some web sites:

there is zero reason to use Google search

Like it or not, Google is still the most advanced and accurate search engine.
As far as I know, no alternative search engine has yet implemented a connection with maps or "smart" results such as displaying information about companies, personalities, movies, reviews, etc. at such a level as Google can do. And these may be the reasons why people still use it. Yes, their data policy sucks. But as long as everything that alternative engines and services will offer is "just" privacy and nothing more, google will still have the upper hand.

luetage

@3WaD Only in the eyes of users who are willing to make that sacrifice. It’s your choice however. I’ve been doing just fine without Google search over the past 10 years.

mib2berlin

Hi, one developer mention to disable driver bug workarounds with the command switch:

--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds

On Linux you can start Vivaldi with it, on Windows you can change the desktop shortcut:

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/shortcut-arguments-parameters-windows/

Cheers, mib

apollo117

I just tried this but it did not seem to do anything. Still had the problem. Is there a way to confirm if the command has applied or not.

mib2berlin

@apollo117
Hi, I try to reproduce at moment again running a log file but cant after some hours with 200 tabs, hibernating, two windows.
I will try further today.

Cheers, mib

testpierre79

Hello, just wanted to say that i get the exact same problem on wikipedia but i'm using Google Chrome, not Vivaldi, so the problem is probably not from vivaldi. I tried, as apollo117 said, to go back to google search and then go back to the wiki page without clicking on the link and it works.
I also have a lot of opened pages, with probably some google search or wikipedia pages hybernating.

ajhmain

Still seeing this issue (I replied here a few weeks ago).

Some more information regarding my setup:

I never use the Hibernate page feature in Vivaldi.
I always have 2 Vivaldi windows on average about 30 browser tabs in each. I have Gmail pinned in 2 tabs, for my primary and secondary email.
Other common tabs open in background are youtube, reddit, stackoverflow, steam, github, wikipedia, google search.
I do not use Windows 10 hibernate or sleep. I start the system from power off each session.
I have had no graphic rendering in applications or gpu stability issues ever on this Windows 10 system.
I have only ever had this issue clicking on a search result link in google search.
Whenever the issue happens, clicking the back button followed by forward button will ALWAYS make the page render correctly.
On a failed page, pressing F5 or CTRL R to refresh will NEVER make the page render correctly.
If I copy the URL of the failing page and paste into a new tab, the page in the new tab also fails to render.
If I click the back button then forward button on one of the tabs displaying the failed page, the other page will now render correctly if I refresh it.

Here's a pastebin of vivaldi://gpu on my system.
NB I ran vivaldi://gpu just after clicking on a stack overflow link from google search that fails to render with this issue. The tab was open in the background as I ran vivaldi://gpu
https://pastebin.com/ruSsB5Kx

Hope this helps fixing it or at least working out if it is a Google/Chromium problem or Vivaldi specific.

mib2berlin

Hi, a Vivaldi developer find a Chromium bug cause this in Vivaldi.
The Chromium developer cant reproduce it, too.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1334982

We can only hope it will be fixed in an update of the Vivaldis Chromium code.

Cheers, mib

ajhmain

@mib2berlin Thanks a lot for the info, I guess it means out of Vivaldi teams hands.

It's a little concerning Chromium bug was raised June last year and is still unresolved. Also the final comment on that issue back in November last year is worrying:

"It had been a while since I'd seen this, I was starting to hope it had gone away on its own. But no such luck. This time it's happening on google.com/search."

Classic programmer response to a difficult to diagnose bug ;). Not good signs for being fixed any time soon.

ajhmain

@luetage This thread is about trying to gather information about this specific rendering issue. It's not a philosophical discussion about what search engine you think is the best.

It could be a known chromium issue, there's an issue on their bug tracker that now has a link back here. So let's keep this thread on topic please.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1334982

mib2berlin

@ajhmain
Yes, after running Vivaldi for two days with recording a 40MB log file no way to reproduce it with an internal 5.7 build.
Two windows 200 tabs and so forth on Windows 11.
May you try the next snapshot build as standalone install to check if it is gone.

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/standalone-version-of-vivaldi/

mib2berlin

Hi, a developer mention to check two flags.
The white page issue is might be related to tiles.
You could try to enable:
chrome://flags/#enable-zero-copy
and/or
chrome://flags/#use-dmsaa-for-tiles
and check if that makes a difference?

Cheers, mib

mustang651

Hi guys.
Same issue here and I made a small demo video just in case:
https://youtu.be/iYkL0JAmf9E

Also, here is my vivaldi://gpu:
https://pastebin.com/REQfh576

@mib2berlin said in Blank page shown on some web sites:

and check if that makes a difference?

I've enabled flags but the bug is pretty rare, it shows up maybe once every couple of weeks so I don't know how can I tell if it makes any difference

mustang651

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apollo117

@mib2berlin I tested the flags. They did not fix it.
I can test any more potential solutions easily if they have any. In my current session I get the bug almost every time I open a link to an affected page.

mib2berlin

@apollo117
Hi, there are none, the developer cant even reproduce it and I could only once.
Maybe you can make a screen cast were you reproduce the issue, 10+20 seconds should be enough.
Add your system specs again, please.
Please post the link here, I can add it to the master bug report VB-93787.

Cheers, mib

mustang651

@mib2berlin I already made the screencast. And enabling the flags only made things worse, meaning the bug appears much more frequently now

mib2berlin

@mustang651
Thanks but I meant the process, open a clean profile, open a few tabs, reproduce it.
This would be really nice but I guess nobody can do it.

Cheers, mib

mustang651

@mib2berlin I can try next week but I'm not sure it'd be fast. Also, how can I create a new profile without losing the current one?

mib2berlin

@mustang651
Take your time, check this:

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/user-profiles/