Vivaldi becomes unresponsive on Linux Mint
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I've had a problem under Linux Mint under 21 and 21.1 where once Vivaldi has a few tabs open it will randomly stop responding to any mouse activity in the page and it must be closed and reopened (or the tabs dragged to a new session). I kept hoping the problem would go away after an update or my upgrade (full reinstall) to 21.1, but it's still here. I've turned off hardware acceleration, but it didn't make a difference.
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@bryede
Hi, some user have this issue on Linux, Windows but nobody know why. I have it maybe 4-5 times a week on Opensuse Linux.
Did you use your user data from the old install in the new or did you start Vivaldi from scratch?
There was a thread about some time ago but I cant find it at moment.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Hey, everything has been reinstalled from scratch, then I sign-in to sync the new install. Everything seems less stable since I left Mint 20.3.
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I have discovered a clue as to what is happening.
When Vivaldi stops responding to mouse clicks:
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While I'm holding the right mouse button, I can once again click on things using the left button.
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If I hold the left button, the right button becomes the "back" button.
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If I hold the middle button, the right button brings up a context menu as it should.
It looks like the button assignments are getting scrambled under some circumstances.
EDIT: The above doesn't always seem to work. So, I don't think it gets messed up exactly the same way every time, but if I mash enough buttons it eventually takes an action.
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@bryede
I will try to reproduce it if Vivaldi freeze again, I had once today, and report back.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I've got it happening in a window right now.
Holding right and clicking left goes back to the previous page.
Doing the opposite (Hold L, Press R) goes forward a page.
Can't seem to get any other combination to do anything.
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@bryede
Yeah I got the same, rocker gestures work but nothing else, I have to restart Vivaldi to get it to work again.
I hope a developer can reproduce it at some point.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Me too. I sent a bug report and described what's happening and linked to this thread.
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@bryede
Can you add the bug VB number here, please?
Iirc there is a bug report already, I guess this will be closed as duplicate but anyway, it get more attention.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Sure. VB-94721
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@bryede
Thanks, can you to disable hardware acceleration for some time?
Settings > WebpagesCheers, mib
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@mib2berlin It's been off for a while. That was one of the first things I tried.
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I'm not 100% sure, but it seems like it's easier to trigger if I click on page elements while the page is still loading.
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Chromium and Vivaldi is a troublemaker on Mint Una, too.
Freezeing or crashing after print on web page or web app. -
@DoctorG Hmm, I should try Chromium to see if anything similar happens. I love using Vivaldi, but this problem happens a couple times a day and it's getting very tiresome.
EDIT: Another thing, I have a laptop that I set up almost exactly the same way as my desktop and the problem doesn't happen there, so hardware/driver related?
@mib2berlin What graphics card are you running? I'm using a (from System Info) Radeon R7 240/340 / Radeon 520.
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@bryede
Hi, sorry for the late reply, I can reproduce it only on my laptop with integrated Intel UHD 620 but not on my AMD system.
Specs in my signature.Cheers, mib
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@bryede said in Vivaldi becomes unresponsive on Linux Mint:
@mib2berlin Sure. VB-94721
I confirmed VB-94721 as i can repro on Linux Mint 21.1, Cinnamon, Mouse Logitech MX Master 3
When run in terminal, nothing appears in it when freeze occurs -
It's a shame that LM 21 has so many bugs. It was foreseeable early on for visitors to the Linux Mint forum only.
So I continue to have my main PC with LM 20.3 Cinnamon. LM 21 I have on the notebook, freshly installed and updated to LM 21.1, however I use it too infrequently to experience the bug described. -
Hello,
This was happening to me on Mint 20.3 and I wrongly thought it was due to Mint so I updated to Mint 21.2
It is still happening with various failure modes
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Will sometimes freeze the computer completely no mouse cursor and no response to clicks
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Mouse cursor exists but mouse is completely ineffective with computer ignoring mouse clicks. This can eventually lead to complete freezing of computer as in 1 above. Alternatively there are times when I can leave the computer for 30 minutes and when I come back it is fixed and the computer is responding correctly to the mouse again.
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This is also happening on EndeavourOS with KDE6 Wayland.
- Whether or not GPU acceleration is on or not does not matter
- Occurs most frequently when many tabs are open, but also occurs with only 3-4 tabs open
- Opening link in new tab is something that triggers the freeze, but not always
- Having the browser "idle" for a while and returning to it also seems to trigger the freeze
- Keyboard control still works, e.g. I can still tab through a page, hit 'ENTER' to go to links, close tabs, input to search, etc.
- Mouse gestures still works
- Often it seems to be stuck in a click and hold on a tab. Hovering in the tab pane (I have vertical tabs on) will move the tab order.
- I have the ozone flag set to Wayland
- This happened with the most recent update, which fixed the flickering issues with KDE6 Wayland that persisted even with the ozone flag set, but introduced this freezing issue.
This happens on my desktop with AMD Ryzen 7900 CPU, NVIDIA 3060 GPU. This does not happen with my laptop (Razer Blade 15 2022 Advanced) with an Intel i9-12900 CPU and NVIDIA 3070 GPU. Though I do keep my laptop on 'hybrid' so it might be using the integrated Intel vs the NVIDIA.