Unsolved Speed-Dial - blank thumbnails and not working bookmarks and folders
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@npro can you report this regression?
it was probably the animations that were messing up -
@ilprof said in Speed-Dial - blank thumbnails and not working bookmarks and folders:
it was probably the animations that were messing up
Actually the dev said some 30 days ago that it is a Chromium bug and they should find a workaround, well this is the workaround with the broken animation as the by-product.
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@npro so you think they know and it's not worth opening a new bugreport?
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Screw the bloody animations! If this works then I'm throwing a party!
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@ilprof yes, as it looks like a patchwork until upstream (Chromium) fixes the real bug. But you could report it if you 'd want I guess, I'm not interested as it was ridiculous waiting for 3 months and have moved to another browser. Maybe in the future I will return.
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Fixed on Vivaldi 6.5.3206.39 (Stable channel)
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Wonderful!
It is like an old friend has been released from hospital!
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Thank you!
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Thumbnails are holding no blanks today, yet. 12/14/2023 11:46 am EST, got an update 6 am.
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@mrdovie I never changed my browser, just toughed it out. (i'm retired)
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I'm still on the RC2 snapshot, but the issue did happen to me once. I haven't been able to reproduce it again, so maybe it's rare.
I had it happen when navigating through the top-level Speed Dial folders on the Navigation Bar. When doing this, there is still the 'slide' animation, so maybe that's what's causing it.
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Finally resolved. Great! It took a while, but it's done... Let's hope it lasts. It seems to me that we have major problems more frequently than desired.
Best regards and thank you for the work done. -
Yes, finally resolved. (exactly 2 month later).
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@josefley Yes there are over 5,000 bugs, everyone who works on them also has a regular development job, this one only affects a single, minority platform, and it was figured out what was causing it and how to fix it in only two months (less than the lifespan of a single version). A cause for celebration.
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@Ayespy said in Speed-Dial - blank thumbnails and not working bookmarks and folders:
this one only affects a single, minority platform
this is not true because it also affected windows and mac
but what do you mean that linux problems are not given the same consideration as other platforms? -
@ilprof I mean that the more users suffer a condition, the greater the likelihood that it will receive concentrated attention. If EVERYONE has a given bug, it will get top billing.
Now, I only saw reports from Linux users on this. There may have been others I did not see. And Vivaldi probably values Linux users above other software developers, because Vivaldi has 'WAY more Linux users by proportion than the general population, and many Vivaldi devs (far more than average) are themselves Linux users. But within a single version cycle, the bug was addressed and fixed. This is not just acceptable. This is remarkable.
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@Ayespy said in Speed-Dial - blank thumbnails and not working bookmarks and folders:
@ilprof I mean that the more users suffer a condition, the greater the likelihood that it will receive concentrated attention. If EVERYONE has a given bug, it will get top billing.
Now, I only saw reports from Linux users on this. There may have been others I did not see.
It's clear you haven't read all the posts in this thread
but in any case it would have bothered me a lot to be considered a minorityBut within a single version cycle, the bug was addressed and fixed. This is not just acceptable. This is remarkable.
yes it is also thanks to people who have been complaining for more than two months
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Some time ago there was an official post stating that Vivaldi for Linux makes about 20% of the total Vivaldi user base, that's hardly a minority. It could be even bigger now, since Linux users appreciate customizability more than anyone.
9345 views means a lot of unregistered lurkers and just because Microsoft Windows users are casual users who don't probably use Speed Dial folders, or more than 5 open tabs, it doesn't mean that the bug wasn't there for Microsoft Windows as well.
You can't really include this major, annoying to hell bug with 4999 others, as this bug is affecting the #1 thing people see and interact with, the Speed Dial, which itself has been the #1 feature of Vivaldi, legacy of Opera Presto. Using a Speed Dial folder is not the same as using some "bizarre, exotic" feature of Vivaldi that doesn't "cooperate" well with some other random setting.
P.S.1 The bug isn't totally fixed yet, just a workaround was provided.
P.S.2 And 5000 open bugs for a Stable do not make a good picture either, I wouldn't mention this. -
@npro I think you may overestimate the impact on users, and underestimate the effort required to resolve the bug.
I have nearly 25 instances of Vivaldi on eight devices with 3 users here, including Android phone and tab, Win 10 and Win 11 machines, Arch Linux, and never experienced the bug. Nothing I had here, on any version, could produce it. The fact that it was tracked down and fixed is still, like I say, remarkable.
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@Ayespy said in Speed-Dial - blank thumbnails and not working bookmarks and folders:
I have nearly 25 instances of Vivaldi on eight devices with 3 users here, including Android phone and tab, Win 10 and Win 11 machines, Arch Linux, and never experienced the bug. Nothing I had here, on any version, could produce it.
I can tell the same: 6 different instances of Vivaldi on different hardware and always experienced the bug.
in the end I am left with the doubt that it has not yet been understood what it depends on