Autocomplete stops working at some points + general rant
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Since a few weeks ago, I'm noticing this weird bug with vivaldi's auto-complete.
I want to type
maps.google.com. I start typing, and the suggestions appear correctly. Everything's fine - until I type on to the point ofmaps.goo. At this point, the entire address drop-down disappears, and auto-complete stops working. If I continue typing tomaps.goog, the situation is the same. When I reachmaps.googl, everything returns back to normal. This always happens for this address in the exact same spot.I'm not 100% sure (don't know how to test and confirm) if this exists on all addresses, or only on some. For those addresses it does happen, it always happens on the exact same spot for each address respectively.
And, to be honest, Vivaldi's auto-complete is just horrible. It's riddled with bugs that keep returning, or never go away at all, for years. I've been reporting them, along with hundreds of other users, to no avail. I've been persuading myself to keep using Vivaldi despite its practically non-functional address bar, and completely useless developer tools for years, and I'm becoming desparate, since after 8+ years of active development, zero improvment has been made on both. @vivaldi devs, I'm begging you! Stop wasting your precious energy on features nobody uses anyway, start ironing out these monsters that have been plaguing your browser since day 1!
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@tomica
Hi, the Vivaldi developer don't read the forum, this is a user forum.
If you report an issue to the bug tracker add the bug number here, I can reach the bug tracker and look about the status.
Generally we have a status thread for this.https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/27450/what-is-the-status-of-vb-already-reported-bug-issue/
About you issue about maps.google.com, I cant reproduce this with 6.7.3329.24 on Linux.
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@tomica said in Autocomplete stops working at some points + general rant:
maps.goo. At this point, the entire address drop-down disappears, and auto-complete stops working. If I continue typing tomaps.goog, the situation is the same. When I reachmaps.googl, everything returns back to normal.Interesting! While reading your message, I was skeptical about the reproducibility of your problem. I've just tried it anyway and found the exactly the same behavior. Letter-to-letter the same.
If the problem is this reproducible, some Chrome or Vivaldi developers must know it.
Have your reported this very particular problem?
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@ryofurue thank you for the effort of rechecking. No, I have not reported it anywhere, as I have long ago become disappointed in the effectiveness of reporting Vivaldi bugs. I must have reported dozens of bugs in the past 8 years, only to witness most of them still being around. My motivation for pointless reporting went to 0. As an alternative, I usually just post a passive aggressive message in Vivaldi blog, hoping to motivate others to join their voices to the cause, which has unfortunately proven to be even more effective than merely reporting a bug.
EDIT: And yes, you're completely right about the reproducibility. I've seen such behaviour on multiple completely non-correlated computers, operating systems, environments, even private windows! That's when I decided to rant, because it's obvious it has nothing to do with my settings - which is a usual reply to anyone reporting a bug.
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@tomica said in Autocomplete stops working at some points + general rant:
as I have long ago become disappointed in the effectiveness of reporting Vivaldi bugs. I must have reported dozens of bugs in the past 8 years, only to witness most of them still being around.
I sympathize with you. I guess that the Vivaldi team is way too small relative to the complexity of their product.
So, like you, I wish the devs spent much more time to fix bugs than to implement new features, which inevitably adds to the complexity.
But, my guess is that the browser market is too competitive not to introduce new features.
Moreover, even if they entirely stopped to add new features, they would need more devs to eradicate bugs while keeping up with changes in the Chroimum engine, the OSes, and other external libraries which aren't controlled by Vivaldi.
But, the browser doesn't generate enough money to hire more devs.
So, I guess the only solution may be that we users pay a lot of money to the Vivaldi company to hire much more devs and to make them promise to prioritize bug fixes. "We" may be willing to pay, but the vast majority of "ordinary" users wouldn't care that much.
So, my guess is that this is the situation that will last for ever.
@tomica said in Autocomplete stops working at some points + general rant:
hoping to motivate others to join their voices to the cause, which has unfortunately proven to be even more effective than merely reporting a bug.
I suppose you mean "other users" by "others", correct? Does the pressure from the users significantly change the Vivaldi devs' priorities? I doubt it. We are only a tiny fraction of all Vivaldi users.
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Yeah, I noticed also that weird behaviour on some pages while typing into address bar. Address bar is so overcomplicated with gazilion settings, that there is no surprise it is so bad.
Everytime the performance and improvements are announced, in reality it gets worse. Address bar never knows what I want to do, impossible to configure proper settings.
I start typing into address bar and for some pages favcion is shown and for some pages, while typing, it quickly switches between favicon of page and search icon...
I have bookmark
dsl.skandforum.vivaldi.net. Start typingdand it always matchesforum.vivaldi.netdespite I visitdsl.sk20 times per day and forum once per two, three days and "Frequently visited pages" is at first position in settings. I could go on, but don't have time to always report something. I also gave up about reporting bugs, and even to private tracker, which is really bad after so many years... -
Absolutely same situation just two latest stable releases.
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Small video about werid autocomplete behaviour. During typing it knows where to go, then forgot where to go, and later again knows.
