Opera lags when hovering mouse over ads with long URL's
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A Former User last edited by
I just thought of how I can reproduce this problem on this here very forum. What I did was take that Audible advertisement URL and pasted it into a comment 15 times, then I previewed the comment. I refrained from posting it because I know it'll automatically be treated as spam, because that's exactly what it is.
If I can get permission from a forum moderator I'll post it, then anyone here can EASILY reproduce this issue without ever having to leave this forum. It's just a copy and paste of the Audible URL, pasted 15 times, it works perfectly in reproducing the issue I've been describing.
Here's a video of me reproducing the issue using the method I just described. Explanation of what I did in the video, I pressed and held the down arrow key on my keyboard and moved my mouse up and down the URL's as it scrolled. I did this in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera. The first three browsers had no issues, but Opera stuttered like crazy.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Visit https://youtu.be/t4gjl-uwUHc and watch the video for several seconds, playback should be smooth and fluid, now hover mouse over the advertisement to the right of the video and the video will stutter for a second but then play normally; now rapidly move mouse off and on the advertisement and video will stutter excessively.
Can't reproduce here. The video plays fine no matter what i do.
Here's a news article that displays some ads. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jun/12/england-russia-fan-violence-marseille-planning
Keep your mouse off the advertisements and scrolling should be smooth and fluid, now as you scroll make sure you mouse over the ads, scrolling will become jerky and stutter.Also can't reproduce here.
Anyway, it doesn't seem to be something that severe as it isn't triggered easily by the user.
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A Former User last edited by
The problem can easily be reproduced on this forum but I need permission from a forum moderator to post a spam comment. More detail as to why in my comment made at 6:26am which includes video evidence of me reproducing the issue on this forum.
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A Former User last edited by
What is your video card? Does the problem happens with hardware acceleration disabled?
AMD Radeon 7700 with the latest drivers; issue happens with hardware acceleration enabled or disabled. I've tested five browsers total on this computer and only Opera exhibits this issue.
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thrawnmbg last edited by
I have the same problem. Any link (like an facebook email with a button to see a post), lags the mouse. It doesn´t need to be an ad.
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alobpreis last edited byNo need to use ad links. Just consider these sample urls below. Press the down button on your keyboard to scroll at a constant speed and compare the smoothness when the mouse pointer is not over the links to when it is and you move it up and down quickly (basically, making that box below with the url preview quickly and repeatedly appear and disappear).
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alobpreis last edited by
I noticed that Chrome and Firefox don't display that url preview box while scrolling, and IE either uses a more lightweight algorithm for that fade in/fade out, or just does that in a thread other than the one that handles the page render.
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lando242 last edited by
It displayed fast here. No delay at all. I do have a pretty decent system though so maybe it's just a horsepower issue for slower systems?
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donq last edited by
No need to use ad links. Just consider these sample urls below. Press the down button on your keyboard to scroll at a constant speed and compare the smoothness when the mouse pointer is not over the links to when it is and you move it up and down quickly (basically, making that box below with the url preview quickly and repeatedly appear and disappear).
Well, just holdin' mouse cursor over links area doesn't make scroll stutter, but 'swinging' mouse from neutral area (left side) to links and back makes clear smoothness problems. Same in private window, thus no problems with extensions. O43dev, W10, Intel video.
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donq last edited by
It displayed fast here. No delay at all. I do have a pretty decent system though so maybe it's just a horsepower issue for slower systems?
Certainly not (only) horsepower issue, when other browsers and especially Chrome do not suffer. There must be some (unneeded or badly implemented) internal operation outside page rendering (can be related to displaying url box - of course I can't know, just guess), which locks interface up for some tens of precious milliseconds.
