Opera 32 on Ubuntu bookmarks page rendering broken

[jamesisin]

jamesisin last edited by

Also, I was able to confirm peterb0309's behavior. If you run Opera 32 normally bookmarks do not render correctly, but if you open a New Private Window and navigate that window to Show All Bookmarks it does render correctly.

[i-am-mike]

i-am-mike last edited by

Same behavior on latest opera-develper 33 on arch-linux.

[jamesisin]

jamesisin last edited by

I poked through opera:flags and didn't find anything which appeared to effect this matter.

[i-am-mike]

i-am-mike last edited by

I had problems with Chrome GPU rendering, which started lagging after a few minutes of browsing, until it became unusable, when used with the Hardware Acceleration option - ON.
As Opera is based on Chromium as well, it suffers from some GPU rendering problems, which caused the defective rendering in the Bookmarks menu, and when opening some extensions' menu (like adblock).

The solution is to launch Opera (or Chrome), with the following command, which disables the problematic DRI3, and reverts to the old one:

LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 opera --ignore-gpu-blacklist

Hope I saved someone a few days of Trichotillomania

[gustavwiz]

gustavwiz last edited by

@peterb0309:

How can I get rid of this problem but still using Gpu-compositing?

You should install the proprietary driver from your graphics card manufacturer and use that one instead of the default open-source (x.org).

If you're using Ubuntu, you can probably easily change the driver by opening "Software and Updates" -> "Additional Drivers".

[jamesisin]

jamesisin last edited by

I have confirmed that switching my video driver from xorg to the latest Nvidia proprietary driver (using Software and Updates --> Additional Drivers) does fix the rendering issue.

[jamesisin]

jamesisin last edited by

Unfortunately, my Lenovo w500 at home has no additional drivers available...

[gustavwiz]

gustavwiz last edited by

Does it have amd/ati, nvidia or intel (integrated) graphics?

[jamesisin]

jamesisin last edited by

I guess it's ATI Mobility, but I can't check from here. Is there a command I can use to get that easily?

Behavior is essentially the same though: private windows do not exhibit the problem. I did notice that any window on start can render in this broken manner. A restart of the application has fixed this both times it has happened.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Does disabling "Use hardware acceleration when available" in Settings help? You'll need to enable Advanced settings (bottom of the Browser page) to see it, then it'll be right above that.

[zluka13]

zluka13 last edited by

You should install the proprietary driver from your graphics card manufacturer and use that one instead of the default open-source (x.org).

AMD no more support graphic cards below hd5000 for linux.

Does disabling "Use hardware acceleration when available" in Settings help? You'll need to enable Advanced settings (bottom of the Browser page) to see it, then it'll be right above that.

It helps but make YouTube sucks when HD resolution used.

[jamesisin]

jamesisin last edited by

sgunhouse - Yes, disabling hardware acceleration does allow non-private windows to function as expected. (Private windows remain unaffected by this problem.)

An update came out today and I was hoping it may address this, but no luck...

[avl]

avl Opera last edited by

This is very unfortunate, and due to a bug in the X.org drivers: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90264 . This bug report also contains a patch that fixes the issue.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@avi - I'm curious... If, and only if, you have time could you elaborate on how to use those patches? I saw one at 40 and one at 45 and somebody further commented that they worked. I'd be interested in testing this but, frankly, I have no idea. So, if you don't have time then don't let me interrupt you - I might be able to figure it out on my own or Google might have an answer. :doh:

[jamesisin]

jamesisin last edited by

This appears to have been fixed in a subsequent update. I again have hardware acceleration enabled and I am able to interact with both the bookmarks page and the bookmarking menu in non-private windows. (I am now running 33.0.1990.43 in Ubuntu and elsewhere.)

[sinjab]

sinjab last edited by

I also encountered this problem on my Ubuntu. I used what "i-am-mike" said like this:

edit this file:

sudo vi /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop

replace the first "Exec" line with this:
Exec=env LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 opera --ignore-gpu-blacklist %U

reopen opera and the problem is solved

[johnhooley7]

johnhooley7 last edited by

Thanks sinjab! Works like a charm.

[mklinuxuser]

mklinuxuser last edited by

I also get this problem, on Opera 35. If this is not an Opera bug (but in the driver) then why is other software not having the problem?

[xfranky]

xfranky last edited by

@sinjab forgot to escape the underscore

Exec=env LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 opera --ignore-gpu-blacklist %U