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Window freezes after message received
It is possible to send/receive messages for a while, then the whole window (excluding the menu bar) freezes, and it is not possible to click on anything. Pressing F5 also does not help.
Experiencing this as well since upgrading to upstream 2.56. Fresh install and configs, on both appimage and COPR packages.
It's very weird because we have tested Caprine on all major OSs and this issue didn't show up.
Sorry: Windows 10 Enterprise, and I updated to the latest (2.56.0), and that is doing it. Except the "Relaunch" and "Work chat" options, nothing in the menu does anythinghas any effect when clicked. When resizing: the inside stays the same, and the window just "crops" it when resizing, nothing else happens.
Sounds like an Electron issue. Does everything work fine if you don't resize the window?
I start Caprine, then I do not alter the size, yet this happens. Or do you mean keeping the original size after installation?
It also does not seem to need a trigger, if I keep the window idle, it happens; as well as sometimes during typing.
I'm not really sure but something has probably happened at Facebook's end (a UI change) that has broken most of the features. It can't be explained otherwise. Even my dev setup has issues including a black rectangular box on top of the UI.
On my machine the following don't work:
- Most dark theme icons
- Hide names and avatars
- Show message buttons
- Show Active Contacts
- Show Message Requests
- Show Hidden Threads
- All conversation related options
Can confirm those features are not working. Also:
- Blocking indicators settings missing/broken
- File -> Messenger Settings (ctrl+comma) not working
Yeah, and much more probably. It's not related to the new release though. Tested with the previous one too. It's Meta to blame!
At this point just wait for a new release.
Can confirm all of these. Weird minor thing: after freezing, the GIFs are still playing :) @lefterisgar so they broke things the same time the new release came out?
@lefterisgar so they broke things the same time the new release came out?
I'm wondering about the same. Does the old one work for you? It doesn't for me. Also, I was daily driving a "beta" version of what came to be this release and didn't have those issues. After all, it might be a coincidence!
What a coincidence! Besides that, expect a release, probably tomorrow if all goes well.
On Ubuntu 22 at first no access to menus, (*after resize) then a freeze, then cannot access the 5th or so Friend and then freeze again then window opens to: oops something went wrong and now Logout not working but all the rest is OK again these issues were not present on 2.55.7-1
Confirming that the same thing started happening to me today on Windows. I was on a version of 2.55 and decided to update, but that didn't change anything. Dev console is spitting up a "Minified React error #418" error, and a bunch of warnings about source maps not being valid JSON (although I wouldn't be surprised if those are related to something else). There's also a weird black bar between the main content of the app and the menu bar (screenshot below)
The usual location.reload() trick isn't working out, unfortunately. Must be a change/problem on Messenger's side.
On Ubuntu 22 at first no access to menus, (*after resize) then a freeze, then cannot access the 5th or so Friend and then freeze again then window opens to: oops something went wrong and now Logout not working but all the rest is OK again these issues were not present on 2.55.7-1
I can only say about the resizing issue which is well known (#1871) and is caused by a newer Electron version, not by us. 2.55.7-1 used Electron 13 and we have since updated to 20!
The rest, as @godspede says are caused by Messenger and it happened that they rolled out a new design the day after we pushed a release!
The rest, as @godspede says are caused by Messenger and it happened that they rolled out a new design the day after we pushed a release!
- Blocking indicators settings missing/broken
All broken features were intentionally disabled in this release to avoid confusion and bug reports until they are fixed.
Same here, freezes by itself and has to be terminated through task manager. 2.55.5 and Windows 10.
I experience the same, but the CPU load goes to 100% on a single core. On Debian Linux.
Fedora 36, Caprine 2.55.7, flatpak version. Freezes if message is recieved when the app window is out of focus. No freeze when message is recieved in focus.
I experience the same, but the CPU load goes to 100% on a single core. On Debian Linux.
This is really weird. No such issue on (K)Ubuntu 22.04. Keep in mind, however, that Caprine is essentially a whole Chromium instance (browser) running in the background. There might be a problem in the underlying framework we use (Electron) but that's up to them to fix.
Sorry for a late reply. I haven't experienced these kinds of issues (I use Arch, Fedora and test dev version by just running npm start).
Could it be something Electron related? Some older issues on Electron repo suggest that it might be related to the Linux kernel but it seems to happen on Windows too.
Same here, 2.56.0 on Windows 10. Hangs and becomes completely unresponsive every time a message is received and has to be restarted. Very annoying.
Fedora 36, Caprine 2.55.7, flatpak version. Freezes if message is recieved when the app window is out of focus. No freeze when message is recieved in focus.
There was an update to the flatpak (to 2.56.0). Seems to be fixed in that version.