Linux Browsers (Vivaldi) and FreeBSD

Shabaz · Thursday at 1:17 PM

Hi,

I am running Linux Vivaldi via Linuxulator and Linux Browsers script on my FreeBSD workstations. It works well, sometimes has stability issues but not that often to make me quit.
My problem is that for some reason Mail client or Feeds client doesn't fetch any data. There are also some built-in widgets like Weather that also doesn't fetch data as well as some sites like logging in to Reddit. Vivaldi in native environments doesn't have these problems.

Does anyone use Vivaldi or some other Linux browser and experience similar problems.

It there some setting in Linux environment that needs adjustment?

Thanks

fahrenheit · Thursday at 1:49 PM

Shabaz , out of curiosity do you need to use a VPN, have some custom resolv.conf configuration or have some proxy that you need to use?

Shabaz · Thursday at 2:46 PM

Hi fahrenheit,
No. resolv.conf in /compat/ubuntu/etc/resolv.conf points to my local DNS just like the host.

Shabaz · Thursday at 2:53 PM

Trying to login to Reddit gives "No internet connection. Please try again.", trying to update the RSS feeds does nothing.
Logging to Gmail is ok, when I log off it shows Gmail page "you appear to be offline"

drhowarddrfine · Thursday at 4:17 PM

Shabaz said:
Trying to login to Reddit gives "No internet connection. Please try again."

That's a feature not a fault.

MrBSD · Thursday at 4:52 PM

Shabaz said:
Hi,

I am running Linux Vivaldi via Linuxulator and Linux Browsers script on my FreeBSD workstations. It works well, sometimes has stability issues but not that often to make me quit.
My problem is that for some reason Mail client or Feeds client doesn't fetch any data. There are also some built-in widgets like Weather that also doesn't fetch data as well as some sites like logging in to Reddit. Vivaldi in native environments doesn't have these problems.

Does anyone use Vivaldi or some other Linux browser and experience similar problems.

It there some setting in Linux environment that needs adjustment?

Thanks

There is no reason why you should use Vivaldi. Let alone use it via Linuxlator. Just use Librewolf. If you are dependent on Chromium based browser for whatever reason, use ungoogled chromium.

Shabaz · Thursday at 7:18 PM

MrBSD This comment doesn't help much especially under this sub forum.
Everybody has preference on the browser they use. The choice is good.

the3ajm · Thursday at 8:10 PM

what freebsd release are you running and do you update the app using the script?

Shabaz · Friday at 12:13 PM

15.0 p11 and yes, I update using the script. The browser is on the latest version from yesterday..
the same problem is also on other FreeBSD computers with 15.1.
Another problem I have that I just remembered is there is no sound after first start, after restarting a browser once or twice immediately, the sound is available. Again this behavior is on all the computers as well.

the3ajm · Friday at 5:11 PM

Can you run browser from the terminal and output into a log file so you can review it if there is any indication about the issue?

Did you also chroot into ubuntu to update the packages?

Zare · Friday at 6:29 PM

Shabaz are you running it in the /compat/linux chroot or just running it?

Shabaz · Friday at 7:19 PM

the3ajm said:
Can you run browser from the terminal and output into a log file so you can review it if there is any indication about the issue?

Did you also chroot into ubuntu to update the packages?

Code:

 linux-browser-installer/linux-browser-installer chroot upgrade

upgrades both the environment and the browser I think.

running from the console provides a lot of information, but when I actually try to login to Reddit when connection issue message there is no log in the console.

Shabaz · Friday at 7:23 PM

Zare said:
Shabaz are you running it in the /compat/linux chroot or just running it?

there is a script on

Code:

  /usr/local/bin/linux-vivaldi

Code:

#!/bin/sh

chroot_path=/compat/ubuntu

get_pa_sock_path()
{
        PA_SOCK_PATH=$(sockstat | awk -v me=$(whoami) -F'[ \t]+' '
                $1 == me && $2 == "pulseaudio" && $6 ~ /native/ {
                        print $6;
                        exit 0
                }'
        )
}

get_pa_sock_path
if [ ! -S "$PA_SOCK_PATH" ]; then
        while killall pulseaudio; do
                sleep 0.5
        done
        pulseaudio --start
        get_pa_sock_path
fi
[ -S "$PA_SOCK_PATH" ] && export PULSE_SERVER=unix:$PA_SOCK_PATH
--More--(94%)...skipping...
#!/bin/sh

chroot_path=/compat/ubuntu

get_pa_sock_path()
{
        PA_SOCK_PATH=$(sockstat | awk -v me=$(whoami) -F'[ \t]+' '
                $1 == me && $2 == "pulseaudio" && $6 ~ /native/ {
                        print $6;
                        exit 0
                }'
        )
}

get_pa_sock_path
if [ ! -S "$PA_SOCK_PATH" ]; then
        while killall pulseaudio; do
                sleep 0.5
        done
        pulseaudio --start
        get_pa_sock_path
fi
[ -S "$PA_SOCK_PATH" ] && export PULSE_SERVER=unix:$PA_SOCK_PATH
${chroot_path}/bin/vivaldi

Running this and just directly

Code:

 /compat/ubuntu/bin/vivaldi

gives the same problem.

the3ajm · Saturday at 3:13 AM

Shabaz said:
Running this and just directly /compat/ubuntu/bin/vivaldigives the same problem.

Are you running this directly from your terminal? When you run it the terminal log Vivaldi and will provide you details of what it's doing when trying to run the email/RSS client.

Shabaz · 2026-07-13T14:02:11+0100

hi the3ajm
Starting vivaldi in terminal gives bunch of logs and errors (the whole page repeated stuff)

Code:

[31396:31396:0713/085303.181310:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/egl_util.cc:92] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Invalid visual ID requested.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.181363:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/gl_display.cc:638] eglInitialize OpenGL failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED, trying next display type
[31396:31396:0713/085303.181855:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/angle_platform_impl.cc:47] Display.cpp:1119 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Invalid visual ID requested.
ERR: Display.cpp:1119 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Invalid visual ID requested.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.181998:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/egl_util.cc:92] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Invalid visual ID requested.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.182054:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/gl_display.cc:638] eglInitialize OpenGLES failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
[31396:31396:0713/085303.182109:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/gl_display.cc:673] Initialization of all (2) EGL display types failed.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.182160:ERROR:chromium/ui/ozone/common/gl_ozone_egl.cc:26] GLDisplayEGL::Initialize failed.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.215103:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/angle_platform_impl.cc:47] Display.cpp:1119 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Invalid visual ID requested.
ERR: Display.cpp:1119 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Invalid visual ID requested.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.215216:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/egl_util.cc:92] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Invalid visual ID requested.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.215265:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/gl_display.cc:638] eglInitialize OpenGL failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED, trying next display type
[31396:31396:0713/085303.215663:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/angle_platform_impl.cc:47] Display.cpp:1119 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Invalid visual ID requested.
ERR: Display.cpp:1119 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Invalid visual ID requested.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.215734:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/egl_util.cc:92] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Invalid visual ID requested.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.215782:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/gl_display.cc:638] eglInitialize OpenGLES failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
[31396:31396:0713/085303.215828:ERROR:chromium/ui/gl/gl_display.cc:673] Initialization of all (2) EGL display types failed.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.215874:ERROR:chromium/ui/ozone/common/gl_ozone_egl.cc:26] GLDisplayEGL::Initialize failed.
[31396:31396:0713/085303.219796:ERROR:chromium/components/viz/service/main/viz_main_impl.cc:190] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
[31348:104943:0713/085304.687016:ERROR:chromium/net/socket/ssl_client_socket_impl.cc:963] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -202
[31348:104943:0713/085304.687170:ERROR:chromium/net/socket/ssl_client_socket_impl.cc:963] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -202
[31334:104920:0713/085305.395478:ERROR:chromium/device/udev_linux/udev_watcher.cc:51] Failed to initialize a udev monitor.

Once the appication is stared if i go to RSS client, it shows that is offline, trying to refresh the feeds, doesn't produce any logs nor any action like I didn't press the button except that button is animated in rotating motion. The email client is also saying Offline, no logs.

Shabaz · 2026-07-13T14:23:30+0100

Actually email sending works, but receiving doesn't work..
Telneting from both the host and Linux environment works

Code:

 telnet imap.mail.yahoo.com 993
Trying 69.147.112.172...
Connected to jimapinternal.imap.mail.g03.yahoodns.net.
Escape character is '^]'.