I thought of this after a recent bug I found. I use Vivaldi browser and recently it updated. After the update my mouse cursor was not visible when within the browser window. Other programs worked fine. I tried visual studio and steam and epic game store all had my mouse, Vivaldi didn’t.
I closed all instances of Vivaldi via task nanager(was unable to click the x) and restarted it. That fixed the bug and I haven’t been able to replicate so I don’t have anything to submit for a bug report. Just a really strange thing.
What have been your weirdest bugs?
Not sure if it fully fits, but one of my old HTC android phones has a bug where it would randomly fail any network request, by just never finishing it. No timeouts either.
It never got fixed. Loading a page in the browser, got stuck, and would need a new refresh. Some apps like Baconreader would get stuck doing the same, any app could have it happen. But sometimes the stars align, Facebooks Messenger had (has? don’t see it anymore) the chat bubbles that showed over whatever else on the screen. And i clicked one of those, and they got stuck loading. And there was literally no way to close it. There was no timeouts, so i eventually had to hold the power button and reboot…
Other notable mentions, Spotify on android did not handle duplicated files (since you could add your own music to it) with the same filename or at least artist - title metadata. It would always only play one of them. It was very interesting because Spotify on pc worked, so i could play the second track fine there, but if i told it to continue play through my phone then it would continue form the same timestamp on other track… Might be related to my phone being stupid, but there was a whole range of infuriating spotify issues. So i just moved to use poweramp and store and sync local music since i had a lot there to begin with .
Why would you have 2 files with the exact same name? Windows can’t even handle that if in the same folder and I would assume Spotify just dumps all files into a folder hence why it didn’t work.
They had different names like (1) if they were duplicates. But all my files were named something like “Artist - title.mp3”, and the Metadata tag for artist and title were generated based on the filename. I don’t know how they would look after being synced over to my phone from Spotify though, but it is probably how Spotify names the files that broke it on my phone.
All the files were in the same folder on my pc too, for reference. So they have unique filenames, but two files could have the exact same artist and song title. I give that’s it’s an obscure edge case, but really frustrating.
Why did you have multiple copies of the same song and artist? Only reason I can think of is like jam band concert versions but i would assume it would be like artist - song - year. Mp3 in that case
I have shitty music taste, and ended up downloading nightcore songs from YouTube. And the videos were usually named “Nightcore - song title”. So chances of duplicate songs end up a lot higher when the only unique thing is the title of the song…
Ah ok that makes sense