My Calibre reader often went blank while opening it along with the Edge Browser

niersveen · 03-18-2025, 03:10 PM

My Calibre often crashes while I use it along with the Edge browser. It doesn't stop responding, the reader window just turned blank white, right-click on the window still shows the options, but choosing the reload option does not help. Re-launching the Calibre reader seems to be the solution, only for it to happen again in 20-ish minutes.
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I just recently decided to update my Calibre from v5.x to the newest v7.26. This problem never happens when I'm still on v5. So here's the details:
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I was reading an epub that I obtained by using a Chrome extension to grab a whole series' chapters into an epub called WebToEpub, the epub was quite a mess, I'm not a programmer but after cleaning it by using some common sense about HTML structure with Calibre editor it somehow able to open just fine.
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While reading the book, I took advantage of the Windows 11 window manager to open 3 app windows at the same time. I multitasked by playing a browser-game called Granblue Fantasy on 2 separate windows of Edge Browser. The thing is, the browser-game needs to be refreshed a lot (it's just the gameplay mechanics). While the game is refreshed, there seems to be a chance for the Calibre reader window to follow suit, being refreshed, but instead of being refreshed, the window content just vanishes into a blank white window.
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I suspect this is probably because of the browser and the game's demand of GPU Acceleration to render its contents, maybe it's a driver issue or my ancient GTX1050 and UHD630 were the problems, or maybe something else...
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I'm not really looking for a solution here since simply relaunching the Calibre app fixes the problem and the reader still remembers the position of my last read. I don't know if this had ever happen before and had been asked in this forum, I just want to bring it to light.

Quoth · 03-19-2025, 06:33 AM

Try Chromium or even Vivaldi (though it might not run the extension).

Edge is now just MS version of Chromium.

JSWolf · 03-22-2025, 07:13 PM

Try Firefox and see if it works with your game. If it does, maybe it won;t cause the crash.

03-18-2025, 03:10 PM	#1
niersveen Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2025 Device: none	My Calibre reader often went blank while opening it along with the Edge Browser My Calibre often crashes while I use it along with the Edge browser. It doesn't stop responding, the reader window just turned blank white, right-click on the window still shows the options, but choosing the reload option does not help. Re-launching the Calibre reader seems to be the solution, only for it to happen again in 20-ish minutes. . I just recently decided to update my Calibre from v5.x to the newest v7.26. This problem never happens when I'm still on v5. So here's the details: . I was reading an epub that I obtained by using a Chrome extension to grab a whole series' chapters into an epub called WebToEpub, the epub was quite a mess, I'm not a programmer but after cleaning it by using some common sense about HTML structure with Calibre editor it somehow able to open just fine. . While reading the book, I took advantage of the Windows 11 window manager to open 3 app windows at the same time. I multitasked by playing a browser-game called Granblue Fantasy on 2 separate windows of Edge Browser. The thing is, the browser-game needs to be refreshed a lot (it's just the gameplay mechanics). While the game is refreshed, there seems to be a chance for the Calibre reader window to follow suit, being refreshed, but instead of being refreshed, the window content just vanishes into a blank white window. . I suspect this is probably because of the browser and the game's demand of GPU Acceleration to render its contents, maybe it's a driver issue or my ancient GTX1050 and UHD630 were the problems, or maybe something else... . I'm not really looking for a solution here since simply relaunching the Calibre app fixes the problem and the reader still remembers the position of my last read. I don't know if this had ever happen before and had been asked in this forum, I just want to bring it to light.

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03-19-2025, 06:33 AM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 13,632 Karma: 103503445 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Try Chromium or even Vivaldi (though it might not run the extension). Edge is now just MS version of Chromium.

03-22-2025, 07:13 PM	#3
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 78,936 Karma: 144284074 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Try Firefox and see if it works with your game. If it does, maybe it won;t cause the crash.