Losing tabs after system crashes

[dejlek]

Vivaldi really poorly handles system crashes. Every now and then I am losing all the tabs after my system crashes. This does not happen with Firefox and Chrome. Any workaround for this, or please let me know how to file a feature-request...

[lamarca]

@dejlek said in Losing tabs after system crashes:

I am losing all the tabs after my system crashes

If I understood correctly, the issue lies on your OS

[Steffie]

This general topic arose recently elsewhere in this forum. https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/221363

@paralaks solved it via cron, i solved it via BackInTime. Since my original implementation i changed the interval to 5` for 1 day, so now i am in good shape for those [in my experience] very very rare V-SS crashes that obliterate my tabs.

Linux is so kewl.

ModEdit: Changed the large image into a linked thumbnail, which always opens in a new tab.

[lamarca]

@dejlek said in Losing tabs after system crashes:

Every now and then I am losing all the tabs after my system crashes.

Please, don't take me wrong. In my opinion. your OS has to be fixed. it's not Vivaldi related.

[QuHno]

@lamarca but autosave sessions would help, don't you agree?

[Pesala]

@dejlek The feature request is already there. Session Auto-save , but as I noted there, Vivaldi does already autosave the session on normal exit so that one can restart with the saved session.

Depending on the nature of the crash the tabs may be lost or recoverable from trash. The best workaround is to manually save sessions if they are important to you. There are numerous feature requests to make managing sessions easier. A Sessions Panel would be my choice.

If you add this link as a web panel you can easily search for other feature requests simply by changing the search string from "Session" to any other term. Enclose more than one word in quotes to search for a precise phrase.

[lamarca]

@quhno said in Losing tabs after system crashes:

@lamarca but autosave sessions would help, don't you agree?

Under normal circumstances, yes.
The way I see, Vivaldi has time not save due to the OS crash.

[lamarca]

@pesala said in Losing tabs after system crashes:

Depending on the nature of the crash the tabs may be lost or recoverable from trash. The best workaround is to manually save sessions if they are important to you.

IMHO first thing to do is to identify what is causing the crash.

[Steffie]

@dejlek said in Losing tabs after system crashes:

system crashes

When i first read your post, & replied to it, i mistakenly overlooked this key word "system"; i responded falsely believing you only alluded to Vivaldi crashes. As such, as others have already remarked, you really should be focusing your diagnostic efforts on your defective distro installation, not Vivaldi per se.

That said, to help you recover from EITHER a system crash OR a Vivaldi crash, given you have the wonderful advantage of running Linux not one of the lesser OS's, if you create a suitable cron job directly, or otherwise indirectly as i showed you via a program like BackInTime, then even if you find all your V tabs gone after one of your crashes, you can simply replace them all with your version saved 5' ago, or 10', 30' etc, depending on how you configured your cron/BiT job. It's easy, painless, & incredibly effective.

[QuHno]

@lamarca said in Losing tabs after system crashes:

IMHO first thing to do is to identify what is causing the crash.

If possible: Yes - but that can be extremely difficult.
If you've followed the internal discussion you have seen that I had some really nasty "silent" crashes that did not even generated crash logs.
That is exactly the situation when a non-OS-scripting user needs some safety net. I personally do not need it, I generate my own backups, so I can always restore my stuff, but I don't expect that from everyone.

[lamarca]

@quhno said in Losing tabs after system crashes:

If you've followed the internal discussion

Rolland,

That's what I've doing. Nevertheless, it's not Vivaldi related:)