Vivaldi closing itself on launch

JanSolo

Hi folks. I am having a bizarre little issue with the latest and greatest version of Vivaldi running on the latest version of Windows 10.

I was running Vivaldi 2.0 and installed the latest version released today (2.0.1309.40) on top of the previous version.
I perform an install, but I can't quite tell if the upgrade finished. For example, I didn't receive a success message of any kind indicating the install was a success, no new browser window launched - both of which I believe typically happens after a successful installation.
When I attempted to launch Vivaldi, a browser window briefly appeared and then was gone.
At this point, I cannot get a Vivaldi browser window to appear.

I've tried a number of things to resolve this, but nothing has worked yet.

I killed all the Vivaldi processes via the task manager and relaunched. No luck.
Uninstalled, reinstalled, relaunched. No luck.
I've even thrown some good old-fashioned rebooting into the mix, but no luck.

Does anyone have any advice or feedback on what steps I can take in order to get Vivaldi running once again?

lamarca

Check if there's any crash log: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/reporting-crashes-on-windows/

navarde

I had exactly the same issue. Also on Linux.
So, I re-installed previous version (2.0.1309.37) which is now working fine.

JanSolo

@lamarca said in Vivaldi closing itself on launch:

Check if there's any crash log: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/reporting-crashes-on-windows/

Thanks for the tip!

foosam

me too.

lamarca

@jansolo You are welcome.

lamarca

@navarde The Minor update has an important fix. Could you please start a new topic at the right category?
Downgrading is not recommended
Thx

espenore

@navarde same problem, same solution for me both with Ubuntu and Windows

JKimball

JanSolo, I ran into the same behavior today. In my case it was caused by the Google Keep extension. It is not compatible with this release of Vivaldi and if you are using the extension, you will need to disable or uninstall it. To do this I opened the browser in incognito mode. The incognito window may stay open which would allow you to go to the "Tools" menu and manage extensions.

You can open Vivaldi in incognito mode from a command line by typing "vivaldi --incognito". If you are using Windows, you can press (Windows Key)-R then type the command line at the "Open:" prompt. When Vivaldi opens you may see a tab prompting for your Google login. You should close it. It is caused by the Keep extension.

After you disable the extension you should be able to open Vivaldi normally but you will probably lose windows and tabs from your last session before the update was installed.

Pesala

@jkimball Check for updates

Criamos

Same problem here with version *.40, I lost a few tabs due to this crash-on-startup behavior. I also had to revert back to .37.

I sent in a bug-report with some crashlogs attached (VB-45005). Thanks for linking the crashlog article @lamarca! Hope this helps the team to find the source of the problem.

@Jkimball: I can't cross-check again, since I'm back on .37, but could it be that the Application Launcher for Drive might be the culprit? Last time I used Keep on Chrome, it iirc needed the launcher - and the launcher was the only thing I had installed in that regard within Vivaldi when it instantly crashed in .40.

JKimball

@criamos All I can say is that I have Application Launcher for Drive installed and enabled and the Keep extension disabled and .40 is now working. But without Keep of course. I will probably revert back to .37 also.