Vivaldi Will not Open After Update

rubberpix

I had the same problem but the test build did the trick for me too. I have Windows 10 Home 64-bit version 1809. Thanks for fixing it so quickly.

Andy

flo78

Has there been a regression in 2.10??
I had issues with crash on startup (and random crashes) relating to Symantec before - submitted logs etc. But first time I have this issue after upgrading:
I ran the 2.10 upgrade this morning, and afterwards Vivaldi just wouldn't start. Process closing as soon as it started. (I got a small blank window if launching from CLI with profile selection switch but nothing else). I also tried to install an earlier RC in Standalone mode, that wouldn't launch either.

Setting it (User install exe) to Win8 compatibility mode did the trick.
Win 10 Pro, and yes, both SEP and MalwareBytes running on this, with most settings managed by my organisation.

flo78

@flo78 Ok nevermind, I see everyone is posting about this now. I've added --disable-features=RendererCodeIntegrity to the shortcut now rather than use Compatibility mode.

bobkzzz

I too have the problem of after updating Vivaldi this morning to version 2.10 the browser will not open. I am running NAV and MBAM.

Ayespy

@bobkzzz The solutions are listed in the answers to the comments above yours. Symantec and NAV both improperly prevent Vivaldi from running. Until they fix their broken security software, the solutions/workarounds are listed above.

ShlomiYahbes

@bobkzzz
read this :
https://twitter.com/ruari/status/1208062411279872001

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/symantec-endpoint-protection-workaround/

pablowains

Same issue here. I had never had this type of issue before with Vivaldi running on Windows 10 Pro. I will try to restore to a previous version.

ShlomiYahbes

@Gwen-Dragon
Thank you !!
That was helpful now I can run Vivaldi at my work laptop !
But I have another problem.. with the Call from
do you have a solution ?

rsjeffrey

Is a solution to this problem on the horizon?

I use Norton 360, and the latest Vivaldi update works only when I use the workaround - which I assume makes browsing less secure. Other browsers (e.g. Firefox) do not seem to suffer similar problems when they update. I prefer using Vivaldi, but if it is to grow its user base, it has to resolve these update issues - this is not the first.

Hopkins

Just before Christmas I started having problems with Vivaldi failing to open - or, at least, a few executables pop up for a second before dying. Today, I got it running using the Windows 8 compatibility work around mentioned here - thanks. However, my problem seems to relate to permissions on a DCOM service. The event viewer records an event each time opening of Vivaldi fails, which says:

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID 
{2593F8B9-4EAF-457C-B68A-50F6B8EA6B54}
 and APPID 
{15C20B67-12E7-4BB6-92BB-7AFF07997402}
 to the user [DOMAIN\user.name] SID (S-1-5-21-1454471165-879983540-725345543-201510) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

The AppID 15C20B67-12E7-4BB6-92BB-7AFF07997402 refers to the RuntimeBroker.

Looking up this message on Google gives some suggestions, but I cannot implement them because I only have user permissions (and Vivaldi has been installed just as a normal user).

I hope that this helps.

ShlomiYahbes

@Gwen-Dragon
I did
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/43014/call-from-phone-name-new-feature

Thank you!

PzSniper

Same issue with latest Norton Antivirus Plus 22.19.9.63, but workaround fixed the issue, for now

also reported to NortonLifeLock https://community.norton.com/en/forums/symantec-endpoint-protection-nortonlifelock-antivirus-crash-cause-vivaldi-issue-–-workaround

R8MARC

@Gwen-Dragon This registry entry worked for me.

cristane

Vivaldi 10 still won't open on my laptop, and being a work laptop, I don't want to change any registries or mess with the antivir. Temporarily went back to Chrome, but I'll be checking once in a while to see if you fixed it.

cristane

@Gwen-Dragon I installed an old copy of Vivaldi 9, and it works like a charm. So why does Symantec complain only about the new version?

iAN CooG

@cristane said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

Vivaldi 9

there is NO Vivaldi 9, maybe 2.9?

cristane

@iAN-CooG Yep, sorry, when I said Vivaldi 9 and 10 I actually meant 2.9 and 2.10. I had 2.9 installed and worked great, then updated it to 2.10 which stopped working, so downgraded back to 2.9.
No idea why Symantec has issues with one but not with the other. Hopefully this will be solved eventually.

TG2

@Gwen-Dragon said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

@cristane said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

No idea why Symantec has issues with one

Please report this False Positive to Symantec support.
Gwen, this doesn't just seem to be a Symantec problem. I'm not getting any alerts logged in Symantec (app/option offered as part of free Comcast Service offering) My errors show up in DCOM messages.

Like previous users I install the last version of 2.9 and I'm back in Vivaldi!! .. which I have not been into, in nearly a freakin' week since accepting the 2.10 update/upgrade.

It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck .. its a GD DUCK! Its your company's application, if something has gone wrong, in how Norton identifies it, or how the system (win 10, 1909) works with it, we the user can't push this off on them, without specifics that PROVE the problem is symantec. ... or Windows .. Maybe its an escalation of privileges (I've right clicked and tried run-as admin .. and been equally treated to the standard UAC) .. so what is it?

There are a great many users, that have chosen to run Vivaldi .. but its not appropriate to see the single update from 2.9 to 2.10 cause Vivaldi not to start, and then blame it on everyone else.

Something is at the core of the changes from 2.9 to 2.10 that is causing strife .. not for 100% of the users, but for enough of us, that there are 4 pages of complaints / posts, about this problem, on the Vivaldi forum alone.

As the great Craig Ferguson use to say .. I look forward to your angry letters...

Pesala

@TG2 Save yourself a lot of grief. Uninstall your AV and make do with Windows Defender. I have had no issues in more than three years of using Windows 10 with Windows Defender and Windows Firewall as my only Antivirus.

TG2

@Pesala said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

@TG2 Save yourself a lot of grief. Uninstall your AV and make do with Windows Defender. I have had no issues in more than three years of using Windows 10 with Windows Defender and Windows Firewall as my only Antivirus.
I'm sorry .. but I've been using Norton since 2004 ... across difficult years, where Xfinity didn't offer it .. and in 15 years..... the handful of issues experienced, across XP, 7, 8~8.1 and 10 .... have been less than countable on fingers .. much less fingers and toes!

I put my first Email server live in 1998, and web sites, pages, numerous issues crossing McAfee (wow the uninstaller failures they've had) which is why I've stuck with Norton.

I should be totally honest .. there was a time I paid for ZoneAlarm firewall and used Avast ... 4 years to be real about it .. but that was around the time Comcast went away from Norton ... and because I'd had multiple issues with McAfee .. that is why I avoided any of those as if they were with plague ..

But lets just take the past 3 years .. in 2017 I built this new PC on bleeding edge AMD Ryzen ... and in 3 years.. the number of problems using this machine nearly 24 7 .. and lets classify that .. running Vmware Workstation pro versions 11 through 15, across 2 different companies, with 4 different VPN products (the reason I go serious about using VM's for customer one-offs) zero problems that I could point at Norton and say.. "norton you F'd me" ... NOT ONE!

you're telling me that in all of that experience .. that its just the move from 2.9 to 2.10 of vivaldi and now the problem is 100% nortons' fault?

Sorry .. but no .. Roll back to 2.9 ... vivaldi works .. roll into 2.10 .. program doesn't even start .. and I get logged issues with it for Microsoft DCOM failures..

no sir / no mam ... this is somethign Vivaldi needs to work through .. they should reach out to established users (not me while I've got the history I've no more time for BS) and ask those users to help trouble shoot what it is .. and how-if at all possible- they vivaldi can help move this problem forward..

I'm sorry .. but this so far .. is on Vivaldi. Regardless if they are only just following chrome ...or not . for all we know .. its the failure of Vivaldi to nudge users ever closer into an "allow" dialog .. which is not the same as "vivaldi.exe" failed to execute ... etc.)

Please don't get me wrong.. I came to Vivaldi specifically for anti-chrome and anti-movement to this borderless BS and "to the edge"borderless programing that browser programs have taken us, and hope and pray that companies like Vivaldi survive and thrive, so that we (the user) can benefit from a browser that CAN and will and DOES provide out of bandwidth alternatives to the "status quote" application set... that it survives, and hopefully thrives showing those other browsers the door...