Solved Browser crashes on startup

jo7ueb

@mheckmann Worked for me too.

But I want know what caused this problem, and what is the best way to fix this problem, hopefully without losing tabs.

@pafflick Do you have any idea?
If you need I can provide a crash dump.

CaliforniaRain

@jo7ueb I hope so. Because I lost all of my sync data and tabs on vivaldi because of the update.

geralt1842

@mikewin me too, vivaldi crashes immediately after updating to Vivaldi.5.2.2623.33.x64. Downgrading to Vivaldi.5.2.2623.26.x64 is one of the way to preserve all the tabs I opened ...

Robert0

5.2.2623.33 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision 76634601820bd58c97c4246fb1dbf2ba8a8a0678
OS Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1620)

Immediately post update: full screen width of retained open tabs with stacks: open existing tab, delete tab, change to another existing tab (before and/or after the previous tab renders on screen) Vivaldi crashes.

Downgraded to fix

sashsz

After the last update .33 version Vivaldi 64-bit on Windows 10 is crashing on a specific tab/or the whole browser. Version .24 is fine, though.
Unpleasantly surprised by the "flaggings for spam" in this forum!

mib2berlin

@sashsz
Hi, welcome to the forum.
The spam filter is less restrictive if you get more reputation points.
The forum was spammed every day so they make it more sharp.

Cheers, mib

Ayespy

@sashsz said in Vivaldi frequently freezes/crashes:

"flaggings for spam"

Nothing personal. It's just machine logic with some settings to make it hard for spammers to get a toehold. As @mib2berlin says, the longer you are around and the more reputation (upvotes on your comments) you get, the more privileges and more free rein you have. After awhile, there are essentially no restrictions on your comments so long as you play nice with others and don't engage in advertising or self-promotion.

newforumuser

I overcame crash on start.

Just right-clicked on Vivaldi icon, and selected "New Tab". (Thanks to guy who wrote that Private window works). Vivaldi opened with all tabs plus new tab, with focus on new tab. The problematic tab was inactive, and I think it solved the issue. Just closed it with mouse middle-click.

My "history" of crashes - I had 2 windows: one with ~10 tabs, and another with two Youtube tabs, no playing.
I was browsing some group in livejournal.com in the first window, that page had a lot of links to videos, incl. Telegram videos. At some moment browser crashed. After that it could not start, just displayed two gray frames on desktop and going off.

Hope this helps.

johnzheng1113

When you click on the browser, it suddenly disappears, and the window disappears, so there is no way to use it.

pgareis27

Its doing it to me now with the current version 32 & 64 bit.
Whats up. How do I download an old version?

BluestarP3D

How did you guys downgrade? I have like 100 different tabs and windows open... Trying to avoid a fresh install. Submitted a bug report.

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iomari

Greetings,
I just upgraded to vivaldi-stable_5.2.2623.33-1 on kubuntu 21.10.
Now vivaldi crashes immediately on startup. I had to downgrade to vivaldi-stable_5.2.2623.26-1 and now it's ok.
Is there a known bug in vivaldi-stable_5.2.2623.33-1?

DoctorG

@johnzheng1113 Please check Troubleshooting issues.

mib2berlin

@bluestarp3d
Hi, one user report to install 5.1 as standalone, sync, all tabs are now in the standalone install.
Backup you 5.2 profile, wipe 5.2 with user data, install 5.1, copy the standalone profile to the new installed 5.1.
Downgrade is not recommended because of security reasons but sometimes ....

https://vivaldi.com/de/download/archive/

Please check https://help.vivaldi.com/article/full-reset-of-vivaldi/
How to do a full reset but keep data, if your sessions files are corrupted you can use it, I fear.

Cheers, mib

BluestarP3D

@mib2berlin Thank you, I think I understand...?

I'm going to try installing Vivaldi 5.1 on a USB drive and overwrite the Vivaldi > User Data > Default folder with the Default folder from my "official" install.

Does this sound correct?

I never had a Vivaldi account till I made this post, so I do not have a way to sync from my old session unfortunately.

EDIT: I just somehow saw the comment above mine (quoted below) and it worked! @mib2berlin : I still thank you very much for your time!

@newforumuser said in Crashes Immediately after updating to 5.1.2567.73:

I overcame crash on start.

Just right-clicked on Vivaldi icon, and selected "New Tab". (Thanks to guy who wrote that Private window works). Vivaldi opened with all tabs plus new tab, with focus on new tab. The problematic tab was inactive, and I think it solved the issue. Just closed it with mouse middle-click.

My "history" of crashes - I had 2 windows: one with ~10 tabs, and another with two Youtube tabs, no playing.
I was browsing some group in livejournal.com in the first window, that page had a lot of links to videos, incl. Telegram videos. At some moment browser crashed. After that it could not start, just displayed two gray frames on desktop and going off.

Hope this helps.

jtVivaldi

Hi! Same problem here after updating my 5.2 installation to the latest official build (5.2.2623.33).
I solved that by just upgrading with the actual snapshot build (5.2.2636.3) from https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/snapshots/

mikefmmedia

@pafflick Ok, something is very bad here. To get Vivaldi open, i had use a new profile at start, then delete my other 2 profiles and create them again and setup sync for them.
Anytime in the working, Vivaldi crashed again, but i was in another program, i didn't see it live why. I remember i was downloading some broken 0MB files. Since then, my workprofile again was broken, i cant open vivaldi with my workprofile, so i open vivaldi with my privateprofile, delete my work profile again and created it new, again.
I'm shure this will hapen again and this is extremly bad, cause i use this browser for work and to be honest, deleting and creating profiles multiple times is really annoing.

Input Problem solved, but there seems a more in dev problem. I never had crashes for years.

iAN CooG

@mikefmmedia https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/lots-of-crash-fixes-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2643-3/
try it, hopefully fixes your problems

leonardocezar

same problem happening to me. Kubuntu 18.04. same version vivaldi-stable_5.2.2623.33-1.

Ansy

Of course, I have too many pages open in 4 windows, but Vivaldi worked OK till today. But now it crushes just few seconds after opening windows.
No OOM killer, fresh booted MX Linux.

I've started to chase and close windows one by one between starting and crushing, till only one window stays opened... now it works.

I think some page is crushing all the browser. I need to find this one, or ..?

5.2.2623.33 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)