Solved Browser crashes on startup

mikefmmedia

@iAN-CooG The snapshot has the same problem. At first it starts and at some point where my profiles are synced and i reloaded previous tabs, it crashes.

Now i'm back at stable version,

created one profile after another,
deaktivated all extensions,
then i opened my previous tabs on after another
... after every step i closed vivaldi and check if start works
Now i know, the Gitlab loginpage crashes my private profile. For a little debugoutput, i tried to start the broken profile from console, screenshot attached. The "Speicherzugriffsfehler" looks for me like gitlab blows up the browserstorage. Vivaldi should stop the script that does this but not crashing, hope this gets fixed soon.

miketuxedo

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rseiler

@mikefmmedia said in Browser crashes on startup:

The snapshot has the same problem. At first it starts and at some point where my profiles are synced and i reloaded previous tabs, it crashes.

I wonder if anyone can confirm the problem repeating if sync is disabled? I would try it to narrow the problem.

iAN CooG

Too bad I also have experienced a crash and successive crashing on restart, despite having just updated to the current snapshot 5.3.2643.3
It happened after pressing F5 to refresh a page while I was editing a text form.
The only way to make Vivaldi restart was to delete the files Session_* and Tabs_* in
%localappdata%\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\Sessions
Luckily I had a saved session from this morning so all my tabs, apart the one I was editing the text form, got recovered immediately. The missing tab got recovered from the history.
Save your session often, people.

Ayespy

@pgareis27 We recommend that you don't. It can break your profile, and will be insecure.

Ayespy

@ian-coog The bug appears to be related to opening a tab that is generating or has a dialog present. There's work ongoing on this.

loudermp

My browser would start and then close, to fix I deleted these files Session_(random number) and Tabs_(random number) in this folder C:\Users(UserName)\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\Sessions and then reloaded the saved session, this may just be me but if not this may help someone

DoctorG

@loudermp A known issue which should be fixed in 5.3 Snapshot. A fix for 5.2 Stable could hopefully ready the next days.

loudermp

Thanks posting because this just happened, Vivaldi 5.2.2623.33 (Stable channel) (32-bit) Windows 10 Home 21H2 (OS Build 19044, 1645).

pafflick

Thank you all for the reports. We're aware of the issue - our developers are working on a solution. We will be releasing a minor update soon to address this problem. We apologize for the inconvenience!

underscore

@jtvivaldi It worked for me, thank you

samohT

Upgrading to 5.2.2636.3 didn't work for me. I downgraded to 5.2.2623.26, closed just a view tabs and installed current (5.2.2623.33) again. Which now works.

teran1a

Same problem. Had to downgrade in order the browser to work properly.

flylars

This method helped me after an update where Vivaldi browser would not open after an update. I tried first to restart my PC, but no improvement. Then I downloaded the browser again without deleting the old, but it did not fix the problem. I tried your method, and it worked! Thank you so much!

Win 10, ver 21H2

Regards from Lars

@ayespy said in HELP! Vivaldi won't open:

@maries Uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't do anything. The problem is not in the program. It's in the session you broke when you closed a background window.

If you are in Windows, open your task manager and make sure every APP and every PROCESS named "Vivaldi" is closed.

Then check the destination of the desktop shortcut to Vivaldi. It should be something like Users/"user (you)"/appdata/local/vivaldi.

Go to that folder. In it, you will see two folders. One will be named Application, and the other will be named User Data. In the User Data folder is a folder named Default. Open it. Delete every file in it (not folder, but file) with the words "session" or Tabs" in the name. Close that folder. Re-start Vivaldi.

dols

I just restarted Vivaldi to take an update and now it won't start.
I rebooted.
There is no vivaldi in the process table.

Help

Ayespy

@dols The solution is in the posts above yours.

dols

@ayespy Vivaldi is not running in the task manager.

Ayespy

@dols It it's not started, it should not be in the task manager. Since it won't start, it has to be fixed. And the way to fix it (which has to be done without it running anyway) is in the posts above yours. Go into the profile and rename or move out the sessions folders is the main thing.

dols

@ayespy ok, now it starts and how do I recover all my tabs?

Ayespy

@dols How many tabs? And do you use sync?