Solved Browser crashes on startup
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@ayespy I both renamed the directory and put it into an archive. why? how am I going to start it with a corrupt profile?
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@dols Which directory did you rename? I think what we have here may be a bit of overkill. As long as it's just renamed, you have lost no data, but you may have a bit of rebuilding to do.
The problem with the sessions file is that it contains probably ONE bad tab, but unless you can hand-edit the file (which hardly anyone can), you have to rebuild that entire session yourself, which you will have to do from history, unless you have history set to too short a time frame.
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@dols To be clear, your "profile" is the entire "Default" folder which, for purposes of this exercise, you probably did not have to rename. You only needed to rename or move the sessions folders, in which case all of your other settings and data remain intact.
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@ayespy the "default" directory. There are 30 directories and 30 files just in the top level, that's too much guesswork. If there's a log file that would be helpful. anything. I can probably even find a leveldb driver and delete some bad rows.
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@dols You need the data and settings in that default directory. So if you're gonna rename it, you need to leave it in situ or put it on your desktop or some place handy where you can access it.
For now, tho, just put it on your desktop or something and open it up. In it you will see two folders that have the word session or sessions. Either rename or move those folders.
THEN, put that "Default" folder back where you got it from in your User Data directory (moving or renaming the new "Default" folder that you replaced it with) and see if Vivaldi will open. If it will, check your History, and see how many of the sites from your old session(s) are in there.
If cleaning/clearing Sessions and putting the folder back means you CAN'T start Vivaldi then you will need a new "Default" folder and you'll have to migrate your old Login Data, Bookmarks, Cookies, History, Favicons etc. files into it. But since we know about this Sessions bug, my advice would be to start with the most minor surgery first, not excise the entire Default folder.
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@dols It's sad, but removing the old session data necessarily torpedoes all the open tabs you had. It was one of those tabs that was blocking Vivaldi from starting. We just can't know which one.
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@ayespy the ironic thing was that I wanted to try fixing the freezes that I was seeing with youtube videos by turning off the gpu blocklist setting but figured I had to restart the browser sooner or later for the update. the session was likely corrupted by the video playback freezes.
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@dols Yeah. What appears to have been causing the lock-ups is notifications that are trying to display on tabs at the same time as these tabs are opening. In several cases these have been YouTube tabs.
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@pafflick Are all these crash issues (there are countless threads) from a root problem? These seem oddly similar to me, if not identical.
And as importantly, was it known before going final? I haven't dug through the threads yet leading up to release, but it's hard to believe it all materialized only after going final, particularly when the last RC build is often identical.
If so, it has to be time to reconsider when to pull the trigger on these releases, regardless of how much pressure the new Chromium release is exerting. If really needed, and it certainly was with 5.2, maybe do more of those "backport" releases of security fixes into whatever the existing stable is at the time to buy yourself more time. New features can wait a little while longer.
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We've just released a minor update that should hopefully fix the problem with crashes. Please update your browsers to the latest version.
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I tried to restore my largest window after pulling the update and it crashed everything, exactly like it was doing with .33
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@protospork How did you try to "restore it"? Did you try opening a saved session via the main menu, through the window panel, from the closed tabs list or in some other way?
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I'm using Vivaldi with 2 profile, mine and my son one, i got no problem on my profile but when we're trying to open his Vivaldi thru profile selection blank Vivaldi window is showing then all Vivaldi browser are crashing.
Vivaldi 5.3.2643.3 (Version officielle) (64 bits)
Révision fb533be31755ed0d6977d922ce139a35a6e93373
Système d’exploitation Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1645) -
@pafflick through the window panel. I'd already lost my sync session via accidentally clicking a link in another app
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@flubb
Hi, may be a broken session cause this, often Youtube tabs.
Move the files in the folder Session out of his profile to a save place.
The profile folders of other profiles called Profile 1, for example.
The path to the profile is published in File > Help > About
Jump one step up out of the folder Default, there should be the other profile folder.Cheers, mib
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It looks like there are at least two common factors for the recent crashes - opening a dialogue and sending data via POST. The former should've been fixed with the recent update, but the latter is still occurring, unfortunately. If one of your tabs contains a page that received some data via POST, you might still experience a crash when trying to restore it.
We'll try to get the fix ready as soon as possible, but It might not be here until the next week due to the holiday break. Sorry about that.
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Weird but working hack to get Vivaldi to open again:
Force Vivaldi to open a link (e.g. from an email or a document).This opens a new tab before the problematic tab has any chance to interfere.
Not sure why this works ....Tried on Vivaldi 5.2.2623.34-1, Fedora 35, Gnome 41, 5.16.18-200.fc35.x86_64
Hope this might help anyone
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If you have startup crash try https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/74328/fix-vivaldi-5-2-startup-crash/1
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I'm having exactly the same issue. Let me try some of the troubleshooting in this thread. It's a bit distressing since I use Vivaldi for work; I saw a suggestion from a much older thread that a similar problem was caused by an error in synching data, but I can't think of a way to fix that when the browser won't even open.
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That worked for me. Awesome find!
