Solved Browser crashes on startup
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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!
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Okay, the sessions thing worked for me! Thank you to those of you who shared this solution. I seem to have lost my tabs, but I can cope with that.
I'll try the minor update and hopefully it will prevent this from happening again.
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Hi,
Found vivaldi 5.2.2623.34 (Stable channel) (32-bit) crashes on startup.Using windows 11 x64.
Found renaming sessions and sessions storage folders fixed the problem, but loses all tabs.
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@pafflick After uninstalling the snapshot and getting the latest stable it starts again without any problem.
Thanks again guys! -
@seron thx
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I read the "session trick" and knew immediately which tab in my session would try to send POST data and therefore causes the crash. Of course it is the last opened tab before closing Vivaldi, which is the same Vivaldi tries to load during the launch. So I launched Vivaldi by an URL (I used my external feed reader for that) and closed the respective tab by NOT activating it, just clicking on the "X" in its upper right corner.
And that was it. I can close and start Vivaldi without bugs now. Until a fix I won't close Vivaldi with an active POST data sending tab. -
@pafflick You should be right. I have only one tab with a form which expecting login data on opening (in popup) at that window which crashes.
I have downgraded to 23.26 as others, and waiting for the fix. Thanks for your efforts. -
Vivaldi version 5.2.2623.34
I update following Windows updates
- April 12, 2022—KB5012599 (OS Builds 19042.1645, 19043.1645, and 19044.1645)
- April 12, 2022-KB5012117 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 20H2, Windows Server, version 20H2, Windows 10 Version 21H1, and Windows 10 Version 21H2
After that Vivaldi crashed when launching after windows update. It cannot be opened normally anymore.
I uninstall and reinstall the latest 5.2 version but the same.
