Solved Browser crashes on activating a specific tab
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The browser will also crash if there is a Startpage.com tab in hibernation mode and you click on it to reactivate it.
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This update is constantly crashing my browser. I'm going to have to switch to another browser until this is fixed.
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There's soooooo many threads created recently about this. If only the forum had some kind of tool that allowed proto-posters to first search for topics & keywords...
Generic stuff:
Peeps experiencing adverse symptoms need to identify if the misbehaviour extant in their Default profile, also occurs in a clean test virgin profile [this separates possible root causes into local profile damage vs potential V bug]. A quick way to do this is to create & launch said virgin test profile in terminal viavivaldi-stable --profile-directory="NewTestProfile". Logical troubleshooting diagnostics involves various steps beyond this, but this is the necessary starting point.Thread-specific stuff
- At least two of you are running the GNOME DE [= default for Ubuntu & Fedora, unless you explicitly installed an alternative DE]. Atm for Fedora definitely, & Ubuntu maybe [pls tbc] the default GNOME session is Wayland [at least one of you already explicitly confirmed a W session].
- Ootb chromium & ergo V, are not tuned for running natively as a W app, so [sans user-intervention] will only be running as an Xwayland app]. So, are you running V as W or Xw app? [for related info, fwiw: this and this].
- If you are running it as Xw, maybe try as full-W via
vivaldi-stable --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland. - Conversely, if the alleged random crashes are occurring with V as full-W, maybe try reverting to Xw.
- Also, IMO it might be diagnostically informative to logout of your GNOME W session then log back in as an X11 session, then retest V.
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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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@pafflick Just updated my browser. certain tabs still cause a crash. one example being jigsawexplorer.com
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@mnmn How to reproduce that issue? I've just tried visiting that page and I don't experience any crashes here (tried solving some puzzles too - seems to work just fine). Tested in Vivaldi 5.2.2623.34 (64-bit on Windows 10 ver. 21H2).
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@pafflick did some testing to reproduce the problem. https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/create-a-custom-jigsaw-puzzle/ when I go here, pick an image file from the web (for testing purposes I used just an image of flowers from wikipedia. then I push create puzzle.
the page that opens is
https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/jigsaw-puzzle-result/
when I close my browser, reopen it and try to reload that page, crash. -
OK, it looks like there's still an issue when activating tabs with pages that received data through the POST method (Startpage search is a common occurrence). We'll have to make yet another fix for that. It might not be here until the next week though, due to the holiday break. Sorry about that.
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I thought this morning's update to Vivaldi, 5.2.2623.34 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) would make it actually BE "stable," but noooo....
I don't know where it started in the recent Vivaldi updates, but at least for this one and the one immediately preceding this, if I had a tab still open where I was running portfolio simulations in using PortfolioVisualizer (.com), when I clicked on the tab, Vivaldi just disappeared (I presume it crashed).
It was even hard to just "X"-off the tabs -- you have to hit the X just right!
Basic use of Portfolio Visualizer is free, so anyone can try it and see.
I'm running MX Linux 21.1 Wildflower.
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Crash fix didn't work for me either. Welp, back to 5.2.2623.18, I guess.
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For those who still experience the crashes - we've managed to get another update for Stable out. This one reverts some of the recent changes that caused the browser to crash so frequently. Please try it out, and let us know how it goes. Thank you for being patient with us!
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@pafflick said in Browser crashes on activating a specific tab:
For those who still experience the crashes - we've managed to get another update for Stable out. This one reverts some of the recent changes that caused the browser to crash so frequently. Please try it out, and let us know how it goes. Thank you for being patient with us!
Hi, thank you. I updated and version is now 5.2.2623.36 (Stable channel) (64-bit).
When I use Startpage.com with POST, close the tab then reopen the tab, it doesn't crash now. However, it should show a message box to "confirm form resubmission", Vivaldi did this before the recent update. But now it doesn't show anything. The tab just shows a blank dark page and all controls like Refresh button do not work on the tab. I F5'd a few times and Vivaldi crashed again, but it's not 100% reproducible. If I click on another tab, then back to the Startpage tab, then Vivaldi shows the "confirm form resubmission" message box like normal.Also with recent update, some settings like page zoom and cookie settings don't seem to save. For example when I open Vivaldi, the homepage with a custom picture has a 120% zoom setting applied even though I never changed zoom from 100%. On Youtube, I turned off the "auto-play" feature, but refresh the page, it's turned on again. I had to set the correct settings, then completely exit Vivaldi, for the settings to save properly. Not sure why. Sorry this is a bit off-topic.
Anyway thank you and the team for pushing out a quick update to fix things before the Easter weekend. Hope you all have a good Easter!
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After the update, when I have Vivaldy open for a while, and then I try to check something that I have searched, it closes. It happens today (2022/04/14) several times.
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@teddygon I am having this same problem I think. What do you mean by "search tabs"? When I open Vivaldi and it loads a window with certain tabs in it or just randomly it shuts down. It is driving me crazy to the point where I am going to have to stop using this browser and go to something else which I don't want to do but the problem will not go away and I can't fix it after hours and hours of research and troubleshooting.
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I hope you are both "up to date"?
See https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/74345/minor-update-5-for-vivaldi-desktop-browser-5-2 -
@tbgbe It is Version 5.2. Is there any new one?
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@skiphorine Startpage is the one that responds when I search for something in the internet. Today, I had several tabs open that I could access, but those with the result of a search, caused the browser to close. This happened to me several days ago and I do believe it was with other pages, not quite sure of that.
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@teddygon 5.2 is on its fifth minor update, the last two (both came out today) aimed at curing startup crashes. The most recent version of 5.2 is 5.2.2623.36.
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@ayespy I am using a snapshot I guess - 5.3.2643.3 (Official Build) (64-bit) - Still has the same problem.
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@skiphorine Yes. In this case, interestingly enough, I am not sure the snapshot is as updated as the Stable. This is a rare thing, but sometimes happens.
