Solved Browser crashes on startup

seron

@benni1990

That worked for me. Awesome find!

TheBetterStory

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.

tyl

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.

underscore

@pafflick After uninstalling the snapshot and getting the latest stable it starts again without any problem.
Thanks again guys!

benni1990

@seron thx

Maste

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.

vandorrr

@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.

djju1029

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.

visorkaiser

Experiencing the same issue after updating to 5.2.2623.34

pafflick

OK, so 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 this one, and let us know how it goes for you. Thank you for being patient with us!

protospork

@pafflick everything seems to be in working order now, thanks

TeddyGon

Re: Browser crashes on activating a specific tab
Today I got an update to 5.2.2623.39 I hope this one fixes the problem. Thank you Vivaldi team.

dols

@pafflick I updated to .39 and it gets a little farther along before it crashes. my two main windows in my profile start rendering but they quickly become unresponsive for several seconds.

dols

I have salvaged my tabs.

I essentially did this from earlier in this topic: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/573941
except I installed VMWare Workstation and Win10, and copied the Session data over the virtual network. It's easy to toggle the network on and off in VMWare.

I found two tabs that were trying to submit forms, closed them, saved the session (watch for the process to exit inside the VM, if you're trying this, as it will take a while), and reopened the session with the latest version (5.2.2623.39)

mikefmmedia

@pafflick Like @dols wrote, Vivaldi works a little longer, but after a day of use, I had again a crash. It happens when I try to write in an inputfield in Contao-CMS (Modulsearchbar at top). This is reproducable, everytime i do this, Vivaldi crashes.
The good thing, the profil stil is startable, thats a little win

Vivaldi Version: 5.2.2623.39

mikefmmedia

@mikefmmedia OK, this is crazy. I tried different Websites with input, all crashed the Browser when I started typing. Now, after some restarts, problem disappeared, I can't reproduce it at the moment.

I think this looks like a browser internal storagelack, that fills up some storage until it exeed and then it crashes. The restarts at some point may have cleared this storage and problem is gone.
I bet this will work until some storage will exeed again. Let's see maybe in a view hours or tomorrow...

mib2berlin

@mikefmmedia
Hi, you could try to open the internal task manager (Tools menu), maybe a tab or extension leaks memory. It should stay open after a crash.

Cheers, mib

rskunath

I also had the Vivaldi-Snapshot version crash immediately on startup after last night (no issues before that). Thanks to the tip about right clicking the icon I have pinned to the taskbar I was able to successfully launch it via the "new tab" option. I found a single tab open from last night that wanted form data. I usually close these and start with the Vivaldi start page.

Closing the tab got things working again for me. An update should fix the issue permanently.

Vivaldi 5.3.2649.3 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision cd672b0ff6ae10a43c069974a6fa55c0bf1df7c1
OS Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1645)

dols

I've started using Sync on both of my desktops, different accounts for each, and I see that Sessions are at least eligible to be synced, according to vivaldi://sync-internals . Let's say that I encounter this issue again in the future and I want to restore from my sync (I understand that it's not intended to be used as a backup) , would upgrading the browser cause the synced data to not be backwards-compatible with the previous version, such that I would be unable to repair a broken tab?

Ayespy

@dols I'm not sure you can access tabs from the same instance of the browser that sync got them from. And then, the tabs themselves are not stored - just their position and state (pinned or stacked) and URL. To store everyone's synced tabs in toto would require an impossibly huge amount of storage.

And then, too, tabs are not sync'ed in real time, so if you have, say, 31 tabs open, only 29 of them might have already been saved in sync.

So I would not count on this as a strategy.

Last note: Sync is only available from one machine to another if they are on the same account.