Solved Browser keeps closing / crashing on its own
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@ryofurue Yes, now Vivaldi is crashing no matter which version I use. Even old ones that used to be stable are having this problem for me (How is that even possible?). It's really unpredictable when a "crash" (without a crash log) will happen, sometimes almost immediately, sometimes after a while, but eventually it always does. I'm mostly using other browsers to teach my online classes now, but I keep checking for updates on Vivaldi every day to see if there's some solution or workaround.
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@odyssei said in Browser keeps closing / crashing on its own:
@ryofurue Yes, now Vivaldi is crashing no matter which version I use.
Thanks for your response!
Even old ones that used to be stable are having this problem for me (How is that even possible?).
Do you often upgrade macOS? I always do. My guess is that macOS upgrades have changed something that affects the interaction of Vivaldi with the OS.
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@ryofurue Yes, I do upgrade as quickly as possible. I guess you could be right... I don't recall these problems starting around the time that macOS 12.3.1 was released, but maybe that's the fault of my memory. I had thought that Vivaldi must have installed a helper application of some kind that was causing the crashes, but OS integration problems would be to blame.
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I don't think it should be related to OS upgrades. I'm on Big Sur for a while now and no problem appeared until beginning of April.
Did downgrade Vivaldi to v5.1 on one computer from Time Machine and it was stable, without any issue. Afterwards I did update it to latest version (.39) and it quits itself again, randomly.EDIT: It becomes useless for anything except quick look on a webpage. Did return to v 5.1.2567.73 (Stable channel) (x86_64) which doesn't cause any trouble.
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+1 here, Vivaldi being killed randomly, no crash logs are created.
Behavior reminds ofkill -9in terminal.
Macos 12.3.1, Macbook Air M1. -
@aks2 You make sense. I'm using Brave as my primary with Vivaldi as the backup. Very stable and also fast. Not as good a front end as Vivaldi, but it works mostly. The mostly comment is that trying to look at videos on Amazon requires a component that you can't download. I'll most probably revert to Vivaldi once this has been addressed. (Soon I hope.)
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@slmcshane said in Browser keeps closing / crashing on its own:
Computer is M1 mac mini with latest Monterey. Uninstalled and reinstalled Vivaldi a week ago due to earlier problems. Hesitate to do that again because preferences and bookmarks are lost.
You can back up bookmarks. Use File menu > Export Bookmarks.
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I'm getting this 5-6 times a day now with moderate usage.
Vivaldi becoming genuinely unusable, as I lose all of my tabs and they don't auto re-open and I don't get any sort of error message or chance to save, just an instant kill of the browser.
On the latest update - any thoughts on what's causing or what can be changed? I'm using a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro
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@pafflick I have downloaded the version on your link and the same thing has happened again - for the fourth or fifth time. What other version or solution do you recommend? And when will the team be back?
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@aeipi3 The crashes have been fixed for the most part. If you're still experiencing issues, please post a detailed report: on what websites (or actions) do the crashes occur, what is your device/model, what OS version and which Vivaldi version. Thank you.
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One other thing that can cause crashes is a corrupted Vivaldi profile, the place where settings and working files are kept. The profile is NOT backwards-compatible. Downgrading Vivaldi and going back and forth between major versions can cause all sorts of problems.
The latest Stable and Snapshot builds are working well for me and I am not seeing any crashes in my normal daily use.
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I have briefly skimmed this but admit to not paying much attention as it's grown to a number of pages now! Just a quick comment that may perhaps help a developer or others:
I was having quite a few Vivaldi crashes myself recently, too (emphasis on "was"). I think it was isolated to my Windows installation(s), rather than GNU/Linux, although I think it did happen there once as well.
It was always in one of the following situations:
- Upon startup, (i.e. launch V, V window begins to appear, V instantly closes the moment it becomes visible).
- Upon attempting to open a new tab (i.e. click a new tab, or open a link in a new tab, and the browser immediately closes).
- Upon a web page loading (i.e. open new tab, type in web link, browser closes the moment the page begins to attempt to render).
I haven't had a single problem with Vivaldi whatsoever since updating, therefore whatever it was has presumably been fixed (for me at least) with a recent change in the "stable" branch.
From the behaviour, I guess it might help the devs pinpoint which particular bit of code was/is crashing - I'm guessing, something to do with the initial building of the V UI elements or initial rendering of content but obviously can't now reproduce the issue myself.
To complicate things further, I also have a pile of antitracking, antifingerprinting, and anti-annoyance extensions, so any one of those could have been causing my issue. Worth thinking about if any of the people still experiencing these crashes have such extensions installed.
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@slmcshane "preferences"! Took out preferences file "com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.plist" (Option-Go-Library)--created a new folder "Preferences (disabled)," moved plist file there, restarted. Will have Firefox open on the side as a backup for now. Will report back....
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@nanamahina Crashed...
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@nanamahina so back to Firefox with add-ons uBlock Origin and DuckDuckGo Privacy Extension and Sideberry (for the Vivaldi/Opera-like side tab/panel!)--still need to use Vivaldi for some non-Firefox-compatible websites for short intervals only (to avoid crashes during Mission Critical operations).
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The problem has been severe enough that I have moved back to Brave. Guess I will check back in a week or two to see if the problems have been resolved. I love Vivaldi, however, I can't have it randomly shutting down in the middle of demonstrating a web site, etc.
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I've had the same problem. It's gotten bad enough that, as much as I like Vivaldi (especially the interface and start page), I can't justify using it as my primary browser in its current state. I've lost significant amounts of work due to random crashes and restarts across multiple machines--a work MBP and personal MBP--and profiles. Back to Firefox as my daily driver for now.
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Same problem here, I was really hoping my new computer would solve the problem! I hope I don't have to go back to firefox!
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Started here after latest update
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2022-04-28 12:09:26.814359 (gui/501/application.com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.408125.409272 [10926]) <Notice>: exited due to SIGSEGV | sent by exc handler[10926] 2022-04-28 12:09:26.814368 (gui/501/application.com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.408125.409272 [10926]) <Notice>: service has crashed 1 times in a row 2022-04-28 12:09:26.814369 (gui/501/application.com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.408125.409272 [10926]) <Notice>: service state: exited 2022-04-28 12:09:26.814371 (gui/501/application.com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.408125.409272 [10926]) <Notice>: internal event: EXITED, code = 0 2022-04-28 12:09:26.814373 (gui/501/application.com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.408125.409272 [10926]) <Notice>: job state = exited 2022-04-28 12:09:26.814386 (gui/501 [100018]) <Notice>: service inactive: application.com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.408125.409272 2022-04-28 12:09:26.814387 (gui/501/application.com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.408125.409272 [10926]) <Notice>: service state: not running 2022-04-28 12:09:26.814459 (pid/10926 [Vivaldi]) <Notice>: shutting down 2022-04-28 12:09:26.814462 (pid/10926 [Vivaldi]) <Notice>: removing active service: com.apple.filesystems.netfs.PlugInLibraryServiceHope this helps
