Solved "Please wait for Vivaldi to close" message showing up on startup

Jieteru18

I hope this is fixed. I haven't experienced this with other chromium browsers.

demoniac

I'm seeing the same issue as @Jieteru18 displayed in his streamable link. Only time I ever see this behavior is when I am using PWA (open as window).

Tried the suggestions of disabling extensions and stopping Vivaldi from running in the background with no change.

pafflick

@demoniac Could you please post the exact reproduction steps that get you there? I tried repeating the actions from that video, but I'm not getting the same results - there's no dialogue here.

demoniac

@pafflick I sat down today to record the steps and I can't get it to do it now. I don't think I changed anything since yesterday when it was happening but sorry I can't seem to replicate it now. I did notice that before I started testing I had a Vivaldi update to apply (which I installed) but no idea if that impacts this message as it was somewhat inconsistent over the last week...

If it happens again I'll jot down all the steps and see if I can't provide a consistent way to reproduce it.

S_Paternotte

Just chiming in, as I'm experiencing this issue since a week (or two). Never before.
This may coincide with me starting to use Vivaldi Mail, so maybe there's a connection there.
The issue pops up unregularly and i have not yet been able to discover a pattern.
Current version: 5.2.2623.46 (Stable channel) (64-bits)

S_Paternotte

As i come to think of it, it could be that all the occurances were related to me clicking a link in a promotion e-mail I received from hardware vendors like Lenovo or HP.

Since a week or two I use Vivaldi Mail and I've installed my Webmail account as a Vivaldi PWA or Shortcut at the desktop
Reading a promotional message from Lenovo, I click a link towards the Laptop promotions
A new instance of the Vivaldi browser is opened with BANG "Please wait ..."
Could it be that these promotional links are too complex, include too many indirections, whatever?

hpr1999

I'm also having this issue similarly as reproduced by @Jieteru18

Create a PWA, in my case YT Music
Close all Vivaldi and PWA instances.
Open Vivaldi normally (Main)
Open the PWA we just created (PWA)
Close Main
Start Main again
Do anything that interacts with files, e.g. download any file of navigate to any website and use Ctrl+S to download the page as HTML
The popup appears.
Close PWA
Repeat 5.-7.
No popup appears.

This is mightily annoying. Sadly, I can't disable extensions for the PWA either, since I'm relying on an extension interacting with it.
I'll probably just have to use another browser for the PWA and that'll be that, but it's unfortunate.

DoctorG

@hpr1999 If you think this could be a bug, please report issue to Vivaldi bug tracker. Thanks for helping us making Vivaldi better.

rzz

@hpr1999 I am having the same issue with my webapps and I am able to reproduce the popup following your steps.

dhruva023

@hpr1999 I can replicate the issue using your steps. I followed same steps in latest build of chromium and the issue doesn't happen. I also tried in Edge and no issue there. So this is Vivaldi specific issue. I am happy to share logs if needed. I am using latest Vivaldi on Win 11 Pro.

mib2berlin

@dhruva023
Hi, I will try to reproduce it with Vivaldi 6.1.3035.111, Vivaldi 6.2.3070.3 (Chromium 116).
My main system is Linux but I will test this on Windows 11.

Cheers, mib

mib2berlin

@mib2berlin
OK, I can reproduce it with 6.1 but cant test with 6.2, I cant install any PWA with 6.2.
I will make some more tests and then report it to the Vivaldi bug tracker.

@all
Can anybody test install a PWA with Vivaldi 6.2.3077.3 on Windows 11?
Crash to desktop!

Cheers, mib

mib2berlin

@mib2berlin
Bug reported VB-98860 Please wait popup.
I cant confirm my own reports, we have to wait for a tester/developer to test this report.

Cheers, mib

DoctorG

@mib2berlin Perhaps dupe of VB-98831 + VB-98505
But i do not have joy to test PWA now.

mib2berlin

@DoctorG
Ah thanks, I glue them together with my own report.
No worries, if you find the time it would be nice.
The popup appears at 6. for me with a Youtube PWA, I tested this with Chromium and there is no popup.
Anyway, have a nice weekend.

Cheers, mib
EDIT: New master bug is VB-98505

DoctorG

@mib2berlin I confirmed in tracker.
Ugly bug!

mib2berlin

@DoctorG
Yep. I saw it, thanks for testing.

Cheers, mib

DoctorG

🪲🪲So sad, PWAs not running with enough stability on Vivaldi 6.1 and 6.2.

landon

@mib2berlin thanks for opening the bug report and @DoctorG for corroborating and testing.

I have a few Progressive Web Apps. This popup happens constantly when opening a PWA or Vivaldi and one or the other is already launched. Confirmed reproducible with this build:

6.1.3035.204 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision 51ca1a850596be92317db01803f7fee2eed2a324
OS Windows 11 Version 22H2 (Build 22621.1992)

I suspect this is something to prevent multiple Vivaldi browser processes from being able to open at the same time, and Vivaldi can't tell the difference between a PWA and a vanilla Vivaldi session. Considering the Vivaldi philosophy on maximum customization one would think this would just be an option to allow for multiple Vivaldi sessions / main processes and that would workaround this issue.

Strange that this seems to be a Vivaldi specific dialog and issue as well, it would seem unless there was any functionality added to Vivaldi (as I just mentioned) Vivaldi should just use the standard Chromium way of doing this, which has no such issue.

But there may be a lot of considerations I'm glossing over, it's not like we can look at the source code so, such speculation is not a choice --it's a necessity lol. Fortunately the developers seem to have great communication and community engagement.

mib2berlin

@landon
Hi again, Vivaldi only add a user interface layer on top of Chromium but other browser don´t use pure Chromium.
If you start Vivaldi with --disable-vivaldi you get Chromium.
Can you test this?

This is a PWA created in Vivaldi with --disable-vivaldi.

You can edit your desktop shortcut to make it so, but with
--disable-vivaldi :