Search Tabs lost on browser restart

[WesleysHuman]

Within the last 2 or 3 weeks (2024/08/09) whenever I restart a browser session/profile any search tabs that were open are lost and revert to the start page.

My search engine is DuckDuckGo. My plugins are: Bitwarden, Custom Color Scrollbars, Privacy Badger, NoScript, and Free Download Manager. Windows 11 Pro, AMD64, 32GB RAM. Vivaldi 6.8.3381.53 AMD64.

Is this a known issue? Does anyone know what the problem is?

I am very tech savvy but I haven't found any solution so far. If more information is needed please tell me and I'll add it in.

[mib2berlin]

@WesleysHuman
Hi, I cant reproduce this with a quick test, open a few DDG search pages, restart and all pages are still there.
I would first start without extensions.
Edit your Vivaldi desktop shortcut and add --disable.extensions
or start from a CMD with start vivaldi --disable.extensions

Cheers, mib

[WesleysHuman]

Disabling extensions didn't change the behavior though the command-line switch didn't seem to change anything. I manually disabled the extensions as well. Also, the search tabs have no history associated with them either when normal behavior is that tabs retain their history across restarts.

Thoughts?

And by the way, thanks for the help.

[WesleysHuman]

@mib2berlin
I created a new profile without any extensions. I get the same behavior. Is there a setting that will cause this behavior that I've inadvertently started using? I use the same settings and extensions at church and haven't seen the same behavior.

[mib2berlin]

@WesleysHuman
Hi, I can just guess a third party security and/or cleaning software harm Vivaldi, CCleaner is well known to delete important Vivaldi data.

[WesleysHuman]

I don't use CCleaner or any third party security software. I just deleted my Vivaldi data directory (C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data) and I'm getting the same behavior with completely new profiles.

The only other thing that I can add is that my computer is in a domain and I am using group policies to preset some Vivaldi settings. The admx file that I'm using came directly from Vivaldi.

[WesleysHuman]

@WesleysHuman
For those coming after this. I traced the problem to a misconfigured group policy.