[VB-108724] Opening Chrome native notification (for any site) results in full browser crash when associated PWA is installed

ArtemMoshkovich

Reaching out in case anyone has figured out a solution to this serious crash problem below. Thanks to anyone that can reply and advise!

If the associated PWA is installed, including but not limited to youtube.com & reddit.com, and any notification arrives, opening/clicking that notification results in a full Vivaldi browser crash. All troubleshooting steps have been followed and the only remedy to prevent the instant crash is to fully uninstall the associated PWA. Once uninstalled, a newly arrived notification can be clicked and a newly created Vivaldi tab will be rendered with no browser crash.

DoctorG

@ArtemMoshkovich Welcome in our Vivaldi Community

Some useful links for you:

Help on Vivaldi Mail (mail client for use with calendars, feeds, mails)
Help on Vivaldi Calendar (the part of Vivaldi Mail client)
User Reputation to use Vivaldi mail account

Do not hesitate to ask, we are a community to help users.

Enjoy browsing with Vivaldi.

DoctorG

@ArtemMoshkovich Please explain precise steps what to reproduce it.

ArtemMoshkovich

@DoctorG Hey Doc, the steps are more or less detailed in my original post, as this crash issue is pretty cut and dry. With that said, to be explicitly clear on one, easy example, it would be as follows:

With current-version Vivaldi for Windows installed:

Launch YouTube.com & login with your primary Google account
Inside of the open YouTube.com tab, be sure to enable site notifications
Right-click YouTube.com tab and "Install YouTube" to enable it as a Vivaldi PWA
Wait for inbound notification to arrive from YouTube.com, and once notification arrives, simply click on it to proceed through to where the notification is directing

Upon clicking the notification, Vivaldi, in entirety, will crash. In order to prevent the crash, simply uninstall the PWA. In short, there is currently a bug/critical issue that causes all inbound notifications to cause full browser crash when the notification is tied to an associated, installed PWA.

ArtemMoshkovich

@DoctorG Just checkin' in to see if you might've heard anything back from the dev team. Thank you!

DoctorG

@ArtemMoshkovich Bug is Confirmed and assigned to a developer.

ArtemMoshkovich

@DoctorG Really appreciate the update and good news. Thank you!

adamwebb

Experiencing this bug also. iCloud Mail with notifications enabled. Clicking the Windows notification results in browser crash. I have just removed the PWA (shortcut actually since iCloud Mail appears to not support PWA), and will confirm if that results in the browser not crashing when the notification is clicked.

adamwebb

@adamwebb just confirmed - with the shortcut/app for iCloud Mail uninstalled, clicking the Windows new mail notification from Vivaldi does not crash and takes me straight to the new message. Odd. Glad the devs are working on it. I imagine it is related to some confusion as to what the notification is supposed to open ... tab or installed shortcut/pwa ...

adamwebb

Unfortunately clicking the notification doesn't actually take me to the open tab with my icloud Mail in it ... it opens a new tab!

This seems to also be a bug candidate. Can others validate/reproduce it?

7f58f

@DoctorG Any updates, please?

DoctorG

@7f58f VB-108724 Confirmed, developer assigned, working to fix it.

7f58f

@DoctorG Sorry to chase, but could you see if there's any updates on this bug please?

DoctorG

@7f58f No progress, i try to ping a dev internally.

7f58f

@DoctorG Thank you!

DoctorG

@7f58f
@DoctorG said in [VB-108724] Opening Chrome native notification (for any site) results in full browser crash when associated PWA is installed:

VB-108724

I guess bug has less importance, developer had not much time to spend to investigate and create a fix.