Vivaldi redirects to welcome page when opening links from other apps

scutaries

I installed Vivaldi on a brand new clean hard disk and set it to the default browser. The browser works fine.

When I try to open links from external apps (such as Discord or logging in to Spotify) directly it opens vivaldi://welcome/ page. I have no idea why this is happening. I also tried to open google.com from a link on a notepad and the effect is the same.

This issue makes the browser somewhat unusable since I'm constantly opening links from external apps. Does anybody here know why this is happening or what I can do to fix it?

DoctorG

@scutaries 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

@scutaries And after closing the Welcome tab?

Which OS version?
Which Vivaldi version?
Have you set browser as standard app in Windows Settings?
How did you install Vivaldi? With the installer exe from vivaldi.com? For All Users, for the User or as Standalone installation?

DoctorG

@scutaries I installed for one regular Windows 11 user Vivaldi with Installer from vivaldi.com, closed the Welcome page after install, exited Vivaldi, and the set in Windows Settings → Apps → Standard Apps to Vivaldi.

Checked in external apps:

Notepad++
added link in text file, opened the link, not Welcome tab.
Libreoffice:
used menu Help → About → link Website; opened the link, not Welcome tab

afewell

I have the same issue, I am running windows 10, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.37 (Stable channel) (64-bit).

I love Vivaldi but this issue is hard to deal with, I have to set a different browser as the default browser, then I have to maintain being logged into things in a separate browser, only because of this bug. Its a huge pain!

DoctorG

Try to reset broken associations for opening URLs in a browser.

Set standard app browser to Edge.
Set standard app browser to Vivaldi

If you get the welcome page, close it with Ctrl+W. Next time you will never see the welcome page again.

Hearthburn

@DoctorG Neither of those worked!

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04, with the latest Vivaldi install set as default browser. Since I upgraded Ubuntu from 22.04, every time I click an outside link it gives me the welcome page. I've tried setting my default to firefox and back, and I tried ctrl-w, but I'm still getting the welcome page every time.

DoctorG

@Hearthburn Close the Welcome page with Ctrl+W, Quit Vivaldi with Ctrl+Q

miranquil

@DoctorG This works. Still, this issue is kind of strange. I've reproduced this both on macOS and Windows 10.

yojimbo274064400

@miranquil,

Consider post a screenshot of the initial Welcome screen / page seen and subsequent when opening an external link, i.e. example.com

vbengeult

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emmairene9

I had this same problem, it was a relief to find out I wasn't alone! I figured out I was having this issue because I hadn't restarted Vivaldi since I downloaded it, so luckily, all I had to do was close Vivaldi and open it again, and voila!

skyfex

This problem is still present. Windows 11 24H2

Very confusing and annoying, so you should look into it.

Edit: Restarting Vivaldi worked for me.. but that shouldn't be necessary to get a working browser up and running

DoctorG

@skyfex Next time, close the Welcome page with Ctrl+W and all will be ok.

mib2berlin

@DoctorG
Hi, you wrote this hundred times already, is this not a bug if the user just close the tab with X?

DoctorG

@mib2berlin OK, you won as a mouse user. But i use keyboard. Ctrl+W is fater that to use Tab key.

I do not know why the frist-stup process in Welcome is not abortable. My sarcastic thought: Much Design and Less Usability.

DoctorG

@mib2berlin said in Vivaldi redirects to welcome page when opening links from other apps:

you wrote this hundred times already

I am not allowed to throw garbage on the browser even if i sometimes think "WTF is this."

rossmorsali

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Monk11th

@scutaries
Hi not sure that it is relevant after such a time. But today caught same issue. Just for future searchers, found how to resolve. It is not enough to set it as default browser via app but also you need to find default apps in windows settings and set it as default browser there (and set it default for opening html/htm links), then after browser restart it will work fine.

sgunhouse

@Monk11th For general reference, seeing the Welcome screen chould mean either an error in the file associatiin or Vivaldi couldn't find your profile and thus thinks it is a new install. The latter would mean no bookmarks other than the default ones, and thus would be easy to recognize once you open a new tab. If that isn't the problem, the installer made an error in setting up the file associations, and resetting them in Windows Default Apps should fix ir.