Stop Vivaldi from opening at startup on macOS
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Can't figure out how to get Vivaldi to stop opening at startup on macOS Sierra, even though it's not the default browser anymore. I want to control when it opens, but can't find a setting that will work to do that. Please educate me and any others who have this problem.
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System Preferences -- Users & Groups -- Login Items: select Vivaldi from the list and click the minus sign.
I don't know why your system is setup to start with Vivaldi, but it has to be set as startup item for it to load at system start. How this happened if you didn't set it yourself, hard to tell. But to my knowledge Vivaldi has no code in place to startup automatically.
And yeah, close Vivaldi with command-Q or over the Menu item Quit, before shutting down your computer. It could be your system is just restarting applications that had been running while you shut down macos.
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If you right-click on a Dock icon, one of the Options that you can enable (or disable) is "Open at Login". It's pretty easy to do this accidentally while trying to do a "Keep in" (or Remove from) Dock, and doing this would add the application to the Login Items in the Users & Groups preferences as well.
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@xyzzy
Thanks, though that wasn't my problem. But the Users & Groups setting was. -
@luetage
Thanks. The Users & Groups setting fixed it! -
Sorry for reviving this dead topic, but the problem is still there. Vivaldi, without any user confirmation, sets itself as login item. At least put an option in the menu. If I didn't find this topic, i would have uninstalled vivaldi from my Mac, autostart apps bother me to no end.
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@Interiorce I searched for "open at login" in the Chromium source code and found that Chromium-based browsers can indeed set themselves to run at login under some circumstances. I found it in their "background mode manager" code.
If you uncheck the "Open at Login" option in the Dock, the Chromium code should respect that, but apparently not always... and there is an open Chromium bug for that: https://crbug.com/140017
As for why the browser opens on login, it's most likely because you have something installed that runs a background page: https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/apps_vs_extensions
I wish that I could provide more insight into this but Vivaldi has never set itself up to "Open at Login" in all the years that I've been using the browser.
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idk how it didn't for you because for me EVERY time i start vivaldi, it sets itself back to the auto start list, every time i remove it.
it's like a virus ffs.
and no option to stop this. -
To those with this issue, it seems the problem is one of your extensions. Best option is to disable your extensions one by one and restart the browser until you no longer get the notification. Mine ended up being either Todoist or UpNote (cant remember which one). Luckily after narrowing it down and re-enabling it I no longer have the issue. I am thinking a bug was made when I installed multiple extensions at once. To those having the issue, give it a try, fixed it for me.
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Thanks. Readwise Highlighter was the problem extension in my case.
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@pixel8ed said in Stop Vivaldi from opening at startup on macOS:
Thanks. Readwise Highlighter was the problem extension in my case.
Co-founder of Readwise here.
This is a 10-year old bug with Chrome on MacOS. Even if for some strange reasons we wanted to add Chrome to your MacOS startup items (read: we don't), browser extensions have no control over this.
Here is more on the 10-year old issue with Chrome on Macs: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017
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