Vivaldi browser on Vista

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I've been using Vivaldi 1.1.443.3 developer build 32 bit on Windows Vista for quite a while, but it's started playing up, producing an almost instant black screen with dead bird/feet in the air when I go to Malwarebytes Forum, and leaving two processes running, one with a large chunk of memory sometimes more than 100Mb for a long time after being shut down on every occasion now.

I was thinking of replacing it with the last official Vista version, 1.0.435.46, but I 'm worried the installation process will lose me all my stored website passwords.

Does anyone know if this is safe to do?

Also, how do I get my passwords over to my new Windows 10 laptop, which will have the latest Vivaldi installed, as soon as I can figure out how the thing works.

Cheers.

Ayespy

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Vivaldi on Vista is not supported. But let me try to help.

Rename your profile ("Default") folder before you rollback to the earlier version. After you rename it, it might be smart to move it to your desktop or something so you know where it is and it can't be overwritten. You may find this fixes your problems all by itself. If so, you can move the critical data files from the renamed file to the new one.

If not, then uninstall Vivaldi and install the rollback version, and then put your vital data files from the old Default folder back into the new one.

As to moving your passwords to a new computer, I'm pretty sure that even in those old versions you could open chrome://flags and search for the password export/import function and enable it. Re-start the browser. Then go to chrome://settings/?search=passwords and click on manage passwords. The option to export your passwords is, I think on that old page, at the bottom of the page - but it's somewhere there. Export your passwords, save the file, and when you're ready to import passwords on your new computer, I can coach you through that.

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@ayespy Thanks very much for your advice.

I will have a go at those methods sometime soon, then re-post here on the results. Thank you again.

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luetage

@contents-may-differ It's not a good idea running an unsupported version of Vivaldi. While this is the last version that is supported on your operating system, it doesn't receive any security updates. If I were in your place, I would get another operating system to run the latest Vivaldi version. If that's not an option I would install a browser that still provides updates for Windows Vista.

Ayespy

@luetage User says:

Also, how do I get my passwords over to my new Windows 10 laptop, which will have the latest Vivaldi installed, as soon as I can figure out how the thing works.

Cheers.

So there's that...

Pesala

@ayespy Another good reason to update. Sync was not available on earlier versions.

Para-Noid

@luetage I was going to ask "Is there a browser that is supported for older systems such as XP, Vista or more likely Win7?"
I decided to let Google do it for me That worked.

luetage

@ayespy Unimportant, because a dedicated password manager is better than the inbuilt chromium one anyway. It's more important to have a browser that is up to date.

Ayespy

@luetage said in Vivaldi browser on Vista:

If I were in your place, I would get another operating system to run the latest Vivaldi version.

I'm referring to your remark above...

luetage

@ayespy I see, but same answer. Up to date operating system/browser is the logical priority.

Ayespy

@luetage So you would advise user to do exactly what user is doing. "...how do I get my passwords over to my new Windows 10 laptop, which will have the latest Vivaldi installed..." I'm certainly 100% in agreement with that. :))

luetage

@ayespy As I understand the OP, they want to have a working Vista browser on the old computer and a new installation on the Windows 10 laptop. That's 2 different things. But maybe I understood it wrong.

Para-Noid

Does this help? The OP wants to install Vivaldi on the last official version of Vista (no longer supported).
The OP wants to transfer their saved passwords to a new (different machine) Win10 system.
Two questions about two different machines.

rtransformation

I have a small question.....and no offense......
why still stick to Win Vista?

Ayespy

@rtransformation Some people don't have a lot of money, and have not had a chance to learn how vastly superior Windows 7, 8, 10 are to Vista. But perhaps OP has another reason.