Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi
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I'll add one more important tip: DO NOT downgrade Vivaldi. Vivaldi profiles (consisting of settings, storage and browsing data) are not backwards-compatible. Reverting back to an older version will damage your Vivaldi installation. Vivaldi might still seem to work at first, suddenly start acting strangely, and then grow more and more unstable over time. A damaged profile can (and has) also caused Vivaldi to crash. It's also not a fun situation to recover from and may require you to reset your Vivaldi installation.
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@QuHno said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
@jacekn said:
ui will always be sluggish, even on my i7, 16gigs of ram etc etc
Apply moderate content blocking.
Switch UI animations off.
Hibernate/Discard background tabs.Feels snappier now?
Not only turn off Animations in Vivaldi, you should turn Off all Animations in Windows10 and uncheck auto-hide scroll bar too, HTH
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@zypper I always update the latest version of Vivaldi hours if not minutes after they get announced, and I can't count the times I had to rebuild my profile, and with latest snapshots my extensions gets corrupted by simply clicking on their icons in the extension toolbar. So that's not "the solution" to all problems
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@iAN-CooG said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
(...) and I can't count the times I had to rebuild my profile, (...)
I can: 2 times since the version where Vivaldi still had no number, despite I install a new version almost every day (Soprano ) Seems my computer isn't that sensible to bugs like modern ones
( 8 y.o. Athlon II 8GB w. integrated mobo graphic and OS multiboot. Yes I have other computers too, but that is still my daily workhorse for web related stuff )Yes, some of the internal builds were quite broken, and I had to roll back (which underlines the importance of backups!) some because they wouldn't even start, but that's what backups are good for. Despite I could recreate some bugs by deliberately destroying parts of my profile, I still wonder every time how that can happen with normal use.
... of course my test profiles I used for hacking and experimenting get destroyed all the time, but that's why they called test profiles
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@jrivett: Strange.If you have you tried all the above solutions and the issue still persists, then the best would be to file a bug and provide as much information you can.
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@QuHno said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
@iAN-CooG said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
(...) and I can't count the times I had to rebuild my profile, (...)
I can: 2 times since the version where Vivaldi still had no number, despite I install a new version almost every day (Soprano ) Seems my computer isn't that sensible to bugs like modern ones
( 8 y.o. Athlon II 8GB w. integrated mobo graphic and OS multiboot. Yes I have other computers too, but that is still my daily workhorse for web related stuff )Yes, some of the internal builds were quite broken, and I had to roll back (which underlines the importance of backups!) some because they wouldn't even start, but that's what backups are good for. Despite I could recreate some bugs by deliberately destroying parts of my profile, I still wonder every time how that can happen with normal use.
... of course my test profiles I used for hacking and experimenting get destroyed all the time, but that's why they called test profiles
Not that we should really get smug and pile on to the people who seem cursed with issues, but I've also never had to rebuild a profile since the first public beta of Vivaldi - and I've been using stable and snapshot on several different machines. That includes simply copying the profile on a USB key in the days before sync!
Yes there have been a couple of issues, but both involved sync and were fixed with a bit of manual profile-fixing (my wife had a note which would get copied ad infinitum and I had a couple of times where the default Vivaldi bookmarks would re-appear and couldn't be wiped out again). I've never ever had to re-start from scratch.
Edit: fixed to point to Qunho's post instead of iAN-CooG
Edit 2: Ironic, while making the previous edit I discover that now I have a note which is infinitely cloning since April!
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@mossman said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
Not that we should really get smug and pile on to the people who seem cursed with issues,
Nah, not going to happen. For that I have seen too many bugs where the user apparently did nothing or just visited the wrong site (not speaking of malware sites) and suddenly BOOM and after the crash was all burned and gone.
We were probably lucky and didn't visit tose sites (well, I did sometimes during checking) and we didn't have the combination of tabs, bookmarks, notes or whatever in the end triggered the the specific bug.
Apart from that: I don't know how many millions of user Vivaldi has in the meantime, but considering how many bug reports we've got and how many duplicates were among them, the number of people who got hit by the nastier bugs with data loss or similar is quite small.
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Vivaldi was "really slow" several versions ago for me, it turned out that my video card was blacklisted. Why? I don't know, it worked fine on other Chromium based browsers, so must have something to do with the UI. Anyway, a simple switch telling Vivaldi to ignore that blacklist on startup worked for me, and this caused no other problems. Yes, I run a separate video card, not just a GPU, and apparently some programs on Linux (not Linux itself) don't like that...
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No problems since some dead birdies in V1, massive usage, a lot of extentions and animated wallpaper. I am frustrated, can't reporte any issue, my Vivaldi works fast and stable in a 400β¬ laptop.
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@Catweazle said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
I am frustrated, can't reporte any issue, my Vivaldi works fast and stable
Same here - I guess we're just the lucky ones
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@Pathduck said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
@Catweazle said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
I am frustrated, can't reporte any issue, my Vivaldi works fast and stable
Same here - I guess we're just the lucky ones
I have observed in the different posts, that many of the reported problems are due to, apart from an incorrect configuration of Vivaldi or / and the OS, that not all Chrome Store extensions are 100% compatible with Vivaldi and can cause conflicts.
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@Catweazle said in Troubleshoot five common problems in Vivaldi:
Perhaps a Vivaldi own app store is desirable for the future
Perhaps. But it's early days yet...
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Just updated, screen went blank, headings all show but blank screen only. WTF happened........And,How can I export my bookmarks to Opera?
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My biggest problem is the way it keeps refreshing pages. Can be a real nightmare in some situations.
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My biggest problem is the cache is broken.
I can't use Vivaldi to develop Web sites, because it never allows me to see changes I made. Old code gets caught in the cache and is seemingly permanent, even after I restart the browser. Other browsers based on Chrome view the pages fine.
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What's up with this? It's keeping me from fully employing Ancestry.com. "It looks like you have local storage disabled.
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@johnhwatson That's hard to say. The error is not present here. Do you have any kind of blocking on? Do you have all cookies allowed?
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Browser crashes many times. It just turns off strangely. Also, it refuses to start from where I stopped even after I have set it up in the settings to open from where I stopped last. This is a major problem because after a crash, I have to open every single page again
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@AbelOkojunu
Hi as Vivaldi actually never crash for me on Linux and Windows it could be you profile is broken or an extension cause this. Forget last pages does not happen for me, I use Last Session in "Start up with".
Check setting "Save Browsing History" in vivaldi://settings/privacy/
Some cleaning software makes problems, check or better delete it.
You can check your profile with a guest profile_
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/guest-view/Cheers, mib
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@jacekn: It's exactly why I didn't like Vivaldi back when it came out. I tried it again recently and was more than pleasantly surprised. Can anyone who has been on board all along tell me how it went from that to what we have now? And does anyone still feel like Vivaldi is too slow on their computer?