Vivaldi macos Mojave Window occasionally shrinks and disappears
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In the last month or so, I will have Vivaldi running and I will shift focus to it to click in the search field of the start page and the window will shrink to the lower left corner and then after a couple seconds the window will disappear. I still have the menu and can see the window listed in the Window menu. To recover, I need to exit Vivaldi and relaunch. Note that I do not need to Force Quit. There is no crash log generated to submit.
I'm going to disabled the hardware acceleration option in Vivaldi and see if that avoids the issue for my configuration.
Any other tips on how to collect more details to figure out what is happening?
Thanks,
Mark
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@mbarton98 Welcome to the Vivaldi Community. Are you using Vivaldi 2.8 (Stable release) or a Vivaldi 2.9 Snapshot build? Are you also using any 3rd-party desktop management tools, such as Magnet or Moom?
I'm not sure what's happening here. If Vivaldi is still active, you should be able to get a window back with "File / New Window".
Also, whenever you are running into any issues with Vivaldi, you should ensure that chrome://flags have been reset to their defaults. Note that with Vivaldi 2.8, disabling hardware acceleration will break H.264 media playback.
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I'm currently using 2.9.1705.41 (Stable channel) (64-bit). I'm not using Magnet or Moom, but use a Keyboard Maestro macro to reposition apps to be "full" screen.
The hardware acceleration did not change the behavior for me, so I am enabling it again.
I can get a new window with file new window. but the other window is hidden from my view. There is some other management software running on this company laptop that might be causing the problem, Tanium.
Thanks for the response,
Mark
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Something similar started happening today to me too.
I've been using Vivaldi for almost a year trouble-free until today. I use multiple tabs and virtual desktops in a dual monitor set up (laptop + external monitor).
The windows on the external monitor would crash randomly. I can still see them in the context menu (right-click on Vivaldi's icon on the toolbar) but nothing happens when clicking on them.
It does not produce crash logs. The remaining windows in the laptop screen operate normally. I can only recover and access the original missing windows by quitting and restarting Vivaldi, no Force Quit required.
Please help, I'd hate to go back to Chrome! -
I've been staring at this thread for a year and a half. When I Google this issue, it's the first thing that comes up. I've finally registered to voice a "Me too"!
I've been using Vivaldi as my primary browser on Windows, Mac and Linux since sometime in 2017.
This issue does not exist on the Linux version of Vivaldi.
This issue does not exist on the Windows version of Vivaldi.
This issue has persisted for me across three major releases (1, 2 and 3) of Vivaldi, on four separate MacBook Pros (13 and 15 inch) and across every major version of MacOS in that time (excluding Big Sur as I have not yet upgraded).
It makes Vivaldi's advanced features (for example tab stacks) useless to me on MacOS as I have no idea when the browser is going to suddenly vanish and force me to quit.
Vivaldi is a wonderful product, but I can only conclude that it's a daily driver for very few Mac users because this issue is going to push me to adopt Firefox on that OS.
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Just wondering if it could be keyboard shortcuts conflicting or mouse gestures conflicting maybe.
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@Chas4 : I have no custom keyboard shortcuts on any of my Macs.
It also only happens when I start typing in the address bar, not when I'm filling out fields on a page.
It's also impossible to restore the window after it happens, and I'm forced to exit the application and restart it.
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@jamesrc disable Keyboard Maestro, it can be a bit flaky somtimes. I've been using it for a coujple of months now, so useful yet so flaky haha.
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I am not using Keyboard Maestro.
It is now Wednesday July 20th, 2022 and this is somehow still a bug with Vivaldi.
I was assured on the official Facebook page that it would be fixed with the "next stable version" some months ago.
The fact that Vivaldi has crashed twice on me tonight has determined that this was a lie.