Vivaldi Will not Open After Update

R8MARC

@Gwen-Dragon This registry entry worked for me.

cristane

Vivaldi 10 still won't open on my laptop, and being a work laptop, I don't want to change any registries or mess with the antivir. Temporarily went back to Chrome, but I'll be checking once in a while to see if you fixed it.

cristane

@Gwen-Dragon I installed an old copy of Vivaldi 9, and it works like a charm. So why does Symantec complain only about the new version?

iAN CooG

@cristane said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

Vivaldi 9

there is NO Vivaldi 9, maybe 2.9?

cristane

@iAN-CooG Yep, sorry, when I said Vivaldi 9 and 10 I actually meant 2.9 and 2.10. I had 2.9 installed and worked great, then updated it to 2.10 which stopped working, so downgraded back to 2.9.
No idea why Symantec has issues with one but not with the other. Hopefully this will be solved eventually.

TG2

@Gwen-Dragon said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

@cristane said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

No idea why Symantec has issues with one

Please report this False Positive to Symantec support.
Gwen, this doesn't just seem to be a Symantec problem. I'm not getting any alerts logged in Symantec (app/option offered as part of free Comcast Service offering) My errors show up in DCOM messages.

Like previous users I install the last version of 2.9 and I'm back in Vivaldi!! .. which I have not been into, in nearly a freakin' week since accepting the 2.10 update/upgrade.

It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck .. its a GD DUCK! Its your company's application, if something has gone wrong, in how Norton identifies it, or how the system (win 10, 1909) works with it, we the user can't push this off on them, without specifics that PROVE the problem is symantec. ... or Windows .. Maybe its an escalation of privileges (I've right clicked and tried run-as admin .. and been equally treated to the standard UAC) .. so what is it?

There are a great many users, that have chosen to run Vivaldi .. but its not appropriate to see the single update from 2.9 to 2.10 cause Vivaldi not to start, and then blame it on everyone else.

Something is at the core of the changes from 2.9 to 2.10 that is causing strife .. not for 100% of the users, but for enough of us, that there are 4 pages of complaints / posts, about this problem, on the Vivaldi forum alone.

As the great Craig Ferguson use to say .. I look forward to your angry letters...

Pesala

@TG2 Save yourself a lot of grief. Uninstall your AV and make do with Windows Defender. I have had no issues in more than three years of using Windows 10 with Windows Defender and Windows Firewall as my only Antivirus.

TG2

@Pesala said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

@TG2 Save yourself a lot of grief. Uninstall your AV and make do with Windows Defender. I have had no issues in more than three years of using Windows 10 with Windows Defender and Windows Firewall as my only Antivirus.
I'm sorry .. but I've been using Norton since 2004 ... across difficult years, where Xfinity didn't offer it .. and in 15 years..... the handful of issues experienced, across XP, 7, 8~8.1 and 10 .... have been less than countable on fingers .. much less fingers and toes!

I put my first Email server live in 1998, and web sites, pages, numerous issues crossing McAfee (wow the uninstaller failures they've had) which is why I've stuck with Norton.

I should be totally honest .. there was a time I paid for ZoneAlarm firewall and used Avast ... 4 years to be real about it .. but that was around the time Comcast went away from Norton ... and because I'd had multiple issues with McAfee .. that is why I avoided any of those as if they were with plague ..

But lets just take the past 3 years .. in 2017 I built this new PC on bleeding edge AMD Ryzen ... and in 3 years.. the number of problems using this machine nearly 24 7 .. and lets classify that .. running Vmware Workstation pro versions 11 through 15, across 2 different companies, with 4 different VPN products (the reason I go serious about using VM's for customer one-offs) zero problems that I could point at Norton and say.. "norton you F'd me" ... NOT ONE!

you're telling me that in all of that experience .. that its just the move from 2.9 to 2.10 of vivaldi and now the problem is 100% nortons' fault?

Sorry .. but no .. Roll back to 2.9 ... vivaldi works .. roll into 2.10 .. program doesn't even start .. and I get logged issues with it for Microsoft DCOM failures..

no sir / no mam ... this is somethign Vivaldi needs to work through .. they should reach out to established users (not me while I've got the history I've no more time for BS) and ask those users to help trouble shoot what it is .. and how-if at all possible- they vivaldi can help move this problem forward..

I'm sorry .. but this so far .. is on Vivaldi. Regardless if they are only just following chrome ...or not . for all we know .. its the failure of Vivaldi to nudge users ever closer into an "allow" dialog .. which is not the same as "vivaldi.exe" failed to execute ... etc.)

Please don't get me wrong.. I came to Vivaldi specifically for anti-chrome and anti-movement to this borderless BS and "to the edge"borderless programing that browser programs have taken us, and hope and pray that companies like Vivaldi survive and thrive, so that we (the user) can benefit from a browser that CAN and will and DOES provide out of bandwidth alternatives to the "status quote" application set... that it survives, and hopefully thrives showing those other browsers the door...

Pesala

@TG2 said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

you're telling me that in all of that experience .. that its just the move from 2.9 to 2.10 of vivaldi and now the problem is 100% nortons' fault?

Actually due to a Chromium Update, and yes, false-positives are 100% the fault of AV programs. It is down to them to fix it, but a workaround has already been offered in this thread if you cared to read Gwen-Dragon's posts.

Ayespy

@TG2 Symantec already admitted it was their fault, so no point in arguing that.

They claimed to have applied a fix for Chromium 79, (and therefore Vivaldi removed their registry hack to evade the error, in the new version of Vivaldi) but the fix doesn't actually work, so it is still pending whether Symantec will ACTUALLY fix their broken detection routine, or whether Vivaldi will have to re-institute the registry hack which insulates it from Symantec's interference.

Here's the thing: Vivaldi works perfectly well on over a million Windows systems. Add Symantec, and Symantec silently prevents Vivaldi from running, with no notice to the user. If you have 3rd party software on your system which prevents other known and trusted software from running, it is NOT the fault of that other known and trusted software. It is the fault of the 3rd party software that is doing the blocking. Vivaldi is not enacting unwanted crippling of software. Symantec is.

Here is Vivaldi's diplomatic boilerplate response to the issue:

"Hi,
Thanks for reporting this issue, and sorry for the trouble!
This sounds like an issue caused by Symantec Endpoint Protection/Norton antivirus.
Unfortunately Symantec has not yet fully fixed the problem. Previous versions of Vivaldi worked because we had disabled a feature ("RendererCodeIntegrity") by default, due to this issue. The feature was re-enabled in Vivaldi version 2.10, after Symantec claimed it was fixed on their end, but unfortunately this fix was not comprehensive enough.
For now, you can use this workaround to let you run the latest version of Vivaldi, until a proper fix is in place:

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/symantec-endpoint-protection-crash-workaround/

Please keep an eye out for Symantec/Norton updates as well, in case they release a fix.
I hope this helps, we will continue looking into this on our end. Thanks for your time and for using Vivaldi!
Best wishes,"

That's the truth of the matter. But the fact is, there is NO "security" software that never interferes with your system or your apps. They all do at some point. Just because you got off lucky for a long time with a brand of "security" software doesn't mean it's pure and perfect. They all interfere with your system to a greater or lesser degree.

TG2

@Pesala said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

@TG2 said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

you're telling me that in all of that experience .. that its just the move from 2.9 to 2.10 of vivaldi and now the problem is 100% nortons' fault?

Actually due to a Chromium Update, and yes, false-positives are 100% the fault of AV programs. It is down to them to fix it, but a workaround have already been offered in this thread if you cared to read Gwen-Dragon's posts.

And if YOU would bother to read that .. Norton has already released updates that correct their end of the problem.

"Upgrade to Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.2.x to address the incompatibility with Chrome on Windows 10 Creators Update, version 1703 or later and Windows Server 2019. "

SO ... we come back to .. Installing 2.10 ... Vivaldi fails to start .. everything else is up to date .. and as I've mentioned in the Event Viewer are DCOM failures, these only happen with vivaldi 2.10 and not with 2.9! Problem is NOT just "norton"!

Ayespy

@TG2 said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

Norton has already released updates that correct their end of the problem.

Yeah, not really. They claimed so, but that was not accurate.

Pesala

@TG2 said in Vivaldi Will not Open After Update:

And if YOU would bother to read that .. Norton has already released updates that correct their end of the problem.

I should have appended my previous post with:

I look forward to your angry letters...

TG2, you are the one getting angry and suffering needlessly due to your wrong understanding of the problem.

Gaëlle

Good news
Symantec and Norton have just told us that they have pushed new updates via Symantec LiveUpdate, that is supposed to fix the issue for us. You will have to perform the update to benefit from this fix.
Please let us know how it goes.

Kevinq

Pushed Norton update, restart and all good with Vivaldi opening. Upgraded to chrome /79.0.3945.118 and all is good so thanks.

kowgli

I have the same issue now after update to 3.7.2218.45. The browser window will not show up if you click on the pinned icon.
Tried unpinning and pinning back again. Same problem.

If I just run the browser from the start menu it works fine.

I don't use any 3rd party antivirus etc. I can see the vivaldi.exe processes running in the task manager. But there is no UI. Also the pinned icon in the taskbar doesn't indicate the application is running (no underline).

id15495

@kowgli Same here. Pinned icons on Taskbar doesn't work. Vivaldi starts fine from Start menu. (v3.7.2218.45) Unpinning, repinning won't help.

Jammet

@id15495 Same problem, also.

It took me ages to figure out to not use the pinned icon. That that even makes a difference is really confusing.
I was browsing normally, then the browser crashed, which it normally never does, and it would not let me restart, even after rebooting. It just ... wouldn't show up, even though the processes were all running.

Can I roll the recent update back, somehow? And maybe opt-out of the new silent update feature? Help?

androidd

Same problem here, there is workaround, right click on icon on taskbar and click open as new tab. looks like they broke it again.

I don't have Symantec or Norton

Priest72

I have not used windows for many years but i did experience this pinning to taskbar issue where browsers were concerned,

I removed the pinned icon completely and then i would go into the browser folder and re-pin from there.

not sure if this helps anyone but thought i would add my experience with this.