Vivaldi GUI just dissapear
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Hi,
I wonder if anybody experiencing my issue:
It happens to me 2-4times a day: browser show only gray Vivaldi logo and all GUI elements are gone (see screenshot where window was maximized).
But Vivaldi is probably running and working in background - file downloads are not interrupted and are finished when I wait. No crash dumps are generated.
I am also able to close it in this state via ALT+F4 shortcut, then Vivaldi asks for confirmation and after app is correctly closed. New start "reload" last session and works normally.
Browser info (copied from vivaldi://about):
Vivaldi 4.1.2369.21 (Stable channel) 32 bit - GUI switched to Czech language
Build 65da8ddfd900d72e3ff8802da65c27b6e9996a54
JavaScript V8 9.2.230.29
UA Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36System info:
Windows 10 Enterprise, version 20H2 (build 19042.1165) 32 bit - Czech MUI
running in VMware Workstation 16 Player (v16.1.0-17198959 running on Windows too)First I tried to do experiments with browser HW acceleration. This issue occurs no matter if acceleration checkbox is on or off. Then I tried to switch virtual machine 3D acceleration. Issue still occurs.
I tried to find any pattern to reproduce this "crash" but without success. It appears randomly for me - once I am opening new tab, then when I am reading online news and just scrolling on the page or either I do not use browser at all because I am AFK.
I am using latest stable Vivaldi on three computers, but it crashes this way only on this Windows virtual machine.
Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks for replies.
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I don't know what's wrong or how to fix it, but I can say that it probably is the UI render process that crashes. Everything keeps working in the background but you can't see anything because the renderer died.
Something you could try when this happens is to open task manager and kill the Vivaldi GPU process. That should cause it to restart itself so that you don't have to restart the entire browser.
How to find the GPU process:
- Open Windows Task Manager
- Go to the tab called Details
- Right-click on the name of one of the columns and choose "Show/Hide columns"
- Check the column called "Command Line" and close the pop-up
- Find the Vivaldi process with a command line containing
vivaldi.exe --type=gpu-process
It should look something like this:
(Note: This screenshot is from Linux so things look a little bit different but the idea is the same.) - Right-click and kill that process.
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@poldakodl In this case, can you start "New Window" from pinned Windows task bar icon?
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Hello, thanks for reply. I will try your suggestions when I will face this issue again and write results here in conversation.
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Hello all,
since I wrote my post here two weeks ago then issue does not occurs anymore
Not sure if it was fixed in version 4.2 which I install right after released.I will let you know when I face it again. Thanks.
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