Constant Freezing on macOS Big Sur
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I'm running into Vivaldi freezing sometimes randomly, making it unuseable on my mac. I've reinstalled, tried removing my entire local data, and even with a fresh installation with no extensions, Vivaldi freezes, forcing me to force kill it.
Wondering if anyone else experienced this in the last few weeks? I've become too dependent on Vivaldi features and now I'm kicking myself for it...
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Does it happen on certain sites?
Also what version of macOS 11? -
Yes, I have the same issue, actually! I just posted my question on Reddit and thought I should check out the forum as well. Here's my description again:
Memory leaks and freezes on my MBP with macOS 11.6 since Vivaldi 4.2
I'm recently running into a quite annoying issue which makes Vivaldi almost unusable on my 2017 MBP.
Since Vivaldi 4.2, the browser sometimes freezes (macOS shows the spinning wheel) while filling up my memory at a rate of ~500MB/s until eventually the RAM swap file completely fills up my hard drive (this luckily only happened once; I usually force-quit as soon as it freezes). Browser content keeps on playing but it is completely unresponsive and I have to kill the process.
I can't really predict when it happens. Sometimes when opening a page or a new tab, rarely when I'm just scrolling on a webpage, almost always when I open and work on certain sites (e.g. roam research, my pretty compute/ram-heavy note-taking app). I would say with my usual browsing habit, it happens every half hour or so.
I unsuccessfully tried:
- Disabling all extensions
- Setting up a clean user profile
- Updating Vivaldi from my first 4.2 version to the newest 4.2.2406.54
- Un- and reinstalling Vivaldi (also version 4.2.2406.54)
- Updating macOS from Big Sur 11.0.1 to 11.5 to 11.6
- Restoring my MBP to macOS Catalina 10.15 from a backup (this was totally unrelated to Vivaldi but gave me the chance to test it on the old OS...same issue. I'm now back to 11.6)
- Many restarts and resets of the MBP's NVRAM and SMC
It seems that the issue is with the 4.2 version of Vivaldi. Does anybody have any similar issues or insights or can point towards things I can do (error logs?) to narrow down the issue?
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Exactly what you've described. It does the rainbow spin, and I have to Cmd+Opt+Esc to force kill it. I know Vivaldi is a memory-hog, but it works (albeit a little sluggishly) on my MBP. It's just in my desktop, something changed -- I have 64gb of ram, so not quite sure what's the problem. Hoping for a miracle fix in future releases...
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Ditto as described. It's a pity as I have enjoyed using Vivaldi for the past number of years until now.
Hopefully someone from the Vivaldi Team. will advise on what course of action to take.
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Again does anyone notice it on certain sites? If so which ones? You can also look at the built in task manager.
Also Vivaldi 4.3 is close to being stable.
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@chas4
No, completely independent of the site and mostly when interacting with content. So, quite common on roamresearch.com or sites where I often use menus or write, often on Youtube when opening a new video but also on sites I've never opened before and sometimes just when scrolling.
What am I supposed to keep an eye out for in the built-in task manager?
EDIT: I opened the task manager and waited for the next crash but the task manager froze as well and thus did not update/locate the rising RAM usage. -
@jaspergeh Any different with Vivaldi 4.3 and after clearing the browser cache?
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@chas4 No, unfortunately not. Still the same behaviour and the same frequency (as far as I can tell from a little less than an hour of usage and provoking crashes).
Are there any logfiles or error message dumps or something I could post?
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Hi there. I'm new Vivaldi (1 week) and I have started having this problem almost immediately after I did my first install of 4.2 and then again a couple fo days later when 4.3 was released. And it has reoccurred every day since.
I have an Intel MBP running macOS 11.6
I will be keeping a close eye on this thread, but I also wanted to offer my services when it comes to trouble shooting or testing. Happy to assist where I can.
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@Chas4 Still the same issue on the new Vivaldi 4.3.2439.44, btw.
@seyk @mikelucey @vpoil For you as well? -
Is it any different if you switch the Window Appearance to Use native Window?
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@chas4 No, that unfortunately makes no difference in my case.
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@jaspergeh Yes. Same issue here after 4.3.2439.44
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Update: I haven't experienced the issue since the latest update 4.3.2439.56
@JasperGeh how about you? -
Any change after the macOS 11.6.1 update? (it is around 2GB)
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Sadly, still crashes on newest Vivaldi and newest MacOS 12
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@jaspergeh Did you report the crashes already? If you did, please post the VB number. If not, please take some time to read the article on how to report a bug and follow the instructions there to report this issue to the developers. Thank you.
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Hello,
We have 4 computers with different OSX and we have exactly the same problem since the 4.2 update
Vivaldi is unusable ! I use this browser since the beginning, it's a pity that the problem is not solved with the 4.3
I know that it is not recommended to use an old version (4.1) but today it is the only way if I want to use vivaldi.