AOL won't run.

johnandjasmine

Vivaldi has just auto updated to V5, now I cant run aol as my browser, just get a quick view of home page then the "dead bird" symbol (aol) there has been no problem until this update.

Pathduck

@johnandjasmine Hello and Welcome to the Vivaldi Community

I can confirm this crash on aol.com in a clean profile of Vivaldi 5.0 on Windows 10 x64. Nasty bug, good find - please report so it can be fixed.

Please read:

carefully and report the bug to Vivaldi bugtracker

WORKAROUND: Enable Ad+tracker blocker for aol.com and it works.

My guess some nasty ads cause this crash. AOL has a literal sh*t-ton of ads served through subframes:

johnandjasmine

Thank you, yes, I have reported the problem, & thanks for workaround, aol works again!

Pathduck

@johnandjasmine Great

Please give the VB-number here if you have it (check your email), one of the resident sopranos (paging @DoctorG) might be able to get it expedited faster. Such an important site (for US users at least) should not crash in Vivaldi.

johnandjasmine

VB-84856
AOL is not so much used in UK as it was, we have used since we first had computer back in the 1980's & never had any problems apart from overload of ads!

ukdiamond001

I have this problem with AOL mail in Vivaldi latest release.
When I sign in I get a brief show of images then the dead bird.
https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-gb/suite

Ayespy

@ukdiamond001 Turn on ad and tracker blocking. There are certain kinds of ads that generate a bad server query and kill the Vivaldi tab they are in.

ukdiamond001

@ayespy Ad &Tracker blocking are enabled, tried on and off, no difference.

ukdiamond001

@ukdiamond001
Here is a capture
Video of the screen.

DoctorG

@ukdiamond001 Not visible for me, i do not want to be forced to create Vimeo account. Switch video to Public or upload at imgur

Pesala

@doctorg The video does not add much to the report.

As said, when @ukdiamond001 logs in to AOL webmail images show for a second, followed by a dead bird page. (I watched the video)

What one needs to test this is an AOL Webmail account, not a Vimeo account.

Ayespy

@ukdiamond001 Hm. I'd test, but I haven't had an AOL account for over a decade, now, and don't really feel like creating one again.

maciekskontakt

Exactly the same problem here and it started after restarted with Vivaldi 5 on Linux Mint. Just few minutes ago. Not so before the update. I think team Vivaldi should check what bug was introduced in the update. AOL simply does not work when moving from Vivaldi 4 to Vivaldi 5 on Linux Mint. System is up to date with everything (LTS).

maciekskontakt

@johnandjasmine AOL is used here in the US especially when one of the biggest telecommunication companies in the US - Verizon - acquired their business for e-mail. We even have e-mail domain verizon.net that are in fact AOL. Consider Verizon bigger than AT&T (if I am not wrong) these days. It would be shame if Vivaldi did not work with one of top e-mail companies in the world. I agree that it may be nasty adds from AOL, but then it worked with Vivaldi 4.x perfectly and stopped with recent Vivaldi 5.x for whatever reason.

maciekskontakt

@pathduck This workaround does not work. I made exception fro aol.com still dead bird after fresh log in.

maciekskontakt

It is a shame that I have just downloaded Brave browser on Linux Mint and it does not seem to have this problem at all even though AOL is not allow to track or present any Ads to me. It sounds more and more like a bug in Vivaldi rather than AOL works.

Crimsonshade

The crash is caused by AOL Mail's "Today on AOL" screen. If you very quickly click on any mail folder (such as "New E-Mail") as soon as AOL Mail loads up, AOL Mail works normally and will continue to function unless you then go back to "Today on AOL", whereby it immediately crashes. Alternatively, use AOL Mail through Vivaldi Mobile, as the mobile version of the site doesn't have "Today on AOL" - though you might get an advert for the AOL app to begin with.

Ayespy

@crimsonshade And ad-blocking doesn't protect the browser on that screen? A shame.

Ayespy

@crimsonshade @maciekskontakt I just tried this on Win11. Turning on Vivaldi's adblock rescues the page. Turning it off crashes the page, turning it back on again causes the page to reappear as though nothing happened.

Going to try this now on Linux Manjaro.

Ayespy

@ayespy said in AOL won't run.:
@crimsonshade @maciekskontakt Behaves exactly the same on Linux Manjaro. Vivaldi adblocker on, page works. Vivaldi adblocker off, page crashes. It is not the "page," per se. It is an ad on the page.