Open a link outside Vivaldi not opening if a browser window is not open
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Be glad it's just Vivaldi crashing. I was reading this forum a couple of hours ago, clicked on this topic, and immediately the entire screen went blank. I then got the multi-language message from Apple that I'd had a kernel panic and that my machine was restarting.
I had installed the 5.2.2623.24 update today, and Vivaldi has been barely usable since. There seem to be numerous new problems in addition to those originally appearing with version 5.
I can't afford to be having kernel panics, so I'm going to have to change my default browser to Firefox. I didn't want to do that, but I now feel I have no choice. I've been a loyal Vivaldi user for years now, but until some serious attention is paid to the Mac version, I'll have to wait on the sidelines.
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@drhi said in Open a link outside Vivaldi not opening if a browser window is not open:
One of the crashes that is reproducible is when you launch Vivaldi, then close the window (but leave Vivaldi running) then click on the Vivaldi dock icon to open a window. Crashes. Relaunches with no problem, but closing the window and then opening a new one results in the crash. Back to a different browser until this is fixed. This problem is worse than the original one reported in this thread!
I reported this crash several weeks ago (VB-87452) as well as the issue that was reported in the original post, which is currently being tracked under VB-85202. The devs are actively working on a fix for both.
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@pafflick The problem seems not yet solved in the latest 5.2.2623.26.
Still, in some (not all) cases when I click a link in an external app, Vivaldi gets to front but doesn't open the respective URL.Thanks for looking at this again. It's a workflow disturbing bug.
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@janpeeters Yes - as I said in my post, the issue is not fixed yet. Once there's progress on this bug, we'll let you know.
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@pafflick I might have misinterpreted "The next Stable major update should have the patch implemented." I thought there was a new stable release last week and I thought that that have should have fixed the issue.
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5.2.2623.28 seems to have fixed everything addressed in this thread. Back to using Vivaldi! Thanks team.
Edit: Spoke a little too soon. As pafflick indiated, the issue originally stated by me in opening this thread isn't fully fixed. Vivaldi will open an external link if Vivaldi is not launched or launched with a window open. However, if Vivaldi is launched with no window open ... link does not open. But, the crashing is fixed and Vivaldi is again useable. So, will await resolution of VB-85202.
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@drhi said in Open a link outside Vivaldi not opening if a browser window is not open:
5.2.2623.28 seems to have fixed everything addressed in this thread. Back to using Vivaldi! Thanks team.
The crash may be fixed, but the problem is definitely NOT fixed. Additionally, another (related) bug was introduced: Clicking "About Vivaldi" from the menu bar just opens a blank window.
Here is a screen recording (https://imgur.com/LT4XXN8) which demonstrates:
- The "About Vivaldi" bug
- The long standing bug with external URLs not opening in Vivaldi when all Vivaldi windows are closed OR if the Vivaldi application is not open.
- And: 2 blank windows opening when an external URL is clicked instead of the URL.
Vivaldi version: 5.2.2623.28 (Stable channel) (arm64)
Vivaldi Settings:- Homepage: Start Page
- Startup with: Last Session
- Lazy Load Restored Tabs
- Always Load Pinned Tabs
- New Tab Page: Start Page
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@janpeeters That was in point 2, regarding another, unrelated issue (
VB-86199 Lost typing in the URL field
) with the address bar, in a reply to this particular post.
The issue discussed in this thread isVB-85202 macOS: Opening url not working if no window open
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@pafflick Thanks for clarifying that missed that it were two separate cases.
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When I click on a link in my mac mail, I get a blank page or a page I was on previously, I must click that link 2-3x before it goes to the correct page. What is going on here & how to fix it?
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@heather0 Yup! Known issue: Click link, click link again... It ain't a pretty work-around but it works.
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Just dropping in to add another person experiencing this issue. Not a deal breaker for using Vivaldi, but just a silly nuisance that I wish would get corrected. Running Monterey and Vivaldi 5.
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FYI, this is now (mostly) fixed in the 2669.3 Snapshot. No promises, but I am hopeful that we will see the fix for VB-85202 soon in a 5.2 Stable update along with a fix for a crash that many Mac users are seeing.
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This issue seems fixed with the 5.3 update.
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I am on version 5.5.2805.44 on macOS 13.0.1 and I can confirm that the problem persists, at least on my computer.
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Can anyone reproduce the problem? So I can know if the problem is specific to my computer or if it happens to everyone.
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@crisneda I am not running Ventura but I was the one who escalated this issue internally to get it fixed. I will try to find internal testers running Ventura and ask them to re-test the fix on their systems.
One thing to also keep in mind is that if Vivaldi is not running and you open a link from an external program, it will not open a link in a new tab. Instead, the browser will launch and it will look like the link did not open... because the link will have opened in a new window DIRECTLY behind the foreground window.
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As a new Vivaldi user I can't believe this issue is being tolerated by the masses. The problem appears for me to be intermittent. Vivaldi will successfully display an externally open tab about 7 out of 10 times. The other times, the tab is not made active and I need to click on the V icon in the top left icon which then displays the hidden tab. I've read in this thread that it appears to be impacting Mac users, but I am running on Windows and I have the same problem on multiple machines.
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I have this issue too. It's breaking the flow of any OS native app that tries to open an "Login with Google" window.
I can't believe this bug still hasn't been fixed. Gonna bounce if this isn't fixed soon, there are just so many other "little issues" that I'm starting to think this whole thing isn't worth it.
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Yeah, this is the first little issue I have come across since I switched (back again) a few weeks ago that has annoyed me. I had to set the default browser back to Firefox just to work around this.
Oh, and the other "little" issue that is annoying is send to device does not send a tab from Android to Windows and vice versa
Please fix!