After starting Vivaldi in incognito mode, trying to open a regular window fails.
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Background conditions: Running latest Desktop Minor Update, 5.2.2623.33, on Win 10 21H2 current as of 4/12/22 releases. Vivaldi is installed on a per-user basis, with profiles, app, etc. in each user's %localappdata% folder hierarchy.
This bug was introduced with Release 5.2.
Symptom is that with a Vivaldi window aleady open in incognito mode (via the "--incognito" Chromium browser standard command-line parameter), subsequently attempting to open a "non-incognito" regular Vivaldi window (viz., with no "--incognito" parameter on its command line, e.g., via the desktop or Start Menu links created during installation) does open a Vivaldi application window.
However, the latter window is only a grey background with the large Vivaldi icon in the middle center of the window, what normally appears briefly whenever Vivaldi is launched except in this case, the app hangs there. The rest of the Vivaldi window (Bookmarks bar, Address bar, Tabs, Menu Bar, Status bar, etc.) never open, no matter how long the wait.
No way to close the 'stuck' window except at the Windows 10 OS level. Selecting Appearance.Use_Native_Window in Settings does provide a standard Win 10 title bar that can also be used to close the stuck Vivaldi edition.
The incognito window opens and operates as expected with full browsing, settings, etc.
Closing the incognito window and launching "non-incognito" regular Vivaldi again produces the desired and expected result, with the application opening fully with all bars displayed and browsing enabled. Ditto opening a regular Vivaldi window without first opening an incognito Vivaldi window.
OS is latest fully patched Win 10 21H2 running Win Defender with all Vivaldi permissions unchanged since before release 5.2.
Did not report the bug when first encountered as fault isolation was still underway, complicated by no Win event errors thrown by the stuck Vivaldi instance and no other error messages, just the hung "non-incognito" Vivaldi window.
Deleting and recreating settings, settings changes, profiles, caches, etc. has no effect on the bug. Reinstallation of 5.2 and subsequent minor releases of Vivaldi has no effect.
Tonight's installation of the latest minor release, 5.2.2623.33, afforded an opportunity for fresh exploration as the regular Vivaldi window opened upon installation, suggesting the problem was not with the current settings or profiles, etc. as those would be expected to affect the vanilla install if any of those were the source of the fault.
The bug is now eminently reproducible across multiple Windows PCs running different editions of Win 10.
Have been watching for this bug to be reported but haven't seen any mention yet.
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After starting Vivaldi with the new hidden tab first, it remains on the blank page when the new tab is opened on it. Has anyone experienced this issue in the latest version?
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@erkan said in The problem of getting stuck on a Vivaldi blank page:
with the new hidden tab first
What does that mean?
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Up until a few weeks ago this was by far the best browser i ever used.. Now sadly its letting me down... Opening the first instance works fine... when you close it it takes about five attempts to reopen, and sits on the big V logo screen loading for about 3 mins... its the same when i have it open and attempt to open a private window it sits loading and doesnt actually ever load..
Ive not got it set to load any previous tabs, so cant see thats the issue like other people have had.this is the version i am running 5.2.2623.39 (Stable channel) (64-bit) on Windows 10 ...
Ive reinstalled and still have the same issue... I really hope you guys get it sorted because the other browsers dont even come close .
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i'm using win 7. I right-click the vivaldi icon on the taskbar and open it with the new hidden window. When I try to open a new window from the taskbar without turning off incognito mode, vivaldi hangs on the blank page.
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If I first open a private Vivaldi session, it becomes impossible to open a standard Vivaldi session.
A grey windows with V of the Vivaldi logo opens, and stays so indefinitly.
Nothing else is displayed, there is nothing to be clicked in it.
The only thing you can do are to resize it (mouse), or close the window (task bar).Vivaldi last known version (win10)
Deleted the only one extension (whatfont)
Changed theme (return to standard)
→ No change.It does not happen when a standard Vivaldi is opened first.
I did not notice that behaviour before those last days, I just changed the theme recently but it does not seem to be the cause (I came back to standard with no positive result).
Known problem ? Thanks for any help
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@oneohhsix None of this happens here. Do you have ANY kind of 3rd party security or anti-malware software?
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Same here.
The splash screen shows and stays indefinitly. So waiting a few seconds as suggested in other posts (or even minutes / hours) won't help. Besides the splash screen nothing else is displayed, not even icons for minimizing or closing the windows. Window can be resized though.
Same thing for the setup menu, when trying to open it out of the private window.This is probably not theme related, because I didn't do any changes and it stopped working anyways - I'd rather expect the latest update to be the origin of the problem.
I just found out with this post, that the browser seems to work fine when opening the standard vivaldi window before private one. So thank you P2A.
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@vivaldiuser835 said in After starting Vivaldi in incognito mode, trying to open a regular window fails.:
VB-86786
Closed as Fixed.
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@vivaldiuser835 said in After starting Vivaldi in incognito mode, trying to open a regular window fails.:
VB-88207
Duplicate of VB-86786 - Fixed.
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@erkan There's no "hidden" window here. Could you please clarify what you mean exactly? Perhaps you mean the private (AKA incognito) window?
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@erkan said in The problem of getting stuck on a Vivaldi blank page:
When I try to open a new window from the taskbar without turning off incognito mode, vivaldi hangs on the blank page.
This sounds like
"[Window Management] New window opens black if first is private (VB-86786)"This was fixed in the latest Snapshot, see
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/security-fix-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2649-3/ -
@pafflick
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@erkan Please call out the actual version number from vivaldi:about .
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@erkan Ah, that gif helped! I use Linux not windoze, so the following path will not be literally correct for you. I hope you can "translate" it into the relevant windoze path.
Delete/rename/move your folder
/home/username/.config/vivaldi-snapshot/Default/Sessions, then launch V. -
@ayespy
Vivaldi 5.2.2623.41 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision 30e6417c5626b4d153569eed731749c3d624a1df
OS Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601.24546)
JavaScript V8 10.0.139.17
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.147 Safari/537.36
Command Line "C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --flag-switches-begin --enable-features=PasswordImport --flag-switches-end --save-page-as-mhtml
Executable Path C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
Profile Path C:\Users\erkan\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default -
@erkan said in The problem of getting stuck on a Vivaldi blank page:
Go toC:\Users\erkan\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default
and delete the Sessions folder therein. What you are getting is an error that happens when a session closes that has open forms in it waiting for text entry. By deleting the folder you will lose your old tabs, but Vivaldi will run. Make sure not to shut it down again for now as long as you have any open tab awaiting text entry. The devs fixed this in the Snapshot version but the fix caused other problems and had to be reverted. A fix is still in the works.
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Sigh, once again i accidentally typed with my invisible-ink keyboard, it seems...
