Solved Vivaldi crashes after upgrades

greatkingrat

I don't know if this is a Linux specific issue or general. Nearly every time Vivaldi has an update/upgrade, I cannot get it to start without silently crashing. The profile selection window appears, then disappears after about 3 seconds. It appears to be something related to stored profiles, because if I delete the profiles from .config/vivaldi, Vivaldi starts fine.

The following thread describes what I am experiencing, but since the bug tracked in that thread has been stated as fixed, I don't think it's the same issue.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/69990/vivladi-crashing-after-latest-update

I would dearly love to not have to recreate my profiles with every update.

greatkingrat

Removing the Session_ & Tab_ files worked tho.

Thank you.

Was the second update in a few days that broke Vivaldi starting.

guigirl

@greatkingrat

don't know if this is a Linux specific issue or general

My Snappies in Arch KDE haven't been doing any of that annoying stuff for quite a while, iirc.

Does the Sessions part of this post help at all?

love to not have to recreate my profiles with every update

Indeed! When you do recreate them each time, have you been starting from scratch, or recycling various files & subdirectories from your old profile? Also, do you use extensions, & if so, have you tested to ensure it's not one incompatible extension doing all the harm?

greatkingrat

I have no way to test disabling extensions since I can't start the browser to disable them.

greatkingrat

Removing the Session_ & Tab_ files worked tho.

Thank you.

Was the second update in a few days that broke Vivaldi starting.

mib2berlin

@greatkingrat
Hi, add --extensions to the desktop shortcut properties.

EDIT: I am sorry, this was the false command.
@guigirl correct me with --disable-extensions.

Cheers, mib

guigirl

@greatkingrat said in Vivaldi crashes after upgrades:

test disabling extensions

Fyi:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/63892/a-quick-fix-to-the-previous-snapshot-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2355-3/17
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/73884/ssl-handshake-failed-on-startup/6

vivaldi-snapshot --disable-extensions.