Solved Browser crashes on activating a specific tab
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Hi,
Vivaldi crashes systematically (segmentation fault) when accessing one of my 250 tabs at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526741.
Crash doesn't happen if I create a new tab with the same URL and then access it.
I'm using vivaldi-stable 5.2.2623.33-1 on Debian 10. I didn't experience that issue before.
If someone has ideas, or can reproduce this issue with other conditions, please tell me.
Thanks in advance
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For those who still experience the crashes - we've managed to get another update for Stable out. This one reverts some of the recent changes that caused the browser to crash so frequently. Please try it out, and let us know how it goes. Thank you for being patient with us!
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@l0f4r0 said in Vivaldi crashes (no more Vivaldi window/process) when accessing a specific tab:
Crash doesn't happen if I create a new tab with the same URL and then access it.
Then why don't you just use that new tab instead?
Site works fine for me, but I'm on Windows and I have only 5 tabs open.Sometimes software crashes, and no-one knows why. Maybe in your case, too many tabs, too little memory, who knows? But if you can reproduce it several times doing the same thing, then there might be a case worth spending time solving. But not "open 250 tabs on a system with 2GB memory, then try to open a new tab, crash"
Please read:
- Help us reproduce your issue
- How to report a bug for Vivaldi
- How to report crashes on Windows, macOS, Linux
carefully and report the bug to Vivaldi bugtracker
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@pathduck said in Vivaldi crashes (no more Vivaldi window/process) when accessing a specific tab:
@l0f4r0 said in Vivaldi crashes (no more Vivaldi window/process) when accessing a specific tab:
Crash doesn't happen if I create a new tab with the same URL and then access it.
Then why don't you just use that new tab instead?
Actually I don't really care about this specific tab. This is not the reason I reported this behavior.
I reported this behavior because it's really annoying in essence (it's a window crash, we are not speaking about a little disturbance...) and could happen under other circumstances.Site works fine for me, but I'm on Windows and I have only 5 tabs open.
Sometimes software crashes, and no-one knows why. Maybe in your case, too many tabs, too little memory, who knows?Not the root cause here I think. I have plenty of memory left (12GB/16GB) and I had more tabs opened before with no crash.
But if you can reproduce it several times doing the same thing, then there might be a case worth spending time solving.
Yes, of course. Should I find other findings or crash circumstances over time, I'll add them to this thread. For the time being, it's just to trace this behavior and let other people confirm if they experience the same thing.
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@l0f4r0 said in Vivaldi crashes (no more Vivaldi window/process) when accessing a specific tab:
Should I find other findings or crash circumstances over time, I'll add them to this thread.
No need really. If you can find a way to get a crash every time on your system, just report a crash bug and attach crash dumps. Any bug will not be solved before you make a bug report to the developers.
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After reading the initial post, i tested that link & had no problem. Then i read more posts & realised there was no need for me to have tested that link. Now my only residual question to myself is... what was the point of this thread, again?
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@l0f4r0 said in Vivaldi crashes (no more Vivaldi window/process) when accessing a specific tab:
Vivaldi crashes [...] at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
Mozilla doesn't like that you use Vivaldi on their site
(sorry, I had to
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After upgrading to version 5.2.2623.33 all windows restored, but on tabbing into a Startpage (search) tab all windows close immediately.
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HI,
I can confirm this crash. It happens with the latest stable build. The build before (2623.26) worked fine
Cheers,
Lucius -
Ppafflick moved this topic from Vivaldi for Linux on -
My copy of Vivaldi now seems to crash about half the time upon loading a tab from a previous session. It also now randomly crashes, even when not loading or creating tabs. This has only started occurring after updating to 5.2.2632.26. Vivaldi used to rarely crash for me before this update.
I'd like to submit a bug report, but this crashing seems barely reproduceable. Is there a way to regress to a previous version until Vivaldi is fixed? I don't normally do this, but this version seems utterly busted for me. -
Same here.
It happens more with websites using basic auth...
Edit: Linux and Windows.
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Mine closes everything when I switch to my search tab. If I click on the open tab of my search page, it closes all of vivaldi as if I hit the X.
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@downtowndb7 Well observed. Any tab with search data seems to be a consistent crash for me as well.
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Having the same issue. Can browse to any site, but if I close the browser and reload the particular problem tab, crash.
the error file in the reports folder says:
"0xC0000005"
"The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access." -
@mnmn @cassiebeak @downtowndb7 @Pamal0sebi
Hi, a bug fix snapshot (Beta) is already published, I hope they push a new 5.2 stable in the next few days.https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/lots-of-crash-fixes-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2643-3/
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I have tried updating to both the unstable official release and the snapshot. Neither version has fixed the tab reloading crash, but they appear to at least randomly crash less.
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@cassiebeak
Can you add a link to such a page and how to reproduce the crash, please?
It is may a different bug and should be reported before the next stable update were published.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I cannot link the pages that reproduce the crash because Vivaldi crashes before I can grab any links. Beyond that, I couldn't link to such a page anyway because it is either random or on tabs that have information in fields such as search dialogs (which I cannot "link" for reasons which should be obvious).
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Since my thread was merged into the general support category rather than the Windows support category where I posted it, I should note that I am on Windows 10 21H1, build 19043.1568.
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Thank you all for the reports. We're aware of the issue - our developers are working on a solution. We will be releasing a minor update soon to address this problem. We apologize for the inconvenience!
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Since the snapshots didn't help, I've had to regress to version 5.2.2623.18, which doesn't have the issue. Feel free to yell at me about security for using a week-and-a-half old version, but this is a frankly unacceptable bug that made Vivaldi unusable for me.
Cheers
