Solved Browser keeps closing / crashing on its own

Nanamahina

@chas4
Will try turning my only extension, "Cisco Webex Extension
1.17.0"

Nanamahina

HenePfuschi

Vivaldi crashes without any activity.
Vivaldi.5.2.2623.39 on MacOS 10.14.6
I had Vivaldi completely removed and installed this newest Version. It crashes without any activity, as I was checking, if it would still use up all energy (see other report).
I had a former .dmg available: Vivaldi.5.1.2567.66.universal.dmg.
Since installing this one I do not have any problem so far (knock on aluminum).

PeterPanino

Vivaldi gave me TWO crashes today.

Hint to the developers: Check Vivaldi's clipboard handling. I suspect an incompatible clipboard format could be the cause of the crashes.

Nanamahina

@chas4
Thanks for the word! No crashes all day since turning off my only extension "Cisco Webex Extension 1.17.0." Vivaldi!

Nanamahina

@nanamahina
Crashed again during Mission Control time (insert words of choice here), despite 0 extensions on. Will be using Firefox and reading this forum until Vivaldi gets better.

Odyssei

I'm getting these "crashes" (which don't register as crashes in the crash log) even with older versions of Vivaldi. At the time that they were new, those versions did not have this problem though. I also tried quitting all other apps I could see that might be interfering with Vivaldi and making it crash, all with no effect. That makes me think that the problem must have something to do with some kind of invisible Vivaldi helper application that has been updated to the latest version. Using an old version of Vivaldi wouldn't help because the helper would still be the latest version that's causing the crash. Could that be possible?

lipo2lipo

Even the latest version (5.2.2623.39 (Stable channel) (x86_64)), still randomly crashes.
Open few tabs, woking in other app (for example Word), copy and paste text to word, want to return back to Vivaldi and it closed itself/crashed in the meantime.
Happens repeatedly throughout the day.

Urbanmeister

@jjaarreekk Regrettably I must agree. I have continuing crashing problems. I like Vivaldi and will continue to use it however, it will be a 'backup' rather than my primary browser.

Such a pity, it was a crackingly good browser until a few updates ago. I have no doubt the folks at Vivaldi will address this at some stage - I'm sure they're aiming to sort it now - but unless sorted quickly they'll lose folk to other browsers.

I wish them luck.

aks2

Starting to switch to another browser. These crashes are just getting beyond my patience.

jspraul

I've submitted two bugs with multiple crash reports: VB-88077 (on Apr 6 with 6 crashes) and VB-88692 (today, Apr 20 with 3 crashes).

Originally v5.2.2623.24 (an upgrade from v5.1 for me) crashed immediately every time I opened a 'New Private Window'.

Now, v5.2.2623.39 crashes intermittently; I just leave the 'New Private Window' open in the background. The most recent crash occurred after appx. 55 minutes... not sure what's going on since I continue using the computer for other things.

I should note that I am running on macOS Mojave 10.14.6 which is no longer the latest hotness, and I've never used any extensions. At this point Vivaldi is not reliable enough to really use for anything; looking forward to when this is resolved.

Saumalyajit

vivaldi keeps crashing on latest version on mac. if you close a window and then open one again, it freezes and then nukes itself. Also happens if you switch between private and normal window

slmcshane

Re: Latest Vivaldi keeps crashing
Vivaldi suddenly quits even when not being used for a few minutes (e.g. while reading Apple mail). Occurs several times per day! No crash report appears, unlike other apps that freeze or quit unexpectedly (rare event compared to Vivaldi crashes lately). This has been ongoing since the major update, although some other update problems were fixed with the most recent minor update.

Computer is M1 mac mini with latest Monterey. Uninstalled and reinstalled Vivaldi a week ago due to earlier problems. Hesitate to do that again because preferences and bookmarks are lost.

ryofurue

So, do people here have "crashes" on the stable version(s) of Vivaldi?

My experience so far is that Vivaldi Snapshot keeps "crashing" but the stable version has been robust for these few weeks.

I mean, I've been exclusively using Vivaldi Snapshot. Only when this "crash" started to happen did I start to use the stable version.

(By the way, by "crash" above, I mean Vivaldi randomly "quitting" without emitting a crash log, as other people here have been describing.)

Odyssei

@ryofurue Yes, now Vivaldi is crashing no matter which version I use. Even old ones that used to be stable are having this problem for me (How is that even possible?). It's really unpredictable when a "crash" (without a crash log) will happen, sometimes almost immediately, sometimes after a while, but eventually it always does. I'm mostly using other browsers to teach my online classes now, but I keep checking for updates on Vivaldi every day to see if there's some solution or workaround.

ryofurue

@odyssei said in Browser keeps closing / crashing on its own:

@ryofurue Yes, now Vivaldi is crashing no matter which version I use.

Thanks for your response!

Even old ones that used to be stable are having this problem for me (How is that even possible?).

Do you often upgrade macOS? I always do. My guess is that macOS upgrades have changed something that affects the interaction of Vivaldi with the OS.

Odyssei

@ryofurue Yes, I do upgrade as quickly as possible. I guess you could be right... I don't recall these problems starting around the time that macOS 12.3.1 was released, but maybe that's the fault of my memory. I had thought that Vivaldi must have installed a helper application of some kind that was causing the crashes, but OS integration problems would be to blame.

lipo2lipo

I don't think it should be related to OS upgrades. I'm on Big Sur for a while now and no problem appeared until beginning of April.
Did downgrade Vivaldi to v5.1 on one computer from Time Machine and it was stable, without any issue. Afterwards I did update it to latest version (.39) and it quits itself again, randomly.

EDIT: It becomes useless for anything except quick look on a webpage. Did return to v 5.1.2567.73 (Stable channel) (x86_64) which doesn't cause any trouble.

grpvw

+1 here, Vivaldi being killed randomly, no crash logs are created.
Behavior reminds of

kill -9

in terminal.
Macos 12.3.1, Macbook Air M1.

Urbanmeister

@aks2 You make sense. I'm using Brave as my primary with Vivaldi as the backup. Very stable and also fast. Not as good a front end as Vivaldi, but it works mostly. The mostly comment is that trying to look at videos on Amazon requires a component that you can't download. I'll most probably revert to Vivaldi once this has been addressed. (Soon I hope.)