Solved Browser keeps closing / crashing on its own
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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.)
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
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+1 here, Vivaldi being killed randomly, no crash logs are created.
Behavior reminds ofkill -9in terminal.
Macos 12.3.1, Macbook Air M1. -
@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.)
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@slmcshane said in Browser keeps closing / crashing on its own:
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.
You can back up bookmarks. Use File menu > Export Bookmarks.
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I'm getting this 5-6 times a day now with moderate usage.
Vivaldi becoming genuinely unusable, as I lose all of my tabs and they don't auto re-open and I don't get any sort of error message or chance to save, just an instant kill of the browser.
On the latest update - any thoughts on what's causing or what can be changed? I'm using a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro
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@pafflick I have downloaded the version on your link and the same thing has happened again - for the fourth or fifth time. What other version or solution do you recommend? And when will the team be back?
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@aeipi3 The crashes have been fixed for the most part. If you're still experiencing issues, please post a detailed report: on what websites (or actions) do the crashes occur, what is your device/model, what OS version and which Vivaldi version. Thank you.
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One other thing that can cause crashes is a corrupted Vivaldi profile, the place where settings and working files are kept. The profile is NOT backwards-compatible. Downgrading Vivaldi and going back and forth between major versions can cause all sorts of problems.
The latest Stable and Snapshot builds are working well for me and I am not seeing any crashes in my normal daily use.
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I have briefly skimmed this but admit to not paying much attention as it's grown to a number of pages now! Just a quick comment that may perhaps help a developer or others:
I was having quite a few Vivaldi crashes myself recently, too (emphasis on "was"). I think it was isolated to my Windows installation(s), rather than GNU/Linux, although I think it did happen there once as well.
It was always in one of the following situations:
- Upon startup, (i.e. launch V, V window begins to appear, V instantly closes the moment it becomes visible).
- Upon attempting to open a new tab (i.e. click a new tab, or open a link in a new tab, and the browser immediately closes).
- Upon a web page loading (i.e. open new tab, type in web link, browser closes the moment the page begins to attempt to render).
I haven't had a single problem with Vivaldi whatsoever since updating, therefore whatever it was has presumably been fixed (for me at least) with a recent change in the "stable" branch.
From the behaviour, I guess it might help the devs pinpoint which particular bit of code was/is crashing - I'm guessing, something to do with the initial building of the V UI elements or initial rendering of content but obviously can't now reproduce the issue myself.
To complicate things further, I also have a pile of antitracking, antifingerprinting, and anti-annoyance extensions, so any one of those could have been causing my issue. Worth thinking about if any of the people still experiencing these crashes have such extensions installed.
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@slmcshane "preferences"! Took out preferences file "com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.plist" (Option-Go-Library)--created a new folder "Preferences (disabled)," moved plist file there, restarted. Will have Firefox open on the side as a backup for now. Will report back....
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@nanamahina Crashed...
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@nanamahina so back to Firefox with add-ons uBlock Origin and DuckDuckGo Privacy Extension and Sideberry (for the Vivaldi/Opera-like side tab/panel!)--still need to use Vivaldi for some non-Firefox-compatible websites for short intervals only (to avoid crashes during Mission Critical operations).
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The problem has been severe enough that I have moved back to Brave. Guess I will check back in a week or two to see if the problems have been resolved. I love Vivaldi, however, I can't have it randomly shutting down in the middle of demonstrating a web site, etc.
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I've had the same problem. It's gotten bad enough that, as much as I like Vivaldi (especially the interface and start page), I can't justify using it as my primary browser in its current state. I've lost significant amounts of work due to random crashes and restarts across multiple machines--a work MBP and personal MBP--and profiles. Back to Firefox as my daily driver for now.
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Same problem here, I was really hoping my new computer would solve the problem! I hope I don't have to go back to firefox!
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Started here after latest update
