On opening, XDG banner appears
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@stefanick99 Please, read about broken text on tabs at https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/75400/broken-text-on-tabs/
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@keithmason: I have the same problem. I have recently started a period of trying out Ubuntu 20.04 as my old mac is going geriatric. I initially thought this XDG-open thing was a trifle and just cancelled/OK just as I felt about it until today when I installed 1Password on my Ubuntu (20.04) desktop and the bug REALLY took over and f....d everything up. The request was: "1Password wants to open XDG-open" and i hesitantly clicked on "open". Then everything went haywire, repeatedly, opened new tabs and put ut all my login attempts in a loop and I (luckily) never came to the point where i started to key in some serious personal info. I shut everything down, tried again and cancelled the XDG-open request and nothing(!) happened. Tried suggested fix witout success and read through the thread coming out of it none the wiser.
To be honest I find this bug to be rather alarming and threatenig considering such behaviour when trying to log on something so important as my password vault, leading me to conclude that the way they process this almost seem obtuse.
I love Vivaldi, have used it for years on my old mac and never turned back, but now (in my limited computer experience) I do not know if it`s safe to use on Ubuntu. I will put Vivaldi on the back burner and re-install Firefox for serious jobs.
So, I hope some of the people within the Vivaldi community having the knowledge to set this right will read this, take action and fix it.
Maybe I have to cut and paste this to start a new thread and nag a bit, but we will wait and see if there is any proper response. -
Just one more thing: Did you try to change startpage?
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this may not work for everyone because the only problem i was having was when i open the browser i always get the banner pop-up. i can click on cancel or open, doesnt matter, it goes away but it always came back if i close and reopen the browser. i am not positive this is working now but i was so excited to think i may have seen the last of it so i decided to join the forum to save someone else from going nuts. i am very happy with vivaldi for years and it would be a shame to lose it over something as stupid and trivial as this but it was only a matter of time before i would have had to find a replacement.
go to settings>general>startup and under 'default browser' see if check on startup is checked-if not, check it. i dont remember if i had to reboot before the change happened. just closing the browser once and reopening did not work but next time it did.
also in the 'homepage' column i checked start page and under the 'startup with' column i checked homepage.
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they must be working on it or something because now it is totally random and sporadic. sometimes it opens and sometimes it doesnt and sometimes it opens really fast and disappears when i resize the window or whatever i do before i plan to hit 'cancel' but it is already gone. it is less annoying though, and kind of funny i think... -
This is still happening when opening Vivaldi on Ubuntu 23.02 with Vivaldi v6.0.2979.25.
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@TyrannosaurHex Tell your Settings → General → Startup and Settings → Tabs → New Tab Page
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@TyrannosaurHex Ah, i can confirm this.
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Is a known bug in Vivaldi.
VB-97469 "Settings for Startpage and Startup calls xdg-open" - Confirmed.
I updated tracker for 6.1.3035.43/44 -
FYI: VB-97469 "Settings for Startpage and Startup calls xdg-open" - Confirmed.
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Still a bug in 6.9.3447.44 (Stable channel) (64-bit) .
And for those wondering about the cause, it's from Speed Dial causing the opening of
vivaldi://startpageandvivaldinot being registered as a protocol the browser knows how to handle. That causes xdg-open to say it doesn't know how to handle the page and asking you to tell it (which you can't do through the GUI on at least GNOME because no one is listed as supporting the protocol). -
@IncessantRanting Yes, that is what bug report
"Settings for Startpage and Startup calls xdg-open"
means.
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I had a specific page as homepage, but in wanting to try out the new dashboard - which I rather like - I came accross this bug.
Vivaldi 6.10.3483.4
on
Linux MInt 21.1 Vera 64 bit,
Kernel Linux 5.15.0-122-generic x86_64,
MATE 1.26.0It only happens upon fresh boot, then defaults to speed dials, which I don't use. Is there a way to make the dashboard default instead speed dials?
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@blknblu1 Please, tell me the related settings you changed so i can check this on Mint 21.
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@IncessantRanting Do you have any idea for a workaround?
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Not sure what you are asking for, but will help as I'm able. Prior to this I had a customiozed startpage.com url set as "specific page"
Follows is a screenshot of tabs:
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@Granite1 I stopped having Speed Dial as my tab start page (i.e. I now have Vivaldi and all tabs start as blank).
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@IncessantRanting Having Sync enabled, this has followed me to my Pi's (running PI OS).
@IncessantRanting said in On opening, XDG banner appears:
I stopped having Speed Dial as my tab start page
Hopefully, given the work that went into the dashboard, some will go into this bug. Until then, going back...
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@blknblu1 I can confirm the bug.
Please report issue to Vivaldi bug tracker. Once that is done, share the bug number (beginning with VB-) you got by bug report mail.
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This morning I was going to do that...
However update 6.10.3490.4 (Official Build) snapshot (64-bit) seems to have fixed it.Sync played some havoc at first, but I can confirm after multiple reboots that vivaldi opens to the dashboard without complaint, and new tabs open to my custom URL.
Some settings which I changed (or changed back):
General tab: Homepage is Start Page and Startup with set to Start Page as well
Tabs tab: New Tab Page set to specific pageThese seem obvious in retrospect, but I haven't touched settings in a while and there are a bunch.
Hope this helps.
