Vivaldi has become unstable with frequent crashes

DoctorG

@riffy had you started in Vivaldi program folder update-ffmpeg to get latest codecs?

DoctorG

@smartptr Not for me on Debian 11 KDE and Ubuntu 22 Cinnamon.

RetroCoder80sV2

I am experiencing crashes after recent update on Arch Linux.

Jun 09 14:30:14 Soggoth systemd-coredump[56950]: [🡕] Process 35291 (vivaldi-bin) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                 
                                                 Stack trace of thread 35291:
                                                 #0  0x000055e3d378b3b1 n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x8b7a3b1)
                                                 #1  0x000055e3d3f54f8a n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x9343f8a)
                                                 #2  0x000055e3d3f54eb6 n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x9343eb6)
                                                 #3  0x000055e3cd453c32 n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x2842c32)
                                                 #4  0x000055e3cdb8f388 n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x2f7e388)
                                                 #5  0x000055e3ce8b5831 n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x3ca4831)
                                                 #6  0x000055e3ce8b4e9a n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x3ca3e9a)
                                                 #7  0x000055e3cf4e2d1d n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x48d1d1d)
                                                 #8  0x000055e3cf4e291c n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x48d191c)
                                                 #9  0x000055e3cf4dad44 n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x48c9d44)
                                                 #10 0x000055e3cf312b9a n/a (vivaldi-bin + 0x4701b9a)
                                                 #11 0x000055e3cf31077a ChromeMain (vivaldi-bin + 0x46ff77a)
                                                 #12 0x00007f825769c850 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x23850)
                                                 #13 0x00007f825769c90a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2390a)
                                                 #14 0x000055e3d066042a _start (vivaldi-bin + 0x5a4f42a)

smartptr

@DoctorG Lucky you!

I'm on Fedora workstation 38, intel integrated graphics, Gnome with no extensions, always running latest snapshots.

Same stack as @RetroCoder80sV2 on 6.1.3035.50 (Official Build) snapshot (64-bit).

DoctorG

@RetroCoder80sV2 Please send such issue to bug tracker with a crashlog.

DoctorG

@smartptr Please send such issue to bug tracker with a crashlog.

thimo

Here Vivaldi even does not start since v6.1:

Bus error (core dumped)

Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon

GyozaGuy

@smartptr This has also been my experience, Vivaldi will close when I enable or disable my company VPN.

Ubuntu 23.04
Plasma 5.27.5

mib2berlin

Hi, this happen on Windows 11, too.
Connect ExpressVPN crash Vivaldi 6.1.3035.75.

I upload a .dmp file to the report:

VB-98070
[macOS] Crash when VPN is connected/disconnected

Cheers, mib

riffy

@DoctorG Yup, did it last night. No change, still randomly crashes. It did install, but again, no change.

riffy

Never mind... still crashing, just not as often.

Original:
Today's update (arch repository vivaldi 6.1.3035.75-1) seems to have fixed my crashes. Updated a couple of hours ago & hasn't crashed since.
fingers crossed

shirishkamath

Crash still occurs with 6.1.3035.75. Usually when using keyboard shortcuts for me.

Last crash occurred while Alt+Tab'ing to bring Vivaldi to the foreground.

thersander

Many thanks for your contributions on this folks.

I have an update although not an actual solution to the problem I was having.

The most usable version of Vivaldi for me which I stuck with for a while was 6.0.2979.18-1 64-bit stable. However, even that would cause problems. For example, when I clicked on the Vivaldi button on the top left corner, and scrolled down the menu list I could reach the "Window" or "Help" items with the mouse cursor and Vivaldi would just crash.

I had tried disabling extensions one at a time, then completely, and at one point I thought the Honey coupons extension was causing problems, but it was difficult to be certain. I did disable it though and it has remained so since then.

Anway, after further investigations I determined the problem seemed to be caused by one or more files in the profile Sessions directory. I had around 90 saved sessions, most of which I haven't used for ages, but the main offender seemed to be the default sessions.json file. My Vivaldi session at the time had around 1670 tabs.

I set up another Vivaldi test profile and experimented with copying over the Sessions directory to this new profile, and after lots of trial and error the contents of the sessions.json file seemed to be the cause of the crashes. I decided to have a cull of those 1670 sessions, and the approach I took was to save selected groups of tabs into their own saved sessions. So I ended up with a dozen or so new saved sessions and cut back my "more active" tabs to 300 or so.

Since then I have been having no issues and am currently running the 6.4.3160.47 64-bit stable Vivaldi version now.

As I said earlier, it's not really a solution, but the root cause seems to have been the sessions.json folder, whether it may have contained some corrupt information I'm not sure, but there we are.

So if you're still having problems, it might be something worth looking at. I'm sorry I can't provide a more definitive answer.

Many thanks again for all of your input though, it was very much appreciated.

buesra24

For anyone with this issue in the future, this might be worth a try:

Settings > [search bar] > Menu
"Menu Customization" should be preset to "Vivaldi Menu Button", allowing you to adjust the menu options in the "Content" area below. There, fold out the "Window" menu and delete every line with [brackets like these].

That was all it took for me to be able to finally be able to access all menu folders again (it previously crashed even when ONLY accessing "Help" for example)