Vivaldi browser disappears
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I have just recently (in only the past 3 months or so) decided to use Vivaldi as my "default" browser in place of Pale Moon because Pale Moon has had a couple of issues with grocery membership email links working properly. To be clear, I'm frankly quite happy with Vivaldi and only started experiencing the "crash" issue in just the past 10-20 days (prior to that I've had absolutely no issues to speak of with Vivaldi). It's interesting that I haven't added or changed any thing to do with extensions in Vivaldi for quite some time (Of course I'm fully aware that there could be a change of some kind implemented at any time in any one of the extensions that I use that could potentially impact the browser in some negative way - so the time-frame as to when I've added any extensions may not be relevant to any browser issues that might happen to arise at some point).
Oh and may I say, all of the valuable feed-back on this subject is very much appreciated.
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It's now been 2 weeks of crash free behavior from Vivaldi ever since removing the "HTTPS Everywhere" extension (that I was using along with "Smart HTTPS") to only continue using the "Smart HTTPS" (that basically does the same thing better than the former extension that has been not only reportedly discontinued but reportedly conflicts with the uBO extension that I use).
So my problem was apparently conflicting extensions and as not because I had too many extensions. On this point, I had actually increased my extensions during this time (as of about 10 days ago) from the reduced number of 20 up to 24 extensions without any crashes during the time since using the 24 extensions. Considering it's now been 2 weeks (free of crashes) and that previous to making this change above, I would often have multiple crashes to the extent sometimes as much as 6+ per day and typically never have more than 3 consecutive crash-free days.
As of today however I've decided to reduce to 22 extensions so when I display all extensions (including "hidden" extensions) the button to toggle all extensions versus not displaying "hidden" extensions doesn't end up going off the end of the total display of all extensions.
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@VivaLaUSA I'm glad you appear to have things sorted now.
Regarding your number of extensions, there is no magic limit for "too many extensions" in a browser. However, going forward, keep in mind that each extension is an independently-written code blob that interacts with a web browser's own code. Most of those extensions (for Vivaldi and other chromium-based browsers) are found in the Chrome Web Store and are tested by their makers for compatibility with the Chrome browser - but perhaps no other specific browser. Moreover, many extensions will be periodically updated by their makers, but not necessarily will that be in step with chromium's or Vivaldi's update pace.
As a result, the more extensions that are installed in a browser, the greater the very real potential for problems to occur wherein an extension, especially a lesser-known one, may interact negatively with Vivaldi at some given point in time. The more extensions that are installed, the greater the chance of hitting such a pothole. With a large number of extensions installed, the first line of troubleshooting a browser problem should always be to use a troubleshooting technique that removes all of those extensions from the equation before proceeding further in a systematic way.
