Links from external applications open welcome page

philstevens001

Clicking a link in an external application (e.g. email client, document reader) opens a new Vivaldi tab with the welcome page: vivaldi://welcome/

How do I correct this behaviour?

sgunhouse

@philstevens001 Platform, version, and version of Vivaldi? Hatd to try to reproduce an issue without knowing any of that.

First guess though would be that your system is calling Vivaldi without any environment. If the program is unable to idemtify a profile folder, it of course assumes this is the first time it was run and shows a Welcome screen. In the case of Linux generally, this would mean the system is calling the executable direftly rather than the ctartup script; can't say I know h9w it would happen on other platforms though one might suspect the Mac version is similar as OSX is UNIX variant.

philstevens001

@sgunhouse 6.8.3381.46, Linux 64-bit
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon

When I have some spare time I will look for the profile and see if I can debug a little bit.

sgunhouse

@philstevens001 If your desktop and menu links work fine, the problem is not the profile itself but how the system accesses the program. See where your desktop or menu shortcuts point, then make sure the same file is set to handle apptoptiate MIME types (HTML files and URLa).

Typing "vivaldi" from a command prompt or terminal should start the program properly with no welcome screen because it finds the vivaldi startup script which sets up an appropriate environment. But when your system encounters a link it is calling the binary directly instead of the startup script and thus not getting the right environment.

philstevens001

@sgunhouse Desktop and menu links are correct, and invoking it from the terminal starts it properly as well. Now I am unable to reproduce the problem (which is good), but if it happens again I will look more closely at the environment variables.

Thanks for the help.

DoctorG

@philstevens001 Welcome in our Vivaldi Community

Some useful links for you:

Help on Vivaldi Mail (mail client for use with calendars, feeds, mails)
Help on Vivaldi Calendar (the part of Vivaldi Mail client)
User Reputation to use Vivaldi mail account

Do not hesitate to ask, we are a community to help users.

Enjoy browsing with Vivaldi.

Granite1

@sgunhouse I have the same problem as the OP (freshly installed Vivaldi yesterday). I tried your suggestion to launch Vivaldi via the terminal, and indeed, the external app's link does not open Vivaldi's welcome page but the proper webpage.

Being a non-techie, I don't understand your suggestion about MIME etc to avoid having to launch Vivaldi via the terminal.

In fact, us end users should not have to go through that, should we? Is there no real fix for this?

sgunhouse

@Granite1 What is your distro, and what desktop do you use? There is a file somewhere that tells the computer which program opens which file type or link type, and the entry for Vivaldi seems to be missing a parameter. But as Linux in general includes many diverse systems, I can't just guess what your system is and hope to get it right. Honestly, chances are my system is too different and we'll have to look for someone with a similar setup to yours to respond. But the Linux users here are quite helpful, so we should have an answer fairly quickly.

Granite1

@sgunhouse Thanks for your reaction. Sorry for my earlier reply, which was related to something else – I got my knickers in a twist, my sincere apologies.

I am using LMDE 6 Faye with the Cinnamon desktop.

DoctorG

@Granite1 Run in Terminal command line:
xdg-mime default vivaldi-stable.desktop x-scheme-handler/https x-scheme-handler/http

Granite1

@DoctorG Thanks for jumping in.

I was not sure if I needed to do anything with Vivaldi, so just to make sure, I closed it, then ran the command.
When I opened it the conventional way by clicking on the icon, it opened correctly!!! Yay !

I closed and reopened it a 2nd time and it went fine. So, it seems that command fixed it.

Does that mean I have to run that command regularly or is this once enough?

DoctorG

@Granite1 said in Links from external applications open welcome page:

Thanks for jumping in.

Your are welcome.

Nice that your issue could be solved.

@Granite1 said in Links from external applications open welcome page:

Does that mean I have to run that command regularly or is this once enough?

Running command once is enough as the command restored the correct association.

@Granite1 said in Links from external applications open welcome page:

So, it seems that command fixed it.

Looks like something on your Linux broke a setting with association of opening links.

Granite1

@DoctorG OK, many thanks for solving this issue for me

As an aside, I 1st looked at Vivaldi when it was in version 1.14. It was still clunky so I dropped it. Boy oh boy, it has come a long way since those days. I am very impressed.

Once again, thank you

Ronski

I've just had exactly the same problem, installed Vivaldi just a few days ago (fed up with Firefox), set it as default browser in Windows 10, clicking a saved shortcut on my PC resulted in the welcome screen.

Closing Vivaldi, clicking the shortcut and it worked, and seems to work with other saved shortcuts now.

Nerogarden

Almost one year later and I'm having the same issue.
Is there a bug report for this?
I'm loving the browser but I keep having these dumb issues... kind sad, really.

7.0.3495.23 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

Revision 72d89227db29f524d89b1af38163f46e4ed7746e
OS Windows 11 Version 22H2 (Build 22621.4317)
JavaScript V8 13.0.245.20
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

DoctorG

@Nerogarden Vivaldi Welcome comes up when file First Run is missing.

Just close the tab with Ctrl+W and next Vivaldi restart the welcome is gone.