Vivaldi does not work on Raspberry Pi 3

Milliways

I have been using Vivaldi on my Raspberry Pi since ~2017 but tried recently on a Pi3 (running Bullseye fully updated) and it appears to start (showing hourglass) then eventually stops. There do not seem to be any logs.

Chromium works (admittedly glacially slow).

Investigating I tried on a Pi3B+ (running Bookworm 64 bit) which also failed.

Any ideas? What is the latest version which works?

It does work on a Pi4 (running Bookworm 64 bit) .

Update: Vivaldi seems to be objecting that the profile was in use on a Pi4; previously there was an option to override, but NOTHING is displayed.

I deleted Vivaldi & ALL config/cache and did a fresh install and it now generates a blank window but nothing else.

I repeat my original question What is the latest version which works? (on Pi3/3+)

I have reverted to Firefox which does work.

edwardp

@Milliways There is a Vivaldi Help page on running Vivaldi on Raspberry Pi.

Milliways

@edwardp This seems to be about installing Vivaldi. I installed it years ago on Raspberry Pi reference 2021-10-30 and regularly update.

I now have
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2021-11-09 13:21 /usr/bin/vivaldi -> /etc/alternatives/vivaldi -> /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable -> /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi
The last dated 2024-07-17 11:56

At some stage it just stopped working (I don't actually use the Pi3 often, and rarely in GUI mode)

On Pi3+ I have:-
ll /usr/bin/vivaldi /etc/alternatives/vivaldi /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2023-10-06 06:02 /etc/alternatives/vivaldi -> /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3300 2024-07-17 11:56 /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2023-10-06 06:02 /usr/bin/vivaldi -> /etc/alternatives/vivaldi*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2024-07-17 11:56 /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable -> /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi*

This DOESN'T WORK but identical on Pi4 does.

edwardp

I have found a few articles online regarding installing Vivaldi on Raspberry Pi (2 and 3) from 2017, but it's possible that Raspberry Pi 3 might no longer be supported.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2021-11-09 13:21 /usr/bin/vivaldi -> /etc/alternatives/vivaldi -> /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable -> /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi is a symbolic link (symlink). The l at the beginning signifies that it's a link.

Are you getting any output running vivaldi in a terminal?

edwardp

@Milliways I've asked the Linux devs if they could look at this thread.

Milliways

@Milliways Any update?

At least SOMEONE should be able to say what version worked on Pi2/3.

edwardp

@Milliways Please submit a bug report indicating you can't get it to run on that hardware and provide as much information as possible, including what you have already tried.

Also, post the bug report number (VB-xxxxxx) in this thread.