I have been using it for several years in Slackware (14.2 & x64-current) as my preferred browser. Not a single hick-up, full-featured and fast (by my seat-of-the-pants meter).

Seamonkey crashes with a simple "Segmentation fault". It's the same page (username for Yahoo mail), same event (press Enter to continue to password page), and same message. That tells me it isn't bad RAM (I'm using ASLR*) or wonky power.

Firefox can't even display the Yahoo mail username page; the tab just crashes, along with that stderr report about "Channel error: cannot send/recv". Oh, and I've already applied the "fix" for that, setting Browser.tabs.remote.autostart and Browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 to False in about:config. No love there.

I should point out that Opera's "crash" was an image indicating the page load/display had failed, not that the program itself crashed. The proxy was set properly, but again, no love.

*) I know ASLR has to do with the program-visible addresses, not hardware addresses. A different kernel (generic/huge) alters the memory pressure, and the hardware page allocation. Yes, I've pounded on this issue for a few days.

This sounds like a software issue if it happens on multiple browsers. My first thought would be openssl or mozilla-nss. Are you running 14.2 or -current?

Third minor update for Vivaldi Desktop (1874.38)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...i-desktop-3-0/
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/snapsh...all-vivaldi.sh
Install stable build with

I'm running -current (on all machines!), fully updated to two days ago.

I am as well. Using Vivaldi from SBo. No stability issues here.

I've had successive releases of Vivaldi lock up on me at random for a very long time now. Fully patched 14.2. I get fewer lockups when I disable GPU hardware acceleration in the browser, but the problem remains. I keep meaning to replace my AMD card with an Nvidia card running the proprietary driver.

Not sure if the other browsers you are using have hardware acceleration; I think Firefox does?

(uMatrix is the only extension I use.)

Vivaldi 3.1 (1929.29)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/vivaldi-...gurable-menus/

Minor update for Vivaldi Desktop 3.1 (1929.34):
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...p-browser-3-1/
I would also suggest updating the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra in the SlackBuild to version 83.0.4103.61 to better match the Chromium version in Vivaldi 3.1.

That is not going to work because Ubuntu have not published chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 83.0.4103.61 for Xenial (16.04LTS), only Bionic (18.04LTS). This matters because the Bionic package requires Glibc 2.27 and Slackware 14.2 only has 2.23, so the contained lib is not usable for stable Slackware.

Ahh, sorry. I'm running -current so I didn't take Glibc into account.

FWIW, Ubuntu provide an alternative source for suitable (chromium patched) libffmpeg binaries in the form of a .snap package. This is actually what the snap version of Ubuntu's own Chromium (and the Opera snap), uses to play proprietary media. I have been keeping an eye on this package because I could (and have done in local tests) fetch this and extract out a suitable lib. While the .snap container is actually an XZ compressed squashfs image, I have realised I can even get the file I want without having to go through a mount process via a bit of hackery. So far though, I have not needed to because they are still updating the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra deb package for Xenial. In addition, it is worth noting that they have not felt the need to update this package since the 3rd of October 2019. Thus the most recent lib (it contains several) in that .snap is built from Chromium 77.0.3865.90 source and yet it is usable with their stable Chromium 83 snap (and their 84 test version). I have not checked but this is likely due to little (or perhaps no?) changes to that specific area of the Chromium code base. Anyway, if Ubuntu considers this good enough for their up to date Chromium, then I guess we should not worry too much that we are using a lib from 81 in 83.

Our friend Ruarí Ødegaard just announced the second minor update to Vivaldi Desktop 3.1 (1929.40):
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...i-desktop-3-1/

Third minor update for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.1 (1929.45):
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...p-browser-3-1/

Sadly I cannot put in on SBo, right now. Yesterday when I tried to upload it my previous submission for the last minor update had just moved to the ready queue. At that point you can neither upload a new one, nor remove the previous to replace it. I'll try not to forget to keep trying to update it. In the mean time, if you use SBo, just tweak the version number yourselves.

You can ask the SBo admins to remove it from the ready queue or submit a PR through GitHub and have that overwrite the previous one.

I just noticed this today, but why is Vivaldi leaving all these hidden directories in my /tmp?

This is likely related to the Chromium backend. Google Chrome leaves similar directories in my /tmp/ as well.

I keep losing the little controls next to 'forum tools' and 'Search this forum' here on LQ and keep getting directed to "https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/?nojs=1#goto_forumtools".

This does not happen right away, but once it does not even a reinstall of Vivaldi can fix it. This time I have been running fine for ~6 months and all of a sudden out of the blue it happens. I am on 14.2 running the Cinnamon DE. I don't know if this happens with other DEs since I don't have them installed.

I have jdk-8u251 and mozjs-24 installed and wonder if Vivaldi is getting confused with one of them.

I cannot even use any of the formatting tools while creating/editing posts.

Vivaldi has recently introduced a new user interface for saving passwords (wasting quite some space on my screen) and the latest "stable" version crashes reproducably when trying to install certain add-ons from the Chrome Web Store. Hmm. I shall report that.

That's odd. It does not happen for me. If it helps I am on 14.2 with the Fluxbox WM and a custom 5.4 kernel. For Java I have jre1.8.0_25 downloaded from Oracle; I'm unfamiliar with mozjs. My Vivaldi is 3.1.1929.45, 64-bit RPM downloaded from vivaldi's website, and I simply extract the vivaldi directory to /opt. I start mine with --disk-cache-dir=/dev/null to avoid storing disk cache. The only extension I have added is FeedBro.

I never thought I would try Vivaldi again, but Firefox has ticked me off again with their nonsense campaign against racism in Facebook. I don't think the cats at Firefox are fighting racism but rather they are fighting freedom of speech. Anyway, none of this is my battle nor concern so I want to give them a wide berth. So, adios, muchachos,"surgite postquam sederitis, qui manducatis panem doloris "and hello, Vivaldi (cum dederit dilectis suis somnum)
How about a little bit of Wm. M. Wainwright : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLX471Yiqxc

translation of the vivaldi classic: [nisi Dominus - unless the Lord]
ps127
canticum graduum Salomonis
nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eam nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem frustra vigilavit qui custodit vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere, surgite postquam sederitis qui manducatis panem doloris, cum dederit dilectis suis somnum ecce hereditas Domini filii mercis fructus ventris sicut sagittae in manu potentis ita filii excussorum beatus vir qui implebit desiderium suum ex ipsis non confundentur cum loquentur inimicis suis in porta
A Song of degrees for Solomon.
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

I don't use Slackware but I do make frequent use of Vivaldi. It is stable enough for me to actually recommend it to people these days.

I normally use Chrome, as I've grown less fond of Firefox and Chrome works better and faster (for me). I'm pretty browser-agnostic and will bounce from browser to browser as my needs change or the application changes. I've been really happy with Opera over the years, but have had some issues with their Linux version the past few times I tried it. There are a few reasons why I'm not a fan of Brave, and Wikipedia explains most of the reasons nicely.

Vivaldi is pretty good. As it seems to support Chrome extensions well, it means I can just import my settings from the backups and be on my way. I like things that save me time. What I haven't yet tried is their syncing. I've had that go awry in the past (not with Vivaldi) and don't really want to hose my sync'ed profile at Google w/Chrome.

Google is blocked here in Beijing unless I turn on a VPN so google is not a necessary thing.
I use chrome sometimes to help me decipher webpages in chinese when i am in a hurry to get something done and I dont want to
decipher the webpage myself or ask for help or maybe no help is available and I am seriously stuck.

I am surprised at how fast vivaldi is. It took me a little while to get it set up, to find the menu bar switch and get the window heading turned on and get rid of some similar "features" and junk,
but other than that it is ok so far. I was really tired of the line of nonsense from the hosers that presently inhabit mozilla... I dont like facebook or whatsizname any better than the next guy but i dont want such from my web browser. I dont remember why i got tired of vivaldi before but it seems different now.

A fourth minor update for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.1 (1929.48)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...p-browser-3-1/

We also put out a Vivaldi 3.2 release candidate. If you want to try it early use version 3.2.1967.40 in the SlackBuild or with the latest-vivaldi script

Is VB-69388 fixed in 3.2 yet?

Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.2 is out (1967.41)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/download/
https://vivaldi.com/sv/whats-new-in-vivaldi-3-2/
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/vivaldi-...eo-on-desktop/

Minor update for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.2 (1967.45)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...p-browser-3-2/
Edit:
Minor update (2) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.2 (1967.47)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...i-desktop-3-2/

I got an email, back on the 15th, letting me know about 3.2 - as I signed up to receive such emails. (It's not spam, I distinctly said it was okay.)

Vivaldi doesn't seem to send out emails for the smaller point releases, but I'd not mind if they did. I have filters. I control my inbox. I'd not mind if they told me about even smaller updates.

I subscribe to the Vivaldi blog RSS feed to stay up-to-date regarding minor updates and release candidates.
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/feed/

Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.3
 

Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.3 is out (2022.36)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/vivaldi-...es-break-mode/
Minor update to Vivaldi Desktop 3.3 (2022.39)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...p-browser-3-3/
Second minor update to Vivaldi Desktop 3.3 (2022.45)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...i-desktop-3-3/

I see that Sbo submissions are back online. I have now submitted an update for 3.3.2022.39.

We did another Vivaldi minor update, to version 3.3.2022.45. It has these fixes:

• [Address bar] Typing the URL while loading, causes it to be uneditable (VB-71391)
• [Break mode] Favicons for pinned tabs are not hidden (VB-71382)
• [Chromium] Upgraded to 85.0.4183.106
• [Linux][Media] Update proprietary codecs to 85.0.4183.83
• [Permission notifications] Request popups overlap other open tabs (VB-71440)
• [Themes][Razer] Accent color from active page not working reliably: Also affects Razer integration (VB-71441)

I removed my earlier SBo submission and replaced it with this.

Third minor update for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.3 (2022.47)
https://vivaldi.com/sv/blog/news/min...i-desktop-3-3/

Probably the first time Mr. Tegner has missed announcing a Vivaldi update:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-android-3-4/
From the changelog:

Vivaldi Deskop Browser 3.4 (2066.76):
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-3-4-desktop/
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldia-bu...valdi-browser/
https://vivaldi.com/blog/three-cheer...rsion-arrives/

Finally, I can play a game inside Vivaldi instead of Emacs... ;)

Regarding my comment #396, I finally found the magic incantation to stabilize Firefox for me. I have to set the environment variable:

export MOZ_FORCE_DISABLE_E10S=1

This causes Firefox to run single-threaded only.

I've been able to use Firefox regularly for almost a week now (only one crash, on a gov't website no less!).

Vilvaldi 3.4.2066.76 is screwing up bad for me now on 2 different 14.2 machines.

When I click on the "Tools" menu with the "horizontal menu" sometimes 1/4 of the dropdown selection gets highlighted sometimes none of it, and sometimes the dropdown menu is unusable. Like the menu drops down but there is nothing there.

I don't know if this is a Vivaldi issue itself or a continuation of the issue where on this forum I cannot use the "Forum Tools", "Thread Tools" etc. This issue I think is because I use Cinnamon DE with mozjs24 and there is a conflict somewhere.

Don't really know what to do, getting really tired of fighting with 14.2, but won't install current because I do not have the time to constantly debug and update.

Here is a image on imgur (since I cannot add images due to previously mentioned issue with this forum):
https://imgur.com/a/Y4TKvXL

Addition: Another issue that I just came across, I know that flashplayer is ded, but when I change the setting to "Enable Flash Plugin" it will not save the setting and flash based browser games will not play.

EDIT: Dropped back to 3.3.2022.47 and everything is normal, except this forum, tools still don't work.

First minor update to Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.4 (2066.86)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/minor-...p-browser-3-4/

It's not just you. I'm getting similar problems on Debian. Menu items do not highlight, sometimes the settings menu doesn't show up, and fullscreen videos sometimes crash the browser. I have reverted to 3.3.2022.47 and the issues appear to have gone away. Firefox does not have these issues, so it's not OS related.

Older versions are available on the Vivaldi website:

https://vivaldi.com/download/archive/?platform=linux

I don't see the point of the inclusion of the game on 3.4.x, it's pretty poor.

Vivaldi 3.4.2066.86 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
is running fine here in -current with the 5.9.1 kernel.

No problem on Ubuntu 20.04 either. This points towards the newer Vivaldi versions having a problem with an outdated package[s] on Debian 10 and Slackware 14.2 [or maybe Xfce?].

Second minor update to Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.4 (2066.88)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/minor-...i-desktop-3-4/
Third minor update to Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.4 (2066.90)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/minor-...i-desktop-3-4/
Forth minor update to Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.4 (2066.94)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/minor-...i-desktop-3-4/

I usually don't track the updates to Vivaldi Android Browser, but there have also been two minor updates to the Android version of Vivaldi:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-2-android-3-4/
https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-3-android-3-4/

Makes reason, and I surely don't expect that. It was just that I happened to notice the 3.4 release when checking using my phone, and I never noticed that the link I gave was for android.

Anyway, another minor upgrade that doesn't seem to have hit the blog yet: vivaldi-stable_3.4.2066.99-1

It's up now:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-updat...i-desktop-3-4/
Forth minor update to Vivaldi Android 3.4:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/mobile/mobi...4-android-3-4/
Sixth minor update to Vivaldi Desktop 3.4 (2066.106)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-updat...i-desktop-3-4/
Fifth minor update to Vivaldi Android 3.4 (2066.104)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/mobile/mino...5-android-3-4/

Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.5 is out:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-imp...with-qr-codes/
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/min...p-browser-3-5/

This is still not 'ready to go' on Debian stable since it doesn't integrate with the Xfce theme, so Slackware 14.2 users may see some issues too, since it seems to me that something in 'older-style' OSs like Debian 10 and Slackware 14.2 has issues with any Vivaldi version since 3.4.

Those who run Slackware -current and other more up-to-date OSs will likely see no issues with 3.4+. This is a shame since, unless Vivaldi sort it out, those on older style OSs may have to consider changing browser or just running with 3.3 for as long as possible. Vivaldi may have no intention to solve things, in which case abandoning them or changing to a more up-to-date OS would be the way forward [I personally chose the latter option].