Last Update Slows Down Vivaldi on Mac
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Same here on MacOS - after having installed the last update (2.2) some of Vivaldi's functions have started to lag, most notably:
- Opening many tabs in the background. This used to be lightning fast in previous versions, now I don't even get any feedback for some seconds, so that I sometimes repeated my middle-click because I got the impression that my clicks had gone lost.
- Navigating between tabs using ctrl-tab or mouse clicks. I am not completely sure, but it looks a bit like vivaldi is busy rending some pages, so that it lags in switching on to the next tab. Again, I have sometimes repeated my input, only to find that after vivaldi had digested the page it was on it would then perform the actions one after another. It seems like this effect is more likely to happen with some pages than with others, e.g. one of them displays an ad overlay for about half a minute before it removes itself.
I have not made any changes to my operating system in the mean time, I am not using any third-party anti virus software etc., I have not changed the way I am using vivaldi (i.e. the tabs I keep open have been pretty much the same for months), it has just started lagging.
Like the OP I am pretty sure that this problem has started after upgrading vivaldi to version 2.2.
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Just another observation: as Vivaldi had started lagging heavily I quit it in order to start it again. The window with the tabs disappeared pretty instantly, but the application ran on for a couple of minutes until I used 'killall' from the shell.
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Forked from Last Update Slows Vivaldi Down
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OK, another update. After I have found version 2.2. practically unusable with my tab list I have now downgraded to the latest 2.1 version. It worked out of the box with my existing profile. Performance problems solved on the spot.
It looks very much like 2.2. has an issue here.
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I have this exact same behavior on Windows, so it's not exclusive to Mac. After one of the latest updates, Vivaldi will start out working normally, but will grow progressively slower as it remains open. After a day or two, opening new tabs is noticeably slow, eventually taking multiple seconds. Shutting down the browser leaves "ghost" processes in the task manager that have to be manually killed or the browser can't be restarted. I never noticed this behavior before December.
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Looks like the same problem to me, too.
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@mbert Does this same problem happen every time you us Vivaldi? Does it also occur if you launch Vivaldi and then immediately quit vs. launching Vivaldi and then using for several hours? Also how many open tabs do you have open, while you are working and at the time that you quit Vivaldi?
@mbert @TiLT What extensions do you have installed?
@mbert Before you quit Vivaldi, could you please open the Vivaldi Task Manager (it's in the Tools menu) and get and approximate count of how many Tasks/Processes are running and then count again when Vivaldi appears to hang on Quit?
It looks like we have two problems:
- Slowness - that's usually a resource-related issue -- some task consuming an extraordinary amount of CPU or memory. It's also possible that it's an issue that's internal to the browser.
- Lingering tasks/processes - Something is preventing Vivaldi from shutting down in an orderly manner. (Could it be the same "internal issue" that's causing the slowness or perhaps Vivaldi not handling an event correctly when a tab unloads or when it's in a discarded state on shutdown?) When this happens on macOS, Vivaldi appears to hang when you quit. On other operating systems, it leaves "ghost" processes.
Back to the Vivaldi Task Manager question, when Vivaldi hangs, does VTM show a single (or small number of) tasks that are left running or several? Does closing open tabs one-by-one allow Vivaldi to shut down cleanly?
Thanks!
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@xyzzy said in Last Update Slows Down Vivaldi on Mac:
@mbert Does this same problem happen every time you us Vivaldi? Does it also occur if you launch Vivaldi and then immediately quit vs. launching Vivaldi and then using for several hours? Also how many open tabs do you have open, while you are working and at the time that you quit Vivaldi?
The application feels slower from the start. But the problem seems to get worse the longer I am using it.
I usually have 20 tabs or more open of which about 15 are always open while others come and go.- Google Translate.
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@mbert Before you quit Vivaldi, could you please open the Vivaldi Task Manager (it's in the Tools menu) and get and approximate count of how many Tasks/Processes are running and then count again when Vivaldi appears to hang on Quit?
Hang on, I have to upgrade Vivaldi again, I'll post another followup later.
It looks like we have two problems:
- Slowness - that's usually a resource-related issue -- some task consuming an extraordinary amount of CPU or memory. It's also possible that it's an issue that's internal to the browser.
I don't think it's only slowness. The interesting thing is that the UI is often blocked. I.e. while some pages are loading I don't get a mouseover feedback on the toolbar etc. That's something I have not seen for very long in any modern browser.
I'll upgrade again now and then see what I can find out.
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@xyzzy I have a ton of extensions to be honest, probably more than most users. Interestingly, I have no overlap in extensions with @mbert, so that seems to point to some other cause.
I haven't noticed Vivaldi use any more CPU than usual, though I haven't really paid very close attention. I did notice, however, that CPU usage spiked dramatically when closing the application. The last time I did that, I had two leftover Vivaldi processes that each used 15% CPU (on an i7 system with 8 cores). I had to kill these to reopen the application.
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OK, I'm back on 2.2 now. So far it works just fine, no sign of slowness.
I'll keep the task manager open in the background and observe how it behaves further. -
Thanks. FYI, a few months ago, the developers fixed a similar-sounding problem where some Mac users could not Quit Vivaldi. If I can get this new glitch to replicate again with a clean install on macOS, hopefully it won't be too hard to figure out what's causing Vivaldi to get stuck.
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Very heavy lagging here too (Win8.1 x64), opening a tab 3-4 seconds, opening some pages 15-45 seconds (some still open in just under 10 secs), clicking on extension icons takes some 5secs to popup their options.
Overall veeeeeery slow, at times very unusable since the slow pages also freeze the whole browser while they load for 15-45 seconds, can't click on other tabs or close the tab and so on. Tried with no add-ons and it was the same.Feels like some resource loading halts the whole browser (which probably should be loaded in the background), just guessing here.
Win8.1 x64
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Just a little update. With the upgraded version running non-stop for two days now, it's getting laggy again. In the task manager I see a slowly growing number of processes while the number of tabs has been pretty much the same (additional tabs were always closed thereafter). I'll wait for it to get still a bit laggier and will then close it while observing the processes that take very long to be finished.
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@mbert I have it lagging quite a lot right from the start, if i wasn't so lazy and in holiday mood atm. i'd be checking on developer console what might be the culprit, atleast some of my problems are page-load specific, when there's a lot of background activity. e.g. https://forums.bit-tech.net/index.php?threads/videos-of-awesome.167629/page-784 that freezes my browser most consistently. (Then again, just opening a new tab takes a few seconds so dunno what's going on in there.)
Win8.1 x64, 16GB RAM, OC'd I7-3770K (yes, slightly older Intel processor, if it might be to do with any of the exploit stuff, then again, Chrome and Opera are working fine.).
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Today Vivaldi had got so slow that I decided to restart it. It did not get stuck while restarting but required a considerable amount of time with some processes hanging for a while. These are the processes that were still there for a while after the window hat closed:
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I have downgraded again and will continue using 2.1 for now.
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I have this issue since updating to (hold on while I deal with another Vivaldi and Opera glitch that is years old in both browsers. I have to Space and or Enter extra couple to three times to keep the highlighted text from butting up against the previous text.)
2.2.1388.37 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
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15234034d19b85dcd9a03b164ae89d04145d8368-refs/branch-heads/3578@{#897}I mostly spend my time moderating a BBCode board with heavy code, text and photo editing.
I refresh Vivaldi very often when editing and since the last update, I must wait 1 to 15 seconds for the pages to reload enough to start working again. Scroll will not work until Tab favicon is replenished and URL bar is completely refreshed. Favicon usually finishes before URL bar, but not always. This seems to be a random yet constantly occurring issue. Doesn't matter if the page if full of 2000 or 5 photos.I've read on this forum, from a moderator, that you all have the most problems with Apple's OS. Understandable and I feel for you but I sure hope you can get this fixed as I just can't use Vivaldi for work in this area because of the refresh time, the problem with Pasting text anywhere in the browser and the lack of a Delete option in Contextual Menus. All these things are crucial to efficiency in my workflow and I tolerated Opera's text highlighting issue but was not moderating back then nor when I started using Vivaldi.
You have one thing that may be a glitch that helps in my moderating but I won't say what it is for fear you will fix it and be just like Firefox, Safari, Brave and others.Thanks to all of you for your time and work on Vivaldi and to the members that speak up as I should have earlier. This was a very snappy fast browser until recently.
OS X OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Mac Mini 2012 I7 quad core.
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Somewhere in the last week, I've started noting that Vivaldi may take minutes to become responsive after a mac wakeup (e.g. I leave a meeting, carry my laptop around for a few minutes, and then open it up and sign in again). This may be related to be related to number of windows/tabs (each time I've noticed it I've realized I've got 4-5 windows with 6-10 tabs on each). I'm going to have to try to gather more data about this, but just wanted to note that I'm seeing this pattern.
I'm running 2.2.1388.37
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@mbert
I went back too since it's unusable for my job as is.
Not using anymore as this subject seems dead without a fix. No fix for highlighting text either.
It was fun to test this browser anyway.Best regards to the developers.
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So there's a new version out. Let's see how that one works.
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I had a problem with the new update as well it removed user profiles for me, has anyone else still got access to them (under chrome://settings/people)
P.S. I'm running Vivaldi 2.3.1440.41