Improve performance in Vivaldi
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I'd agree that tab management and extensions are the greatest culprits when it comes to resource usage. I see a lot of websites and extensions which were certainly designed well, but might fall a bit short in how they were engineered.
In a rather counter intuitive move, by adding an extra extension, you can handle resources better - uBlock Origin, set to block 3rd party resources (large scripts, images, fonts) can be very useful in reducing the footprint that tabs leave, and it claims (though I can't back this up) to be one of the most resource friendly resource blockers.
I'm a bit saddened that you suggest to "regularly delete browsing history" though. I didn't think I was a data hoarder, but apparently such behaviour as keeping history forever is hoarding - I would quite like a browser that can handle lots and lots history.
And about the browser being slowed by the settings page - I did not realise that was an issue. It sounds like a bug. I hope the same is not true of other "internal" pages.
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Thank you for this interesting article. Although I have to say that, the speed of Vivaldi in general has increased considerably with the latest updates and even exceeds, despite many extensions and animated background, the 'naked' Firefox that I have by default in Linux. Therefore I can only congratulate the team for their great work in perfecting this wonderful browser.
PS Good idea from @Steffie
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@LonM said in Improve performance in Vivaldi:
I'm a bit saddened that you suggest to "regularly delete browsing history" though. I didn't think I was a data hoarder, but apparently such behaviour as keeping history forever is hoarding - I would quite like a browser that can handle lots and lots history.
One should write an extension to remove doubles from history - they make up a great deal of unneeded stuff. Do I really need to know that I visited the same site 500 times the last year? I don't think so.
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@QuHno said in Improve performance in Vivaldi:
@LonM said in Improve performance in Vivaldi:
I'm a bit saddened that you suggest to "regularly delete browsing history" though. I didn't think I was a data hoarder, but apparently such behaviour as keeping history forever is hoarding - I would quite like a browser that can handle lots and lots history.
One should write an extension to remove doubles from history - they make up a great deal of unneeded stuff. Do I really need to know that I visited the same site 500 times the last year? I don't think so.
It would be great, but it would also be difficult to do, since it is not the same to see a web page, to reconstruct the topics visited in a forum or other social network.
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@Catweazle This is exactly why I have blocked the Vivaldi forum from entering my history - every time I scroll to a new entry, the Vivaldi forum enters a history entry, instead of overwriting the old one. Most other forums don't do that. I only need the latest entry on a topic, I can live with the first entry if there is a "go to the last" button.
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I think it's very good that there is a Task Manager in Vivaldi, but I would be very happy if I could open the Task Manager instead of a new window in a new tab.
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Well, this is already according to everyone prefers and I also have the posts visited at any time in other forums.
Regarding the speed I do not notice much difference with the history of 1 or 2 months or with the empty history, the difference are microseconds even in my old laptop.
I think they are mainly certain extensions that slow down Vivaldi in a remarkable way, which is why I have the extensions page in my webpanel, to be able to quickly access to activate or deactivate the extensions, as I need them at all times. -
Every time I feel I have performance issues with Vivaldi I discover that CPU usage comes from "Browser" or "Vivaldi application" entries, which tells me nothing and I cannot kill them anyway
And GPU process uses tons of RAM for me, but I don't mind, I usually never go below 12/16GB of RAM used globally on my system (Browser + IDE + Docker and I'm full already). They say free RAM is wasted RAM
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@jacekn said in Improve performance in Vivaldi:
free RAM
...coz sadly we don't have Nelson any more.
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The Task Manager has a delay when it opens. -
Would be nice if the UI itself was running in a separate process with unrestricted high priority CPU resources dedicated to it. And the option to limit backround tabs' resources to even less than 1% CPU per tab (that 1% is what I remember being happening in Chromium since some time now, but those 1%s quickly add up).
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One geek tip more:
vivaldi://discards
is your friend when you don't want to completely shut down the tabs with the task manager. With a hit on "discard" or "urgent discard" you can hibernate the tabs you don't need. It offers a fancy statistics too.
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@QuHno Thank you, something else that's useful.
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Thanks very much for the tips to speed up Vivaldi. Although, these days, on a modest PC, animation and a 100-200 MB SSD, there should be no need for anything else to do.
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@Steffie I don't think that this can be implemented. Each browser window operates in the scope/context of a single profile/user whereas Task Manager operates at a higher level and is distinct from a security perspective. That is why Task Manager gets its own special window.
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@xyzzy Yes, ta; though i do know this "rationally", i just want it "emotionally".
Mind you, i also want world peace, no poverty, safe food & water for all, global social equity, no religion politics weapons & war, nuclear fusion... & Vivaldi Android. So you see, i'm just a wistful dreamer [aka, idiot].
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@Steffie I'd also love to be proven wrong about this, and for Vivaldi to evolve to a point where it can break free of some of the limitations that Chromium imposes.
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@xyzzy Yeah, wouldn't that be nice?
Though it's quite miserable in comparison to the V [/chromium] TM, i'm still jealous of Firefox's ability for its TM to run natively in a tab, thus allowing me to keep it pinned & readily fast-accessible in Tree Style Tab. Mind you, try as i might, i still cannot get its TM to then show up in Open In Sidebar, like "normal" tabs can. Thus re TM one might say that FF is ahead, but IMO only very slightly so [indeed, its inability to column-sort is a large reason i rate it "miserable", notwithstanding its "tabability"].
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@chiller84: Keeping the OS updated is one thing.
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Use private windows or guest windows for things that are only of temporal interest - reduces the cache size of your main install
Disable each Web Panel which you don't use by right-click > Panels > remove the check mark (they stay loaded after first use)
Good tips - thank you!
Also just noticed for the second one that if you right click in a blank (unused) area of the Web Panel, you get a slightly different display which omits the extra step of the "Panels" sub-menu.