Multiple instances of Vivaldi running

sodaspop

Re: Why So Many Instances of Vivaldi Running

Same here - not because of multiple tabs. Just going to a website with embedded videos and playing a video opens up over 30 .exe files and the video still play choppy (90Mb/sec Dload here). Same website, video plays OK in Firefox. Opera (same browser engine, and I suspect Chrome, which I don't use) exhibits same behavior of dozens of EXE's just for 1 bust webpage. Worse if more tabs are opened. (Is it trying to pre-load/cache everything in the page instead of just the video clicked on?)
For instance, this page:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7839679/US-embassy-Baghdad-evacuated-angry-Iraqi-protesters-descend-complex.html
IE11 and FF have only a few instances with 1 large one, where Vivaldi and Opera want to break everything up into pieces. but that might contribute to slow performance

Pathduck

That site uses lots of subframes (iframe elements) to show ads, about a dozen or more.

Each subframe will be running in a separate process, that's just how (most) modern browsers work, and it's actually more efficient to do it that way. Not to mention more robust, as a bad site could crash a single process but not the whole browser.

Firefox handles it a bit differently, and also by default has some built-in privacy measures that also block ads like this.

You should really install an ad-blocker like uBlock Origin and you will notice a major difference in page-load speed and memory usage.

Or, even better, stop reading the Daily Mail

horia

I also have a lot of instances of vivaldi.exe open, even if I just see this page of vivaldi in this moment (no other tab).
here below the instances: all together using over 500MB of RAM

Pesala

@Pathduck said in Multiple instances of Vivaldi running:

Or, even better, stop reading the Daily Mail

This is the best advice. Only if people stop visiting badly coded sites will the web masters clean up their act.

I sometimes visit such sites to follow a link to an article, but leave as soon as possible, and never add such sites to my bookmarks.

horia

@Pesala
and what about this very page here, that opens some 18 instances of vivaldi on my computer?! is it also badly coded?

derDay

@horia
check the internal process viewer with SHIFT+ESC
there you can see, what extension and/or tab consumes how much RAM/CPU cycles

Pesala

@horia No. You just have a lot of extensions installed.