Vivaldi not very responsive
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@boristhemoggy No, you don't lose them, you just cannot access them from within the new user profile. You simply switch back to your default user profile to resume your work. It's good to create a new user profile to test because often times, and frequently for issues like this, the problem is something with your user profile or configuration. Testing in a new profile eliminates these as a possible cause if the problem persists, or narrows down the cause to those items if it doesn't.
Here are a handful of useful links for dev tools, I just found them by doing a web search.
Vivaldi Help - Developer Tools
Google Support References:
Getting started with an analyzing runtime performance
Performance analysis reference
Troubleshoot Chrome browser performance issues
Find and fix problems with the chrome dev tools issues tab
Moar:
How to use chrome-devtools to find performance bottlenecks
Note: keyboard shortcuts listed in non-Vivaldi references may not be correct.
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@BoneTone Thanks.
Developer tools are all well and good if you know what to do with them. I don't have a clue.
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@boristhemoggy said in Vivaldi not very responsive:
I don't have a clue.
That's what the "how to", "getting started" & other links were for. There are certainly many more similar pages, some likely better than those; I found them in ~15 seconds with a single web search. I didn't have a clue once, everyone who does now was once clueless.
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@BoneTone Are you saying that anyone with a problem with software needs to educate themselves to software development problem solving level in order to make it work for them? Rather than the authors of the software clean out the bugs and ensure things work?
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@boristhemoggy Not that, so much. More that problems that are local to you cannot be diagnosed and fixed from the development end. My Vivaldi is very snappy and responsive. Yours, not so much. How am I to know what's different between us, and what the problem is at your end?
Now there are a ton of questions one could ask, like what kind of hardware you are on, what extensions you use, what 3rd party security software you run, etc., but even so, we would be guessing - try this - try that.
We still don't know what your results were like with a clean profile. Did you try that? Everyone here will try to help, if you will try the things we suggest.
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@boristhemoggy nope, and even if you did read the sources I searched and provided for you, you still wouldn't be at the level of debugging problems like a software developer. What I am saying is that when people have an issue, they should do some basic investigation to try to determine what the root cause of the issue is.
At the very least, look at the Vivaldi Help documentation about troubleshooting issues, and do what is described there. With performance issues, the built-in dev tools are one of if not the best way to track down what's happening, and one doesn't need programming skills to use them. We're trying to help you solve your problem, by providing resources and guidance. Your issue isn't reproducing on our machines, so what's different about yours?
As it stands now, we can't determine who the correct authors are that should be notified of a problem in their software. We aren't even certain that there is a problem for which a reasonable solution would be modifying some code.
We don't have access to your machine and can't do the work for you. But if you're willing to read a help page or two, and try a few things, the people on this forum are very happy to provide assistance, even though virtually none of us work for Vivaldi. The Vivaldi dev team is small, they don't hang out on the forum reading through all the threads. This is a community driven forum, the moderators are volunteers, the people providing help are just users like you and me. If you're willing to answer some questions & try a few things, they're willing to help.
Thanks @Ayespy, somehow I missed the notification for the previous post.
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@Ayespy I tried the extensions first, someone (on another forum) suggested this as a first thing to do. It seems one of them is misbehaving but we don't know which one yet. I am switching them on again one by one.
So, the answer to my question was...try disabling all your extensions and then enabling them one by one to determine if one of them is guilty?
That was enough to solve my problem without me going on a course to learn how to use dev tools and become a programmer lol
Thanks for everyone who took the time to respond.
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@BoneTone I asked on another forum and got a suggestion that found my answer immediately. I would respectfully suggest that if you continue 'helping' people in here you learn a bit of respect, patience and humility.
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@boristhemoggy said in Vivaldi not very responsive:
I asked on another forum and got a suggestion that found my answer immediately
The exact same answer is in the Vivaldi troubleshooting help page I linked days ago, before your very respectful reply to all the help I spent my time providing. My apologies.
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@BoneTone You wasted a lot of time to be fair. You could have simply suggested extensions cos I don't know what I;m reading. Your list overhwelmed me.
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@boristhemoggy said in Vivaldi not very responsive:
You could have simply suggested extensions cos I don't know what I;m reading.
As Ayespy pointed out...
@Ayespy said in Vivaldi not very responsive:
Now there are a ton of questions one could ask, like what kind of hardware you are on, what extensions you use, what 3rd party security software you run, etc., but even so, we would be guessing - try this - try that.
We don't have a crystal ball, or even know you have extensions. Of course, I could have just rewritten the entire help page in my post -- seems a bit redundant though.
@boristhemoggy said in Vivaldi not very responsive:
You wasted a lot of time to be fair.
Thank you for your honesty. I will try to learn from my mistake.
At least you've fixed it. As Gwen noted, it'd be nice to share with the community what the offending extension is, should another user experience the same issue.
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@BoneTone If I isolate the offender I shall let everyone know
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@Gwen-Dragon Sorry I missed your first message, but I have not yet reinstalled all the extensions, I had 8 so it may take some time.
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