Improve performance in Vivaldi
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@njjl Vivaldi devs always have an eye on performance. That said, if speed is your primary concern, you will have to use a rocket sled rather than an XUV. Vivaldi can never be a built-in, integrated app using all native components, because it is not installed in Windows by default like Edge.
In spite of that, since Vivaldi can be completely customized to my workflow, it saves me tons of time every day and week. Edge cannot do that, no matter how "fast" it gets.
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@Ayespy I never understood the people going on about how fast another browser is...
Not only is my experience like yours, that the UI etc. makes the overall browsing faster than the clunky interfaces of other browsers, but I genuinely can't notice that Vivaldi - rather than network response or hardware limitations - is slowing anything down... ever.
Literally the only time I've felt like Vivaldi is "being slow" was on the old netbook which had 1GB memory and no swap file... so that was quite obviously down to the system. The only fault of Vivaldi in that case was that it might be less lightweight than another browser (although I doubt that as well).
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@mossman I only have a 25Mb/s connection, so it can only fetch data as fast as it can. That said, on this box at least, Vivaldi is fluid and fast, and there is never any waiting for anything - at least none that I can notice.
That may be down to having fairly good processor speed and RAM, so I don't begrudge anyone noticing a performance difference when using an integrated browser. I just did a side-by-side test of a local government website in both Vivaldi and Edge, and it appears that Edge finished displaying the website about a hundredth of a second faster than Vivaldi (no joke, about a hundredth of a second).
Now on slower, less capable hardware, it might have been a full tenth, or even up to a half a second. This could still never compete with the time I save by having everything conformed to my workflow. So for my part, at least, I will settle for real time saved over the visceral satisfaction of having my every request filled instantly. The gamer crowd is addicted to thousandths-of-seconds-shaved-off performance, but my drug is money-made-in-a-day.
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@Ayespy said in Improve performance in Vivaldi:
I just did a side-by-side test of a local government website in both Vivaldi and Edge, and it appears that Edge finished displaying the website about a hundredth of a second faster than Vivaldi (no joke, about a hundredth of a second).
I don't even know how you noticed that difference, and such a difference is definitely inside the margin of error of network congestion. Just for reference, the blink of an eye is typically referenced as a tenth of a second. Visually, it's really hard to see who won a race in running or swimming if the difference is just a few hundredths of a second. It requires very fast cameras and the recording played back in very slow motion.
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@BoneTone Biologically, the refresh rate of the human eye is 25fps for all intents and purposes. I can tell the difference between 1/10th of a second an 1/25th of a second. It was less than 1/10th, so perhaps I should have estimated 1/25th. Of course studies have demonstrated the human brain can extract meaning from an image in as little as 13ms, so while the eye can only refresh at 40ms, it would not be surprising to learn that the brain can tell when a stimulus is present for only a fraction of the refresh rate.
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@Ayespy Still, I would expect the spread of the loading site, say, 25-100 loads of the same page of significant size to be greater than even double those 13ms. Making such a difference statistically meaningless.
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@BoneTone Maybe so. I only ran it three times - a different page on the same site each time, and each time Edge finished almost imperceptibly faster. Three was enough for me to conclude it could be an actual difference between the browsers.
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@mossman said in Improve performance in Vivaldi:
I never understood the people going on about how fast another browser is...
My hypothesis:
A statistically-significant majority of the posters who tediously have banged-on about this over the life of the Vivaldi forum, will go on at middle-age to purchase a red sports coupe & wear heavy gold chains around their neck.
I have another theory too, btw. It involves the brontosaurus...
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@Ayespy But Performance and Speed are two different things!
I can complete a task involving multiple actions (performance) much quicker in Vivaldi, even if individual page loading is slower.
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@TbGbe That was, of course, pretty much my point.
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So I'll just leave this here...
I've got a daughter who will soon be 40. She's married, kids, self-employed with her hubby, etc. She grew up a math whiz, tho never terribly intuitive with language, and handwriting at least as bad as mine (my other daughter was an English whiz, flowing hand, and all that). So ennyway, when she was about 17, I talked my then-boss at the law firm where I worked into letting me hire her as my assistant. I needed an assistant, she could handle the work, and she'd be a cheap hire. Well, she was my assistant for about two weeks. Soon, she was doing data entry (we were converting from Win 3.1 to Win 95 and from a hand-coded client files database to a commercial product, because the old database literally ran out of room and could not be expanded - and ALL of the data had to be hand-entered by clerks from the old database into the new), fixing the phones and the copiers, etc. She was never my assistant again. Eventually she was the firm's IT pro.
Well, the high-dollar trainer who was teaching us the new data management system started to show my daughter how to enter data. In a matter of minutes, she was typing data in so fast that she was jumping from one text entry field to the next before the screen could refresh, and the trainer kept trying to get her to stop and wait because she could not see that the data was being correctly entered. What I'm saying is, my daughter, with just the index and middle fingers and thumb of each hand can type faster than I can think - and faster than the Win 95 computer could display her work, and that's with no training. She can still work a keyboard that fast, and error-free.
She might be able to benefit from a lightning-fast browser if there were such a thing - 'cause really, nothing can keep up with her.
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Using an extension manager as "our" Extension Control or Nooboss with custom rules to unload extensions.
Especially useful for people which have a lot of extensions only used on few sites.
By the way, analytics for the last one are on by default. -
@Hadden89 Extension Control is great. It has just the right amount of functionality, tucked into a streamlined interface. I used to have the extensions internal page as a panel, but no longer need that with this installed. I find the panel to be extremely useful in many of my workflows; it takes a really well made tool for me to replace a panel, and this did.
I like to keep the number of extensions I have installed to a minimum. This one is so useful that I have kept it even as I regularly reevaluate my extensions and remove what's unnecessary or doesn't significantly improve my experience. This one isn't necessary, but it's a significant improvement in usability if you enable, disable or configure extension options with any regularity.
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@Hadden89 , I don't trust NooBoss by viewing permissions, sites where it sends data and history, and that comes from Amazon, without any references but a mail in the About page
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Disable Vivaldi running in background. Reduced my CPU usage by a ton.
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@evanmoriarty Where do you disable Vivaldi running in background?
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@barbudo2005 Type chrome://settings in the URL bar and search for "background" and uncheck the box.
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@evanmoriarty This?
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@barbudo2005 Yup that's the one!
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@evanmoriarty I never close Vivaldi