vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess
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I don't know what happened but a couple of days ago vivaldi turned into an extremely sluggish browser. I updated today and it didn't get better. I decided to make a video to show what I mean and beside it you can see me do the same thing in edge. I'm sure you can see this isn't a problem I can ignore and I am being forced to use edge right now for my browser needs. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and I disabled every addon. None of my other computers have had this issue with vivaldi. At least not yet so any suggestions for a solution would be great.
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upvoted. have you tried rebooting? you might be experiencing this bug which i reported long ago, and it still sometimes happens so it is still not fixed...
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/38547/bug-using-checking-for-updates-causes-my-pc-to-slow-to-a-crawl
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@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
I disabled every addon
Disabling addons does not always get them out of the mix. They may need to be removed, or a clean profile (or private window) tried.
There are three frequently-reported causes for Vivaldi suddenly becoming sluggish on a given machine. First, interference from security software. Second, extensions. Third, hardware of driver conflict.
It may help to know that uninstall/reinstall essentially will never fix anything, as uninstall/reinstall does not touch the profile and 99.99% of the time, the problem is in the profile.
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Vivaldi updated to 3.6.2165.40 two days ago but only today I noticed this problem too. There's lag everywhere, closing a tab, scrolling the page after closing a tab, display a tab tooltip, many things take over 2 seconds to show up. This is in Linux, by the way. It doesn't happen in a fresh profile of Vivaldi. Rebooting doesn't help. What can I do?
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@kantoku said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
It doesn't happen in a fresh profile of Vivaldi.
There's your answer. Back up your profile, start over with a clean one, and add back all of your critical data so that you are missing nothing, then only add extensions back one at a time, until/unless one of them starts the problem again, and then get rid of that one.
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@Ayespy Yeah, I can do that. I shouldn't have to, though.
It seems it is related to tab stacks. I closed a 100+ tab stack and it responds much better now. -
@Ayespy Ok so I was pretty sure it was the third, driver issue, because I recently installed a new graphics card. However to be sure I removed absolutely all addons and even manually deleted the vivaldi folder in my user's appData/local folder. Disabled the AV and tried it again with no luck. So assuming it's an issue with my new gpu and it's driver what do I do to fix it?
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@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
an issue with my new gpu and it's driver what do I do to fix it?
What is shown in the first section of vivaldi://gpu (only "Graphics Feature Status")?
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Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
OpenGL: Enabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated -
@daemon_byte So you have all hardware acceleration.
The gpu/driver doesn't seem to be the problem. -
@TbGbe the timing fit perfectly but until the thread I never thought them connected. Is there a way to absolutely obliterate all the settings Vivaldi has on my system so I can reinstall cleanly?
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@daemon_byte You don't need to re-install.
First, verify that you do have a problem with the profile using Guest View
If the problem has cleared, you can just rename the profile directory and Vivaldi will create a fresh one when started.
- Check Help/About for your Profile Path
- Rename the folder "Default" to "Problem_Default"
- Launch Vivaldi
See Full Reset
You can always restore bookmarks, notes etc from the "Problem Default" folder.
Don't try to restore extensions, tabs, sessions or flags/experiments!! -
@TbGbe unfortunately not. Guest mode was just as slow and clunky.
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@daemon_byte Then it must be some Security/AV software on your PC interfering!?
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@TbGbe I use bitdefender. Have done for 3 years now and it's on all my other pcs as well. Can't see how that's suddenly the problem but turning it off earlier didn't help.
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@daemon_byte I have the same issue too. Switching to a new tab always causes the cursor to be showing the "horizontal double-sided arrow" and freezing for awhile before it moves again and switches back to the default arrow icon.
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@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
@TbGbe I use bitdefender. Have done for 3 years now and it's on all my other pcs as well. Can't see how that's suddenly the problem but turning it off earlier didn't help.
Just remembered this thread, see if anything there helps (e.g. turning OFF hardware acceleration )
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/54338/long-delay-60-sec-and-frozen-after-clicking-on-link-to-open-new-tab -
@TbGbe that completely "fixed" the problem. At least the browser is working again although I'm not sure how much I've lost cutting the browser off from the GPU
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
OpenGL: Disabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Disabled
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
WebGL2: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable -
@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
@TbGbe that completely "fixed" the problem. At least the browser is working again although I'm not sure how much I've lost cutting the browser off from the GPU
How weird!!
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@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
@TbGbe that completely "fixed" the problem. At least the browser is working again although I'm not sure how much I've lost cutting the browser off from the GPU
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
OpenGL: Disabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Disabled
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
WebGL2: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailableThank you! Turning off HW acceleration solved it.