How we made Vivaldi faster independent of Chromium
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@AladinRun it looks like it all depends on amount of data on a profile. Especially having a big history causes slow downs just everywhere (not only searching through history). Fresh profile works fine on every PC.
It's not tied to my machine - I've got three of them in my history of being a Vivaldi user.
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Am running Vivaldi 3.5.2115.87 but the "Check For Updates" button is ignoring me. 3.7 sounds nice. Just got 3.7 installed. thanks.
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@88-0 Do you have auto updates turned off?
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@Ayespy That would explain why he's not updated automatically but not why "Check for updates" wouldn't work.
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@guigirl I wish Vivaldi did not treat their users as unofficial bug testers, but such has been the case for the past couple of years. They have smudged the fine line between power users and volunteer testers.
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@TianlanSha There's nothing unofficial about being a bug tester when you download a Snapshot/Beta. You are volunteering to test for bugs. It is the standard throughout the industry.
Vivaldi does not expose Stable users to bugs on purpose, nor do they for one minute expect that will be a "testing" platform. They are forced by the steady march of Chromium releases to compromise now and then on whether Stable will be "perfect" or "on time," but they try to never put out a Stable that will be a problem for users.
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@TianlanSha , there is nothing unofficial or unethical about offering besides the Vivaldi stable a beta version, or snapshot, of the next version, so that you can test it. Besides, practically all developers who offer software that take into account the user and not what interests the company do this.
It is the user in Vivaldi who decides which functions seem useful to him and this can only be carried out that the user himself can test new functions beforehand to also have the opportunity to report eventual inconveniences or incompatibilities with certain OS configurations or programs, before that it comes out definitively in the stable version.
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Great job!
3.7.2218.52 (Stable channel) (64bitové)
Faster than before. Thanks -
@juanvase said in How we made Vivaldi faster independent of Chromium:
Never heard such Huge improvement with any other browsers, not even Chrome or Edge.
Because Edge have instant tab opening from beginning of its existence. And you can't be faster than instant
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@enc0re , as a Windows user I also have EDGE and this 'instant tabs' I find it quite debatable, it is only instantaneous in the list of news pages that it has on the home page, because it already has them preloaded.
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Opening new tab is still slow.
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@taroj1205 What do you mean? Slow compared to what? It's all but instant here on a 2011 PC.
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Same, open pages like a Pop-up, include pages in the FWA.
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@rseiler Slow comparing to chrome. it takes 1s for me
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@taroj1205 You time the opening of tabs.???..
Seriously.?
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@taroj1205 My hardware is nearly eight years old, but opening 22 new tabs took about 5 seconds. Of course, if you're opening 22 bookmarks it will take much longer to load each page, and how long it takes depends very much on how much data is being downloaded. Just creating a new tab takes a few hundred milliseconds.
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@Ayespy How did you made semi-transparent the tab and panel bars?
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@saduran It's a setting in Themes. Not sure if it's available in Stable yet.
Yeah - Snapshot has the setting, but Stable does not yet. When Snapshot graduates to Stable (shouldn't be long, now) then Stable will have it as well.
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