How can i speed up open vivaldi

[tanteo155]

I'm using HDD now, it's always full disk and you know! Every time I ask Vivaldi it seems that I have to wait a long time and I hope everyone can help me fix this situation, I like Vivaldi it helps my work a lot. but for me the slow opening of the browser has taken up my time a lot. Thanks!

[DoctorG]

@tanteo155 Can increase speed of Vivaldi

• Having much RAM
• Hibernating background tabs
  (use context menu on a tab in tab bar)

[tanteo155]

@doctorg i have:
Ram: 8gb ram ddr3 1600
CPU: i5 3320m
HDD: WD Black 7200rpm

[Catweazle]

@tanteo155 , using a SSD instead a HDD for the system. This make a very great difference in speed.

[Pesala]

@tanteo155 Cut your suit to fit your cloth.

If your hardware is a bit old, do not open so many tabs. Save tab sets as sessions and open the saved session when you need those tabs.

Startup from last time will use less RAM and be much quicker if ten or fewer tabs need to be loaded.

I currently have nine tabs open in two windows, plus three extensions.

[tanteo155]

@pesala I open 3 tabs and 4 extensions

[Pesala]

@tanteo155 Then Catweazle's reply seems to be the most relevant.

• Just how long is "a long time"?
• Is your hard drive heavily fragmented?

[noamnotyou]

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[noamnotyou]

Your HDD seems to be struggling as task manager shows 100% in that screenshot.
Try Windows' 'Defragment and Optimize Drives' (type in start menu search):
Select the drives and click Optimize.

You should also pay attention to background apps, on a slow HDD background processes add up quickly, stuff like game launchers, messaging clients... Most people have a ton of useless stuff running in the background. And 'performance booster' and 'cleaner' apps don't do anything but use up more resources, spam you with ads, possibly malware and cause problems by messing with harmless cache files of actual programs.

Of course buying a new fast SSD will make your computer faster, but that costs money, and without proper maintenance will degrade just like your current HDD, I doubt it was anywhere near this slow when new...

[tanteo155]

@pesala I defragment once every seven days and I regularly use ccleaner to clean my computer.

[tanteo155]

@noamnotyou i don't use windows defrag software because it's been very long and i just checked, my hard drive is only 2% fragment. So I don't worry it will affect performance. My computer is quite fast, I only have the problem that it takes longer to open Vivaldi than Google, when I open google just double click it opens, and Vivaldi I have to wait from 5 to 10 seconds to fully open and start working. Anyway, thank you for your advice
that's the picture I just open the forum tab

[noamnotyou]

Oh you're on a laptop, that'd explain some of the slowness as their HDDs are more compact and slow compared the a 3.5" 7200RPM one, when you open Vivaldi, which is showing higher usage, CPU or disk? Vivaldi has a lot of extras compared to chrome which will require more CPU time, but you could also just have a lot of user data that's loaded when you launch it, maybe something corrupted too... Is it slow just to launch or also to open new windows or tabs when it's already running?
Also possible that it's just drivers acting up, I had times when some things are slow for no apparent reason and then after a driver reinstall or update (like graphics or sound driver) it's back to normal, sometimes it can be very difficult to find the root cause sadly...

@tanteo155 said in How can i speed up open vivaldi:

@pesala I defragment once every seven days and I regularly use ccleaner to clean my computer.

Btw CCleaner had some security and privacy issues and also messes with other programs on top of being another background process consuming resources, that also probably monitors HDD constantly, that'd slow any system down and is at best just not needed.

[mib2berlin]

@tanteo155
Hi, Vivaldi it start slower than other Chromium browser because it adds a second layer for the Vivaldi UI.
What can slow down Vivaldi even more is a long list in the download panel, big history, thousands of bookmarks and major a third party antivirus software.
It is not listed as "Known" in some AV software and is checked for every process at startup.

Cheers, mib

[tanteo155]

@mib2berlin i checked and noticed one thing. When I start Vivaldi, my Disk is about 60% load, the reason may be because I turn on sysmain, but the CPU is full, I don't use AV and I regularly use CCleaner to clean the browser (every day I do it. use CCleaner)

[Pesala]

@tanteo155 Programs like CCleaner may be deleting browsing data that is cached on your hard drive, so every time you open a tab it has to fetch the data from the server again.