Performance characteristics in Vivaldi terrible compared to Chrome and Edge
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I'm a new Vivaldi user, but have used many other Chromium based browsers, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
The good news is that there do seem to be pages that Vivaldi renders a bit faster than Chrome or Edge, when settings are set in similar ways. Not THAT much faster, but 5 or even 10 percent.
The bad news is that there seem to be pages that Vivaldi just grinds to a slow painful death on, when other Chromium browsers handle them fine.
For example -- If I am looking at my Google Voice messages (https://voice.google.com/u/0/messages ) with Google Chrome, the page renders and re-renders and re-renders fully in under 6 seconds. Interestingly, Edge does even better, typically under 5 seconds. Vivaldi, on the other hand, seems to take about 45 seconds to render that same page (for me) if ad and tracker blocking is turned on, and about 35 seconds for me if ad and tracker blocking is turned off. This is just painful. I have run into other pages with similar horrible characteristics. This seems to be the case whether or not I have hardware acceleration turned on in the Vivaldi settings. (Typically I leave it off, because vivaldi seems to have a different bug where it doesn't show windows from installing extensions and such properly if hardware acceleration is turned on - again not a problem in Chrome or Edge).
In situations where I notice this, the differences are so huge and so stark that I just can't believe I am the only one to experience them. Am I missing some magic setting that says "Please don't slow down the rendering of my pages?"
Another note - if I have the developer console open to the network tab, it seems as if the network requests themselves are being fired off more slowly and with less parallelism. Is this part of the problem?
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@sgolux
Hi, the page from your link render in < 1 second for me and I never was on this page.
Chrome 2.
Edge 3.
I have a 50 Mb/s cable internet connection, specs in my signature.
No idea why it is 6 times slower on your system, please check on a guest profile.
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/guest-view/
A reason why Vivaldi is slower is a third party anti virus software but it should slowdown all pages.
Extensions are not working the same way like in Chrome but you can verify this with the guest profile.Cheers, mib
EDIT: Are you logged in on this page? I cant in Germany.
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@sgolux , same result of @mib2berlin, Vivaldi renders the page fast like a pop-up, somewhat slower (~2s) in UR and Edge.
Try in a guest profile, maybe an extension cause this slow rendering, as aid before, not all extensions works in Vivaldi like in other Chromium. -
Thank you @mib2berlin and @Catweazle . I do have a Google Voice account, and I have for years. So the timing of rendering the page is after I have logged in. I have thousands of SMS messages accessible from that page. I'm sure they are not ALL rendered just because the page is loaded, but I don't know how many are rendered. As I said, when I run in Edge or Chrome the page renders in 5 or 6 seconds, and much slower (30 or 40 seconds) in Vivaldi. I am running only ONE extension in Vivaldi, namely my password manager, Roboform.
When I try your "Guest Profile" idea, the page loads in about 25 seconds if I don't block anything, but in about 30 seconds when I block ads and trackers.. Not appreciably different than the non-guest-profile, but a little better. But still getting smoked by Edge and Chrome, which are still around 5 or 6 seconds, and both have many more extensions (including the same password manager).
My Vivaldi version is Version 93.0.4577.83 (Official Build) (64-bit)
My specs are VMWare Workstation x64-based 64 bit VM, 4 processors, 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz, with GPU (but I have hardware acceleration turned off because it causes other Vivaldi problems, but when I turn it on to test this it doesn't make a difference). I have 8GB RAM installed.
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@sgolux
Vivaldi is running in a VM, that may cause issues with the virtual or forwarded GPU, Edge and Chrome handle them different.
I guess you cant do anything about but you can test if the GPU is used from the other browser rendering the page to be sure.Cheers, mib
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Thanks @mib2berlin - I did check GPU usage and there is nothing remarkable there. Interestingly, the GPU is not used by hardware acceleration in the browser for either Edge or Chrome on THAT page. They do use it for other pages, mostly ones that are image intensive (like photos.google.com) but not this one. On a page like "photos.google.com", Edge and Chrome are also a LITTLE faster than Vivaldi because I can use hardware acceleration, but the difference is not so much. (It would be great if Vivaldi could fix the hardware acceleration issue with internal dialogs so I could use it). I also would not expect the added help of a GPU to make this kind of 400% difference in rendering speeds. Seems it would have to be something else.
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@sgolux
OK, you can make a bug report, I guess most developer use VM for work, may they can reproduce it.For information on how to report a bug, see this URL: https://vvld.in/how-to-report-bugs
Once that is done, please share the bug number (beginning with VB-). Thanks.
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin - thanks - xref Bug Report VB-83241
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@sgolux
Thank you.
You can ask about the status of your report > https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/27450/what-is-the-status-of-vb-already-reported-bug-issue/
Give the team some time to check, there are thousands of reports for a small team to handle.
Cheers, mib
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