Painfully-slow download speeds
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I also would like some help with this. I have tested a guest window and it downloads really quickly. Something about my profile makes the downloads slow to a crawl. I don't really want to toggle every possible option.
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Well, after restarting, download speeds are now fast again. This issue had been happening for months, I don't know how restarting my browser fixed it.
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Never mind, the issue is back out of seemingly nowhere. This issue still doesn't happen in a guest window, leading me to wonder what the problem is exactly.
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@karmillious Something on your system is messing with Vivaldi, or something in your Vivaldi profile is seriously broken, maybe you've installed an extension that broke stuff or some antivirus/security software on your system is making this happen.
I asked a lot of questions above to the user, please read through them and ask yourself what might be the cause on your system.
And go through all the troubleshooting steps.
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I think I figured out what it is. In "vivaldi://settings", changing the "safe browsing" setting from standard to off worked for me.
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@karmillious Never mind, every time I think it works, some other site still has the slow downloads. I can't nail down any consistent pattern to why it happens. Could be because of too many bookmarks? I don't know. There are so many difference to test between a guest and user profile.
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Okay not really a fix, but disabling ads and trackers fixed it for one specific website, but I have another device that works just fine with ads and trackers enabled on the same site. I still don't have any fixes, but these may be two possible fixes.
Edit: after re-enabling ads and trackers, it still works now. I have now idea how or why.
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After almost two months, I finally figured out what the problem was. It was my cookies. After going through every setting between a fresh profile and mine, I didn't have any other choice but to reset the settings in "chrome:settings" under the advanced tab. I made a backup of my entire folder (just in case it didn't work), and as soon as it finished clearing my settings, all my pending downloads were finished. I tried every download that I had issues with, and they all worked. I hoped that the problem had been fixed, and I copied my old cookies file back into the new folder, and my download issue was back. Each download would stop at 0 bytes per second before completing. I could go through my cookies and try to find the problem, but with 4690 cookies from 3 years of use, I'm likely to just start over. I just wanted to post what finally worked for me.
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Edit: Do not attempt to re-add anything to your profile directory; it took me two hours to fix what I messed up. I'm not sure that it was actually the cookies, even after deleting all of them, it still didn't work. I had reset the Chrome settings again.
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I had the same problem with the download speed, it took about 2 minutes to download 1.5mb of a 137mb file. I paused the Vivaldi download and used Opera and downloaded the same file in about 20 / 30 seconds - I went back and used Vivaldi and still had the same speed issue. I resolved the problem after a few minutes by flushing the DNS (ipconfig /flushdns) and now it works everytime, same speed as what I was getting on the other browser.
Have a good Christmas.
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