Is there a lite version that doesn't include Mail, Calendar and other unnecessary features to be light on resources?

Imadev

Vivaldi also consumes a lot of resources like Chrome. If I can disable features, I only need the sidebar.

Pesala

@Imadev If you disable the productivity features in Settings, General, Mail, Calendar, and Feeds will not consume any resources.

Like all Chromium browsers, each new tab opens a new process, so don't open a load of tabs. Use saved sessions or bookmarks for tabs that you wish to read later.

MattEclipsed

Not outside of the Essentials and Classic setups you can select during onboarding. You can get those settings again by going to vivaldi://welcome/. You can also disable things in settings.

DoctorG

@Imadev The version without any features is called Chromium. And i think, you do not like it.

For the next years as i know, there is no extra "plain browser" version planned by Vivaldi devs.

Imadev

Thanks everyone.
I have already selected the Classic version, but for example right now I am running one tab which is the Start Page and Vivaldi is using 1.10GB of memory, the question is why so much for a single tab?
I have another browser which is a fork of Firefox and I have 7 tabs open and only uses 480MB.
And yes I don't like Chromium.

DoctorG

@Imadev said in Is there a lite version that doesn't include Mail, Calendar and other unnecessary features to be light on resources?:

I have another browser which is a fork of Firefox and I have 7 tabs open and only uses 480MB.

Same with Vivaldi 5.5: 440 MB on Win 10 22H2.

I am running one tab which is the Start Page and Vivaldi is using 1.10GB

Any extensions in Vivaldi cause use of extra RAM as they run in a own process.
You can check which part cost so much RAM with internal Task manager (open with Shift Esc)

DoctorG

@Imadev Welcome in our Vivaldi Community

Enjoy browsing with Vivaldi.

Some useful links for you:

Imadev

@DoctorG yes I know, I have the same extensions on the other browser. And as you know, there are necessary extensions, especially for a developer like me
Thanks anyway.

Ayespy

@Imadev In case it got lost in the shuffle, mail, calendar, RSS etc. consume exactly zero resources if they are not activated and used.

In order to be Vivaldi (the very-configurable browser), this browser has to employ an additional UI layer, which does consume some resources. There is really no way around that. Plus, of course, being a Chromium-related browser, it fires up a new process for every tab and every extension. No way around that, either.

Of course there is no version that does not consume completely necessary resources, and there is no Mozilla, Presto or pure webkit version of Vivaldi. Sorry.