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    We will be doing maintenance work on Vivaldi Translate on the 11th of May starting at 03:00 (UTC) (see the time in your time zone).
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    Vivaldi running HOT = 72+C!!

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    • sdrocker
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      sdrocker
      last edited by

      I've noticed that with the latest Vivaldi update, my fan is constantly spinning up and my CPU runs extremely hot!! In the 72+C range and when I close Vivaldi, my system returns to 'normal'.! I can no longer use Vivaldi because of this. No other apps cause this problem.

      System Info:
      Vivaldi 6.2.3105.54 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)
      Revision b9b836a2297cb528225715d5226c02d69e88b0a1
      OS Linux
      JavaScript V8 11.6.189.22
      User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
      Command Line /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --new-window --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --desktop-startup-id=gnome-shell/Vivaldi/66821-6-manjaro_TIME274558531 --origin-trial-disabled-features=WebGPU --save-page-as-mhtml
      Executable Path /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi
      Profile Path /home/sdrocker/.config/vivaldi/Default
      Variations Seed Type Null

      This is from neofetch:

      OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
      Host: Q525UAR 1.0
      Kernel: 6.1.53-1-MANJARO
      Uptime: 3 days, 4 hours, 29 mins
      Packages: 2233 (pacman), 102 (flatpak)
      Shell: zsh 5.9
      Resolution: 1920x1080
      DE: GNOME 44.4
      WM: Mutter
      WM Theme: CustomAccentColors
      Theme: Adwaita-maia-compact [GTK2/3]
      Icons: ePapirus-Dark [GTK2/3]
      Terminal: gnome-terminal
      CPU: Intel i7-8550U (8) @ 4.000GHz
      GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620
      Memory: 8638MiB / 15879MiB

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      • styglis
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        styglis
        last edited by

        I don't use LinuxOS. But perhaps https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/401268/cpu-overheating-on-linux-but-not-on-windows-while-doing-the-same-things#401374 could help, especially if the overheating problem only happens on Linux. The first answer talks about installing an application through the terminal, which was able to fix overheating problems for some devices.

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        • sdrocker
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          sdrocker
          last edited by

          Thanks for the reply but it ONLY happens with Vivaldi and I have been using Linux with Vivaldi for well over a year now. It just started happening with the most recent version of Vivaldi. I am using the latest version from the Manjaro Official repository since there is no Flatpack version available at this time.

          Of note:

          I am a heavy user of Workspaces (10) and have at least 3 tabs per Workspace.

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          • styglis
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            styglis
            last edited by

            If you downgraded the version temporarily and submitted it as a bug, would that help?

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            • sdrocker
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              sdrocker
              last edited by

              What I found out:

              When I switch to a new Vivaldi User Profile the CPU does not run hot and there is no issue! So, it seems to be an issue related to my main Vivaldi User Profile, extensions, workspaces, number of tabs, or something else (for that specific profile)!

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              • styglis
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                styglis
                last edited by styglis

                I'm glad to see you found a way to fix it. For some reason, having a lot of tabs open can cause excessive use of RAM in a browser. So, maybe that was why the overheating happened. Sometimes, extensions can mess things up too because they're not always coded to be efficient for the CPU.

                You can hibernate background tabs in Vivaldi, which is supposed to help out with CPU usage, so if you tried that on your main account, perhaps that could also help the overheating.

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                • sdrocker
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                  sdrocker
                  last edited by

                  I restarted Vivaldi with all extensions disabled and the issue is still present. I thought Tabs were hibernated by default until you clicked on the tab to activate it? I will look to see how to hibernate tabs now...

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                  • mib3berlin
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                    mib3berlin @sdrocker
                    last edited by mib3berlin

                    @sdrocker
                    Hi, check if lazy loading is enabled:

                    552488bf-a90e-46b6-a2f5-f34fb68db4fb-image.png

                    I have all these settings disabled and my laptop is silent and use 0-1% CPU.
                    Check the internal task manager if a tab cause this, you can open it with Shift+Esc.

                    You can add a shortcut to hibernate inactive workspaces:

                    vivaldi://settings/keyboard/ > Workspaces:

                    a1efe44b-e900-4edc-be26-3c166d00f768-image.png

                    Enable memory saver:
                    Open chrome://settings/performance and enable it.

                    With a chromium flag you can enable a time setting for the memory saver:

                    vivaldi://flags/#memory-saver-multi-state-mode

                    Cheers, mib

                    Opensuse Tumbleweed x86_64 KDE 5, Windows 11 Pro, Vivaldi latest
                    HP Probook Intel(R) i5-8350U 16 GB, GPU UHD 620, SSD 256 GB
                    Miniforum-B550 AMD Ryzen 7 4700G 16 GB, Radeon Graphics
                    Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite Android 12

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                      prr
                      last edited by

                      I had a constant 50% CPU usage. Fixed with disabling the feeds. Not great but saved me 45% CPU usage (from 50 to 5).

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                      • sdrocker
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                        sdrocker
                        last edited by

                        Well, I created a new user profile and everything is running fine again. I did have some RSS feeds setup on my old profile which I don't have on my new profile...

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                          ferdiG
                          last edited by

                          @sdrocker I was suffering from high CPU usage and sluggish performance as well and what helped for me was to delete old browsing history. Since then the browser is running smoothly again.

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                            vaultdwellerbg13
                            last edited by

                            Thank you so much, I was having the exact same issue and I never would have guessed that the RSS feeds were the cause, but after stopping them, all is back to normal.

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                              ogaro
                              last edited by

                              This worked for me. Now I have to find out which feed is the culprit!

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                              • DoctorG
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                                DoctorG Soprano
                                last edited by

                                Happens for some users, not for all, that is strange.


                                💡 Is always a good idea to check in Vivaldi Mail, Calendar of Feed causes such high usage.
                                For a test disabling step by step can catch the culprit.

                                _bug hunter · Volunteer helper · Sopranos tester · Language DE,EN · ♀👵
                                Known old dragon lady: Gwen aka Dr. Gwen Agon aka GwenDragon aka DoctorGTesting


                                Linux Debian 12 KDE X11 / Windows 11 Pro
                                Intel i5-7400 / NVidia GT 710

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