Vivaldi 6.4 feels less snappy?
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OMG, I knew it was too good to be true. It seems because of downgrading to Viv 6.2, now my saved passwords are all gone. So I will now have to import them again.
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@RasheedHolland Downgrades to a lower major Chromium core version cause broken data.
Downgrades are not advised by Vivaldi team.If you need to import password data now from a CSV file, do delete the
Login Datafile first, otherwise logins can not be retrieved correctly. -
@DoctorG said in Vivaldi 6.4 feels less snappy?:
@RasheedHolland Downgrades to a lower major Chromium core version cause broken data.
Downgrades are not advised by Vivaldi team.If you need to import password data now from a CSV file, do delete the
Login Datafile first, otherwise logins can not be retrieved correctly.Yes, it seems that Vivaldi does indeed malfunctions now. For example, it doesn't always responds to my bookmark nicknames. It also doesn't offer to save passwords, eventhough it's turned on. I do see the Login Data file, it's 46KB big, how come? I have a feeling I might have to reinstall Vivaldi all over again, what a waste of time, and what a nightmare. Don't forget, this all started because Vivaldi 6.4 totally sucks when it comes to performance. Vivaldi 6.2 seems to work just fine. What's going on with the Vivaldi development team?
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@RasheedHolland Sad for you, that 6.4 broke and caused you so much bad performance and trouble.
The Login data fiel is a SQLite database which contains URLs, login names and passwords in different tables.
If you have some time, sorry, check sqlitebrowser.org which has a program to inspect such database. But that will not repair the broken passwords. -
@DoctorG said in Vivaldi 6.4 feels less snappy?:
@RasheedHolland Sad for you, that 6.4 broke and caused you so much bad performance and trouble.
The Login data fiel is a SQLite database which contains URLs, login names and passwords in different tables.
If you have some time, sorry, check sqlitebrowser.org which has a program to inspect such database. But that will not repair the broken passwords.Thanks for the feedback, and looks like I got lucky again. I upgraded from 6.2 to the newest 6.4 and everything works again. Hopefully performance will also be better, but I doubt it. But at least bookmark nicknames and my passwords work again.
But small tip to all, Login Data should not be removed, it's best NOT to advice this, but first let people try to upgrade again. Otherwise I would have had a big problem, especially because I just noticed I couldn't remember my password from my encryption app, so my Vivaldi's password database would have been lost.
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@RasheedHolland said in Vivaldi 6.4 feels less snappy?:
But small tip to all, Login Data should not be removed, it's best NOT to advice this, but first let people try to upgrade again.
It is advised to backup important data before such up-/downgrade experiments.
And i did not know you wanted to upgrade again to 6.4. May be a misunderstanding on my side.Now, you had luck and all went onto a good trail. Vivaldi 6.4 works; Congrats.
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@DoctorG said in Vivaldi 6.4 feels less snappy?:
@RasheedHolland said in Vivaldi 6.4 feels less snappy?:
But small tip to all, Login Data should not be removed, it's best NOT to advice this, but first let people try to upgrade again.
It is advised to backup important data before such up-/downgrade experiments.
And i did not know you wanted to upgrade again to 6.4. May be a misunderstanding on my side.Now, you had luck and all went onto a good trail. Vivaldi 6.4 works; Congrats.
Yes, I see what you mean. But I had no choice but to upgrade to Viv 6.4 again, since having to do a complete reinstall would take me at least one hour. I do see it's a newer version of 6.4, so hopefully they have tweaked performance a bit.
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I'm afraid this newest Viv 6.4 version has barely improved performance, but the worst thing is that when I close it, it keeps hanging in memory. So then I have to kill it via Process Explorer. So far it hasn't resulted in any data corruption, luckily. But I never had such a problem before, so something is wrong with Viv 6.4 for sure. And I hate Chromium for not allowing me to downgrade without any problems, I call this bad design.
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And of course, thanks to everyone for the up votes, so I'm clearly not the only one. So it's not just my own system.
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BTW, does anyone else have this problem with Viv 6.4 keep hanging in memory when you close it? I believe I didn't have this problem with Viv 6.2, and this is with the exact same extensions.
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I can't gauge more//less snappy but.....
I can say for sure that Vivaldi is a heavy CPU user, sometimes causing freezes in Vivaldi or other open apps
I can also say that when working in Vivaldi calendar, when calendar is Google, there are slowdowns but a developer is working on this already -
@janrif said in Vivaldi 6.4 feels less snappy?:
I can't gauge more//less snappy but.....
I can say for sure that Vivaldi is a heavy CPU user, sometimes causing freezes in Vivaldi or other open apps
I can also say that when working in Vivaldi calendar, when calendar is Google, there are slowdowns but a developer is working on this alreadyIt's a bit heavy on CPU but I don't get any major freezing of Vivaldi or other apps, so your problem sounds even worse. And I don't use the mail and calendar feature, to be honest I think this might be one of the reasons that Vivaldi is becoming slow and bloated, they should have focused on the browser and not added this nonsense.
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@dmiller9 Just out of curiosity, can you list your PC's specs? I'm curious to see what kind of specs you're talking about and what is used in that industry.
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@MoosMas said in Vivaldi 6.4 feels less snappy?:
@dmiller9 Just out of curiosity, can you list your PC's specs? I'm curious to see what kind of specs you're talking about and what is used in that industry.
Do you mean my PC specs? I don't think this is of importance, because we have already established that people with all kind of PC hardware are having problems with performance degradation and Vivaldi hanging in memory on close. But I use a Lenovo 14 inch laptop with Intel Core i5 (10th gen), 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. With Intel UHD Graphics, so I don't use the built-in Nvidia GPU.
