Solved Trying to understand Vivaldi RAM usage
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BTW, I came across this interesting article, comparing RAM usage of browsers. So at least in theory it should be possible for Chromium based browsers to reduce memory usage. Vivaldi wasn't mentioned though. Actually, now that I think of it, the introduction of Portals in Vivaldi 6.2, was also supposed to reduce RAM usage, so it's not just theoretical.
https://cloudzy.com/blog/which-browsers-use-the-least-memory/
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-2/ -
Another interesting thing that I noticed is that two companies are currently developing two completely new browser engines. I assume they will mostly focus on speed, but hopefully also on reducing RAM usage. Perhaps Vivaldi will one day be able to switch from Chromium/Blink, who knows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(web_browser)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_(web_browser) (macOS) -
BTW, what about this stuff? Will Vivaldi also join this, and perhaps they wil also be able to make changes to Chromium? Because currently, mostly Google and Microsoft are running the show of course.
https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-chromium-based.html
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@RasheedHolland Ars Technica had an article on this too. I couldn't decide on where would be a could place to mention it here so I didn't
Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera agree on something—supporting Chromium
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@lfisk said in Trying to understand Vivaldi RAM usage:
@RasheedHolland Ars Technica had an article on this too. I couldn't decide on where would be a could place to mention it here so I didn't
Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera agree on something—supporting Chromium
Yes thanks, it's probably also because Google is scared that they will have to sell Chrome to some other company. So now they make it seem that they aren't the only ones in control. Would be cool if Vivaldi would also be able to make certain changes to Chromium.
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@RasheedHolland Opera is in the #2 and it is bad also... I know because I use both Vivaldi (multiple profiles).. and I use one Opera browser as my chat browswer.. it is where i have discord, whatsapp, usually use youtube.. and various other small things.. like running a speed test.. and it grows to several GB quickly.. I have Auto Tab Discard installed so that it freezes most tabs when I don't use them.. yet still over a day or 2 it will sometimes grow to use up maybe up to 3.something GB.
The solution then is to close and reopen Opera.. then it shrinks down to about 1GB .. and the process starts again. I have to do this because I'm on a severely RAM limited laptop (16GB).. as 32GB on ultrabooks wasn't common in january 2021 when I bought it.
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There is a Memory Saver setting in Vivaldi.
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chrome://settingsin the browser, select Performance and the setting is under Memory. It explains what the setting does and there are three options for the setting:- Moderate
- Balanced (recommended)
- Maximum
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@edwardp said in Trying to understand Vivaldi RAM usage:
There is a Memory Saver setting in Vivaldi.
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chrome://settingsin the browser, select Performance and the setting is under Memory. It explains what the setting does and there are three options for the setting:- Moderate
- Balanced (recommended)
- Maximum
Yes, but it doesn't seem to work correctly, I believe a bugreport has already been made.
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@dalinar said in Trying to understand Vivaldi RAM usage:
@RasheedHolland Opera is in the #2 and it is bad also... I know because I use both Vivaldi (multiple profiles).. and I use one Opera browser as my chat browswer.. it is where i have discord, whatsapp, usually use youtube.. and various other small things.. like running a speed test.. and it grows to several GB quickly.. I have Auto Tab Discard installed so that it freezes most tabs when I don't use them.. yet still over a day or 2 it will sometimes grow to use up maybe up to 3.something GB.
The solution then is to close and reopen Opera.. then it shrinks down to about 1GB .. and the process starts again. I have to do this because I'm on a severely RAM limited laptop (16GB).. as 32GB on ultrabooks wasn't common in january 2021 when I bought it.
Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a Chromium thing, but browsers running on top should still be able to tweak RAM usage. Of course if you have a PC with 16GB RAM, then it's not a major issue, but with 8GB it's getting annoying.
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@dalinar said in Trying to understand Vivaldi RAM usage:
Opera is in the #2 and it is bad also... I know because I use both Vivaldi (multiple profiles).. and I use one Opera browser as my chat browswer.. it is where i have discord, whatsapp, usually use youtube.. and various other small things.. like running a speed test.. and it grows to several GB quickly..
BTW, I've just rebooted Win 10 and launched Vivaldi, 260 tabs are active, I activated 5 tabs so the other 255 are hibernated. I noticed that these 5 tabs use about 500MB RAM and in the Windows Task Manager I can see that Vivaldi is already using using 1GB RAM.
So isn't this quite high, or do the hibernated tabs also use memory? And I suppose it also depends on the how heavy those website exactly are? For example, this website (see link) at first used 220MB and now it's down to 160MB, I wonder what's up with that.
