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    • derDayD
      derDay
      last edited by

      I can only talk for me, but it never ever happend, that a single tab could closed by me, because it hang up. Always the whole browser froze so that I have to close and reopen it (not only Vivaldi, also other chrome clones). It's not a pity, because the whole session was re-enabled, but this one-tab-per-process never gave an advantage to me. So happened to me again some days ago.
      Fortunately it doesn't occur very often, that a tab is so jealous to me ๐Ÿ˜‰

      the integrated taskmanager is more helpful for me.

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        WillyYu
        last edited by

        Other investigation of Vivaldi's memory:
        https://github.com/WillyYu/vivaldi_1.9_SoftwareImageDecodeCache
        This investigation is a little old, which based on Vivaldi 1.9.
        But it should be same as latest version, mainly based on Chromium's architecture.

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        • mossmanM
          mossman @derDay
          last edited by

          @derday yes, to me the whole argument about single process being good for crashes is utter rubbish!

          1. it never seems to work with a crash the way Chrome fans say it should

          2. Opera Presto was never crashing anyway, so it's not even an important issue!

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            SuperMecha @Regnas
            last edited by

            @regnas: I'm assuming the tabs automatically hibernate. You should this

            Disable this:
            vivaldi://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding
            Enable this:
            vivaldi://flags/#enable-non-validating-reload-on-normal-reload

            https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/5kq4jm/help_how_can_i_stop_vivaldi_from_hibernating/

            Hope it works ๐Ÿ™‚

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            • RegnasR
              Regnas @SuperMecha
              last edited by

              @supermecha said in How to control memory usage in Vivaldi:

              @regnas: I'm assuming the tabs automatically hibernate. You should this

              Disable this:
              vivaldi://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding
              Enable this:
              vivaldi://flags/#enable-non-validating-reload-on-normal-reload

              https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/5kq4jm/help_how_can_i_stop_vivaldi_from_hibernating/

              Hope it works ๐Ÿ™‚

              I'll give it a go, thank you very much... โœŒ

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              • Chas4C
                Chas4
                last edited by

                Disable Hardware Acceleration it is buggy in Chromium based browsers (it cripples lower power PCs, both the browser & PC). I have seen it on over 60 Windows machines where disabling Hardware Acceleration improved performance and lowered RAM usage.


                Why Open the Web?

                Despite the connecting purpose of the Web, it is not entirely open to all of its users.
                When used correctly, HTML documents can be displayed across platforms and devices.
                However, many devices are excluded access to Web content.

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                • Chas4C
                  Chas4 @helmers
                  last edited by

                  @helmers: I have seen that a lot where the main page is fine but a few of the ads are memory hogs and cause CPU spikes


                  Why Open the Web?

                  Despite the connecting purpose of the Web, it is not entirely open to all of its users.
                  When used correctly, HTML documents can be displayed across platforms and devices.
                  However, many devices are excluded access to Web content.

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                  • CatweazleC
                    Catweazle
                    last edited by

                    Deactivating the Update advisor, which remains resident in memory even with closed Vivaldi can also release some memory on PC with limited resources, although then you have to look manually if there is any update available.

                    >Laptop Lenovo V145 15AST, AMD A9- 9425 Radeon R5 - 5 cores 3,1 GHzย  RAM 8Gb, GPU 2+1 Gb SSD 256Gb -Win10 64 v22H2| Vivaldi last stable|

                    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Vivaldi links๐Ÿ‘ˆ My Themes

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                      acicovic @SuperMecha
                      last edited by

                      @supermecha I cannot find the #enable-non-validating-reload-on-normal-reload flag. Do you know if it's still relevant?
                      Thanks!

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                      • paul1149P
                        paul1149
                        last edited by

                        Do ad blockers lessen the size of the page in Vivaldi, or do they do their filtering after the code is loaded?

                        Current Vivaldi snapshot.. MX-21 Linux x64, KDE desktop. Vivaldi Android on phone.

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                        • luetageL
                          luetage @paul1149
                          last edited by

                          @paul1149 Adblockers block the sources, that means the page that is actually loaded in the browser becomes smaller, but they use resources themselves. If you really want to block efficiently, you should edit your hosts file on operating system level.

                          github โ—Š vfm

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                            GrantJacobs
                            last edited by

                            It'd be great if you could explain precisely what "wonโ€™t use as many resources" in "They will still be readily available when needed, but wonโ€™t use as many resources as your other active tabs." means.

                            For example, does it mean:

                            • remove everything except the URL, page title, and thumbnail image (and perhaps the HTTP header) [i.e. a glorified bookmark]

                            • move everything to a disk cache, leaving in RAM everything except <see previous>

                            or other arrangements.

                            In particular, some of us who have very free RAM or disk (sic) storage, we want things to NOT get cached if weโ€™re not using them.

                            In my case, currently Vivaldi is using up so much disk storage I'm having to consider buying external storage to migrate files off the system so Vivaldi can cope, and I'm not a walking bank :-(Besides, I'm beyond tired of the amount of time I'm having dedicate to managing disk space.) I'm left wondering if this excess usage of disk is due to Vivaldi caching inactive tabs. Whatever it is it eats up many Gbs of storage even under careful use. My impression is that it uses RAM up to some tipping point, at which it starts eating disk storage in a fairly big way. The only remedy I've found so far has been to quit the browser and start over. I'm hoping the Task Manager will help, but looking at the description I can't tell if it's simply moving things to disk or not.

                            Itโ€™s also be useful to explain what "Background page: Vivaldi" is as opposed to "Browser" in Task Manager are. (In my case these are using 380Mb + 290Mb RAM.)

                            It might help if developers kept in mind some users will only have, say, 4Gb RAM, with the OS taking 2+ Gb of it. If web pages and/or Vivaldi get greedy with either RAM or disk storage, the system will thrash. (Probably also not good for the SSD card.)

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                            • ozoratsubasaO
                              ozoratsubasa Moderator @GrantJacobs
                              last edited by

                              @GrantJacobs said in How to control memory usage in Vivaldi:

                              Itโ€™s also be useful to explain what "Background page: Vivaldi" is as opposed to "Browser" in Task Manager are. (In my case these are using 380Mb + 290Mb RAM.)

                              almost 2gb/1,5gb to me >_>

                              t.me/senna889091

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                              • mib2berlinM
                                mib2berlin @ozoratsubasa
                                last edited by

                                @ozoratsubasa
                                This seams very high or you have 100 tabs open. no

                                0_1552105287125_screen_task.jpeg

                                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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                                • lamarcaL
                                  lamarca Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  All modern browsers (with Javascript compilers) work best with a lot of memory.

                                  Volunteer & Tester

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                                    Beholder4096
                                    last edited by

                                    !!! NECRO !!!

                                    Why?? Memory is cheap! I even turned off suspending tabs wnen not used, I like them being on, like I left them.

                                    Please give us tips whether to use ram drive for vivaldi cache (which I do now) or just turn off vivaldi cache altogether.

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                                    • yoandyvm96Y
                                      yoandyvm96 Ambassador
                                      last edited by

                                      1. There's nothing relevant here, thank you for taking your time, but it's the truth.
                                      2. Vivaldi still is the best, although it consumes a lot of RAM, that's not exclusive of Vivaldi. I have 8 GB of RAM and it has never crashed.
                                        The only extension I use is Windscribe VPN and it never brings me any problem.
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                                      • yoandyvm96Y
                                        yoandyvm96 Ambassador @Chas4
                                        last edited by

                                        @chas4: I just did that. We'll see if there's improvement. I don't complain of Vivaldi's performance on my PC, but I always try to make it as smoother as possible.

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