Bookmark icons slow to display in 1.15+
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Ah, I missed that thread! Clearly it wasn't already fixed 4 months ago, and you're right it's in 2.0 (and 2.1 beta).
For my main browser, a couple weeks ago I declared "Favicons bankruptcy" and simply deleted the file (though I made a copy of it for testing on snapshots). It wasn't worth putting up with this. Sure, it took a couple days for favicons of my most-visited sites to fill back out, but with my Favicons file at 2.2MB in size now (down from 47MB--I see yours was 63MB!), I won't have to worry about this problem for a very long time.
Last I heard, they couldn't reproduce it internally, despite my stressing the need for a large Favicons file, so I don't think this one's getting fixed. I haven't found that a large History file is needed.
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Just to add that this is the same issue I have on 2.0.1309.37 (Stable channel) (64-bit).
In Chrome it looks like this: http://cld.wthms.co/ZxoIDe
In Vivaldi: http://cld.wthms.co/84BlvDTried everything mentioned in the thread, but there is no way to force favicons to show.
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@djeticsokolic That's something else -- did you mean to post in another thread?
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@rseiler said in Bookmark icons slow to display in 1.15:
For my main browser, a couple weeks ago I declared "Favicons bankruptcy" and simply deleted the file (though I made a copy of it for testing on snapshots). It wasn't worth putting up with this. Sure, it took a couple days for favicons of my most-visited sites to fill back out, but with my Favicons file at 2.2MB in size now (down from 47MB--I see yours was 63MB!), I won't have to worry about this problem for a very long time.
So, a bit over a month later, Favicons has crested 5MB...and I can now begin to see some slowdown. This proves @pafflick 's theory above that it's a gradual change as the file size increased, getting worse and worse, as opposed to a magic figure.
Also still testing in 2.1 on the side with the old large Favicons. No change there.
Update: Continues along in 2.1.1337.47.
Update 2: Also present in 2.2.
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By way of a tip to make routinely deleting Favicons less painful, here's what I've come to do: within a few days of deleting it, you'll likely have visited the sites you visit most, which means that the most important things will have their icons re-downloaded.
At that point, back-up Favicons so that you can use it next time rather than starting Favicons from nothing. It won't even be 1MB at that point, so will be at a size where there's no impact on speed. Every month or so, swap it back in.
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Also there in 2.3.
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Of course, 2.4.
Got to come up with a more creative way of updating this thread for 2.5. I'll think on it.
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Latest 2.9.1699.4 x64 snapshot - the problem still persist.
The history sidebar and the history page show favicons very slow as well. My History file is 39.3 MB in size and Favicons file is 31.8. I tried to delete Favicons file but after that the favicons still were being drawn with the delay around 0.5 second, despite all of them was a generic blank icon.
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Though it does bring up a good movies point why it's being called that in the build itself. I'm pretty sure it didn't used to do that. It certainly would be clearer if it didn't.
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I don't notice particular slowdowns on latest snaps but:
- Most folders are collapsed and only few of them are expanded
- The PC has good performance (balanced on ram/cpu/gpu)
Bookmarks
file is around 3.862 KB (quite small)- Vivaldi standalone is on SSD
Favicons
file is 34.176 KB
History page - on the other side - is slower and the file size is 66.400 KB even if it lack of most favicons.
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@Hadden89 A Favicons file of that size is way below the threshold where you'd see the problem. Perhaps you deleted it extremely recently and started over? Or maybe this a Vivaldi that's your second or third (or just test) browser and not one you normally use much? Because a file that size is not realistic after even a day or two of normal browsing.
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@rseiler I checked just now.
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VivaldiSnap (which is my main vivaldi) >
34.368 KB
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I don't have icons in history, so it is probably corrupted (renamed the old one to see if the new one grows). -
VivaldiStable (which I rarely use) >
61.408 KB
Icons displayed in history -
VivaldiTest (latest snapshot, testing purposes) >
40.480 KB
Icons displayed in history
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The problem continues in 3.0.
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@Gwen-Dragon Thanks. It's been a long time since I checked in on this problem (I workaround it by copying in a small favicons file every night), but I just tested with a normal one against the latest snapshot, and it's still a problem.
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