Disabling Tab Hibernation

mackhax0r

I understand the need for this feature especially on systems with low memory. However, all my machines have at least 32GB my current workstation has 64GB. I really don't care if a tab is using a lot of memory. Pages get "reloaded" when I click on the tab that has hibernated. It seems to be happening more and more often and it's extremely annoying.

Is there anyway to disable this?

Komposten

As long as my RAM usage is below 80-90% (not sure of the exact threshold) I never have hibernated tabs (except when I trigger it manually).

mackhax0r

Really? Mine are going on hibernation after like 5 minutes. I started noticing this because when I click on the tab it is a blank background from the vivaldi theme.

I've got plenty of ram

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I'll test this tomorrow on Linux to see if it does the same thing..

Hadden89

@mackhax0r

//EDIT: Flags were removed in latest chromium

Go here:
chrome://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding (probably you need only this).
chrome://flags/#proactive-tab-freeze-and-discard

Set on Disabled
Restart Vivaldi
Hibernation should be gone.

You may be interested in the relative feature request too.

mib2berlin

@IWSBHT
Vivaldi never hibernate tabs for me on 5 different installs Windows/Linux.
Check private window to except extensions or create a new profile to test.
If you can reproduce with a clean profile report a bug.

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Once that is done, please share the bug number (beginning with VB-). Thanks.

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Cheers, mib

Hadden89

@mib2berlin I fear this depends on how (much) tabs are used and if chromium removed the flags - as I saw in the request linked above - Vivaldi could need its option to prevent that (again).

mib2berlin

@Hadden89
Hi, I mostly use 10 - 12 tabs and read them down in a few minutest.
Will test with some 30 or so leaving it for 10 minutes.

Cheers, mib
EDIT: No hibernation at all, Vivaldi processes stored in RAM after 15 minutes. Will check on Windows tomorrow.
Opensuse Tumbleweed x86_64
CPU i7-3520M 8 GB
GPU Intel HD4000
xf86-video-intel 2.99.917-6.1
KDE Plasma 5.59.0-1.1
Vivaldi 2.9.1705.4 (Official Build) snapshot (64-bit)

Dyecks

I have the same problem. And that has made my job difficult. I'm about to leave Vivaldi because of this.

Daktyl

Are you using the 32-bit version of Vivaldi? 32-bit applications can only access 4GB of ram, so even though you have crazy amounts of ram available, if Vivaldi itself is starting to hit it's 4GB limit it will start hibernating tabs. That's why there's people in this thread who have never seen it happen to them, they're probably running 64-bit builds.

mib2berlin

Hi, what @Daktyl mention seams possible, I test today with 40 tabs on:

Windows 10 Pro 64 1903 updated
Vivaldi Snapshot 2.9.1705.30 (Official Build) (64-bit)

No hibernation, running 51 processes at 2.9 GB on a 16 GB system.
May a Vivaldi staff member steps by and can say something about hibernation system in Vivaldi.

Cheers, mib

Jazzef

Before flags removing in chromium, hibernation was work perfectly (i turned off "classic" hibernation of chromium, then installed extension for hibernation (they have a lot more options). After flags removing, hibernation extensions not works, cause classic hibernation of chromium is "back to life".

Hadden89

@Jazzef You mean extensions like great discarder/suspender stopped to work correctly?
I hope to see some chromium/vivaldi change here as I always disliked hibernation - and now seems to be enforced.

@mib2berlin Usually I keep 10 single tabs and usually are not hibernated. But rarely one of them could be.
There are also about 10 webpanels but I'm not totally sure if take in account on the hibernation matter.
The three tab stacks (10-15 tabs each) sometimes are discarded.
8 gb of RAM and 4gb of VRAM (gpu) which I think also count for this feature. On a 64bit build.

Jazzef

@Hadden89 Yep. They trying to work, but chromium thinks with his own mind.

Founded version when flags dissapeared - on chromium 75 (1560.4 version of Vivaldi updated to 75 https://vivaldi.com/ru/blog/snapshots/filter-saved-passwords-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1560-4/).

In 1554.13 version of Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com/ru/blog/snapshots/fix-for-windows-7-black-window-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1554-13/) flag is here:

Hadden89

@Jazzef Probably would be useful to open an issue on their github. Chromium is now enforcing the hibernation but maybe extension developers can add an option to bypass this (can't be sure, but who knows).
By the way, we have a feature request to have such behaviour again in Vivaldi.

Jazzef

Little update.

I tested with latest Vivaldi version (2.9.1705.30) with two extensions:
for disabling "Automatic tab discarding" on chromium 75+ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-automatic-tab-dis/dnhngfnfolbmhgealdpolmhimnoliiok
and for tab controlling (hibernation) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg

100% working. (you need two extensions).

Plus tested with latest Vivaldi version + Disable automate Discarding + Auto tab Discard (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-tab-discard/jhnleheckmknfcgijgkadoemagpecfol) - not works.
"Disable automatic tab Discarding (DatD)" breaks "Auto tab Discard (AtD)". Without DatD, AtD works, but default "Automatic tab discarding" of chromium 75 will be active.

Now we have two working ways (if we wanna have disabled "Automatic tab discarding"):

Use 1560.4 version of Vivaldi (or lesser)
Or use two extensions - "Disable automatic tab Discarding" (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-automatic-tab-dis/dnhngfnfolbmhgealdpolmhimnoliiok) and The great Suspender (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg).

You can test DatD with other hibernating-extensions, maybe they will work (for example, The Great Discarder (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-discarder/jlipbpadkjcklpeiajndiijbeieicbdh)).

P.S
Good helper with testing is vivaldi://discards
It gives a lot info