Focus on performance?
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In your video, as far as I can see, the interface response is exactly as low as mine. It’s like I’m opening and closing tabs myself. This is in line with my claim that lags are reproducible on a wide range of hardware and software configurations.
And it would be still bearable if there was not such a heavy load on the CPU due to which all interface control is blocked - both at the moment of opening/closing, and also for several milliseconds, or even seconds after that.
As a result, if I want to close a tab and immediately open a new one, the interface after clicking on the close button does not respond to the open button. Mouse gestures are poorly recognized. And so on and so forth.
This is especially true because I have been using Vivaldi since the first TP and I remember how fast it was. On my home PC, I have 1.2, and I'm used to how fast it works, but when I switch to my work computer, where the latest snapshots are installed... More and more often I have to use Chrome.
I found the specific version of Vivaldi that this regression came with. It would be nice if the developers looked at the history of the code repository, what was changed, and figured out if it is possible to raise performance to previous speeds in new versions.
I know that they have a small team and there is not enough time for everything, so I am ready to help find out more precisely - at the level of snapshot versions, if they provide links so that I can download them. Now links to old snapshots, which are indicated in the blog, do not work.
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@obiwan1
Ok, I cant remember how much faster 1.x was but for me 3.5 is fast enough especially I am working with 20 tabs or less.
If I find some time I may test on Chrome to compare.Cheers, mib
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https://yadi.sk/i/NuIxOLkn8wZ_7w
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I first open a new tab. I have to wait a few seconds before the browser interface somehow starts to react, all this time it does not respond to any actions.
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Then I close the tab. Again, I have to wait a few seconds for the browser interface to respond.
I am very upset by the developers' indifference to browser optimization issues. Over the past few months, performance from version to version has been dropping before our eyes. Previously, the brakes were on 150+ tabs, now, as you can see from the video, it brakes very strongly on only 80 tabs. The performance has dropped so much that I can no longer use Vivaldi and have to switch to another browser. I hope to see you in the future.
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@obiwan1 said in Focus on performance?:
I am very upset by the developers' indifference to browser optimization issues.
You are very upset over a value that does not exist. Developers' concern over browser optimization, which continues apace, cannot see your system or your use habits, and hence cannot perceive what is troubling you, despite that they are continually concernt with browser optimization.
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@Ayespy But I've been writing bugreports and on this forum topic for quite some time. In full detail, system specifications and with screencasts. I also offered my help in identifying the main source of the performance drop, I was even ready to run debug versions, if they were provided to me, and collect logs. But there is no reaction to my messages.
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@obiwan1 I fear you mistake overwhelm with indifference. There are a tiny team of developers, and even smaller team of "debug" developers, and tens of thousands of bugs to address. You consider yours the absolute most important. Thousands of over users consider theirs the most important. Whom shall the developers ignore in order to address and support others? However, at all times and in all situations, the developers consider browser optimization as a primary value.
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@Ayespy No, I do not require a bugfix, you are mistaken here. I generally cannot demand anything from the development team, I, on my own initiative, use a browser that is distributed free of charge.
I am disappointed that there is no reaction to my research, even the kind "oh, that's interesting." I am essentially offering free help to your little team - but it turns out that I am talking to myself.
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@obiwan1 Would you like to specify the ID numbers of the bugs you have submitted? I'd be happy to update you on the status of any/all of them.
If, on the other hand, you are commenting here and not submitting bug reports, then this is not reaching the development team.
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@Ayespy I've already been answered here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/409536. Statuses are not needed, thanks. But I don’t know how to get an answer from the developers, whether they need my help at all or am I wasting both mine and your time. I would be grateful if you could tell me how can i find out this.
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@obiwan1 I appreciate your effort as I experience exactly same because I am tab hoarder. Same issue of slow UI and loading CPU on Mac and Windows. My system was usable until 3.4, on 3.5 I first noticed higher CPU load and on 3.6 freezing UI, 3.7 changed nothing, hope for fix in 3.8 otherwise I will downgrade.
The biggest change between builds I think is version of Chromium, so it might not be because of Vivaldi it self.
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