High Temperature
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Team Vivaldi, please fix this issue. I'm using the M1 MacBook pro and last several days Vivaldi reach high temperature [50 or more] if you play video or multiple tabs. I tasted other browsers like chrome but they reach 38-42 where Vivaldi easily reach 50+. I think the issue started after the latest update hope you guys fix it soon.
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Yeah, my MacBook pro (non-M1 chip) is also heating too much. It used to get hot while using chrome but now it is extreme. Also, I have just 40 tabs open and vivaldi is using 2.1 GB of RAM. That's horrendous given that they claim to help us manage 100+ tabs but if they would require such extreme ram then I guess I am better off without it.
I am a chrome user for years and switched to vivaldi just today after getting impressed by the tab-tiling, extreme customization, custom key-bindings and Blocking trackers and ads but if it will heat up system and consume such HORRENDOUS ram in even 40 tabs then I guess it's not worth it. In chrome, I have opened around 150 tabs and keep 70-80 tabs open constantly everyday but never got this much heating or ram usage. I guess I should have just waited for around an year or two to switch to vivaldi.
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I've been using this browser for over a year now but I haven't had any problems before but especially since the last update the heating issue seems to be a bit more.
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How do you "taste" a browser? Why do you need so many tabs?
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@streptococcus One reason is testing of a website or software or there are doing other testing or research.
Vivaldi 4.2 (based on Chromium 93) will be out in the next few weeks
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Vivaldi 4.2 is out
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This is a long unfixed issue with Vivaldi. Chrome, Firefox and Safari don't heat up my M1 MacBook Air like Vivaldi does.
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File a bug report with reliable steps-to-reproduce for any issue that you are experiencing. The Vivaldi developers do not actively follow these forums. However, if you file a bug report that can be confirmed by any of the internal testers, the issue will get investigated. If you can get the issue to reproduce with a clean installation, or in a Guest window without any active extensions, that will increase the chances of the bug getting confirmed internally and also make it easier for developers to identify the root cause and fix it Unreported bugs will never get fixed.
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What about this site?
For a long time (a year? two years?), this site has made my Macs heat up, both with Vivaldi and Chrome. I have to use Safari or Firefox to view this site.
The heating up happens with a clean, fresh installation of Vivaldi, without extensions or customizations.
If anybody here can confirm, if there is no easy workaround, and if it's not a known issue, I'll submit a report.
I'm sure that the site is designed poorly and so I'm not blaming Vivaldi or Chrome. It's just a fact that it heats up my Macs and I just want to fix it.
At the same time, I'd like to find per-site settings for this particular site to prevent the heating up.
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Why do you need so many tabs?
is not a good question. if wants to have 200+ tabs he should be able to do it (system allowing of course).
if upstream chromium based projects do not have excessive cpu / ram usages then something that vivaldi has modified or pulled in from upstream changes that are effected by such modified changes should be addressed.
as a daily vivaldi user for over a year now, this is something i've noticed ie. the excessive cpu temps which causes excessive fan speed and noise. it'd be nice to pinpoint what is causing this issue ie. a
git bisect
or at least find a version of vivaldi that doesn't have these issues.i guess i'll have download archived versions of the browser that don't cause cpu spikes.
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the excessive cpu usage ie. resulting in higher temps than normal is something i've been noticing as of late (as well). FWIW with vivaldi open my cpu temp is ~ 150ºF min to about 160ºF and my fans are constantly spinning around 6000 ie. 6K rpm.
i'm thankful that my i system at least has quality sunon fans inside of it. because the fans typically idle around 2K (ie. the fans always spin in a 2013 late macbook pro).
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