Bookmarks Slow Load v4.3.2439.56
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I'm running Vivaldi v4.3.2439.56 on Windows 10 Pro 20Hz in a Dell XPS 8910 desktop with Intel i7-6700, 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD with 679 GB of free space. Cache and browser history cleared.
I've been experiencing this issue since I installed Vivaldi v4.1.2369.21 a couple months ago in August and migrated my Firefox bookmarks to Vivaldi. The computer works fine, sfc verifyonly shows it's fine and the bookmarks all look and work fine in Firefox and Vivaldi.
Upon opening Vivaldi, bookmarks are very slow to load and the browser is unusable until the load is complete. I don't have this issue with any other browser, including Firefox.
The Firefox browser opens complete with bookmarks in 2 seconds - acceptable speed. Vivaldi opens complete with bookmarks in 16 seconds - geologic speed.
The problem seems to be in Vivaldi and not my system.
Please advise.
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@bretman How many bookmarks do you have in Vivaldi now?
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60k+, same as with FF.
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@bretman Vivaldi with the current database setup is able to load probably 2-3K bookmarks (more than 99.9% of users have) in a second or two, but not 60K+. that will actually slow almost every operation down that requires addressing the bookmarks database.
Firefox is probably no faster with bookmarks, but is written so as to fire everything else up quickly while dealing with bookmarks in the background.
To deal with a bookmarks database the size of the Pacific Ocean in seemingly instantaneous fashion would likely require a complete rewrite of bookmarks in Vivaldi altogether. Not trivial. Not a bugfix really, but a redesign.
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Thanks for the reply and explanation. It's disappointing, although may prove useful to the future success of Vivaldi if you're involved with its development.
As a businessman and product developer (not software), my opinion on this is you may get left behind unless Vivaldi resolves this issue. My amount of bookmarks resulted from many years of research on the internet. I think Vivaldi is relatively new and your overall features are attractive when compared to the competition. If Vivaldi continues to provide an superior product it will not only grow in the number of users but existing users won't switch. If they don't switch, over the years they too will have as many or more bookmarks as I do and they are a valuable database of resource information.
Once loaded, I don't notice any lag. I open and close Vivaldi often to clear it in between uses throughout the day for security reasons. Working to get Vivaldi to open at least as fast as the competition will help it grow in the market and keep its existing users as well over time.
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@bretman I've been using the internet as my chief base of operations for my career since the 90's. I'm closer to 70 than to 65. Depending on the install, I have between 750 and 1500 bookmarks. This has been the case forever, and will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future. Don't make the mistake of assuming that a "majority" of internet users are like you. Like I said, 99.9% of users cannot come anywhere near matching your staggering number of bookmarks.
That said, a large number of bookmarks, 3 or 4 years ago, made Vivaldi nearly unusable. The devs have made great strides in that department, optimizing code, etc. They have a continual focus on continued optimization, so I suspect this can only get better.
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@bretman You should report that issue to Vivaldi bug tracker to let developers investigate improvement of performance.
Please read Help us to reproduce the issue carefully and then report bug to Vivaldi tracker. -
Good idea DoctorG. Done.
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