What happend?
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Have been using Vivaldi 2.11 without any problems for years. Just recently the browser started blacking out on youtube and I started having trouble on certain websites when it came to logging in to accounts. Must have been on update on host side.
Naturally I am not a fan of updating my browser, but in this case I accepted the terms of modernity and jumped from 2.11 to 5.3. Now I am noticing an increase in resource usage and my laptop fans spinning to cool down my CPU and GPU. Usually at around this time (summer) and get temps to max 50°C using my browser and surfing und low demanding web pages. Since update I am on 65°C no background tasks running!
Why did you make Vivaldi resource heavy? Just opening the browser already eats up 1.8 GB of RAM.
Also the vivaldi archive doesnt seem to work anymore. All versions from 3.x to 4.x arent installing correctly anymore so I can't revert back!
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Have been using Vivaldi 2.11 without any problems for years.
Of course. If nothing changes, there will be no problems.
Naturally I am not a fan of updating my browser, but in this case I accepted the terms of modernity and jumped from 2.11 to 5.3.
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@FukVivaldi Your profile is most likely trashed. Start from scratch.
Funny thing is, if you jump ship now and switch to another browser, it will work perfectly fine because you will be on a fresh profile. Then you don’t update for years until you do and then run into issues you will blame on the new version, which makes you switch browser. The funny thing is this new browser will work great again, because you are on a fresh profile. You will be so happy that you refuse to update it and promise yourself to never ever update any piece of software again. But about 12 years later you will be forced to update because your computer committed suicide after you got into an argument with it and the browser you’ve grown so accustomed to will be a victim in this tragedy. You go out and buy a new computer and this time you have been smart, you cheated the system and made a backup of your browser just to be sure you can keep it. Only hours later you learn that you have to install the latest version of the browser to keep using it, over your old profile : / But the developers, the bastards! The fancy new trash features they introduced are resource hungry and the browser only loads a page once an hour… Time to switch browser I guess!
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@luetage
What do you mean with:
"Your profile is most likely trashed. Start from scratch."
Complete uninstall?So are you telling me you have no problems with version 5.x on your laptop?
I made sure to keep the download of 2.11. I usually archive most programs just incase.
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@FukVivaldi Yes, the problem is profiles can’t deal with such version jumps. Create a new profile on your current install and see how it works out.
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@FukVivaldi Could you change the title to make it more specific? "What happened?" so vague it tells us nothing. Maybe use "Vivaldi blacking out on youtube".
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@FukVivaldi You can transfer basically all of the critical data (if you have saved any) from your ver. 2 profile to a fresh ver. 5 profile, but the profile structure from ver.2 is not compatible with ver. 5, and no script exists to convert an old profile format to a new one over such a huge version jump.
That said, things like bookmarks and passwords are transferable, so long as you are still the same user on the same machine as you were back then. Bookmarks, history, cookies are even transferable across machines and platforms, but not passwords.
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@Eggcorn
Tried to but it wont let me -
@FukVivaldi said in What happend?:
Have been using Vivaldi 2.11 without any problems for years.
Bad idea! Using an outdated browser is a very good way to get a virus. Keep your browser up to date, unless you want a virus breaking your computer or stealing your credit card information.
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@FukVivaldi , not only virus, with an old outdated browser there are also more and more pages which refuse the access for an outdated browser because of security risks.
At least security updates are very important and since v.2.11 there are a lot of them.
Keep in mind that, especially with the current war that is also present on the network, there are about half a million new malware and spyware on the network every day, trying to take advantage of security holes that devs and webmasters try to close. on the products and pages. No update these are a very bad idea.