6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions
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@mib2berlin
Hi, for 6 months and forum.vivaldi.net it shows 12k entries.
But I think it is not right to use the domain to count entries. The history is here to find a page you once visited and you have to remember a part of the title or URL to use it.
Yes, I am sure the database is fast enough. According to the forum, the address bar auto complete problem is about multiple searches running in parallel when typing, and a developer is working on it.But sorry, I did not really want to discuss that, as here is zero problems with the history, it was just a thought about avoiding duplicates of titles/URLs to reduce the DB size.
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The same history I have on MacOS, so waiting for a fix.
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@TbGbe said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
@BenziJunior said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
A new snapshot was released today,
You mean a Stable update!
Still waiting for Snapshot
Oh right my bad I was rather hasty and didn't read our own press release right.
I was just really keen to get feedback on the changes we are making, there are a lot of moving parts in this project.@bariton said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
@mib2berlin
Hi, for 6 months and forum.vivaldi.net it shows 12k entries.
But I think it is not right to use the domain to count entries. The history is here to find a page you once visited and you have to remember a part of the title or URL to use it.
Yes, I am sure the database is fast enough. According to the forum, the address bar auto complete problem is about multiple searches running in parallel when typing, and a developer is working on it.But sorry, I did not really want to discuss that, as here is zero problems with the history, it was just a thought about avoiding duplicates of titles/URLs to reduce the DB size.
We have the multiple queries queueing up already fixed and that is coming in the next release, we still have problems with individual searches being to slow, although significant progress in that area.
Sadly I was unable to get my work ready in time to make it into the our upcoming release, they should be in the first snapshot after that and barring some catastrophic regression being found when being found in testing, it should be coming in the next release after this one.
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After finally upgrading to 6.7, I can confirm autocomplete searches are back to what they should be.
Thank you to the devs who made the fix.
And a very petty "I told you so!" to the commenters who insisted there's no way to expect a years-long browser history to perform well. (You know who you are.)
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@BenziJunior said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
I'm unable to reproduce the issue with my test DB, as I'm seeing the history page load in seconds. I have some ideas as to what could be happening and will get back to you with some further questions and suggestions.
Is there any solution to fix the problem?
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@Isorkin
I'm sorry the idea I had didn't pan out, (and I've forgotten what it was) and I haven't had time to do a deeper dive due to more pressing issues.
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@BenziJunior said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
@Isorkin
I'm sorry the idea I had didn't pan out, (and I've forgotten what it was) and I haven't had time to do a deeper dive due to more pressing issues.
I'm starting to investigate it's performance now, and talking with some collegues about improvements.My multi-year history used to bog down at times after making substantial changes - such as deleting scores of redundant entries from a particular site on a particular day - until it had a chance to "catch up" or reload following those changes. Now it exhibits similar delays whenever the browser is restarted.
I'm far from an expert in such things, but wonder if Vivaldi may be "recompiling" the full history file at start-up in ways that did not occur with prior versions. Just a thought.
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@dem1
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@BenziJunior said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
This agrees with my testing, so I'm investigating this exact avenue.
Is there any progress? How can I check it?
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@Isorkin said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
@BenziJunior said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
This agrees with my testing, so I'm investigating this exact avenue.
Is there any progress? How can I check it?
No progress except I found there are at least 3 distinct performance issues causing problems on the history page.
I was reasigned to take over other responsibilities from a collegue so this ended up on the back burner, and since the issue seems to be with the frontend I'm having someone else take over these tasks. -
@BenziJunior said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
No progress except I found there are at least 3 distinct performance issues causing problems on the history page.
I was reasigned to take over other responsibilities from a collegue so this ended up on the back burner, and since the issue seems to be with the frontend I'm having someone else take over these tasks.That's a shame. Probably have to go back to the old version.
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@Isorkin One of my collegues picked up where I left off and has made great progress.
I believe there is still more improvements in the works which is why I didn't flag it as soon as we released.
But since we've been getting feedback from other users in similar situation as I, I reccommend you check out the latest release and check the History page.@daniel said in Autofill Settings – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3405.3:
Changelog updated with VB-97258, VB-106316, VB-107532, VB-107605, VB-106403, and VB-107117. They fell out of the changelog somewhere along the publishing process. Sorry about that!
@ugly said in Autofill Settings – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3405.3:
The history fixes seem to be working for me.
I have a massive history file (approximately 1.1GB). I don't think I've ever deleted my history.
For the past year (unsure exactly how long), my history wouldn't show anything past one day. If I took my history file, and used it in an older version of Vivaldi, I could see my old history, and I could see that my history was still being saved in the newer versions of Vivaldi. So history was being saved, but not displayed.
I haven't checked it in a while, but since this snapshot mentioned a history fix, I took a look. In my history tab, I can see it slowly populating. And seemed to do so without freezing the browser or anything else. Now it seems like it goes back to 2018.
One minor interface issue is that when I click on a date, it shows the history will show a blank page with the date plus the total number of views, but doesn't list the actual pages. But it's just collapsed, and clicking on the heading reveals the pages in the history. It's fine, but a bit unintuitive. I didn't realize at first that it was a collapsed heading and just assumed either that the data was populating, or nothing was showing.
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@BenziJunior said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
@Isorkin One of my collegues picked up where I left off and has made great progress.
I believe there is still more improvements in the works which is why I didn't flag it as soon as we released.
But since we've been getting feedback from other users in similar situation as I, I reccommend you check out the latest release and check the History page.Thank you, the story loads faster now - about 4-5 minutes.
Can we add an option to not group similar events?
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@BenziJunior in version 6.9, new events are not added after opening the history. They appear only after restarting the browser.
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Clarification: a new event is not added after deleting any any entry in the history.
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@Isorkin
I could not reproduce the issue, the history page keeps up to date even after deleting entries.
Please fill out https://vivaldi.com/is/bugreport/ to give us more details as there may be other factors at play (e.g. what platform you are on). -
@Isorkin
Hi, I can reproduce it on Opensuse Linux.For information on how to report a bug, see this URL: https://vvld.in/how-to-report-bugs
Once that is done, please share the bug number (beginning with VB-).
Add your vivaldi.net username. Thanks.
On the form, you can add your email address. Once submitted, you'll get a confirmation. You can reply to this with any logs or further info.Cheers, mib
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@BenziJunior said in 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions:
I could not reproduce the issue, the history page keeps up to date even after deleting entries.
Please fill out https://vivaldi.com/is/bugreport/ to give us more details as there may be other factors at play (e.g. what platform you are on).Opened bug-report - VB-109171
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@Isorkin
Thank you for the report, confirmed.Cheers, mib
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Perhaps add a parameter to not group the same events in the history? So that all events are arranged by the time the page was opened?
