CPU hog !
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Periodically -about every 5 minutes- Vivaldi hogs my CPU to 100%, 8 cores @ 2.2 Ghz. All extensions switched off. I believe that this is not acceptable.
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Terminate the browser process, then go to c:\Users[your name]\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default and delete both files with name "Top sites". Idk why but sometimes they do this to the CPU.
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Thanks.
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That leaves you with one other possibility - what is your antivirus, if you use any? Shortly after I posted my previous post in this topic I discovered that certain AVs don't get along with Vivaldi - like Avira, for instance. So you have to remove either one - the browser or the AV. I chose to remove the AV.
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That's not how it works. Software does not make itself compatible with AVs. That would be impossible. No software can be designed around AV definitions and behaviors. Rather, AVs make themselves compatible with valid software. They design their definitions and behaviors to not interfere with desired machine and software operation - at least they try to, with varying levels of success. Lazy and underfunded AV companies don't keep up with the changing environment of computing, and screw up new-to-market applications because they failed to inform themselves that they existed, and failed to test with them.
I always would, and have in the past, drop an AV like a hot potato if it messed with the normal operation of my machine and the software I wanted to run. I can think of one right off the top of my head that I jettisoned in the blink of an eye when it blocked the normal functioning of new accounting software I was installing. You cause my stuff to act up, you're gone off my machine.
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what is your antivirus, if you use any?
I use the native Windows Defender, together with Malwarebytes antimalware premium.
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