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I really tried to like Vivaldi, and it could be a good browser, but is so unbearably slow. The whole UI is unresponsive. Opening a new tab can take almost a sec

by rplnt 5y ago

I really tried to like Vivaldi, and it could be a good browser, but is so unbearably slow. The whole UI is unresponsive. Opening a new tab can take almost a second. Price for javascript apps I guess. edit for clarification: This was on OSX, on Windows it was OK. Used it for almost a year as a secondary browser, no change, gave up.

andai 5y ago
Do you have an older machine, or is it even slow on new machines? I tried Vivaldi last year on my computer which is about ten years old now. Vivaldi was extremely sluggish (Chrome and Firefox still run fine), I was hoping to come back to it once I upgrade my computer.
- rplnt 5y ago
  It was a relatively new hw, MB Pro 2017. No issues with other browsers.
- hulitu 5y ago
  My experience with an 10 years old computer with win 7 is that firefox is slow and vivaldi is faster. I don't use chrome. On Android vivaldi is much faster than firefox.
zaphirplane 5y ago
Is it based on electron. - drum roll - :)
- neolog 5y ago
  That just means it's based on chromium, which makes sense for a browser.
  - pantulis 5y ago
    But not that much for a new/mail reader -- even 100% native Mailmate sweats with my 50k message GMail archive. While it may work for casual users, I'm not really that convinced it is the killer feature Vivaldi users are expecting.
- atlemo 5y ago
  No :)
kunagi7 5y ago
After the 3.7 release they've improved UI responsiveness quite dramatically. In my laptop (i5, 8200U), opening a new tab or settings used to take 1 to 2 seconds, but now it hovers around 250~300ms.
dartharva 5y ago
It is indeed bloated. Its main redeeming quality in my opinion was that it was the only chromium-based browser that allowed sideloading extensions freely, but now that's gone too since Chrome and Brave have apparently started allowing it as well.
grishka 5y ago
I found a bug that slowed it down a great deal. It was the fact that they put multiple `filter` styles onto the tabs, even when those filters did nothing useful. It was still extremely taxing on the GPU driver. But, since you can customize the UI with your own CSS (there's a hidden setting you need to enable first, in vivaldi://experiments), I put a simple `* {filter: none !important}` in there. After I did, it felt as if I bought a new computer. The fun part? They still haven't acknowledged it. Even after I gave them the exact steps to fix it.
- IlliOnato 5y ago
  Can you give more details? I can see how to enable custom CSS, but where I go from there? Where to put the custom CSS?
  - grishka 5y ago
    Settings -> Appearance. There will be a section to choose a folder with your custom css files.
    - timothevs 5y ago
      I may be obtuse, but I am not seeing that on Vivaldi 4.0 on the Mac?
      - grishka 5y ago
        https://i.imgur.com/21ueqSf.png https://i.imgur.com/21ueqSf.png in the lower part of the window (I'm too lazy to switch the language sorry). You need to restart it for the checkbox to take effect.
- dagurp 5y ago
  Where did you report it? I'd like to take a look.
  - grishka 5y ago
globular-toast 5y ago
Odd because the one thing I remember about Opera from back in the day was how fast it was. This was back when Firefox was king amongst in-the-know users but IE6 was most popular overall. Opera was so much faster and smoother than everything else.
- rplnt 5y ago
  Opera was fast and stable, especially with more tabs open. Way into the Chrome era too. Too bad Google used it's monopoly to drive other browsers to death. Only Firefox survived really.

by rplnt 5y ago

andai 5y ago

Do you have an older machine, or is it even slow on new machines? I tried Vivaldi last year on my computer which is about ten years old now. Vivaldi was extremely sluggish (Chrome and Firefox still run fine), I was hoping to come back to it once I upgrade my computer.

rplnt 5y ago
It was a relatively new hw, MB Pro 2017. No issues with other browsers.
hulitu 5y ago
My experience with an 10 years old computer with win 7 is that firefox is slow and vivaldi is faster. I don't use chrome. On Android vivaldi is much faster than firefox.

zaphirplane 5y ago

Is it based on electron. - drum roll - :)

neolog 5y ago
That just means it's based on chromium, which makes sense for a browser.
- pantulis 5y ago
  But not that much for a new/mail reader -- even 100% native Mailmate sweats with my 50k message GMail archive. While it may work for casual users, I'm not really that convinced it is the killer feature Vivaldi users are expecting.
atlemo 5y ago
No :)

kunagi7 5y ago

After the 3.7 release they've improved UI responsiveness quite dramatically. In my laptop (i5, 8200U), opening a new tab or settings used to take 1 to 2 seconds, but now it hovers around 250~300ms.

dartharva 5y ago

It is indeed bloated. Its main redeeming quality in my opinion was that it was the only chromium-based browser that allowed sideloading extensions freely, but now that's gone too since Chrome and Brave have apparently started allowing it as well.

grishka 5y ago

I found a bug that slowed it down a great deal. It was the fact that they put multiple `filter` styles onto the tabs, even when those filters did nothing useful. It was still extremely taxing on the GPU driver. But, since you can customize the UI with your own CSS (there's a hidden setting you need to enable first, in vivaldi://experiments), I put a simple `* {filter: none !important}` in there. After I did, it felt as if I bought a new computer. The fun part? They still haven't acknowledged it. Even after I gave them the exact steps to fix it.

IlliOnato 5y ago
Can you give more details? I can see how to enable custom CSS, but where I go from there? Where to put the custom CSS?
- grishka 5y ago
  Settings -> Appearance. There will be a section to choose a folder with your custom css files.
  - timothevs 5y ago
    I may be obtuse, but I am not seeing that on Vivaldi 4.0 on the Mac?
    - grishka 5y ago
      https://i.imgur.com/21ueqSf.png https://i.imgur.com/21ueqSf.png in the lower part of the window (I'm too lazy to switch the language sorry). You need to restart it for the checkbox to take effect.
dagurp 5y ago
Where did you report it? I'd like to take a look.
- grishka 5y ago

globular-toast 5y ago

Odd because the one thing I remember about Opera from back in the day was how fast it was. This was back when Firefox was king amongst in-the-know users but IE6 was most popular overall. Opera was so much faster and smoother than everything else.

rplnt 5y ago
Opera was fast and stable, especially with more tabs open. Way into the Chrome era too. Too bad Google used it's monopoly to drive other browsers to death. Only Firefox survived really.