Vivaldi performance - lack of RAM

 

• Hello, i would like to use Vivaldi as the prime browser, but there is little hitch. I use three web browsers incl. Firefox. Usually i have opened two of them at once. My laptop is not the newest one, i have 32-bit W7, 4GB (in real 3GB) of RAM. Until the moment i tried the Vivaldi, my avarage usage of RAM was 2,20-2,50 GB RAM. But when i have opened Firefox together with finished Vivaldi (incl. all extensions), the RAM goes to the absolute peak and i get in a minute Windows warning pop-up windows about lack acute of performance (i have never see it on my laptop!).

  In Vivaldi i use same extensions as in my Firefox. BUT the combination of Vivaldi and Firefox running at once seems to be non-functional - because of the Vivaldi. Vivaldi obviously takes more RAM and disabling my laptop, so i need to close Vivaldi. I also had to restart my laptop once..

  Well, this is a problem - i hoped that Vivaldi is lightweighted, RAM friendly and older computer friendly! But it seems it is not, and on the contrary it is heavy RAM consuming.

  Is there any solution? Will Vivaldi team work on it, please?

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  Ayespy  MODERATOR 20:58, 20 thg 3, 2020   @xtech
  
  

  @xtech Nothing full of extensions will be light weight. I use Vivaldi by itself, not with another browser, on a rig essentially identical to yours, 15 years old, with the exception that mine also has the (in testing only) M3 email client integrated into it. I do not run out of RAM unless I run several other programs at the same time. Of course I upgraded it to Win10, so it manages resources better than Win7.

  I also run that same version of Vivaldi on a 17-year-old 32-bit Win7 desktop tower that is maxed out at 2GB of RAM. (of course being ancient like that, it's slow as molasses in winter) That rig also does not run out of RAM - but again, I don't run a lot of apps side-by side.

  But all Chromium-based browsers are memory-hungry, especially with a bunch of extensions. Vivaldi team cannot make the Chromium engine efficient. I don't use extensions for that reason and for security reasons. Therefore, I am able to run Vivaldi on my rig, problem-free. Unfortunately, of you are going to use a Chromium-based browser with several extensions, plus another browser at the same time, you are just going to have to upgrade your hardware.

  I WILL say this - Google has managed to make Chromium 81 more efficient than Chromium 80. My internal test version uses less resources than Stable or Snapshot Vivaldi. So perhaps there is that to look forward to.