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Re:Opera Neon concept browser by V-2 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @09:35AM (#13382456)
I used Vivaldi for a couple of months. Plenty of goodness, and one major showstopper: it's slow. It's so very sluggish and slow. Something as trivial as tearing a tab off a window would take several seconds. Switching between tabs was laggy as well, once there were many. Every other browser felt blazingly fast after that. That's a pity since this type of issues usually indicates some deeper design problems that won't be easily fixable.
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by emptyfile on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:18PM (#13386209)
Yes opening a new window is at least 3x slower than Chrome and tearing off a tab is like... a 2 sec delay.

But honestly I have no problems with "regular" browsing.

The features are good enough to live with the slowdown, as others have said Vivaldi can never be as fast as Chrome.

Re:Opera Neon concept browser by febed on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:03PM (#13383928)
Yep, this is exactly my experience with Vivaldi. The feature set is really good, but I wish the performance was as good as Chrome.
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by StavrosK on Thursday January 12, 2017 @09:36AM (#13382470)
Really? I'm on Vivaldi right now and everything is instant. I'm using it over Firefox just because how much faster it is. It's as fast as Chrome for me.
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by pawadu on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:21AM (#13382849)
Vivaldi does not feel as fast as the old opera.

On some pages browsing would slow down to a halt while CPU usage would spike to 100%.

Re:Opera Neon concept browser by StavrosK on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:03PM (#13399944)
Nothing feels as fast as the old Opera :(
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by Mithaldu on Thursday January 12, 2017 @01:47PM (#13384942)
Vivaldi is a layer of Javascript on top of a cut-down chrome. You're right. It can't ever be faster than Chrome, nor really fast, for that matter.