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>1. Vivaldi is slow.

Vivaldi is not slow. I use Chrome, Firefox and Vivaldi every single day and haven't notice a single hesitation or lag when launching it. Do you have a very slow PC?

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One could argue that if an app in a class of apps is slow on given hardware while others are not, it's slow, particularly for something as basic and essential as a web browser.

One could, but that's not the argument that was being made. I too use Firefox, Chrome, and Vivaldi on a daily basis and one of those three feels slower than the other two due to when UI aspects update, and it's not Vivaldi.

I have noticed Vivaldi consumes vastly more memory and CPU resources.

Last version I tried (5.4 or something), it took >10 seconds to open. I didn't have too many extensions either. My PC is far from slow since Chrome/Brave open in <2 seconds.

The startup time is indeed pretty slow, but otherwise it's fast, which is what matters for me. I restart Vivaldi usually after it got updated, or I reboot my PC, so it doesn't bother me a lot honestly.

Vivaldi is slow compared to Edge.

I forced myself to use it for a week. All the bells and whistles doesn't justify the slow startup time.

Opening a window in Vivaldi takes like 4 seconds. It is soo slow I want evidence of anyone who claims otherwise

I used a crusty decade-old Dell machine, and even that the Firefox runs way faster than Vivaldi.

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