It has a fantastic integrated e-mail application, day-timer/calendar, and address book. The other thing about SeaMonkey that I really like (and miss when not using it) is the extra components that makes up the SeaMonkey “suite”. ![]() ![]() I know the interface is dated and does not have as many bells and whistles as Vivaldi, but I’d rather be able to access web content than see a bunch of eye candy. I can’t remember the last time I had it crash on me and I can open dozens of tabs and not have any performance issues. It has always been fast and very responsive, as well as stable. SeaMonkey, however, is just the opposite. Vivaldi is just the best of the Chromium browsers that I’ve experienced. It’s not just Vivaldi that gives my system performance issues like this, but any web browsers based on Chromium perform terribly on my system. It doesn’t happen often, but there are certain web sites out there that caused Vivaldi to do this on me. Now that the polling is over and the post is gone, the Community feed shows up just fine. But Vivaldi didn’t like it and would crash. I could view the Community feed with other browsers (I tried Firefox and SeaMonkey) and it was fine. From what I could deduce, it was the pictured used in the poll posted by Vivaldi regarding tab use. Last week, for what ever reason, there was a graphic element on the Community news feed that would bring up the dead canary screen. But this isn’t the only issue I’ve had with Vivaldi, it also crashes on me under certain circumstances, usually proceeded by the appearance of the “dead canary” screen. If I go over that, then suddenly the hard drive access light starts to flickering and then goes into “overdrive” again until I can close a tab or two. I also have performance problems with Vivaldi when I have too many tabs open that being more than six or seven open at one time. I then have to either attempt to interrupt the activity and forcefully shutdown the browser, or simply power off the laptop and reboot. It uses up more resources as the days go on until it reaches a point where it sends the system’s hard drive into access overload, spinning away and slowing everything down to a crawl. ![]() I keep upgrading Vivaldi to the latest release, but no matter what I do, it just gets too slow on my system after several hours (over a few days) of web browsing. But, as it is, it’s just too “heavy” of an application for my aging T61 Lenovo laptop. It will remain as my second choice for web browsing. The innovations they’ve made are truly ground-breaking. team have done a fantastic job molding their browser into what it is. Now, I’m not saying that Vivaldi isn’t good – it is. It’s the web browser that just can’t be beat for performance, stability, and compatibility at least for me and my computing needs. I really, really tried… I tried several times… I tried so very hard to stick with Vivaldi, but I must go back to SeaMonkey for my everyday web browsing.
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