We at @Vivaldi continue to be the only browser company all in on Mastodon and the Fediverse.We have made our own instance, Vivaldi Social. Any user that has a Vivaldi account for sync or other services, can easily enable a presence on Vivaldi Social.We...

@ajlewis2 @leeloo @unchartedsandbox @Vivaldi

Did you prefetch mails? I think the initial load can be a bit while messages are being fetched and indexed, but that should stop after a short while, depending on the size of your mail accounts. In my case it can take a while, with more than 1 million mails.

We continue to work on reducing the initial load, but it is mostly related to building the database for fast search in your email.

@jon @leeloo @unchartedsandbox @Vivaldi

That was why I removed big accounts. I don't know what prefetching is. I'll look into that, but I'm sure I did not do it.

@ajlewis2 @leeloo @unchartedsandbox @Vivaldi

OK, if you did not enable it, that is fine for now. That will just make it heavier as it then would fetch the full mails and index them and not just the headers.

How many mails are you fetching? What is the spec on your computer? Do you have an old disk maybe?

I am sure we can improve on the indexing. Just trying to understand what the issue is on your computer. Pretty sure it is just a question of time before it finishes the task. There should be progress information in the status bar giving an impression of how things are progressing as well. The initial phase can be a bit heavy, but it should slow down when the initial setup is done.

@jon

I'll get back on this later when I can run it and look at the status bar. Also get the info on how much mail.

I did turn prefetching off which put CPU down to around 100%--not much drop.

I have a pretty new disk.

CPU:
Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled

@ajlewis2

That is a powerful computer. I would wait until it is done. It will be a bit heavy to start with, but it should not take too long. Again, the progress bar should help there.

@jon @ajlewis2 @unchartedsandbox @Vivaldi
An old disk would reduce the CPU load, as the CPU would spend more time waiting for the disk.

@leeloo @ajlewis2 @unchartedsandbox @Vivaldi

True, that can be the case for sure.

@[email protected] @[email protected] that's a new one... Save your CPU! Buy spinning rust LOL

@jon

I have one email on the server. So, not big.

I got my thumbdrive for LinuxMint and started it up. I installed Vivaldi on that and tried Mail with that same mail account. No excess CPU use. Status showed a problem with the database and a disconnect from the mail account. I restarted Vivaldi and the mail ran like a champ.

If you want me to try anything else, I'll be happy to try. But I'm not all that needy of the Mail, so no need to solve this for me right now.

Your interest is really appreciated and the Vivaldi product with tiling has been a game changer for what I can do one of the things I do with my time.

@jon @ajlewis2 @leeloo @unchartedsandbox @Vivaldi just a regular case of a CEO giving direct tech support to users, practically the industry standard

@jon @Vivaldi Jon, I tried Vivaldi a year ago while researching if I could leave MS Outlook 2016 without too much trouble. Vivaldi seemed great at first, with its all-in-one PIM suite- calendar, email, contacts, tasks, etc., but its inability to import my Outlook or Android contacts (vCard collection) was a deal-breaker. Also, the tasks functionality was limited at the time. When I saw the Vivaldi Mastodon panel view, I was excited to place my own Mastodon.GameDev account there, but not possible

@jon @Vivaldi I eventually settled on Thunderbird 115+ and LibreOffice 7.5+

@jay @Vivaldi

Importing from Thunderbird should not be a problem, so that is easier to test right now.

You can add any Mastodon account as a Web panel. We just add ours by default.

@jon I thank you guys for allowing unfetter access to the whole #fediverse and providing a kick-ass instance to go along with the best browser in the known universe*, @Vivaldi!

(*best for me, YMMV :mastowink:)

@jon @Vivaldi - is there a link to explain how the Mastodon web panel works?

@tchambers @Vivaldi

Basically it works like Mastodon on mobile. We include the Vivaldi Social server, but any other server can be added as a Web panel and will work well.