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Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta (vivaldi.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Following well over 50 developer snapshots and 4 technical previews (Alpha), the new browser upstart has hit its first Beta release today. Following almost a year of work on alpha, Vivaldi is coming out with many unique features such as tab stacking and tiling, notes, and quick commands for navigating and feature use. Other features are in the works, such as sync and built-in mail client that will be introduced when they hit a more stable state. It's a refreshing take on the browser: as many others are diverging to a common design template, Vivaldi is taking a more feature-rich and customization-heavy approach. (We linked to a hands-on report about Vivaldi earlier this year, too.)
Me too. My notes on Mac:
- Bing is default search engine.
- The colored bar at the top changes from red to orange to blue to ??? (who wrote this, the Melnorme?)
- Videos loaded and ran automatically (Booooo!)
- Asked to use my Chrome Keychain upon connect.
- Integrates with Google Phishing/Malware and Safe Browsing interfaces
- Do not track is off by default
- There's some kind of "Vivaldi Mail" sidebar ("coming soon") - do not want
- There's some kind of notetaking facility (independent of current page) built in - for what purpose I do not know
- The bookmarks were prepopulated with US-based (and New York / San Francisco centric) items
Adding the following:
- Huge memory footprint, on par with Chrome. This is the #1 issue I have with most modern browsers and Chrome is by far the worst offender. I understand RAM is fairly cheap, but fuck, 2 GB RAM occupied with 4 tabs (GMail, Forge of Empires, Google.com main page and Slashdot) achieves full retard status.
- Bookmark import works, but creates a sub-folder in the Bookmarks Bar / Imported Bookmarks rather than the expected behavior of asking whether prepopulated bookmarks should be replaced.
- You can't move multiple bookmark folders to the bookmark bar although you can select multiple folders (it only moves them one by one).
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Privacy policy? https://vivaldi.com/privacy... What exactly are you looking for?
Adblocker? I am currently running Vivaldi with Adguard Adblocker, although many others are available. It runs chrome extensions, so.... yeah.
Just load the unpacked Opera or Chrome/Chromium extensions of your choice. The extensions that I've tried have all worked.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."