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Vivaldi 1.10 Released (vivaldi.com)
Releasing Vivaldi 1.10, we give you the power for making the Start Page more personal than ever before. You're the one who gets to decide how your Start Page looks, feels and performs. We've also added the much-requested ability to dock the Developer Tools.
Other new features and improvements include:
-Sorting of Downloads in the Side Panel by name, size, date added and date finished, as well as manually.
-Toggle image visibility from the View menu or via configurable keyboard shortcut.
-Quick Commands improvements for users that like to control everything in their browser from their keyboard. The Quick Commands menu lets users navigate to tabs, find search terms, filter lists of available commands and much more.
-Address Bar dropdown list can now exclude bookmarks and typed history.
-Controlling new tabs via third-party extensions with additional functionality, such as productivity tools or reminders.
>Vivaldi Released
He must have been in prison for a long time
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One thing I like about Vivaldi is it breaths fresh air not only into the browser community but it's approach to user interface and add-on architecture in general. Vivaldi is so far the fastest browser I've used and....not google data mining nonsense like I find with Chrome. Let's hope it's user base increases. We all win when we have more alternatives.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
I've had Vivaldi for a while now, and I'm a big fan. It seems to be one of the few browsers actually trying something new, has some great features, a nice interface and isn't too heavy (it's not a lite browser, but it's not an awful resource hog). I've never had any stability problems either - I'd definitely recommend it if you want something a bit more flexible than the standard browsers..
That no one ever attends unless you are over the age of 90. Hey, Opera had a good run, but they really need to just stop trying and dump all of their dev effort into making Webkit better. Because even Firefox and Edge are likely to give up and switch to Webkit eventually.
It's a nice browser. But what's their revenue model?
This is just Chrome - Onion Edition.
Vivaldi was a famous composer 1703-1741.
Then he made a career change and was a famous decomposer.
But I think he's long since retired from even that by now.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
64-bit only rpm or deb. Why not just tarball it like oh i dunno opera used to do.
Making the start page more personal? Is that what I need my web browser to improve upon? My start page is about:blank and it loads very, very fast. I really don't need any improvements there.
It's just a nonfree Chromium fork with GUI tweaks...
Now with FIVE seasons.
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First, Vivaldi is just a skin on top of Chrome's engine, not a browser of its own right. They did manage to replicate some of Opera's unique features, just not the ones that count. I don't use Opera because I like to write notes on webpages or use sidepanels, I use Opera because it allowes me to set script/plugin/cookie/ad blocking on a per-site basis without the need of a dozen bloated extensions written in shitty JS.
Vivaldi, on the other hand, is an entire browser written in shitty JS, and it shows. It's buggy and unresponsive, and while some of it may be due to being "early access" software (they did fix the close button for example), I suspect most of the problems are architectural.
Now there are some nice features like keybindings, the costumiseable UI and they even managed to get tab stacking sort of working now.
But at the end of the day Vivaldi is not what Opera used to be.
(written on Opera 12.17)
Vivaldi still isn't as useful, nor customizable as Opera 6. Though we might have to say Opera 9/10 if we include the horrid tab-stack implementation.
Does anyone you know actually think that's clever?
Vivaldi is missing basic, important functionality like a transfer speed indicator in the download sidebar. That is simply inexcusable.
No, it's golden.
fair enough, but Opera has been purchased by a Chinese company. :-(
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Unusable frivolity that. Too bad fresh air Vivaldi browser stings like a a swarm of Africanized honeybees. Common functions are just "thrown against the wall" ... nothing sticks where you expect it.
So, I see the change log still doesn't contain the words "crash less".
I tried out Vivaldi as a replacement for Firefox, but it crashed more than Firefox (apparently that is possible). After a month, I went back to Firefox.
With Mozilla killing Firefox with from version 56 by ending support for extensions, I'm looking for an alternative. Unfortunately, Vivaldi is still lacking key features, most notably a bookmarks menu.
I'd also much rather Vivaldi used my GTK theme instead of applying its own, rather ugly, theme.
The more I think about it the more I like the idea that it is some foreign government spying on me with my browser instead of the NSA.
"His name was James Damore."
Hope that they finally add feature that keeps your tabs saved when you close browser and reopens tabs when you reopen browser (aka. shutdown/reboot computer).
That's ONLY feature that I miss on Vivaldi that Chrome had.
Thank you for extremely bad advice? Not likely.
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I finally switched over to Vivaldi from Opera 12.x after finding "Neater Bookmarks". While not perfect at this time, Vivaldi is very usable, stable and fast. All other browsers I tried are worse IMO, although I keep FF around for the few pages that do not work with Vivaldi. Lately I found that these often do not work with FF too and usually not even with IE.
Sure, Vivaldi is not mainstream, and those that are desperately afraid to be seen using anything not in the mainstream will deride it without any understanding what they are talking about. But that is about the only drawback I can see.
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"the browser’s business model will be the standard affiliate-deal affair" from https://gigaom.com/2015/01/27/...
Their team is small and hence they do not need much revenue.
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For pages, I actually find that quite nice. It reduces my stress-levels. For file-downloads it does of course have a speed and progress indicator.
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Hear, hear.
I've used it as my primary browser for about a year now, on the Snapshot branch so that I can help weed out bugs. Still has a LOT left to be desired -- it's not fully mature yet and those looking for a mature browser will be disappointed. But for my purposes, it far exceeds every other browser out right now.
My favorite thing from the Opera days were the tabs on the side -- and no FF's tab tree wasn't the same thing. That along with their general approach to customizability makes it an easy choice for me these days. STILL waiting on Sync support though, that's the last big one that's left me wanting. Mobile app to go along with sync would be perfection.
For file-downloads it does of course have a speed and progress indicator.
Nope. The only thing it has is a progress bar and an estimated time to finish. No speed indicator whatsoever.
I have used Vivaldi and periodically try out newer versions. Maybe you should do the same before you start making false statements.
I actually did look before claiming anything. Seems you have a pretty "special" definition of "speed indicator".
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Yes, because kb/sec is such an unusual definition of speed indicator, despite the fact that all other browsers and FTP/SFTP clients display it. In fact *any* reference to data transfer speed in any program always means bytes/kilobytes/megabytes/etc per second.
Either you are on crack or you're too embarrassed by your lack of technical knowledge to admit that you're wrong, junior.