Vivaldi 1.10 Released (vivaldi.com) 61
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.
After all that time! (Score:5, Funny)
>Vivaldi Released
He must have been in prison for a long time
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Why do people post unfunny crap like this, desperately trying to be witty and amusing?
To test the sense of humour of anonymous cowards.
I'll be back... (Score:2)
Then he made a career change and was a famous decomposer.
But I think he's long since retired from even that by now.
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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.
He was a fan of the dynamics of climate science, he was always for seasons.
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I thought it was witty and amusing... but then, I'm easily entertained.
Unfortunately, even this low level of humor is rarely available here.
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While I support your attempts to promote Dadaism, you need to work on execution and targets.
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Thank you for extremely bad advice? Not likely.
Nice to have a browser with a different approach (Score:2)
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It's a nice browser. But what's their revenue model?
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Does anyone you know actually think that's clever?
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"the browser’s business model will be the standard affiliate-deal affair" from https://gigaom.com/2015/01/27/... [gigaom.com]
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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I actually did look before claiming anything. Seems you have a pretty "special" definition of "speed indicator".
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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 unders
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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 cho
Impressive browser (Score:1)
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..
Crap linux support (Score:2, Informative)
64-bit only rpm or deb. Why not just tarball it like oh i dunno opera used to do.
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Wait until they jump on the container bandwagon
"making the Start Page more personal..." (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Amen, my brother. "Start pages" can just die already.
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Same here.
Basically a simple page of frequently viewed sites, grouped by subject matter. A few RSS feeds as well.
Why bother going to /. when the /. RSS feed says that the're nothing that would interest me.
I used to use iGoogle for it. But since that no longer exists, http://www.protopage.com/ [protopage.com] makes a fine replacement.
New features: (Score:2)
Vivaldi is not what Opera used to be (Score:5, Insightful)
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)
Re:Vivaldi is not what Opera used to be (Score:4, Insightful)
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Re: Vivaldi is not what Opera used to be (Score:3)
Opera still exists. It has been usable since 23. It kinda sucked, when they first made the transition.
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In name only. The real opera stopped at 12.something. The new Opera is just a skin over chrome and has nothing to do with the old Opera (appart from the name). The real successor to Opera 12 is Vivaldi, not the new Opera.
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I don't know what version you tried last, but I recently moved over from Opera 12.x after using both in parallel for a while. The only major thing I find is that the bookmark functionality is not really good, but "Neater Bookmarks" fixed that for me.
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Try the "Neater Bookmarks" Chrome addon. Not quite back to Opera 12.x but close enough for me.
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I don't know when they added that, but this currently works.