Vivaldi Browser Adds a Pause Button For the Internet (pcmag.com) 34
It can be hard to tear yourself away from the never-ending stream of content provided by the internet, so Vivaldi decided to make taking a break easier by introducing a pause button. PCMag reports: Version 3.3 of the Vivaldi browser introduces a new feature called "Break Mode." Rather than having to close your browser, Break Mode allows you to effectively pause your access to the internet with a button press. Once installed, Vivaldi 3.3 displays a pause button on the status bar. When pressed, Break Mode is engaged, which "mutes and stops HTML5 audio and videos, hides all tabs, panels, and other content leaving the screen clean." It's also possible to trigger Break Mode with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + "." and to activate it via the browser's Quick Commands.
The Vivaldi team sees it as a way of allowing you to "interact with the physical world" while at the same time not having to remember which tabs you had open or what you were viewing when you're ready to return. Pressing the pause button again resumes access just as you left it. Break Mode also acts as a very simple and quick way to hide what you were doing on the internet, which could come in very handy seeing as we're spending so much more time at home together. Other new features include more options for customizing themes as well as adding a new "Private" theme, highlighting base domains to help identify malicious web pages, easier cropping of URLs in the address bar making it easier to visit different parts of a website, and enhancements to the built-in tracker and ad blocker allowing whole pages to be easily blocked.
The Vivaldi team sees it as a way of allowing you to "interact with the physical world" while at the same time not having to remember which tabs you had open or what you were viewing when you're ready to return. Pressing the pause button again resumes access just as you left it. Break Mode also acts as a very simple and quick way to hide what you were doing on the internet, which could come in very handy seeing as we're spending so much more time at home together. Other new features include more options for customizing themes as well as adding a new "Private" theme, highlighting base domains to help identify malicious web pages, easier cropping of URLs in the address bar making it easier to visit different parts of a website, and enhancements to the built-in tracker and ad blocker allowing whole pages to be easily blocked.
And this is new? (Score:4, Interesting)
Okay, so a one-button pausing of all content is conceptually nice, but how often do you actually have content actually playing in more than one tab?
For everything else, it sounds pretty similar to the "minimize" button already present on pretty much every (GUI) browser, ever.
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Re: And this is new? (Score:3)
"Can I get this but just for a single webpage? After the page quickly loads the text I want to read I would love to just stop loading the videos, ads, etc"
Ublock Origin and the various one button Javashit togglers take care of most of these annoyances.
I've noticed that more and more sites are requiring Javashit to be turned on even to just read text because they know users turn off Javashit in order to not be abused. And the abuse keeps getting worse than worse.
What are we up to in average PR PAGE size now?
Re: And this is new? (Score:2)
"getting worse than worse."
worse and worse
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Yeah, but you gotta admit the other has a bit of charm.
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I've noticed that more and more sites are requiring Javashit to be turned on even to just read text because they know users turn off Javashit in order to not be abused. And the abuse keeps getting worse than worse.
Exactly. I run Ublock but then the page doesnt work at all. So then I have to customize ublock for this specific webpage to get it to work right. Which would be ok if I went to the same sites every day except I am usually reading stories from google news which links to some random news website. A simple make whatever has been rendered static now button would be a wonderful thing.
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"Okay, so a one-button pausing of all content is conceptually nice, but how often do you actually have content actually playing in more than one tab?"
4 times a year. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.
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I see that classical music jokes are not appreciated here.
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I appreciated it.
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Thanks, your uid shows that you're even older than me. :-)
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"I appreciated it."
BTW I came by chance to this video, seems like there's still hope for the young.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
I'm gonna be disappointed, if it doesn't use the P (Score:1)
The most underrated key on the keyboard.
And I don't mean the multimedia key.
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Ah, the even-more estranged cousin of the already mythical prtscrn (puts your screen into pasteable clipboard) and scroll lock (physically wired to my keyboard's backlight because it's a giant LED apparently, making use of excel somewhat tedious)
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That sounds like a one horrific keyboard you're using.
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I suspect the problem there would be that people that actually need such a button probably use a "device" rather than a proper computer that would have a severely cut down keyboard.
And pause/break button is usually among the first to go.
alt+f4, and ctrl+shit+T? (Score:2)
So conceptually it's quite different to what I'm proposing here, but in terms of end effect how is this any different from simply closing the browser and on next session hitting ctrl+shit+T to reopen previous tabs? On Chrome this will open all your previous tabs, and auto playing videos will start where they left off...
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The shit key is the one I try to avoid using.
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>on next session hitting ctrl+shit+T
The shit key is the one I try to avoid using.
I mash it whenever I can't find the "any" key.
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>and auto playing videos will start where they left off...
That part seems to be site-dependent on Firefox - perhaps Chrome specifically does it for all videos on all sites.
So (Score:3, Funny)
World Domination! (Score:2)
Wait... this only works on my browser! That's just false advertising!
I do this all the time (Score:2)
using killall -9 chrome
The next time I start it up, it asks to restore the tabs that were open.
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Folks, there is a difference between Pause and Cancel. I work with multiple tens of tabs, it does take a while to restore whole session.
OTOH, if switching away from computer, I toggle it into Sleep with the physical dedicated switch button, or closing lid of the notebook. Whole device stops, and gets quiet. Therefore I do NOT see any use for this button, sorry.
chrome based "continue where you left off" (Score:2)
Extension/scripting (Score:2)
This feels something that could be configured in an extension or script. It's not something I'd use too much compared to Opera 12's session saver. In that feature, I could either resume where I left off, along with having additional sessions saved if desired.
But as a side note, Vivaldi's inspector (the thing that allows editing in-page elements) gets confused with the following HTML: <iframe src="http://example.com" style="border:solid; width:800px; height:600px"></iframe> - no elements within t
Pause JS (Score:2)
I'd like to be able to pause scripts without the page becoming completely dysfunctional (unable to copy text, images etc).
The code to stop scripts is there already but it only gets offered up when the browser decides the page is unresponsive / script is taking too long.
Or... (Score:2)
...you could just be an adult, and turn it off.
THX for that (Score:2)
Pause JavaScript? (Score:2)
Does it completely freeze all background scripting nonsense? That sounds like a plus.