Vivaldi Browser

hartgeh3

hartgeh3

hartgeh3

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Hi people,

was just watching BBC Click and saw a thing about this new browser called Vivaldi, thought I would download and give it a try. Seems superfast and smooth on my Mac so just getting used to it.

https://vivaldi.com/

Seems a lot faster than Firefox and Safari (with extentions) to me.
 
Seems like a pretty pointless browser tbh.

He already failed at Opera and this will make it less inroads that what that did.

Also funny how they decided to use things such as React to build a web browser which effectively have built a HTML browser to render HTML inside, nice one.

Just use chrome as all the plugins that Vivaldi ships with are readily available on the chrome app store.
 
Asking for this every time with no explanation or no reason I can see is a big reason to delete it as far as I'm concerned.

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I could be wrong but I read somewhere that Vivaldi is based on Chromium, the open source version of Chrome. If Vivaldi want's to save your passwords, etc then it'll use Chrome storage.
 
The Chrome developers are extremely arrogant and need some healthy competition to keep them even mildly honest.
 
Go and have a look at the official Chrome support forums or the Chrome bug tracker. Many many issues that are closed with "will not fix" or "this is by design".

Examples for me would include:

- That little menu in the top right with your name on it -- I will never use that and never wanted it, but there is no way to disable it. It is not part of any OS (Windows or Mac) standard, and (I find) very distracting.

- Whenever Chrome is running, a PC will not suspend -- this has been a known issue for probably 15-20 versions (i.e. more than a couple of years), and they don't fix it. This decision alone has cost the planet probably many hundreds of millions of dollars in wasted energy.

There are lots of other little things like this. The thing is, it's a fantastic browser, but over the years as they become more and more entrenched, the decisions they make are less and less "ideal" and they care far less about the users. This is a general reflection on Google, and not just specifically on Chrome.

Anything that competes with Google is worth nurturing, in my opinion.
 
Doesn't properly work me on El Capitan. Opened up, gone to settings, changed search from bing to google, the infamous "Vivaldi wants to use your confidential..." pops up, pressing any "Allow" button doesn't make the menu go away - you can only deny. If it happens while settings menu is opened and you just leave the warning menu open, the pages will start timing out.
 
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