Vivaldi seems to have finally won me over
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I have spoken here before about my love of Opera and how I used it from 2004-2017 before leaving it for Chromium. Now, I know they are not the same thing, but there are similarities in the staff base between Opera and Vivaldi, as far as I'm aware.
I always felt that Vivaldi as a browser was great but not 'quite there'. However, this latest version, 2.1.1337.51, seems to have tipped things over the line. The main thing is not only the functionality, which is great, but the appearance. Vivaldi gives the user so many options and so much control, but the new 'Window Background Image' option is a masterstroke - well done to whoever thought of that. The browser now looks beautiful. I think this comes at a good time since I didn't like what had happened to Chromium after version 69: I was still using 68 and refusing to update. This now gives me a reason to move over and, to an extent, back. So thank you ruario, and thanks to the Vivaldi team. You're doing a sterling job. |
Thanks for your assessment, I'll have to give it another shot.
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So far, so good. I have to enlarge the font next.
Set to minimum of 16. My older eyes can see this easier. Or, I need to buy a bigger monitor.... :) |
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vivaldi has become my main web browser now (version used: 2.1.1337.36_1).
However, there are still some issues such as quite often not being able to play some videos (youtube, etc.). In those cases I use ungoogled-chromium, which never fail. |
Thanks Lysander666 and Gerard. I passed on your messages to the team!
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That said, you can fix this for yourself: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/htm...edia-on-linux/ P.S. The URL to this help page is printed on terminal if you start Vivaldi (stable) without proprietary media support, or in snapshot versions the command to fetch a suitable file is given directly. |
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On a different note I had a look at their download site. If you are using one of their hosted binaries, pay attention to this warning: Quote:
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Tried it recently, liked it because it can load dependencies from /opt/vivaldi/lib/ (for example I can put libgtk-3.so.0 there without having to install it system-wide)
Interface is ok, probably better than chrome IMO. I'd use it full-time if only it could support userchrome.css and usercontent.css (which chromium can't do). |
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https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/1062...customisations |
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Sad story really, because chromium use to support it long time ago, and then chrome devs disabled it for "security" of users who were apparently "infected" by simple css file. So yeah, if I want to paint a website according to my spec, I get "protected'" from my own css file now, and can't do it anymore in chromium engine. Palemoon can load content stylesheets, I think new firefox can too but I haven't checked for a long time. |
Perhaps, someone can ease my paranoia and explain how Vivaldi remembers what links I've visited on a page AFTER I've DELETED everything (the history, cookies, cleared the cache, etc.) but the save passwords ?
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Maybe someone [and/or ruario] could look into it and elaborate on this issue a little more. |
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I notice in Vivaldi there is NOT an option for clearing "site preferences." Would that have something to do with it? If it is remembering links the user has clicked on, it is storing browsing history somewhere and not deleting it when instructed to do so. |
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It would be good if the browser gave the option to have different styles/colours of icon for the panel [there is already this option for the menu bar: you have the 'burger', the red Vivaldi icon or a mono one]. However, you can only have a red one for the panel.
For now, if you want a different style/colour icon for the panel, you have to create one manually. The normal icon is in /opt/vivaldi/resources/vivaldi/resources and is called icon_16.png, so you'd have to replace that and give your new icon the same name. |
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This is how I am clearing data (see attached image) |
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