After using it for 10 minutes
- Chrome plugins
- tabs configurable at the side instead of on top
- native (?) mousegestures
So far so good!
Vivaldi 1.2 release
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#82> We use JavaScript and React to create the user interface with the help of Node.js and a long list of NPM modules. Does this make any difference to the user?
Yea, its alot quicker to develop and experiment with new features.
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UI is very latency sensitive, even a couple of frames of delay can be detrimental to the feel of a UI.
Comparing the delay of the UI with many tabs (30+) Vivaldi wins easily over Firefox and Chrome.
I did not say Vivaldi was slow, just that performance is relevant in UI. I'll give Vivaldi a try.
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They are kinda repeating the mistakes of Opera. I used Vivaldi for a few weeks and I really wanted to like it but it has (at least currently) to many quirks. For example not being able to delete addresses from the history which is given for every other browser. All I want is a Chrome with a nicer GUI.
Your example doesn't make a lot of sense. Opera can delete adresses from history. In fact, there are many things Opera does that other browsers can't.
But we are talking about Vivaldi!
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The business model is the same as every other browser: monetized search, plus a small number of paid-for bookmarks. However, Vivaldi is a small operation so it doesn't need many users. Also, it's self-financed so there are no outside investors and the founder can do whatever he wants. > much of the tech crowd they're trying to reach won't use proprietary software You do realize that Chrome is proprietary, as are Safa…
> You do realize that Chrome is proprietary Chrome is a build of the (completely open-source) Chromium browser, with some additional media codecs and a different logo slapped on it.
You seem to ignore the binary blob extensions e.g. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/not-ok-google-chromi...
Also chrome integrates with service that Are closed source. Eg forsync
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No, my browser gets closed/opened a lot during the day.
Why?
Different people use browsers differently? We're humans after all.
I never understood people whining about memory usage and having 120 tabs opened - - having so many tabs sounded silly - - now I'm one of those people. I just happened to start using my browser that way.
Different people, different needs.
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Like Atom? So it is not unique. We can say this statement for a lot of software products being Chromium more special and from a third party.
Is Atom a web browser? :) I'm pretty sure that they mean Vivaldi is unique as a browser built entirely using modern web technologies. PS: I'm not saying they're right, I haven't researched to find out if there are other HTML/JS based browsers (aka with browser chrome built in HTML/JS).
Unique?
What a joke.
It just loads other websites inside an iframe. That's how all similar web-based apps and web-OSs work. Eg there is also servo with its HTML based UI; there is WebOS with its browser, ChromeOS with its browser; FirefoxOS; etc - totally non unique beside it has a nice UI inspired by the old Opera 6-12 UI.
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#88After using it for 10 minutes - Chrome plugins - tabs configurable at the side instead of on top - native (?) mousegestures So far so good!
Try tab tiling: ctrl-select two (or more) tabs and select "Tile tabs" from their context menu.
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> The biggest features we are working on are sync and mail Okay, I have to question this. Why is a browser vendor spending precious time and money adding a mailbox to their browser? I used Vivaldi a little bit ago during the beta/1.0 period for a few months—at that time at least, the UX needed more polish and there were bugs and usability issues that were daily pain points. So I find this it concerning that they're b…
It's awesome that they implement an email client. (hopefully open source) Opera Mail and Thunderbird were good free email clients, but now discontinued. What options are there (PC)? Outlook, Windows 10 Mail, Windows Live Mail/Outlook Express, Thunderbird, IBM Notes, OSX Mail. Ideally, I would like an email client that is as powerful as Outlook, has the UI of Google mail (especially the conversation view), has superb…
Claws did me well on Mint. Lightweight. Worked well except with Gmail's tags. There was workaround but I just skipped it since web interface is fast on Gmail. Did you not know about Claws or have a specific reason for not mentioning it?