How is the memory & cpu usage compared to GChrome? Especially if you have 20+ tabs open
Can you use chrome plugins for vivaldi?
Vivaldi 1.2 release
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Re: Vivaldi 1.2 release
#122How is the memory & cpu usage compared to GChrome? Especially if you have 20+ tabs open Can you use chrome plugins for vivaldi?
You can use chrome plugins/the chrome webstore and the devs have actually pushed bug fixes that address compatibility with prominent plugins, i.e. Chromecast and LastPass
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is visible source. Without a license, it's not "open source". Nor is the source provided there complete. The last time they were asked, they said only the C++ code is open and available to the public.
It's the LGPL parts of Chromium that they needed to modify to run their engine. So it's LGPL'd, but only the specific parts that they need to release.
Right. They're waving that around like they're saying the stuff is open source, and it's very much not open source. Building a bunch of stuff on top of an open source project and then claiming your source is open because some base amount of the source forced them under its license to be open is a total cop-out. No, Vivaldi is not open source, and no they do not have plans to ever open source Vivaldi.
Re: Vivaldi 1.2 release
#124I've been on Vivaldi from the beta days, and am glad to see it's been steadily improving.
On my Mac, it's extremely responsive, probably as good as Safari. It feels snappier than chrome or (god forbid) firefox. Page load speeds feel quicker than other browsers. It's as stable as anything else I've used. The chrome extensions I use all work well.
All in all, a very positive experience. I just switched to Vivaldi as my main browser after using v1.2 for a couple of days now.
I only wish they bring some of the old opera features like text reflow, user CSS for page rendering, etc.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yes, I still have Opera 12 with a lot of tabs and tab groups. Sadly, old Opera's tab grouping is not replicated in any other browser I've tried.
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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.
Chrome is more proprietary than Vivaldi, and both based on the same open-source Chromium.
The main difference is that you can read the Vivaldi source code (even though it's not open source) whereas you really have no way of knowing what Google puts into its proprietary Chrome browser.
So, the techie audience that prefers open source should logically prefer Vivaldi to Chrome.
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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…
It is not free but eM Client[0] offers a "light" version of Outlook's UI and it has the best CalDAV/CardDAV support on Windows compared to Thunderbird + Lightning or 3rd party Outlook plugins.
Currently Version 7 is still in Beta but it is stable enough to be my daily driver and it offers some important features like a message thread view, which is still missing on their current, stable 6.0 release.
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#129After using it for 10 minutes - Chrome plugins - tabs configurable at the side instead of on top - native (?) mousegestures So far so good!
I remember seeing the mouse gestures in Opera and wanting the same feature in my Firefox. I used this in Firefox with an extension for several years and later did the same with Chrome.
Now with Vivaldi I accidentally performed a mouse gesture due to muscle memory and to my surprise it worked out of the box.
With the same people behind it this browser seems to be the real successor for Opera. :)
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#130Vivaldi features are not that bad, but the fact that this "browser" is only a combination of some extensions bundled with Chromium is a big downside. Also, not being able to implement more privacy for example fingerprint block is also rather bad. All they do is work inside their extensions related code with avoiding to touch actual Chromium code base. When these guys have finally more knowledge about Chromium to eith…
Also the whole fact that their internet is JS/Electron. This really puts a damper on the performance their UI will be able to achieve.