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Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Post by npace12 »

As a web developer using chrome and emacs all day, I was very skeptical. Decided to give it a try and looks really good so far. It's got a lot of the good chrome stuff and so far I haven't found absolutely anything I miss.

So far I really like:

- Ctrl-P-like tab switcher / command thingy

- fast (but that may be just how different new browsers always feel like at first)

- the web page size indicator on the address bar

- tabs can be configured to be wherever the hell i want them

- the regular, good chrome debugger

- can run chrome extensions straight from the store

I don't know who the devs are and how long this browser will be around for, but it's seriously well done!

Set as default.

Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Post by Jonsvt »

Glad you like our browser. We are working hard to continue to add really useful features, cool stuff and more flexibility. Our philosophy is that we all deserve a browser that works in the way we want it to. This means we listen to input and gradually add the features and options you want.

Cheers, Jon of Vivaldi

Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Post by [deleted] »

netsharc wrote: post #27
ploxiln wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fear this is largely due to modern websites. If you used old Opera on modern websites they would be broken (lack of new features) and still pretty slow. JS and image sizes have gone up exponentially. I remember discussion on Slashdot a decade ago about average page size going above 100KB - now the average is easily into multiple megabytes. It "works fine" in chrome on a macbook pro so who gives fuck, right? We can'…

And nowadays* Chrome unloads "old" tabs from memory, which must be a frustrating user experience for low memory users, open something in a new tab, try to go to the previous tab, and the browser had to load it again. * Maybe they've fixed this Of course it all works on the developer's machine, it has 16GB RAM, full HD screen and a connection straight to the backbone...

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Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

#35

Post by Karunamon »

gkya wrote: post #21
jaredklewis wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are using the word vaporware in a very odd way. Vaporware is stuff that won't actually come into existence. Vivaldi has already been publically available for nearly a year.

Sorry, yes, I intended "software that'll become useless, unmaintained and outdated rather quickly".

If I had a penny for every useless, unmaintained, and outdated open source project...

Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

#36

Post by aquadrop »

npace12 wrote: post #31

As a web developer using chrome and emacs all day, I was very skeptical. Decided to give it a try and looks really good so far. It's got a lot of the good chrome stuff and so far I haven't found absolutely anything I miss. So far I really like: - Ctrl-P-like tab switcher / command thingy - fast (but that may be just how different new browsers always feel like at first) - the web page size indicator on the address bar…

Developers of Vivaldi used to work on Opera browser.

Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Post by Jonsvt »

aquadrop wrote: post #36
npace12 wrote: post #31

As a web developer using chrome and emacs all day, I was very skeptical. Decided to give it a try and looks really good so far. It's got a lot of the good chrome stuff and so far I haven't found absolutely anything I miss. So far I really like: - Ctrl-P-like tab switcher / command thingy - fast (but that may be just how different new browsers always feel like at first) - the web page size indicator on the address bar…

Developers of Vivaldi used to work on Opera browser.

Thank you for your kind words about Vivaldi.

I was the co-founder of Opera and now co-founder of Vivaldi. A big part of the team is former Opera people. We are based in Norway and Iceland, mostly, with team members in a couple of other locations.

Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Post by Jonsvt »

matthberg wrote: post #8
CoryG89 wrote: post #3

A lot more interesting information on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser) Looks like it uses Blink engine, first release was 8 months ago. Looks like you can also use Chrome extensions with it.

I was blown away by the customizability, I used Firefox with a split tab extension, yet this has native support.

Thanks. That is what we are all about. We believe we all deserve to get a browser that can be made to work just right. Thus we have the motto : when in doubt, make it an option.
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