Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by gaellelo » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 8:50 AM UTC

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by s_kilk » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 10:18 AM UTC

Vivaldi is looking better and better with each release. The only thing that seems to be missing is some kind of Profiles or Containers for partitioning identities.

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by gcp » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 10:22 AM UTC

s_kilk wrote: post #2

Vivaldi is looking better and better with each release. The only thing that seems to be missing is some kind of Profiles or Containers for partitioning identities.

Given that Firefox is shipping this, are we looking at a reversal of the "Opera had it first" meme? :-)

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by fimdomeio » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 10:30 AM UTC

If there's anyone from Vivaldi watching this thread my one and only request: when I type www.youtube.com show me https://youtube.com as the first choice and not some inner page that I bookmarked. I constantly enter youtube and hackernews via some page that I bookmarked ages ago.

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by fimdomeio » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 10:37 AM UTC

fimdomeio wrote: post #4

If there's anyone from Vivaldi watching this thread my one and only request: when I type www.youtube.com show me https://youtube.com as the first choice and not some inner page that I bookmarked. I constantly enter youtube and hackernews via some page that I bookmarked ages ago.

Just saw the video and... "browser for rebels?" The hipster image histogram rebel, are you planning in integrating Tor or did the marketing guy just had to much coffee that day?

I'm joking (mostly)... love the browser, thank you for your hard work.

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by Tomis02 » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 10:48 AM UTC

gcp wrote: post #3

s_kilk wrote: post #2

Vivaldi is looking better and better with each release. The only thing that seems to be missing is some kind of Profiles or Containers for partitioning identities.

Given that Firefox is shipping this, are we looking at a reversal of the "Opera had it first" meme? :-)

It's unlikely Firefox will ever have the built-in features that old-Opera fans want in their browser, so it makes sense to support Vivaldi; it's the only realistic hope of having a decent browsing experience.

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by towb » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 10:48 AM UTC

fimdomeio wrote: post #4

If there's anyone from Vivaldi watching this thread my one and only request: when I type www.youtube.com show me https://youtube.com as the first choice and not some inner page that I bookmarked. I constantly enter youtube and hackernews via some page that I bookmarked ages ago.

You can disable bookmarks showing up in the address field in the settings. Url auto completion could still be better though.

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by j_s » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 11:01 AM UTC

Is anyone using a non-big-3 (Chrome/Firefox/Safari) browser enough to call it their default? I haven't tried Vivaldi yet but see this non-update hitting the front page as a heads-up that it might be worth checking out; how does this company pay the bills?

I'm interested in hearing about both the options available on different operating systems and/or mobile devices and the primary benefit each provides.

On Android, Firefox Focus has become my normal browser. I really don't use the phone to browse all that much, and prefer to use a clean session each time.

On Windows, I use multiple off-label browsers[0] mostly just to compartmentalize different sessions simultaneously. Now that Firefox is headed towards supporting this as a first-class feature, I may be able to cut down to one again. I just can't bring myself to give Google/Chrome all of my browsing metadata, but I do use it for work-related access since GMail is tied in.

[0] - Qupzilla, with separate-per-window sessions in private browsing mode - no extra work from me; also K-Meleon

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Edit: Thanks for all the testimonials; I will definitely be checking these out!

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 11:07 AM UTC

j_s wrote: post #8

Is anyone using a non-big-3 (Chrome/Firefox/Safari) browser enough to call it their default? I haven't tried Vivaldi yet but see this non-update hitting the front page as a heads-up that it might be worth checking out; how does this company pay the bills? I'm interested in hearing about both the options available on different operating systems and/or mobile devices and the primary benefit each provides. On Android, F…

I use qutebrowser as my daily driver and I love it.

Re: Vivaldi 1.12 released

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Post by aerique » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 11:07 AM UTC

fimdomeio wrote: post #4

If there's anyone from Vivaldi watching this thread my one and only request: when I type www.youtube.com show me https://youtube.com as the first choice and not some inner page that I bookmarked. I constantly enter youtube and hackernews via some page that I bookmarked ages ago.

I used Brave for a couple of months and it is really nice but at that time it was still based on Chromium and I didn't want to make that rendering engine any more popular than it already is. (Since you're indirectly supporting Chrome and Google.)

I'm back at Firefox which feels about equal to Brave in day-to-day usage (with NoScript and uBlock Origin).