Vivaldi Browser 5.0

quaffapint wrote: post #2

I've read their business model... https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/ I just wonder how well it works in supporting them vs asking for money from their customers to support a decent/private browser stack.

Honestly, what is there to support? Once you strip Chromium of all the code that uses any Google services, more than half the job is done.

Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0

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Post by KarlKemp » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

SwiftyBug wrote: post #8

I don't understand that obsession browser developers have with themes. To the point it's a highlight in a major version.

Agreed… there’s very little surface that isn’t taken up by the website, so it makes far less sense than, say a terminal. It’s a uniquely bad fit for theming.

A useable method of styling webpages, however, would be quite interesting. CSS just doesn’t quite work when used generically on all sites, except for maybe font sizes. Chrome’s in-beta automatic dark modes are maybe one working example.

I’d appreciate, for example, some way to make better use of the 6000px of screen width I have. Unfortunately, with mobile-first and portrait-mode prevalence, the trend seems to be going back to optimizing for 800px.