So guess that if you want extensions you need to go through Google machinery.. and your back to their telemetry empire?
I don't follow- Doesn't Vivaldi support any chrome extension?
Vivaldi Browser 5.0
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Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#22I don't understand that obsession browser developers have with themes. To the point it's a highlight in a major version.
User configurable themes is fantastic!
Look at Firefox now for an example of what happens when developers can introduce their "I know best" themes:
I constantly get confused and think the active tab is next to the actually active tab.
Irony is the idea behind removing actual themability seems to be to prevent people from seeing badly styled browsers, and yet this is the second most annoying one I am aware of. (Chrome annoys me more, not because it is bad but because I don't like Chrome ;-)
Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#23I don't understand that obsession browser developers have with themes. To the point it's a highlight in a major version.
Users like it, especially if you can customise it. (Winamp comes to mind - themes were a huge deal with it and one of the reasons behind its popularity). And it also generates a lot of community activity around the software, which adds value and provides free publicity.
Music software skinz can add some value, because they do not not directly compete with the content. Browsers not so much.
Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#24No container support? It was the most requested feature. I use vivaldi instead of brave when firefox fails to support website. But having no container is kinda sad :(
Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#25Themes and the translation panel are the highlights according to their blog. And speed improvements.[1] [1] https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-5-0-desktop-themes-translat...
"Speed improvements" in every release but there must be something about the way the browser is implemented that just kills performance/efficiency vs other Chromium browsers. Even a basic test like Speedometer 2.0 shoots out that DOM manipulations are 75% the speed of the same benchmark on Chrome, what on earth is it doing to cause that? The interface is great but between performance and bugs I've never been able to s…
Is this still true of v5?
Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#26Have Vivaldi's devs said whether or not they'll be requiring Manifest V3? I'd hope that if anyone rejects V3 it would be Vivaldi...
If Vivaldi doesn't have a store, then they won't have the choice to follow Google because developers won't be able to make their Manifest V2 extensions available for download.
Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#27Have Vivaldi's devs said whether or not they'll be requiring Manifest V3? I'd hope that if anyone rejects V3 it would be Vivaldi...
If Vivaldi doesn't have a store, then they won't have the choice to follow Google because developers won't be able to make their Manifest V2 extensions available for download.
There's always sideloading at least.
Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#28Congrats to Vivaldi!
There is a good interview with Vivaldi founder on Tedium [1] where he basically says that because most browsers are built on Chromium nowadays, you have to innovate on features and that is the direction they took. And really the number of features in Vivaldi is staggering including some great ones like Tab Stacking and Tab Tiling.
But adding this many features took a toll on performance and it is about 25% slower than other Chromium based browsers. Also I assume that is the reason why is there no Vivaldi on iOS.
[1] https://tedium.co/2021/02/05/vivaldi-browser-history-profile...
Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#29Congrats on the release! I like this browser a lot; it's a comprehensive, battery-included solution.
If they supported Firefox-like multi-account containers [1], it'd switch entirely to Vivaldi. Their tab grouping is really good, the session separation is the only thing missing here. :)
[1]: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/25289/multi-account-containe...
Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0
#30I don't understand that obsession browser developers have with themes. To the point it's a highlight in a major version.
Because chrome and firefox literarly thrashed the browser experience. Not everybody loves gray or black and 1 font size does not fit all people.