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Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0

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Post by pixelgeek » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

stetrain wrote: post #89

pixelgeek wrote: post #81

So two questions for the groupmind here. 1) I asked this previously but is it really that difficult to take a screenshot on Windows? "Vivaldi’s built-in Capture tool lets you capture either a Full Page screenshot, or a Selection of the screen that you define. It can be accessed in a number of ways through the Vivaldi UI to give you flexibility in how you implement the tool." 2) The fully loaded version of the browser…

I think the point of that feature is to take a screenshot of the full web page, even the part that is currently scrolled out of view. That's not something that the OS screenshot tool can do.

I get it now

Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0

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Post by lewispollard » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 10:28 AM UTC

freediver wrote: post #146

lewispollard wrote: post #144

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Well... Yes, Vivaldi is a skin of Chromium, that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of effort going into that skin. The point is that Firefox and Chrome on iOS are not the same browser as Firefox and Chrome on any other platform. For example, if I get a bug report from someone saying they're using Chrome on mobile, if they then say they're using iOS, that's a whole different kettle of fish from any other Chrome bug repor…

For it to be a "skin", there would need to be a default "skin" to "reskin". WebKit has no default 'skin' becase it is just a web view. If you make an app with WebKit you have zero browser features, not even an address bar to type an URL into.

Skin, UI, I take your point, but the point being made elsewhere is not about the semantics of "skin", but the fact that the underlying browser runtime and renderer is not the same between iOS and other versions of browsers. You're unlikely to find a bug report that is caused by the UI of a browser, rather than the runtime.

Re: Vivaldi Browser 5.0

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Post by skrowl » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

smartbit wrote: post #138

skrowl wrote: post #117

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Rather than tab stacks, try Firefox Containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/conex/ It gives you the option to hide all tabs that aren't in your current container. The other advantage it gives over tab stacks in Vivaldi / Edge / Chrome is that they're actually containerized. Tabs in container A can't access anything from tabs in container B. If you're running a device with low RAM, you can add http…

> Rather than tab stacks, try Firefox Containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/conex/ conex hasn’t been updated for 3 years. Are you sure you want to recommend it?

No need if it still works. It would probably take a breaking change in containers itself for conex to really need to update.

There may be another similar extension if you're of the "completely working code must be updated for it to be of good quality" mindset though.