Vivaldi 8.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by netsharc » Thu, May 21, 2026, 8:49 AM UTC

adrian_b wrote: post #19

With Firefox, especially with Firefox on Linux, which always had and still has poor GPU support, I frequently encounter sites that do not work well or they do not work at all. So I must keep a backup browser, which is normally Vivaldi, because typically any site that works in Chrome also works in Vivaldi. Moreover, Vivaldi has a great advantage over both Firefox and Chrome, in it the command to print a Web page usual…

> mouse gestures

Vivaldi is made by people who left Opera after it was bought by a Chinese company, and the mouse gestures are similar. Ny favorites: "Hold right mouse button, click left" is the browser back gesture, and "hold left, click right" is forward.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by dragochat » Thu, May 21, 2026, 8:49 AM UTC

still as bloated as ever?

can't we just have tabs + tiling (either tiles in tabs, or tabs in tiles, both can work), and call it a day?

that's all I need from browsing today

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by dmos62 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 8:49 AM UTC

adrian_b wrote: post #19

With Firefox, especially with Firefox on Linux, which always had and still has poor GPU support, I frequently encounter sites that do not work well or they do not work at all. So I must keep a backup browser, which is normally Vivaldi, because typically any site that works in Chrome also works in Vivaldi. Moreover, Vivaldi has a great advantage over both Firefox and Chrome, in it the command to print a Web page usual…

I ran into broken printing when I was trying to turn web pages into PDFs. Both Chrome and Firefox couldn't "print" without breaking layout.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by ktallett » Thu, May 21, 2026, 8:53 AM UTC

sevg wrote: post #22

ktallett wrote: post #18

Two questions, how can you trust closed source? And how are they already on release 8.0; what are these significant improvement each time or is it like apple's yearly release?

If version 8.0 makes you raise your eyebrows, just wait til you see what version Firefox and Chrome are on!

Which is even more nuts, especially with the features removed from Firefox sometimes like the grouped tabs removal then regain.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by hvb2 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 8:53 AM UTC

atraac wrote: post #8

hvb2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of stuff like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660 If you don't have the ability to police extensions you're basically putting your users up for sale?

Your users don't have to use those extensions, so I don't understand how that's relevant? People who do, should be made aware of risks and that's it. This is not a good argument against taking away their option to have that customization.

I'm having a hard time finding a thread where people don't complain about npm when the real issue is packages being compromised.

Swap packages for extensions in the above and let me know how that's different

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by michelsedgh » Thu, May 21, 2026, 9:02 AM UTC

Wait so you make a big announcement talking about a full new redesign but dont actually show a demo? That should be illegal

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs » Thu, May 21, 2026, 9:06 AM UTC

michelsedgh wrote: post #36

Wait so you make a big announcement talking about a full new redesign but dont actually show a demo? That should be illegal

Not just that but the screenshots are terrible too...

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by Mashimo » Thu, May 21, 2026, 9:10 AM UTC

ktallett wrote: post #18

Two questions, how can you trust closed source? And how are they already on release 8.0; what are these significant improvement each time or is it like apple's yearly release?

> And how are they already on release 8.0;

First release was 11 years ago. Why not?

Also there is no standard for version releases. I mean there probably is, but none that you have to follow.

> how can you trust closed source?

Same as using Android or windows or iOS.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by ekianjo » Thu, May 21, 2026, 9:10 AM UTC

dijksterhuis wrote: post #29

brnt wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tarballs every 2 months, and we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it. I don't trust them one bit. There was that telemetry analysis that showed Vivaldi as a very noisy browser.

> we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it. how so? how do you know this?

Probably because they update the browser way more often than that

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by RockstarSprain » Thu, May 21, 2026, 9:12 AM UTC

Looks better than expected.

I just wish the address bar were expanding fully to the right when selected, with the "Show Full Address" setting on and right-side vertical tabs. Otherwise, one has to jump around the visible part of the address bar in order to find the right part.

Edit: details.