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Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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post #146

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Firefox is controlled opposition practically owned by Google. Follow the money. Ladybird seems to be the only hope, once available.

I heard Mozilla described as "Google's antitrust lawsuit insurance." That doesn't really seem relevant these days though. Although I guess duopolies are totally fine.

In the US for sure but in the EU, that insurance is still relevant.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Is mouse support in Vivaldi still broken?

I have no idea what this is about, but this comment sounds like it was posted from the 90s. Do we also need to compile an extension to support playing *.wav files in it? Sorry, couldn't resist... :)

I believe MiddleClickAutoscroll was broken in last "stable" GNU/Linux version. I can check once I'm on my laptop.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

#173

Every time I try use Vivaldi I encounter how incredibly slow the UI is. Are all Vivaldi users running it on specced out desktops? Or is it just ao lineux UI latency issue?

I've switched back and forth between Vivaldi and Firefox on Linux and MacOS for the last decade, and Vivaldi's UI feels much faster. Even on my 5yo laptop or 12yo gaming PC, I haven't noticed any real slowness with the UI, and I'm usually pretty sensitive to that.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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This is the main reason I stay away from Vivaldi; using Firefox is, for all of Mozilla's borderline comical mismanagement, a protest vote against Blink (and previously, Chromium).

Firefox is controlled opposition practically owned by Google. Follow the money. Ladybird seems to be the only hope, once available.

What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch? As opposed to just forking Blink and maintaining it as a separate project? Seems like the former just adds an ungodly amount of work and still doesn't solve the problem of Google using its weight to control web standards.

If Firefox and Apple can't rein in Google with their competing engines, what exactly does Ladybird change?

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea what this is about, but this comment sounds like it was posted from the 90s. Do we also need to compile an extension to support playing *.wav files in it? Sorry, couldn't resist... :)

I believe MiddleClickAutoscroll was broken in last "stable" GNU/Linux version. I can check once I'm on my laptop.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/102072/no-autoscroll-on-midd...

The proposed solution didn't work by the way. I uninstalled right there.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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post #79

Guys use Vivaldi. It's a present. A browser that has a sustainable business model and interests that reconcile with the user interests - consume the web as god intended, with no literally aids and cancer ads out of the box. I switched a while ago from Firefox and while the UI is.. different, it's been a great experience. In my opinion this project and the great people behind it must be the leaders of this industry, a…

Vivaldi for Android does not support extensions, making it a non-starter for me.

The only browser that supports them on Android is Firefox - but Brave is my main browser and I can't seem to move away from it

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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The real hegemony is the Blink hegemony. Google (an advertising company) can pretty much unilaterally dictate web standards. A terrible state of affairs for the web. That's the real issue and using another Chrome reskin is never going to fix it.

This is the main reason I stay away from Vivaldi; using Firefox is, for all of Mozilla's borderline comical mismanagement, a protest vote against Blink (and previously, Chromium).

This has been a lost cause for the past decade or so. Web developers don't target Firefox anymore because a 5% share isn't enough to matter.

Both projects (Chromium and Firefox) are open, so it's like Linux vs FreeBSD, but at least FreeBSD has a clear licensing advantage.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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This is the main reason I stay away from Vivaldi; using Firefox is, for all of Mozilla's borderline comical mismanagement, a protest vote against Blink (and previously, Chromium).

This is why I use Zen. All the benefits of Vivaldi, with the peace of mind supporting a Mozilla stack.

I love Zen but it doesn't support TouchID passkey auth on macOS. I'm someone who needs to Okta with multiple times a day, and this drove me to use Vivaldi instead.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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post #127
post #101

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Firefox also provides such an option, see about:keyboard

Wow! Is this a new feature? I swear it wasn't there when I looked into it a few years ago. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Yes, it was added in version 147 this January.
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