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Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Post by digi_owl » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 7:06 AM UTC

One thing i like about Vivaldi is that i can set a whole UI scaling factor. Because this makes it easy to adapt for touch input (just crank the factor up until the elements are of a practical size).

Just wish it didn't have frequent issues with touch screens on my Windows tablet, leading to it not responding to any input until i switch to different window and back.

Also, it never seems able to bring up the on-screen keyboard when tapping input areas on sites. But it comes up (unless the previously mentioned unresponsiveness kicks in) when tapping the url field.

Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Post by JdeBP » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 12:48 PM UTC

cyberferret wrote: post #24

ploxiln wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fear this is largely due to modern websites. If you used old Opera on modern websites they would be broken (lack of new features) and still pretty slow. JS and image sizes have gone up exponentially. I remember discussion on Slashdot a decade ago about average page size going above 100KB - now the average is easily into multiple megabytes. It "works fine" in chrome on a macbook pro so who gives fuck, right? We can'…

+1. I noticed the other day that a single Medium blog post downloaded MORE assets (in terms of MBs) that a multi user ERP application that I used to maintain in a large multi million dollar turnover business network back in the 80's. (And I am including the ERP database file sizes as well.)

Enjoy this metric: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548816

Re: Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

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Post by silent_hunter » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:12 PM UTC

colanderman wrote: post #149

StevePerkins wrote: post #46

I check in on Vivaldi every few months to see how it's coming along, and there are some things that I like. However, I think they're a bit TOO fixated on Opera as it was 15 years ago. I keep waiting for bookmark sync, which today is a fundamental browser feature rather than a nice-to-have. But the Vivaldi guys insist on pouring resources into an integrated desktop email client instead, because that was a signature fe…

Right click -> open in background tab has been in Vivaldi for as long as I can remember. Sure it's the SECOND menu item but so?

Background tab is middle click, all browsers support it and it was in Opera for ages.