One more time?
I tried Vivaldi a few months ago, seemed ok, but importing bookmarks was odd to say the least...
Just like the new layout here on El Reg.
Opera founder Jon von Tetzchner’s plan to recreate Opera reaches a major milestone today. The Vivaldi browser is out of beta after more than a year. Wrapped around the Chromium engine, Vivaldi offers power users classic Opera browser features such as tab stacks and shortcuts, and even throws in an IMAP mail client (coming soon …
I've been using this as my primary browser for a few weeks now. It fixes my main annoyances with Chrome - decent bookmarks, tab activation is in MRU order, & uses a normal size font in the address bar(!). All my add ons I was using work too. Oh and contrary to the article you can assign shortcuts to search engines, there is a Nickname field when adding a new search engine and the defaults already have shortcuts. The rewind feature is really handy too.
Hmm.
I took a look at the Terms of Service, and noticed item 3:
"We may, if needed, change any part of these terms of use without notice, and your continued use of the Software or Services will be deemed as acceptance of such changes. You should check the terms of use regularly!"
I do not like these terms, not one bit.
Considering that Vivaldi is giving away the browser for free, how do they intend to make money?
(Am I the customer or the product?)
I tried to locate the current Terms of Service on the Vivaldi website, but I couldn't find them anywhere. How exactly do I determine what rights Vivaldi is currently claiming regarding spying on my web browsing?
as a secondary browser. Can be nice to have something different when debugging web pages (javascript). I also use it as a browser where I regularly trash all remembered data (cookies, etc) when I can't be bothered working out what I need to enable with adblocker, etc, to see some site.
I can't understand why they want to put an IMAP client in it .... it is a web browser; please stop the bloat!
The email client in propert Opera was deployed as a DLL, so entirely optional rather than bloat. It was also rather good. I always found it entirely natural to have my email available to me inside the web browser, and that was before webmail became a commonplace. There was an RSS feed, torrent client and newsgroup reader too. And it was still smaller than the competition.
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Have been using Vivaldi for a few months now. It's very fast and it has never crashed on me the last 3 beta releases. I really enjoy the UI color following the color scheme of the visited site!
Some gripes;
F11/Fullscreen - from here I cannot seem to reach the menu or tabs
Save Open Tabs as Session - This includes all tabs from all windows in a session. I'd rather see this implemented as saving all tabs in a single window.
It's been my default browser for a few weeks. Having been an Opera user of old, it's fantastic to have a proper speed dial back (one where I put sites where I want, not some horrible 'frecency' algorithm annoyance), proper mouse gestures and vertical tabs.
It's still a bit buggy and I'll really appreciate it when they get sync working (and mail too), but it's been really nice already.
While we're on the topic of browsers ... Can any of you browser power users comment on Ethereum Mist? Seems like a truly innovative browser going beyond delivering a cleaner interface and speed - but instead a whole different layer of interaction. Thoughts about its viability and potential impact? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgNjs_WaFSc
I've been using it as my daily work browser for a long time & I really like it. The lack of native Flash support is excellent!
The only 2 main things for me are:
No way to easily export your bookmarks
I'd like them to honestly / clearly just say how they plan to make money. The browser is good enough that I'd pay for it, but my guess is there is some other revenue idea, which is fine, but I'd like to clearly know.
Hmm,.. they seem to have done something nasty to China. I get to some cyber squatter instead. Cloudflare asking me for filling in a Captcha, which doesn't load in China, leaving a blank DIV. Or it is just that Vivaldi doesn't want the Chinese user to give access to their website and asked those kindly people from cloudflare to kcuf up the connections?
Yo Reg,.. what's the story here? Is it the reds or the blues to blame?
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