I didn't know about this so I decided to update Vivaldi from a ~6 month old build. Either nothing happened and it's starting the browser from RAM or there's a noticeable improvement in load speed. DPI scaling seems to have improved considerably too.
Startup speed increased drastically, but performance of new tabs now degrades significantly the longer the browser is open.
I started using it years ago for cosmetic reasons but they keep breaking dumb shit with updates. Recently broke tab-specific zoom levels, been reported and acknowledged, still unfixed for weeks.
Everything gets worse with time, so sad.
i wont say that now it has snappiness parity with either chromium or firefox, but a little while ago they finaaaally made a performance optimization and i do feel it's way better than before in that regard
like most browsers it's just a wrapper around chrome with a few extra buttons.
i use it for certain shitty browser game since the tab tiling feature and bookmark sidebar are convenient for it
but for most browsing I stick to firefox
like most browsers it's just a wrapper around chrome with a few extra buttons.
i use it for certain shitty browser game since the tab tiling feature and bookmark sidebar are convenient for it
but for most browsing I stick to firefox
>patched it in a week
Wow. I (and many others) reported a silly easily fixed bug, and they took a year to fix it. Still, I hate it less than all the other browsers. Only wish it was open source, which is a huge point against it.
>Only wish it was open source
I hear this repeated often, but as far as I know it is open source or rather "source available".
You just can't fork it and slap a logo on it and claim its yours.
Unless something changed in the past year or so.
It's the best Chromium browser but feels a bit redundant when compared to Firefox with a custom css. It's also nonfree software, and the simplicity of the interface takes backseat to the customization so it can be difficult to navigate the settings menu. Comes with a lot of bloat too like the ugly sidebar, etc.
has a lot of features right out of the box and i like it for gooning because i can tile things natively while having the most screen space. however, there are some very simple things they over looked. for example, they have the image information button on images which can't be tuned off in a setting, which is distracting for gooning. i also wish there's a way to make the extensions not turn on or off for all sites, but have a setting where you can choose the extension setting depending on the site.
>definition of bloat >definition of feature creep >slower than normal chrome/chromium >locked into israelitegle's add-on ecosystem
I used it exclusively from ~17-'19, but they deliberately removed the URL auto-complete thing (type a websites name and hit ctrl-enter for it to complete the normal .com address) and adamantly refused to fix it for over a year, because this piece of basic web-browser functionality was interfering with their "smart" url-bar bullshit, whatever it was at the time.
Other normal, every-day things you expect from a browser are turned off by default, and you never know until you run into it and have to google what the setting is for it.
Once it's set up it's probably OK, but fuck them and their 50-page options menu.
only thing i want from this shit is the ability to have vertical/tree tabs + split view
firefox has addons for both of these
but they all make use of the side bar
so they conflict
I don't like it. Opera dying spawned Vivaldi, Otter, and a few others Chromium-based browsers when SeaMonkey was already 80% there. If they would've just forked it or made some extensions instead it'd be by far the best browser today.
- DRM on by default I think.
- Kinda bloated.
- Chromium
+ Can disable "x" (close button) on tabs and only close with mouse wheel.
+ I like the look overall
+ Searches are nicely customizable (can pass get requests as default) and quick access
Good features, nice idea, runs like shit when compared to regular Chrome/Chromium or Firefox (inc. forks).
is this before or after they did the recent code rewrite
When was the code re-write? If it's from the past year or so then I'd still say it's pretty slow compared to others
This August/September
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-2/
I didn't know about this so I decided to update Vivaldi from a ~6 month old build. Either nothing happened and it's starting the browser from RAM or there's a noticeable improvement in load speed. DPI scaling seems to have improved considerably too.
Startup speed increased drastically, but performance of new tabs now degrades significantly the longer the browser is open.
I started using it years ago for cosmetic reasons but they keep breaking dumb shit with updates. Recently broke tab-specific zoom levels, been reported and acknowledged, still unfixed for weeks.
Everything gets worse with time, so sad.
it used to for me but I've been using it for a couple years and it's been great
i wont say that now it has snappiness parity with either chromium or firefox, but a little while ago they finaaaally made a performance optimization and i do feel it's way better than before in that regard
>I NEED not only gpogle but also who ever makes vivaldi to spy on me
That's the letter V there Elmo.
like most browsers it's just a wrapper around chrome with a few extra buttons.
i use it for certain shitty browser game since the tab tiling feature and bookmark sidebar are convenient for it
but for most browsing I stick to firefox
I would use it if it wasn't chromium as it is great, nice features, and the one time I reported an issue they patched it in a week.
>patched it in a week
Wow. I (and many others) reported a silly easily fixed bug, and they took a year to fix it. Still, I hate it less than all the other browsers. Only wish it was open source, which is a huge point against it.
>Only wish it was open source
I hear this repeated often, but as far as I know it is open source or rather "source available".
You just can't fork it and slap a logo on it and claim its yours.
Unless something changed in the past year or so.
Vivaldi has always been closed source.
>Vivaldi has always been closed source.
https://vivaldi.com/source/
>I would use it if it wasn't chromium
whats wrong with chromium?
i wish someone made a bleachbit cleaner.xml for it
>i wish someone made a bleachbit cleaner.xml for it
bleachbit has supported vivaldi for several years. update your cleaners, homosexual. fucking hell.
AI post
https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/tree/master/cleaners
LOOK AT THE PICTURE, YOU DUMB FUCKING nagger
AI picture
huh
Why?
It's the best Chromium browser but feels a bit redundant when compared to Firefox with a custom css. It's also nonfree software, and the simplicity of the interface takes backseat to the customization so it can be difficult to navigate the settings menu. Comes with a lot of bloat too like the ugly sidebar, etc.
it's so fucking slow it drives me nuts
1/10 trash browser
Pointless. Just use chrome
Great feature-set, shitty core (Chromium).
>eats fucktons of ram
nah
has a lot of features right out of the box and i like it for gooning because i can tile things natively while having the most screen space. however, there are some very simple things they over looked. for example, they have the image information button on images which can't be tuned off in a setting, which is distracting for gooning. i also wish there's a way to make the extensions not turn on or off for all sites, but have a setting where you can choose the extension setting depending on the site.
haven't really tried but pretty sure it'll be as easy as using custom css with
.inspector[target="Image Properties"] {
display: none !important;
}
Better sync than brave, accounts seem pretty secure, no Google services
It is, however, proprietary and doesn't have a flatpak
mid
heard you like tabs so we put tabs inside your tabs
>definition of bloat
>definition of feature creep
>slower than normal chrome/chromium
>locked into israelitegle's add-on ecosystem
I used it exclusively from ~17-'19, but they deliberately removed the URL auto-complete thing (type a websites name and hit ctrl-enter for it to complete the normal .com address) and adamantly refused to fix it for over a year, because this piece of basic web-browser functionality was interfering with their "smart" url-bar bullshit, whatever it was at the time.
Other normal, every-day things you expect from a browser are turned off by default, and you never know until you run into it and have to google what the setting is for it.
Once it's set up it's probably OK, but fuck them and their 50-page options menu.
Same energy.
only thing i want from this shit is the ability to have vertical/tree tabs + split view
firefox has addons for both of these
but they all make use of the side bar
so they conflict
Botnet
I don't like it. Opera dying spawned Vivaldi, Otter, and a few others Chromium-based browsers when SeaMonkey was already 80% there. If they would've just forked it or made some extensions instead it'd be by far the best browser today.
someone please describe what slowness you're experiencing, how does it manifest
bloated slow garbage
makes a shitload of calls in startup
garbage language used which slow it down
thorium/brave/modified firefox are the only good ones
a reskin, like all browsers that are based on chromium source-code
- DRM on by default I think.
- Kinda bloated.
- Chromium
+ Can disable "x" (close button) on tabs and only close with mouse wheel.
+ I like the look overall
+ Searches are nicely customizable (can pass get requests as default) and quick access