Re: Vivaldi web browser
By: Nightfox to All on Tue Jul 03 2018 01:37 pm

Hi all - I'm just curious how many people use (or have used) the Vivaldi web browser? I heard about it recently and decided to install it. I've been us it every so often, along with the browser I've been used to using (Pale Moon

I've personally been using and recommending it for years. It's my honest to god daily driver for every machine I run daily (outside of my BBS server, it's a old iMac that has a stroke when I ask it to run firefox on Linux Mint 18.

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Re: Vivaldi web browser
By: Nodoka Hanamura to Nightfox on Sun Sep 22 2019 03:37 am

I've personally been using and recommending it for years. It's my honest to god daily driver for every machine I run daily (outside of my BBS server, it's a old iMac that has a stroke when I ask it to run firefox on Linux Mint 18.

I've been running Vivaldi for a year or so now. It has its quirks, and up until a month ago would crash periodically when trying to search for words on a web page (ctrl-f), but it's treated me well. There are some things It doesn't do that Chrome does (auto-translate text on web pages, for one), but the features outweigh the drawbacks so far.

Also, they just released a beta version of Vivaldi for Android, I've been playing with that a bit.

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Re: Vivaldi web browser
By: DaiTengu to Nodoka Hanamura on Sun Sep 22 2019 11:04 am

I still use Vivaldi regularly but damn it...the recent updates have been buggy. I just LOVE the recent issue that causes you to lose your tabs.

But they just pushed the Android beta of Vivaldi out...it's good, but it really needs an ad blocker. I'm hooked on Brave for this reason, and Firefox Android actually allows extensions.


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Re: Vivaldi web browser
By: Chickenhead to DaiTengu on Fri Sep 27 2019 04:41 pm

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Re: Vivaldi web browser
By: Chickenhead to DaiTengu on Fri Sep 27 2019 04:41 pm

But they just pushed the Android beta of Vivaldi out...it's good, but it really needs an ad blocker. I'm hooked on Brave for this reason, and Firefox Android actually allows extensions.

I swear by Brave. It's the only android browser on my phone.

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Re: Vivaldi web browser
By: Chickenhead to DaiTengu on Fri Sep 27 2019 16:41:02

I have Vivaldi as well, and just discovered yesterday that it is really a Chrome clone. I tried using it to access a site for work that won't work with Chrome, and was told the exact same thing I got in Chrome, in fact the site even said I was in a Chrome browser. I finally ended up having to go with an older version of Opera to be able to access the service.



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I have Vivaldi as well, and just discovered yesterday that it is really a Chrome clone. I tried using it to access a site for work that won't work with Chrome, and was told the exact same thing I got in Chrome, in fact the site even said I was in a Chrome browser. I finally ended up having to go with an older version of Opera to be able to access the service.

IIRC, it was built by someone who helped develop Opera using the chromium
code (which is the engine that Chrome also uses). So it is supposed to be
a little bit of both, but I have never tried it so I don't know for sure.

I keep meaning to check and see if they have developed a linux version.

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Re: Vivaldi web browser
By: Dumas Walker to LUPINE FURMEN on Sat Sep 28 2019 09:24 am

I keep meaning to check and see if they have developed a linux version.

Linux, MacOS, Windows and Android are available.

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Re: Vivaldi web browser
By: echto to Chickenhead on Fri Sep 27 2019 05:18 pm

Sadly not. I want to, but my fellows just can't be bothered.

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