The results are in!
Looks like nearly half of you manage to keep the number of open tabs below 10. Good for you!
I'm definitely in the 50+ tabs group. 😅

Less than 10 (46%) 10 to 30 (32%) More than 50 for sure (22%) 30 to 50 (0%)

@barbudo2005, MOST, not all certainly. It's clear that also some extensions not related to privacy and security are still valid, eg, the Linguist extension which I use, at least until the Vivaldi translator works as it should, which until now isn't the case, or the OCR extension which Vivaldi don't have.

...and that's a wrap!

Apart from the other features mentioned in some of your comments, here are the results for this week's poll regarding desktop features. As expected, there's no consensus, haha:

Panels (23%) Workspaces (18%) Tab Tiling and Themes (17% both) Keyboard Shortcuts (13%) Mouse Gestures (12%)

Thanks for your participation! 😃

@fate123 Welcome to the Community. Here are a few links for your bookmarks that you may find useful:

Help on Feature Requests • Add Search as Web Panel Vivaldi Help Forum Markdown Help Using the Forum Search Local Forums in your language Modding Vivaldi Web Panels Vivaldi for Android Snapshot vs Stable Vivaldi's Business Model Help us grow

That was the main reason I started donating to Vivaldi too. I use Google a lot, and still wanted to support the browser.

@DJLConsulting
Hi, if you search the web for "vivadi freeze" you get hundreds of results, change it to "firefox freeze" you will get the same.
It's the same with "lost all tabs" , this can happen with any browser.
The speed and stability of Vivaldi on Linux is amazing, test this you will think you have a new computer. 🙂

@marialeal
Now I have found it.

The "Friday poll" does not (yet?) exist on "Vivaldi Mastodon".
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/767056

@Pesala I think that if the blogs were more customizable where a blog can feel very much like its own website, a person's expression rather than simple colours and very few fonts. Say like we have shareable themes for blogs like we have for the browser, you know. My blog can look like from a science fiction movie. Someone else's can look like a steampunk themed one. Another can look like a notepad or a literal newspaper. Of course this is something I can be very patient for especially with a small team such as Vivaldi's. Geocities + Vivaldi = Vivaldicities

@Radioastron Yandex is like what Chrome could be. Both are dumbed down browsers but one clearly holds up on every level except cpu usage which is a crown held by Chrome and Ungoogled Chromium in this case.

@shifte you need an award for this comment.

@Catweazle
👍 👍🏽

There's more. 😉

But it's good, too.

@lydiam Partner engines are preinstalled. Vivaldi only receives revenue when you use a default engine with functioning referral. Some of the default engines don’t make money, for example Google and Wikipedia, they are there because of user demand. I have no idea which engine gives the most, but I would suspect Bing can’t be far off.

So, you could reset your engines in settings, or copy them over from a fresh profile. The list of defaults is dependent on region too.

I forgot to mention that after all of you voted, the results flipped, and 2015-16 ended up being the option with the most votes (32%), followed by 2023-24 with 29% and 2017-18 with 19%.

Thank you once again to all of you who've been with us for so long, and welcome to the ones who found about this great community recently! 🤗

@npro well. two points... for both of which it was important for readers of my OP to recognise specifically which browser i was writing about, ahem. 😇

in my fav browser [ahem, again] the behaviour i described does occur, once this is installed; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/. I cheekily deliberately chose to omit that detail, above, to see who was really paying attention... answer, nobody. in a prior fav browser, with https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/canvas-blocker-fingerprin/nomnklagbgmgghhjidfhnoelnjfndfpd installed, it also worked fine for years... until it broke back in 2023 or possibly year/s before, per https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/90984/html5-canvas-fingerprinting-blocking-spoofing-extensions-are-now-nfg-in-vivaldi, whence i began reporting it, but like so much else important around here, it was officially ignored.

that which was once my fav browser, shall never be again, for this & so many more accumulating problems. thank goodness there's another browser with web-panels... my fav browser.

Welcome!

@JoeBecomeTheSun If you want to run Tor, use Tor Browser. The more people use the actual browser, the safer the project becomes for everyone who needs anonymity. Running it in Brave or Vivaldi is not a good solution and I would advise against it.

Vivaldi has no reason to do this. The possible Invisiv coöperation would provide a casual way for users to obfuscate their connection, and it would be an additional source of income for Vivaldi. Your idea lacks the 4.PROFIT!!! step and I don't see it happening.

@jblackman199

Said:

I can't be the only one that wants this.

Yes, you are.