@Folgore101 said in How will Vivaldi deal with Google's Manifest V3?:

@electryon Perhaps they will continue to use Vivaldi not because they are fanboys but because all the other browsers do not offer all the features that Vivaldi offers and with the Vivaldi ad blocker + uBOL they browse happily. The few instances of suboptimal experience are offset by all the other merits that only Vivaldi offers.

uBOL is a lite ad blocker which won't be able to handle sites like YouTube in future. Google when they get rid of uBO once and for all will most likely start daily messing with YouTube. uBOL can't handle that because it can't auto-update its filters.
Sure, they will have to make a choice if Vivaldi won't offer a powerful and light ad blocker. I seriously doubt the majority will tolerate when they were using uBO for years to settle with inferior ad blockers. You believe they will, I believe they won't. We'll see.
Let's hope we won't have to see what will happen in that case and Vivaldi to really develop their internal ad blocker, because currently they don't seem to do it.

I see. That's such a stupid design choice, as they hope to keep us in the loop, but if the tab crashes, not many people will start all over seeing the same content again.

Thanks for replying.

@Folgore101
thanks for testing (and happy crunching 😉 )

A new poll is already available on vivaldi.net, but let's check how many of you use VPN.

More than half of you (54%) said that you connect to a VPN sometimes.
A quarter (27%) are connected all the time.
Which leaves 19%, who never use VPN.

Time to go over the results. 🙂

44% of those who voted, switch the Reader View on sometimes.
Not far behind, 40% of you never use the Reader View feature.
And 17% of voters use the feature all the time.

@wintercoast said in Good bye forever, Vivaldi.:

they want the browser to have just the features they want upfront, no matter what others may want.

Good point, which actually proves that is not possible to please everyone. To those who think Vivaldi is too bloated I say to just use another browser as Vivaldi is not the only one, so even there one has a choice.

Hey, hey!

Let's go over the poll results then. 🙂

50% of you seem to be happy with the default zoom levels and have not changed any zoom settings.
22% have increased web page zoom and 13% have increased the user interface zoom.
12% have decreased the web page zoom and just 3% have decreased the user interface zoom.

@RadekPilich Sure, you can post your own list of things that you think would not take long to do. Provide a link to the existing feature request so that others can upvote it.

If any do not exist yet, don’t post them here. Create a new Feature Request Topic.

Help on Feature Requests

Not sure if you are aware, but you can totally disable the email, calendar and feeds.

I think it makes sense to do that if you are more interested in stack, workspaces, GUI customization etc.

Email, calendar etc. make a lot of sense for user who don't put a lot of demands on the browser in areas such as stack and workspaces.

I can see those as being a market differentiator that can expand Vivaldi user base significantly.

I personally am not interested in those and never will be, because I use and abuse the browser in other areas and having these enabled would make the performance likely worse.

Happy Friday! 😀

Time to go over the poll results and there were two clear winners.

In the first place, we have third-party password managers with 57% of the votes.
In the second place is Vivaldi's built-in password manager, which gathered 29% of the votes.

Writing their passwords down on paper is a habit of 4% of the voters.
Storing passwords in a file on the computer, on an external storage device, or simply memorizing them each got just 1% of votes.

5% of you have found other ways to keep track of your passwords.

I missed the poll, but I think it points to the question of how people access their often used sites. Like many I use the dashboard now more than the speed dial. Perhaps all that work on the address bar is responsible, since its ability to find visited sites or bookmarks, helped along by the bookmark shortcuts, for me make the speed dial useful mostly for when I need visual help to remember the name of the site I want to reach.

@Astiwihad The background image has a wide aspect ratio. It can moved to crop it to fit the available space, which seems to be about 1342 x 362 pixels (on my system).

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The poll has been replaced with a new one and here are the results:

A little over half of you (52%) have made some changes to the menus, while 22% have gone all out and customized the menus a lot.

On the opposite side, 26% of you seem to be happy with the default configuration and haven't made any changes.

@GoustiFruit

Said:

Except for Youtube: I remember that the whole layout of the page was completely destroyed.

YouTube works perfectly with Adguard in my case.

Hey, hey!

The poll has closed and it's time to count the votes.

42% seamlessly move from one device to continue the same tasks on other devices. 26% keep some devices in sync for the same tasks, but have different usage habits on other devices. 15% use Vivaldi on each of their devices with a different set of tasks. 11% don't use Sync at all. 6% only use Vivaldi on one device.

You've voiced your opinions and here are the results for this poll.

Most of you head over to the Address Bar to search:
57% prefer to start their search from the Address Field.
23% tend to use the Search Field on the Address Bar.

Less popular options include:
9% Search Field on the Start Page
7% first go to the search engine's website, and
4% are partial to Quick Commands.

"World Penguin Day 2025
on 25 April 2025 in the world"

Just noted in the calendar. 😃

For this day, we will pre-plan a major Linux event so that as many people as possible will be interested.

In our unofficial, but very nice 'Café Vivaldi' via 'Jitsi Meet'.

We will start the preparations today!

If you are already interested in participating in the preparations, a little less or more, please ...

There is also a 'Café Vivaldi' room on the very good open source messenger [Matrix]
https://matrix.to/#/#cafévivaldi:tchncs.de

a private 'Café Vivald Moderation' room, which can only be joined by invitation, and two public, unofficial 'Vivaldi Browser' rooms.
#vivaldibrowser:matrix.org

https://matrix.to/#/#_bifrost_vivaldi_conference.monocles.de:tchncs.de

The range of topics in 'Café Vivaldi' is always wide, from culture, politics to technical, Linux, Windows, Apple things.

On this day, however, we will hopefully be able to enjoy literature, art, readings, presentations, discussions and live music.

Think it will be an event from breakfast till late at night. 😅😂🤣

The more active people take part, the better we will succeed. 😉😃

Until 25 April 2025, there will be a whole series of smaller events, public rehearsals, which will be announced here in the Vivaldi Browser Forum and in our public 'Café Vivaldi' [Matrix] room.

With a lot of luck and a lot of commitment and a lot of volunteers, it could be a really, really great thing.

I'll just say very quietly, very carefully "Privacy Week Wien".

"'Pssst""

😲 😊 😀 😂

48 days into 2025, and Vivaldi is still greater than the rest!

Opera Presto lives on!

The competition lies in ruins IF the general public realizes Vivaldi is so very versatile!