@Ayespy Thank you so much!

everybody gangsta until it gets near a magnet

@Zalex108
Thanks for the nice thread.

My 10 likes for you, @Catweazle and @DoctorG, have all been used up and have not yet been reactivated.

Thanks also to all of you for the other funny pages.

😊 😂

@AryanDevasagayaum said in Your view about the crypto and crypto browsers.:

However, does everyone here agree with this view on crypto?

Perhaps you're asking the wrong question. I don't use Vivaldi because of Jon's personal opinion on cryptocurrency, minimum wage laws, religion, or what-have-you. I use Vivaldi because Vivaldi's a good browser!

Actually, he's not in the habit of publicly sharing his opinion on such matters. I suppose he shared his cryptocurrency opposing because both Brave and Opera had integrated cryptocurrency functions (i.e. cryptocurrency became relevant to browsers).

In short: Jon's personal opinion, and Vivaldi's choice to not include cryptocurrency functions, has nothing to do with my choice to use Vivaldi.

Hi from NY...😁

Welcome! Embrace the learning journey and don't hesitate to ask questions. Engage with curiosity, explore various resources, and enjoy the process. Every challenge is an opportunity to grow. Happy learning.

I hope everything turns out OK!
Vivaldi is a great internet suite, and I'd hate to see it burn up!

That a connection stays open for seconds, or minutes, even when no traffic is passing is not just normal, it is the rule. The reason for this delay is that it takes too long to set up a new connection, especially encrypted ones, so connections are usually reused whenever practical (and newer versions of HTTP are designed to not just reuse connections but parallelize requests and responses). The server will usually control how long it will allow an idle connection to remain open, since such connections do use scarce resources on the server; the client may also close them if it has too many open connections.

Vivaldi will, as documented in the article mentioned by Pathduck, immediately after first run, download a number of components from Google, such as the component needed to watch DRM protected videos at Netfix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and so on, and some that are security information, such as SSL certificate revocation and trust information. Vivaldi will also regularly check for updates for these components, and download other security information, such as Safe Browsing information, if necessary, when you navigate. These requests generally do not enable cookies.

The Google telemetry uploads and trials checks are completely disabled in Vivaldi's code.

Vivaldi will also ping our stats counter once a day, which counts how many users we have; the information transmitted contain no identifying information. This is documented in another of our technical articles.

Please note that there are other background requests that may be sent, that are not Vivaldi-related. Extensions you have installed may request updates from their developer, notification scripts you have permitted from websites will regularly check for updates (either via Google or another service), RSS-feeds and email accounts will regularly do so, as will many panels. I suspect both of your first IP addresses fall into these categories, since one one them in an Amazon cloud IP (which neither we nor Google uses), the other is from an unknown domain. (the three later ones are Google servers, probably components and safe browsing mirrors).

@Eggcorn For mobile network operators, the safest bet is to ask people that live near you. There are often unique circumstances that will make one have better coverage than the rest.

You can also look up your phone on Kimovil to see which bands it supports and how that matches up with various providers.

I live in a more rural mountainous area of the United States and have the best luck with the T-Mobile network, but the best deals are often on the MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators) that lease the usage of the major networks.

They can get deprioritized service compared to major carriers when there is congestion on the network, but I have never really had any issues. Might be a different situation in a big city. There are also fewer device deals on MVNOs, but I like to buy network unlocked flagship devices that are a few years old. In the United States, Swappa.com is pretty good for this.

There is also a handy website ( for the United States ) for comparing the various plans available, BestPhonePlans.net. That is how I narrow down which MVNO to use after I know which network I want to be on.

@Catweazle
Thank you for the welcome.

@Catweazle said in I like this forum quite a lot and there is a lot of competent and friendly expertise here. That's why I often post topics here that go beyond Vivaldi.:

Vivaldi is to Chrome the same as Chrome is to Lynx

Vivaldi — The Emacs of Browsers! 😉

I like games.

@ghoti Use the Unread or Recent links at the top of the forum. Click on Categories to browse the entire forum.

@para-noid Welcome back 🙂