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@Gwen-Dragon , not only the French people, although with UR they have already shown that they know what a good browser is (omg, it even has a real VPN (paid) and AV for downloads).
Interesting also the still little-known UR Browser, very privacy-oriented (in my opinion better than Brave), it also has a UR beta for Android. (French software from adaptivebee)
Honestly, MS doesn't have a history of making it's money by selling your information. As long as that is the debate, Google (or Facebook or Amazon) has already lost. Does that mean I trust MS? About as far as I could throw their building (they actually do own a building here in town).
I trust Vivaldi, and even Opera, more than MS, Apple or any of the big names. Not that that is saying all that much, honestly. (Trusting almost anyone more than MS is pretty much a given, the fact FB and Amazon don't qualify is the notable part.)
@Gwen-Dragon I'll consider doing this. Right now I feel the need to let the previous reply's information sink in--I take it that applications should only be toward open positions--or wait for others' input on unsolicited / general job applications.
Really a good idea to use notes as a private chat, maybe in a future Vivaldi can even expand this idea to add a chat function, that allows you to add more participants from other Vivaldi accounts.
@danielson - really don't know what happened, but after quite a few attempts, i'm finally able to login now (even with all extensions enabled) - a glitch or... old age maybe?!
All's well that ends well.
I have been using this outstanding browser on my desktop for some time now and cannot imagine using any other browser. I use a Android phone. I was doing my happy dance when Vivaldi launched its Android browser. It synced with my desktop perfectly. A thousand Kudos to Jon and his very talented team for once again achieving perfection. This brings me to my point. Many of my friends and associates have iphones. They are synced to their desktop browsers. They will not consider Vivaldi because they cannot sync it to their iphones. Jon, when Vivaldi launches its iphone app I can promise you several new users.
@Pathduck Web developers are very cool and smart people, but I'm still a long way from being one. But in twelve years with Windows I know some tricks and with Vivaldi the Vivaldi forum has already given me some tricks (modifications)....
As long as there exists the possibility of mapping the 2 different domain name variants (with and without WWW) to different IPs or services, users need to see where they are.
Some domains are setup with WWW for serving a web site, and without WWW for access to email or the server software.
Every time there is a call from Google to obscure the reality of URLs for the sake of making them less obscure, I see an immediate vector open for misdirection and mischief.
We have enough trouble with clever use of encoded URLs and crafty use of Unicode.
Google want to hide everything not the central domain name, thus exposing users to higher risk of being on a fake site and not knowing.
Relying on a valid cert for authenticity is no use to newbies that have no idea where in the cert to look for the correct domain info.
Who issued the cert seems to be more important to display than which domains it is meant for (am I alone in seeing this as the wrong way round?)
Chromium doesn't even use proper OCSP so we have to put up with Googles crappy system (unless you enable it as a policy).
Ultimately this info is UI stuff so can be as optional as needed.
The full info should be on by default, and easy to change.
Personally I prefer to know exactly what I just trod in, so even favour seeing more info, such as a flag for geo-ip and the ability to see the IP of the domain I am on.
