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@Pathduck, until now, not sure in the next future.

This blog does not at all explain why it is not possible for the mobile browsers to allow for the export of bookmarks in the form of some sort of interchange file. Possibly in HTML that the user can then copy and take to whatever system they want to. This has been a feature in browers since netscape.

If the mobile browser can download and save a file to a user accessible location on the device (eg /downloads) surely it can write a html file with bookmarks in it, the DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file would be a great format to use, sure its loosely defined but it works, and seems to be a standard that's been used for a very long time.

If freedom of movement of data and interoperability were at all a priority the feature request wouldn't be languishing at the back of the pipeline since 2020
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/46946/import-and-export-bookmarks

Currently the only workaround is to sync your vivaldi account (sync may not be reliable) and export from a desktop browser.
This seems like the opposite of freedom of data movement and an attempt to force people to sign up and to upload their bookmarks through your server. I'm sure that this isn't the case, but if it isn't then give people an alternative.

@ybjrepnfr said in Manifest v3 update: Vivaldi is future-proofed with its built-in functionality:

@barbudo2005 heehee, spot on, tis indeed rp, though ofc that's forked from the Fox.

fwiw, my enthusiasm for floorp [which is now the same kind of passion i once enjoyed from 2015 with vivaldi, rip], is coz it focuses on the stuff important to me in a browser, without any of the sad crap vivaldi has diverged off into & is thus irrelevant for me. once, the early mantra of being "a browser for our friends" resonated strongly with me, but unfortunately for the past several years those words seem more ironic than accurate.

the beginning of the end was the day [a few years ago] i finally got it thru my thick skull that vivaldi devs & jon seem entirely uninterested in giving us another tab management paradigm option, being tst, which is so palpably superior to the current meagre options. more recently though, with the advent of "don't be evil corp" mv2 shenanigans & the consequent impending death of chromium uBO, i realised that even if vivaldi magically gave me native tst tomorrow [with comparable functionality to sidebery], it still would be too late, coz i refuse to use any browser that can't run mv2 uBO.

tis all such a pity.

Have to say, I have spent a few days trying to move away from Edge, and after a lot of trial and error my search narrowed down to Vivaldi and Floorp.

And I -almost- totally settled on Vivaldi, because it's a little more polished and it had the features I needed, plus the Android app was a little better than the firefox options I could find (which all seemed to be the same).

But Sidebery vertical tabs are still a lot better than Vivaldi tabs (but viv was 'good enough'), however the thing that has made me rethink is that Vivaldi built-in adblock can't handle youtube ads. So when viv gives up on uBlock compatibility, I'll have to move to Floorp anyway. So ... might as well make the change now.

Such a shame. Vivaldi at least is a MUCH better name than /floorp/ haha

@LonM said in Vivaldi Feed Reader: Break free from the algorithm:

I wish we had a better, more human, catch-all term with a verb and noun that could apply generally to all feed types.

"Enjoy media," maybe?

@LinLee
I guess this is not possible without some developer knowledge.
But there are many ways to get the results you want.
Try to move Direct Match down in the list.
Create a bookmark for YT and a nickname y, this gives:

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Thank you for this article, it is very intersesting Vivaldi insight about the open-source philosophy. Makes a lot of sense.

@HealingCross67 nowadays no browser is complete or even complete-able unfortunately, each of them misses something important with no feasible way to add it (I don't consider scripts injected into the browser GUI with unofficial means that quickly get outdated feasible... but we don't have other options sadly so that's better than nothing)

he promised me he would look into it. I have to ask him about his progress with that and get some feedback, if he has tested it.

@nikkehtine @RiveDroite Ah, OK. Strange that the EU was taken in by that.

Someone has deemed my post, published 28 days ago, to be defamatory or contrary to the author of the blog post and has removed it, but has not contacted me to let me know why they think that.
This is not a nice development. I don't mind my personal opinion being deleted. My position on the inappropriateness of the comparison used remains unchanged. Rhetorical question: is such a policy of silent deletion/gagging necessary? I don't think we need it. Let the author of this decision email me privately, I'd be happy to discuss it. Kind regards,

@Catweazle said in Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers:

@ImaginaryFreedom, we tag the user or cite him, to make it clear who we are responding to, which in a longer thread would not always be obvious to whom it is directed. It could be an answer to a question from a few pages ago, which without quoting or tagging, would be left without context.

As you can see I'm following up to your reply and quoting you here which will automatically tag you.

Which you could have done with your followup, which is why it was a point of curiosity to me.

Have a good day

@doctorg: Vivaldi on mobile doesn't have Reader View. Where it detects a web page with a more desktop oriented layout it asks "Do you want to use Simplified View". This comes from the underlying Google Chromium browser and presents a view that still shows adverts. Reader View on desktop is different and strips out everything apart from the article text and images.

So what was the Easter egg hidden in this blog?
I know, that the first step was to use the page action that rotates the images. What was the rest?

@thomasp Big thank you, now I'm able to switch back to the default workspace with an icon (using a quick command)! Switch to Window is enough in the command chain (and I couldn't find This Window option in the dropdown menu).
Default keyboard shortcuts are not working for me by default (all are empty) but I could assign them. There I found Switch to Window as the default workspace but I couldn't assign Ctrl+Shift+0 for it and Vivaldi did not say anything why it is unable to assign. (Now the default workspace is Ctrl+Shift+0, workspace 1 is Ctrl+Shift+2 and so on... but it would be better to use Ctrl+Shift+0 for the default workspace.
Another little recommendation: the shortcut for guest window could be Ctrl+Shift+G by default (as I have assigned it is an empty shortcut yet and guest window hasn't got shortcut by default).
And I hope, we would be able soon to choose easily (or it will working automatically) the default workspace icons for workspace shortcut on the panel (created by command chains or automatically switch on and off in the settings).

@devina
Many thanks for your beautifully written, detailed description.

You speak from my heart.

It's a pleasure to work on these things with Vivaldi.

Also on Android.

😀 😂 🥳

@Ringel
Welcome to the 'Vivaldiserve'.
Have fun with it.

And perhaps also on 'Mastodon' social.vivaldi.net

😀 😂

It is also really annoying that on my smartphone I can't remove a strange browser that I don't use. Of course, no product of this corporation can be removed, because it is installed by the system.

@Skol202372, what ocurres with your account?

@Ayespy Thanks.