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  Looking for the best Android tablet browser? Meet Vivaldi.
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  Sounds great! I have a new Galaxy Tab S7 (which I just checked actually has an 11-inch screen!) and an old but trusted Sony Xperia XZ phone which I already dread having to replace at some point.
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  Vivaldi browser and open-source
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  @10Meisterbaelle , this is precisely what Vivaldi has done, the code is open for audit, but some parts are protected and not for free use.
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  How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
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  @RockinRobbins Believe it or not, Chrome was one of the first browsers that force users to use the browser the way the developers intend. With Firefox and other browsers, you had the option of using Tab Mix Plus to customize. The reality is that not every uses the browsers the way the developers intend. Customization of the tabs is one of the key aspects that differentiate the different browsers. I see absolutely no point in using Opera now that its neutered and the same goes for Firefox. Vivaldi has some customization of the tabs, if it wasn't for that, I would just switch back to Chrome and none of these API call changes matter to me. Other than the tab customizations, none of the other features impress me. Its either something I don't need or just more bloat. I don't even use the internal speeddial function because Speed Dial 2 is 100 times better in my opinion. I just need a secure, stable browser that works on most web sites and customization of the tab interface. Anything else, I can find an extension. The tab control is one of the items where there are no extensions to improve the stock performance.
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  5 ways to customize Vivaldi browser on Android
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  @laggardkernel Hi, Welcome to Vivaldi's Forums! If not mistaken, to use the Dark Theme is the only way. You can check on Suggestions Subforum and open a new Topic if this one does not exist. -- "Off Topic Tip" Follow the Signature's Backup | Reset link. Take the opportunity to start a Backup plan and even create a Template Profile. Windows 7 (x64) Vivaldi Backup | Reset + Extra Steps
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  How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi
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  @JewelleahLovewrite said in How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi: Please do not post in capitals, it is taken as if you are shouting/screaming!! SEARCH CHANGE THE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE THAT IS CURRENTLY BING YOU CAN CHANGE THE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE FROM BING TO GOOGLE. BING IS USED ON FIREFOX, I NEVER LIKED USING BING AND IS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS FIREFOX WAS ONLY USED ONCE IN A BLUE MOON. I TRIED CHANGING BING TO GOOGLE AND WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. Settings/Search - search engines. Look through the list for the one you want to use and click on "set as default search" See also https://help.vivaldi.com/tutorials/switching-search-engines-quickly/ MAKE SURE THAT ENABLE AUTO UPDATE IS CHECKED. I LOOKED FOR THE ENABLE AUTO UPDATE AND COULD NOT FIND IT ANYWHERE. Settings/General - Updates See https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/update-vivaldi/ I TRIED ADDING A WEBSITE NAME IN THE WEBSITE PANEL AND WAS UNABLE TO HAVE THE NAME I ENTERED TO BE ACCEPTED. THE PERSON IN THE VIDEO I WATCHED ONLY HAD TO PUT THE NAME OF THE WEBSITE INTEREST AND IT WAS ACCEPTED; WHEN I TRIED TO DO THE SAME, IT WAS NOT ACCEPTED. I WAS TOLD TO ENTER THE URL ADDRESS, WHICH THE PERSON ON THE VIDEO DID NOT HAVE TO DO AND I DO NOT KNOW THE WHOLE URL ADDRESS OF ANY WEBSITE(S). EX: NEWS, TELEVISION SHOWS AND MOVIE STREAMING, GOOGLE, ETC..... ANY OF THE WEBSITE PANELS I DID NOT WANT I COULD CLOSE AND ENTER A WEBSITE THAT I WOULD ENJOY USING. THIS DID NOT PROVE TO BE AN EASY TASK TO COMPLETE. First go to the website, then open the panel (F4) and click the '+' button to add it. See also https://help.vivaldi.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-web-panel/ AT ONE POINT I WAS SEARCHING FOR THE BOX ONE NEEDS TO CHECK TO ALLOW ADS BUT TO PREVENT TRACKING; EVEN THOUGH I AM WEARY OF ADS AND AM IN NO WAY WANTING TO LISTEN TO THE ADS. I DO NOT LIKE COMMERCIAL ADS BUT I DO ENJOY WATCHING AND, OR LISTENING TO TELEVISION SHOWS AND, OR MOVIES AS I DO WORK ON MY COMPUTER. See https://help.vivaldi.com/android/android-privacy/android-tracker-and-ad-blocker/ I WOULD NOT DARE DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS IF I DID NOT HAVE THE STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED BY THE PERSON ON THE VIDEO POSTED ON YOUTUBE. Without knowing which video you are referring to, I can't comment on how "good/useful" they are BASICALLY I FEEL VERY INSECURE AND VULNERABLE DOING ANYTHING ON A COMPUTER, WITHOUT CLEAR AND CONCISE STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS BY A COMPUTER TECH; AND EVEN THEN I AM NERVOUS. So was everyone when they started out using computers. The first rule is "DON'T PANIC!!" I WANT TO AVOID UNWANTED POP UPS ALTOGETHER, SO WHERE DO I HAVE TO GO, TO FIND THE BOX I HAVE TO CHECK, TO AVOID ANY POP UPS WHATSOEVER? Settings/Webpages -Default Permissions See also https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/website-permissions/ WHAT TELEVISION SHOWS AND MOVIE STREAMING SITES DO NOT HAVE COMMERCIAL ADS, AND CAN BE PLACED IN A VIVALDI WEBSITE PANEL? THERE WAS ONE WEBSITE I WAS USING AND I WAS REALLY PLEASED WITH THE QUALITY TELEVISION SHOWS AND MOVIES SELECTIONS, AS WELL AS THE VIDEO QUALITY, SOUND QUALITY, AND LIST OF EPISODE SELECTIONS PER SEASON, WHICH COULD BE CONVENIENTLY CHOSEN. THE ONLY THING I DID NOT ENJOY WAS THE BEAT THE CLOCK GAME (FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING) TO CLOSE THE TAB THERE WAS A VIRUS LOADING ON. I DID WELL AS THE AVG SCAN BASICALLY STATED THERE WASN'T ANY VIRUS(ES) AND, OR MALWARE(S) ON MY COMPUTER. THIS IS WHY I ASKED IF ANYONE ON THE VIVALDI STAFF KNEW OF TELEVISION SHOWS AND MOVIE STREAMING WEBSITE(S) WHERE CLOSING TAB(S) WITH A VIRUS LOADING IS IN NO WAY AN ISSUE. This is country specific. I BELIEVED VIVALDI EXCEEDED GOOGLE IN QUALITY SERVICE(S) AND WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY SUCH WEBSITE(S) TO BE PLACED FOR SELECTION ON VIVALDI SEARCH. THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS I DECIDED TO DOWNLOAD VIVALDI. When you search, it is the search engine you use (not the browser) that provides the sites. ANOTHER REASON IS FOR THE HIGH PRAISE OF VIVALDI BY THE COMPUTER TECH I WAS WATCHING ON YOUTUBE; WHO BASICALLY STATED THAT ONCE YOU TRY VIVALDI YOU WON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO THE BROWSER(S) YOU WERE USING BEFORE. Well, everyone on these forums uses Vivaldi DOES VIVALDI PROVIDE THE OPTION OF EMAIL ACCOUNTS TO BE CREATED AND, OR SET UP? Yes, by creating your account in these forums, you have been allocated an email account !! JewelleahLovewrite@vivaldi.net See https://help.vivaldi.com/show-on-first-page/vivaldi-net-and-its-webmail/ PLEASE REMEMBER I AM A VIVALDI BEGINNER & I AM NOT A COMPUTER TECH EXPERT. That's OK. I suggest you create a new topic in https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/54/new-to-forum for other questions you may have. Also, Vivaldi Help files are available when you press the function key F1.
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  Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview
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  How to sync Tasks with Google Tasks? It doesn't show my todo from Google Tasks
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  Minor update (2) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.6
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  Hi! thanks for this update, I don't know if anyone's having this issue or not or if this is the place for this, but after the last update, sometimes when I'm watching a Youtube video, it gets paused whenever there's an ad, before this update, I would have the usual ad at the beginning of the video, but the rest would ply without interruptions. Once again, thank you for the wonderful work you guys do! all the best from Chile.
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  Minor update for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.6
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  As of this update, with the setting "As Tab Stack with Related Tab" checked, new tabs open at the beginning of the tabs bar. Previously it was at the end! Can't you guys add a checkbox option "Create Tab Stack" as an addition to New Tab Position options? Pretty please. @Ruarí
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  Vivaldi takes tabs to the next level, literally
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  @SergejB you could slightly increase the UI size. Often helps.
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  Vivaldi introduces Page Actions: Change the look of web pages on Android
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  What do you mean by External download managers? In that screenshot, you show other browsers. Generally, when one thinks of download managers on Android, it's usually Idm, ADM, etc. 2 AND those are not supported as the app gives a "No download manager installed" error. Really confusing!
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  21 tab tricks to get you started in 2021
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  @pablogutierezz: As in guigirl's screenshot below really. Basically if you have a tab stack and you have your tabs on the left side of the browser then you can make one column wider than the other to be able to read whichever column is larger but you can only enlarge the columns to a certain width before they have a hard stop. I'd like to be able to widen each column as wide as I want as the screen space is mine to do with as I wish but as you can only enlarge the columns to a certain percentage of the browser width it's stopping me from utilising tabs on the left as I can't read the tabs fully. I either get my top level of tabs readable and the tab stack tabs aren't or I enlarge the tabs in the stacks column and then can't read the first column properly. Having to go and keep on enlarging one column or the other all the while is unfortunately a nuisance. I'm not too sure therefore why the columns can't just be enlarged to as much of the screen as you want instead of having that hard stop there? If it's too much for some people then they just wouldn't enlarge that far? Seems fair I think?
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  Mojeek: Search results independent of Google, Microsoft, and Yandex
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  @echtnietchromehoor Here in my search engine collection you can also find the Mojeek search engine URL: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/46609/vivaldi-search-engines-collection
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  What’s in a term: Snapshot vs Stable
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  @pradagio said in What’s in a term: Snapshot vs Stable: @Pesala said in What’s in a term: Snapshot vs Stable: Install the Snapshot as a Standalone Version so that it does not interfere with your settings for the Stable release. thx pesala - i'm on linux so i'm ok. never heard of standalone for windows, but then i'm used to win95 and win98. You can always choose to install Vivaldi as default or as standalone (in any file location you want) under the advanced settings. I haven't done a new installation for a year or two so I don't know if anything changed recently...
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  A bug’s life at Vivaldi
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  @wubijacq I removed your post as you already requested help at https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/56678/vivaldi-freeze-sur-linuxmint-19-1
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  How to use Instagram in Vivaldi browser
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  I have been using this for about a year very successfully...but now when I follow all the instructions there is no way to get my page view in the webpanel to appear as the Instagram Mobile Page View for posting... what to do...?
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  Vivaldi 2.9: Adding more to the Vivaldi Menu
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  let's check it out
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  Translating Vivaldi
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  @Shpankov Thank you.
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  Picture in Picture mode: Vivaldi vs Chrome vs Firefox
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  @swanknight For Vivaldians who also happen to be Nixing Plasmoids, one of the numerous nice KDE Plasma features is Custom Window Rules. I created a CWR for PiP in V-Snapshot, another for V-Stable, & another for FF-Nightly. With my CWR each time i launch PiP in any of these browsers, it remembers my preferred default placement [bottom rhs corner of desktop], size [to fill the width between rhs screen-edge & rhs browser window edge], virtual-desktop/workspace [all 4 of mine; iirc V PiP natively also does that, but FF natively does not], & window-chrome [with which therefore i can minimise, maximise or shade the PiP window].
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  5 reasons why reading on your computer is a better experience with Vivaldi
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  @firstprinciples: This is very interesting:) Thanks for sharing. I am going to check it out.
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  Fit your style! Change the look of your browser.
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  @JLConnor3 said in Fit your style! Change the look of your browser.: @mossman. Yes I do, but thanks nonetheless. I just don't understand why these alleged "improvements" must be turned off instead of letting people know that the option is available for them to turn on. Will be interested to see if it defaults back with the next upgrade, which will be even more irritating. To be fair this particular thing isn't an "improvement" since it's been part of the Vivaldi UI design since before version 1.0.