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  Ad blockers or not – your choice matters
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  If the lack of an adblocker in a desktop browser is already a real scourge, not only to avoid nuisance ads, but can also lead to security and privacy problems, worse still on the mobile, where ads and trackers are not only a risk for privacy and security, but they can also terribly slow down browsing on low-end smartphones (mine). I have this problem and I have to navigate with the help of Blokada, because if not, some pages open at the speed of the last century with a modem of 56.
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  Minor update(2) for Vivaldi Android Beta 2
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  Thank you for your work! I'm so happy that I can finally use vivaldi on both my laptop and my phone.
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  Minor update (3) for Vivaldi 2.10
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  @Kein Please observe the forum's code of conduct. If you experience issues, start a new thread, posting links and some evidence of these memory leaks, and/or submit a bug report. Please see How to Report a Bug This link is now on the Help menu, Report a Bug.
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  5 things you should know about dark mode
  • OlgaA  

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  @greybeard said in 5 things you should know about dark mode: Terminal modes are different for PoweShell and the Command Prompt are different and are different for Admin and local user modes (usually variations on a dark blue background with yellow foreground and a strong looking font). As I said upthread, Amstrad chose exactly those colours for being easy on the eyes yet clear to read: Ahhh... fond memories!
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  User Agent Changes
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  @Pesala Yes, at the bottom of the HTML5 Test Page, they note: "The HTML5 test does not try to test all of the new features offered by HTML5, nor does it try to test the functionality of each feature it does detect." IOW, they're apparently profiling parts of Vivaldi as they believe it would behave from some database they have and reporting that result in their 'test' tables. A nice example of the User Agent String being used to shape a website response.
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  Minor update (2) for Vivaldi 2.10
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  FYI, 79.0.3945.130 dropped today, with 11 security fixes: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
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  Why I replaced the browser on the new Pinebook Pro
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  I do use VIVALDI on my pinebook pro. But widevine drm does not seem to work. I made a symlink of WidevineCdm.so in opt/vivaldi to usr/lib/chromium-browser/libwidewinecdm.so. But videos at https://demo.castlabs.com with drm do not play. What am I missing? Can you help me please? Vivaldi 2.10.1745.26 (Stable channel) (32-bit) Revision 182b46dfa34819c30511128cebe63e8375d8e6af OS Linux JavaScript V8 7.9.317.32 Flash (Disabled) User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.118 Safari/537.36 Command Line /usr/bin/vivaldi --use-gl=egl --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-webrtc-apm-in-audio-service --save-page-as-mhtml Executable Path /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi Profile Path /home/rock/.config/vivaldi/Default
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  Search engines: Time to take a stand
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  @prascal Wow... That's quite a necro-bump for this old thread! Can't say I ever use Qwant but I'll try remember to look at it again when I'm next at a PC...
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  How to save and open groups of tabs in Vivaldi
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  Right clicking on an open tab doesn't work in the latest (2.10) Vivaldi. I also used to be able to turn my saved sessions into a bookmark folder that I could than move to the Bookmark bar to access conveniently when I come back to the browser. So, how do I "BOOKMARK" multiple tabs that actually works? I leave tabs open and move to the next topic of research. Therefore, my open tabs are the end result of my research, which I then would like to save to bookmarks in the sequence they're in. Thx!
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  Vivaldi’s powerful privacy settings
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  @gajk If you signed up for vivaldi sync, you may have ticked to join the mailing lists. You can unsubscribe from them easily using a link at the bottom of them. You can also unsubscribe from them here: https://vivaldi.com/newsletter/unsubscribe These mailing lists are informational (letting you know about browser updates etc.) and run by Vivaldi, and your details are never shared with 3rd parties.
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  Take full page screenshots in one simple step
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  @Ayespy It should be possible to capture the whole page, e.g. by allowing to make consecutive screenshots each capturing the next 30000px.
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  How to choose a browser in 2020
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  @npro: yes version 72... Honestly, if I want to fix privacy and tracking "issues", i am able to do that with a few clicks and some tools. But to fix the extraordinarily miserable interface or to make the ugly sitemenu go away I get no tool a hand... There a other issues, just to name one: The cookie manager. Nothing is better than work with that kind of disturbing and unpleasant cookie manager with a weirdo design. I am not sure if they are testing things before rolling them out... However I'd rather consider installing and using Opera 12 like @mossman our IT guy than let FF out of the box again. Opera has emigrated to China (even that was not the main consideration to move forwards) and Vivaldi jumped into the emptiness. About catching up FF or Brave: I would not care to much about global market share and statistics. Success is not necessarily measured by market shares and the number of monthly users doesn't say anything about usability, browser safety nor trustability and the values or intentions of a company behind the product. One great example for that: GChrome. More than a billion users sticking with a malicious browser. This seems more likely a bad joke than the reality... Less is sometimes more and more ends up at some point in a mess..
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  Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached
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  @mossman said in Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached: @ukanuk said in Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached: I just got the latest updates with Norton LiveUpdate, and can confirm at least on my system that it seems to be working again without the workaround Good news! Okay, I will include "that corporate laptop" in the update round this time... Oh dear... still didn't work for me I found that creating a shortcut with Windows 8 compatability option gets it to work, but it shows a thick outline in full-screen (3 or 4 pixels) so I will see if the command-line workaround fixes that. (Edit: it does) Another oddity running only this laptop - the icon in the task bar is blank for some reason (since a couple of months ago).
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  How to use Instagram in Vivaldi browser
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  @Agoracom I think this isn't possible, even because the the mobile webversion doesn't allow the multiple selection.
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  Nerding with Vivaldi on a Raspberry Pi
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  Hello, I am brand new to raspberry pi (just came in the post Monday)! I haven't done projects yet but have Vivaldi up and running.
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  Privacy and the rise of the alternative search engine
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  @Alihussain said in Privacy and the rise of the alternative search engine: https://google.com https://tosdr.org/
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  Encryption keys and usability in Vivaldi and other browsers
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  @Saile Nope, the only way to "get back" the encryption key is to reset remote data (you'll keep anything stored in local) and sync again - generating a new key.
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  What’s unique in Vivaldi for Android?
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  But there are lack of syncing search engines with a desktop. Every day I use about 20 different search engines, and I bounded with stupid firefox which is only browser that allows to sync search engines between desktop and android. Keywords for search engines is a beatiful idea, but users need more!
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  Ready, steady, go!
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  Hi! Great to know about your dev history. I'm a long-time vivaldi user and appreciate your work
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  Flashback
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  Do you know if Chromium is just going to block the Flash plug-in where Vivaldi will have the possibility to work around the blocking? Or, is PPAPI behind dropped in Chromium so that there's no possibility of working around it? If the former and Vivaldi doesn't want to work around it, will Vivaldi be built without PPAPI support then?