@Catweazle said in The many faces of Vivaldi:
@Team_Vivaldi , I see Vivaldi almost more a face of an online OS than of a simple browser
Beautifully formulated.
Thank you @susanbn! Got my package today. Currently a bit too warm to wear, but once I no longer melt whenever I go outside, I will be sure to wear it 😁
@TsunamiZ said:
what was in the prize package for the theme sharing contest?
The package contained a gray zip up hooded jacket.
Photo showing some of the jacket
gray-jacket.jpg
I hate to break to you Scandinavians, but Karaoke has been severely in retreat here in eastern Massachusetts (I dare say including Magnolia) for quite a few years. Not only that, this video could also put Tomas's day job on the line. Finally, a carpool implies travel. Three reasons to delete this news article.
@Team_Vivaldi I use it to search the web once and awhile. I have mine set to All the Internet, @ alltheinternet.com and it seems to work way faster than when it use it with Google @ google.com or DuckDuckGo @ duckduckgo.com. Thanks for the review it was very entertaining.
@Aussie This forum does not support Reader View. Many sites do not, but many do. There is no default shortcut for Reader View, so assign one yourself such as Ctrl+R for quicker access.
@halmai
If you do so install it as standalone version to keep your stable install clean.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/standalone-version-of-vivaldi/
Cheers, mib
@jkierzkowski This blog article is three years old. There is no default shortcut for Quitting Vivaldi. I assigned Ctrl+Shift+Q, which is easy, but too easy to use by accident.
There is also a setting (which I do not use) for:
Show Exit Confirmation Dialog
@Catweazle and @DoctorG
A brief anecdote. about weasels. There is a large European weasel commonly called a polecat that has always been the bane of poultry keepers. I have been an outdoorsman cum ecologist cum fur trapper cum herbalist since childhood. In 1968 I was in USAREUR (U S Army) Germany spending all of my spare time exploring the natural environment and abandoned military facilities. In my small backpack were folding knife, cord, collecting bags, camera, flashlight, notebook, field guide to herbs and mushrooms of Europe and a small roll of duct tape. As I entered the dark attic of a three story abandoned building that was the remnant of a bombed out kaserne I heard a growl coming from the clutter and debris and I saw a polecat which is called iltisse in German. I froze and waited to see what the critter would do then I advanced forward to the right to see if it would got out the entry. Instead it went to the entry, stopped and growled again. I slowly brought out my knife and cast about for a defensive pipe or stick. A Broken oak 2X2 was four feet from me. The polecat made a feinting dash at my legs as I lunged for the stick letting me know that it was not going to leave the attic. I grabbed the stick and on the second assault I stunned it with the stick and stabbed it repeatedly until it was dead. It was a female with full dugs. I found 4 recently born kits at the far end of the attic and regretfully killed them.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/german-english/iltis
My avatar is what I call the Skeleton Key To The Universe and the wedding between Pi and PHI as they square the circle and hold all things in balance which in turn produces the music of the spheres named Echosyn, life's longing for itself and to be ever in harmony.
Chrome 101 ships with controversial advertising system trials
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/04/26/chrome-101-ships-with-controversial-advertising-system-trials/
Controversial trials for advertising APIs begin
Two features that may be of interest to many Chrome users are not listed on the page. It is possible that these are not listed because they are run as trials in the browser. So-called Origin Trials introduce features in Chrome to a subset of users, often to give developers access to these features to implement and test services.
The two features, Topics API and First "Locally-Executed Decision over Groups" Experiment (FLEDGE), are run as Origin Trials in Chrome 101 to 104 on the desktop.
Google dropped FLoC in early 2022 and announced that it would use Topics instead for its future cookie-less advertising system. Topics runs locally in the web browser. The API uses algorithms to determine topics of interest based on the user's browsing history. The interests are stored locally in the browser for three weeks. When a user visits a site, three of the interests are revealed to the site in question and its advertising partners.
FLEDGE, First "Locally-Executed Decision over Groups" Experiment, is the second advertising technique that Google trials in Chrome versions 101 to 104. The technique moves "the interest data and the final ad decision" to the local browser. Google hopes that the technique addresses core privacy concerns while giving advertisers enough data to display advertisement that is potentially of interest to users.
Topics and FLEDGE are not without criticism either. Both do not address the issue with the selection of sensitive topics. A Microsoft Edge developer published a short script in mid-2021 that could be used for cross-site tracking with FLEDGE.
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@sjudenim said in A deep dive into Panels:
I would have hoped by now that web panels would hibernate when not in use but they still are just taking up resources all the time. This is the reason I don't use them. Loading the page when I need affords me the ability to hibernate the tab or just close it
I have moved away from panels and am using tabs exclusively now because of this, also.
