The most customizable browser is now the most colorful: Vivaldi version 1.3 debuts with custom themes, enhanced privacy and much more
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Truth. I should have clarified and said I am happy to see this approach being used on a modern browser. Reading that some of the devs from 'old' Opera were behind Vivaldi got me to install it when the first stable was released. I am now hooked. Good stuff! There are obviously areas for improvement. But its still young and progress has been moving along nice and steady.
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File that specific comment as a bug. They have been alert to incorrect text and color changes, but have not caught them all. Contrast preservation should be consistent.
I did that, I think a few days ago. I think it was my 2nd time writing a bug report on that. We'll wait and see what happens.
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Once I finally found the built in readability option, I was happier (it takes twice as many clicks as the Readability app ~ or Firefox's built in reader mode), but I don't see a way to invert the colors (black background with white text) to cut down on glare. Other reader modes can do that. Is that a possibility down the road?
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"Wait" is the key. There are over twenty thousand bug reports. There are about 20 developers, and some of them are working on projects other than the main browser. You can do the math, I'm sure.
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I've noticed that, rarely, the 'New Tab Position' setting isn't always respected when set to 'As last tab'. It seems to go to the 'after last related tab' instead.
I've only seen this happen twice, so it seems rare. I noticed it about two snapshots ago, when the reopen a closed tab position bug was fixed.
Anyone else notice this issue?
Linux Mint 18, x64 Vivaldi
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I suppose, you've not read what I was trying to tell. I wrote that I had not added any theme or changed settings, and if you want to know, I haven't watched any videos or such like at all. In a way, the Vivaldi is just as it was installed.
In Windows, Vivaldi had created itself a folder in AppData, and from there it is running. In that folder, there is an Application folder and a User Data folder. This Application folder holds the 1.3.551.30 folder, which is heavy, 304MB. and, it shouldn't be. After updating to 1.3 stable, (that is the 551.30 folder), it didn't delete the earlier folder 1.3.551.28, which was 187MB. There is no reason to make the new folder so large as 302MB. Because, the stand-alone Vivaldi 1.3 stable is 146MB.
The installer didn't adjust the User Data folder. After installing the 1.3 stable, it should be around 14-16MB, but that folder grew up to 364MB, after 5 hours, that folder grew to 450MB.
In Linux, the installed Vivaldi 1.3 stable is 177.3MB and the data file in .config is 4.9MB and still the same after 5 hours. And, I'v ebeen watching videos, reading newspapers, downloading some isos etc. It brought a happy smile reading about dedicated Linux users. "Linux is an important platform for us." I have a feeling that it is easy to create Vivaldii for Linux than for Windows.
I'm writing this not from Vivaldi 1.3 stable, but from Version 54.0.2827.0, the trunk version Chromium on Linux, installed just an hour ago. But, I have Vivaldi open too.
Tomorrow, I'm going to delete the vivaldi folder in AppData in Windows 10 and re-install Vivaldi 1.3 stable. A new Application and a User Data file would be created. I'll make a note of the initial size and after 5-6 hours of work, even watching videos.
Btw, you can check all this in your computer too. The AppData folder is hidden in your home folder (your username) in Windows. All Linux users usually know, where is the .config file.
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No, it is not. Its called 1.3.551.30
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It's essentially the same. There may have been one minor bugfix between .28 and .30, if that. The main thing that changed was that in the .30 build, the browser was identified as "Stable," so that the stable version could find it on the update servers, and offer Stable users the update. Those of us who follow the snapshot stream are, at this moment, using basically the exact same product as those who follow the stable stream. As a rule of thumb, the last snapshot update before a stable update is the same code as the stable. Only the version number is different.
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The .config file and the User Data file are not the same. They are not similar.
The User Data folder in Windows contains the DEFAULT folder, which stores all data concerning your settings, cache, browser history, favicons, thumbnails, etc., etc., etc.
Linux also has a DEFAULT folder, which does the same thing, but I can't remember where in the directory it lives right now, and I recently uninstalled Lubuntu from the machine where I had it (will reinstall later) so I can't check right now. It appears to me that you are trying to compare apples and oranges, and are expecting the Default folder not to grow with use, which it is certain to do.
I have 3 versions of Vivaldi on my computer right now. The User Data folders, due to the Default folder growth, are exactly proportionate to how much I use them - 205 MB, 869 MB, and 895 MB. (The figure I gave earlier about 1.01 GB was because I had a backup copy of the Default folder in that User Data folder).
The current version folders (windows always stores one stripped-down old version folder in Chromium browsers) within Application Data are 302 MB, 328 MB, and 302 MB. Why? The middle one is an internal test version that has the built-in email client and is therefore bigger. These sizes I have just cited are normal and expected.
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People should have a choice
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How many times do you load up the browser? Do you turn off your PC?
It's better to NOT load them up at start, just click on them once and forget about it. You might want to disable the tab memory management features in Vivaldi flags. -
It works fine. Try creating a stand alone install of vivaldi and check if the issue persists. If not, you need to optimize your profile or start with a clean install.
In my experience, profiles get borked after two or three months, sadly.
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Nice work. The "Subtle" theme is very attractive.
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I think he just made "Metrocalypse" up. I believe Metro was actually the much needed spark of a digital design philosophy revolution. With Metro, MS helped popularize an "authentic digital" design that looked beautiful. Apple followed these Metro-esque design cues in iOS 7, the first version of iOS worth looking at. Google also adopted this new approach with their Material design, which likewise looks great. Microsoft, of course, has refined their design with Microsoft Design Language 2 (MDL2), which is implemented in the fantastic-looking Windows 10 OS for both desktop and mobile. Vivaldi, as with Opera and Edge, also makes use of this flat, elegant, authentic digital design that I trace directly back to Metro. Frankly, Metro was one of the best things to happen in digital interface design in recent history.
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We are learning from you that 30=28. That's nice!
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Because a lot of people have sites pinned which they always have open. For that use case having to click on every single tab on startup for it to load is not really convenient.
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"It's better to NOT load them up at start"
Can you explain why you feel so strongly about this? In what sense is it better?
I see nothing wrong with having it as an option since I can understand the inconvenience it causes to certain users. -
I'd suggest trying with adblocking-related extensions disabled.
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Maybe you actually should since he does have access into the internal bug tracker
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If you want to view any tab you have to click on it anyway. Loading all tabs on startup is a waste of CPU cycle and RAM, since you may not view all of them in any given session.
Load what is actually needed, when it is needed, and not everything that might be needed
