Snapshot 1.5.604.4 - Fix for HTML5 audio and video on Windows
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I guess I would be better off, yes. The only reason I didn't is because my 2nd monitor is DVI only, and the 280x has one DVI port which I'm currently using with my main monitor. But all I need to do is to get a Display Port cable or HDMI to DVI adapter.
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Do you have "use tab zoom" enabled or disabled?
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Use a desktop PC, or the desktop-style features of your laptop. Unfortunately, developing for mobile-style inputs, including touch screen, is an evolutionary step beyond where Vivaldi is at this point. IT WILL COME. But it's not priority yet, because the desktop browser is nowhere near finished. Consider: Vivaldi has been adding about one feature PER WEEK for 85 weeks (the fastest development I have ever seen, by any team, of any size), and is not yet done with Desktop. Mobile and touch screen are definitely on the radar. But it seems people just don't get how long it actually takes to develop an original, non-derivative, browser. It is a mammoth task.
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Windows 8 was introduced in 2012, I believe and it is touch oriented. And, Opera has it too. I've been neglecting the Edge browser, I should look at it more.
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Thanks, but if it breaks the save button of the download prompt, then I don't mind waiting a bit longer for the thing to be fixed in a snapshot.
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Yes, having a download prompt is actually a very important feature. I just can't understand how other browsers like Chrome don't have it(at least not when I last used it 2-something years ago). It's almost like they dumb it down to the point of removing an extremely necessary feature that should be in every single browser.
Edge also has this issue. Often, clicking on things that are actually downloads makes the browser download the thing whether you wanted to or not.
Firefox seems to be a lot better in this regard, because you can set a preference to ask you where you'd like to save the download before it starts downloading, so you can avoid downloading any unwanted files and programs. So I'm happy that FF is at least trying.
I clicked one of your links you posted below, and Vivaldi immediately downloaded a text file, and downloaded faster than I could react to stop it. Maybe that was a test, but that's what I mean by how important this feature is. I thought I was clicking an URL/image.
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Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, one of the design decisions that Vivaldi made early on was to avoid the use of native widgets and platform-specific code as much as possible. This means that all platforms (generally) get the same features at the same time, and speeds up the overall development process. The downside is that the Vivaldi web browser doesn't behave exactly like a normal native application. They do their best to make Vivaldi feel as native as possible but that's the best that they can do.
As a Mac user, there are bunch of things with Vivaldi that annoy me to varying degrees – missing menu items like Bookmarks, how windows behave when you open and close them, colour palettes, button and widget shapes, etc. -- but each release keeps getting better and better. (I also know that I represent a small percentage of a small percentage of their user base.)
Even something as "simple" as mouse and trackpad gestures are a PAIN to implement so that they behave consistently and appropriately across different platforms.
Touch-based UI's add a whole new level of complexity. It's not a simple matter of adding 10 lines of code; nor is it in Vivaldi's interests to implement a poor touch-based UI or any code that could get broken easily by future OS updates or Chromium updates.
Christoph confirmed that they plan to add touchscreen support eventually, but it doesn't sound like they plan to implement it anytime soon. If you need a browser with decent touchscreen support right now, your best option for the foreseeable future is to use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.
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Huh… I can't replicate anymore either. Strange... I did have to restart Vivaldi because it was being really buggy...
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Same here with same OS and bits. Maybe caused by Mac? I can't reproduce either issue.
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Thanks. I'm still not sure what problem you were trying to solve with the old Chromium UI. It looked like you were either trying to be more granular with managing "Hosted app data" or providing a means of managing local storage used by Vivaldi features, or both.
Looking forward to see where you go with this in future snapshots.
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This might help…
Chrome has an "Automatic Download" feature that Vivaldi inherits. You can change the settings for this feature as follows:
- Click on the "Site info" icon to the left of the URL
- Click on "Site settings" at the bottom of the dropdown.
- Scroll down to "Automatic Downloads" and select "Do not allow any site to download multiple files automatically"
FYI, I also don't allow any site to handle protocols.
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Keystroke commands still don't work here (Win 10). Vivaldi only.
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It's important to understand that Vivaldi uses a non-native UI. This both multiplies their development speed and flexibility, and denies them access to native code which takes care of things like "dock developer tools to bottom of window" which Chrome imitators can use, and things like interpreting touch screen input to the UI. A lot of these inputs and codes can be passed thru, but the code to do that has to be WRITTEN and TESTED, which Chrome imitators do not have to do.
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BTW, the reason most browsers will automatically download files is because files with viruses can't do anything by simply existing. A program or file must be opened before it could potentially do anything harmful.
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Can confirm as well. Windows 10 x64, Vivialdi x32
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In regards to #1, if you think that is bad, try using the horizontal menu. http://i.imgur.com/JobATL5.png
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… and Vivaldi's approach also makes it a royal pain in the behind to implement other "simple" things like dragging a tab from one window to another... but not impossible either. Trade-offs.
Nevertheless, it's amazing and impressive what they've been able to accomplish with a small (and international) group of people.
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It's more like for links like: https://www.google.com/#q=Hello World
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Aren't those URLs all the same?
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Consider that over 2000 developers work on Windows 10. Also, keep in mind that every version of Windows isn't rebuilt from scratch. As far as I know, every version of Windows is built off the technology of the previous version. That's why Windows 95 programs still work on Windows 10.