Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9
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@bitok: It counts different things. On downloads, it counts, obviously, downloads. But with the upload, it allow to count if the user is actually using Vivaldi.
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@g_bartsch: Also, I have seen some themes for Vivaldi that totally burned my eyes, but seems OK in Japan (totally kawai ) so that could be a factor too.
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@stagger_lee: Except that it's not what the feature was for. It was only for counting the users, there are only a few statistical interesting info in there, no debug infos.
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@juniorsilva30: Privacy is always important, and especially on Internet. Knowing what info you are leaking should be mandatory before going on the Internet. After that you are free to leak those info or not, but you should be the sole master of your infos.
And since you have nothing to hide, why do you wear clothes and have curtains on your windows ? :p -
@mdnjou: It is true. Our number one country with respect to users is Japan. The US is number 2, followed by Germany and Russia.
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@xyzzy: Thanks!
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@cqoicebordel: That is the point. We know how many downloads we have, we just want to know how many active users we have, where they are based and OS usage.
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Dear Jon,
Today I used Vivaldi's latest stable version. I really liked the new stuff the company's been putting into this browser however the super high CPU usage by Vivaldi is preventing me from making this browser my default. Is it possible for your development team to start focussing on reducing CPU and mem usage? Would really appreciate it!
Sincerely,
RHSTOGUS
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I am an Opera user since version 6. With Vivaldi I feel like on the way back home. I'm just missing the link-panel - or did I just not found it yet?
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@vitvit It isnβt there yet but hopefully it will come in time. You could file this as a feature request.
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@Ayespy said in Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9:
displaced OldeOpera users coming home
I feel that nicely sums up the reaction so many of us felt, with the advent of V. Thank goodness!
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@JuniorSilva30 said in Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9:
I do not care what you collect! I'm no criminal! Do not have nothing to hide! I
Oh come on! That is, with respect, rubbish. It is a feeble argument to assert a false nexus between non-criminality & having no care at all about privacy. By your logic, you'd therefore have no worries about making all your account passwords, including banking, visible to others... after all, why not -- you're not a criminal!
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@jon Oh nooooooo. I'm devastated that Oz ain't leading the field.
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@g_bartsch No need, it's already in the Bug Tracker.
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It's one of the oldest, VB-1509, created by @jon himself -
@Otavnt Food for thought... I understand that people are concerned about their privacy and find it unsettling that Vivaldi "phones home" once a day. They install a dozen extensions to protect their privacy online... and yet they're totally okay checking in with Google on a regular basis to keep those privacy extensions up to date?!?
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@xyzzy Not to mention
phoning in every site we visit with Google Phishing and Malware Protection turned on. -
Maybe Vivaldi uses a local cache ? (https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/update-api)
Then it would only phone home to google when one of the sites on the list is visited; that's better for privacy and performance than contacting Google on every request.
Anyone to confirm/deny this?
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@IcePanther I think you may be right!
There are safe browsing files in AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data
Glad i brought it up ..
This is probably why the Report Safe Browsing Incidents to Google option is a separate checkbox, disabled by default. Without a local list, they would already know. This way nothing is sent, only downloaded periodically i guess.
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@mdnjou I'm just trying to put things into the right perspective. We trust Vivaldi enough in the first place to use their browser for normal day-to-day browsing and our most sensitive communications. If Vivaldi provided a check box that said "Count me as a Vivaldi user", I'm totally okay with checking it. If they didn't, it's still really one of the lessor things for me to get upset about in the grand scheme of things.
Sincerely, Mac user in Canada.
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Upgrade browser request when trying to log into www.kroger.com
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/528/gGrfYi.png
Then, once i try anyway, the webpage just spins...