What is stopping you from using V all the time?
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@LongLife said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
(...) quick commands are practically unusable (works fine on Linux but on Windows is literally unusable in both stable and snapshot version).
What is it in the quick commands that it is not working for you? I admit, it's a new feature for me and I'm not used to it yet, so I mainly use it for opening new tabs using website's nicknames, but it works smoothly here. Perhaps it's the number of bookmarks (I've got around 250 bookmarks) or your computer's performance?
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@pafflick I haven't thought about having too much bookmarks but it turns out that I actually did and that was the problem. When I removed them it worked fine. I have around 1k bookmarks which is not small amount but not huge amount either. They certainly have to optimize performance in quick commands, I would say that I have decent CPU (i5 4690k) and enough RAM (8GB) for that to run smoothly.
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- missing bookmarks sync
- bad touchscreen support: Vivaldi GUI becomes randomly unresponsive to touch input
- scrolling with touchpad using two fingers is very fast
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@Lupin-III With that many tabs open, any multi-process browser will give you a hard time. Luckily, there is a tab hibernation option If that does not work for you, try The Great Suspender extension, works miracles and is very customizable.
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Ubuntu 17
Tabs stop responding fairly frequently now. One bad tab and the rest become unresponsive too and I'm forced to kill the browser instance as one cannot switch tabs nor access any settings. I can see 2 of my 4 cores pegged when this happens. Once closed, I cannot reopen unless I reboot.
Dev tools/inspector still pretty limited. I know why we don't have this yet but don't care. Its all about the core focus of this team which is clearly not to cater to web devs but rather power users in general. One of the reasons for Chrome's rapid ruling of the world is specifically targeting web professionals. If the same effort that was put into the recent history enhancements into dev tools we'd have some more happy campers here including myself.
Speed - seems pretty sluggish all around. Running XPS w/ i7/16gb+GTX gpu and this browser still stutters even when it is the first app I open after reboot. I am not too far off a fresh install, both OS and this browser. I have the same experience on other machines too (all Linux). Maybe its a Linux thing?
Orphaned processes - When browser is closed must run killall vivaldi-bin otherwise they stay open indefinitely.
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@pingram3541 said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
Tabs stop responding fairly frequently now. One bad tab and the rest become unresponsive too and I'm forced to kill the browser instance as one cannot switch tabs nor access any settings. I can see 2 of my 4 cores pegged when this happens. Once closed, I cannot reopen unless I reboot.
It's most likely the issue with encoded URLs (which appeared in 1.9). It was fixed in recent Snapshots. Could you try one of them to see if this issue still occurs to you?
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Sync.
The only real reason left, is sync.
Primarily passwords and tabs.
I dont need bookmark sync, email or anything like that, but Firefox and Chrome have this. IE has sync. Edge has sync.Opera has sync. Opera 12 has sync ....
Vivaldi does not.Midori and similar doesn't either, but they fulfill a specific role of being ultra light-weight.
Vivaldi is neither light-weight nor featureless, so sync should IMO be a high priority right now, as I'm guessing a lot of users won't change to Vivaldi, if they have to remember their passwords across devices. -
Password sync is the only thing necessary for me right now.
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@mubaidr FWIW I've used Last Pass for many years, passwords are saved in the cloud, in browsers if I understand correctly can be maliciously read & using a password manager stops key loggers at bay also.
Just wondered if it may help? -
@andyraisbeck personally, the fact it's stored in the cloud makes it feel INSECURE to me - high is why I don't use those services
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@mossman Same here. Storing private data in any cloud gives me the creeps.
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@Ayespy said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
Storing private data in any cloud gives me the creeps.
It need not if you archive and encrypt it first before uploading it to the cloud. -
@Pesala said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
@Ayespy said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
Storing private data in any cloud gives me the creeps.
It need not if you archive and encrypt it first before uploading it to the cloud.If you're encrypting it first then you have a password to get to your password which you get from the cloud...
If you're memorising the master password anyway - and then going through extra encryption/decryption steps - isn't it easier just to memorise the password you're trying to keep?
In my case I have a couple of standard low-level passwords for all my internet stuff, plus a small number of high-level passwords for mail etc. I just remember them all - and they're quite cryptic.
I do sometimes note my work passwords somewhere since they force me to change those all the time - but again, I note down cryptic clues instead of the actual password.
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Standalone video codecs.
Stop assuming the OS should have the default codecs installed and bundle them with the browser, exactly as Chrome does and plays videos just fine no matter how crippled the OS may be. -
@.dim.21 Companies have to pay if they bundle 3rd party stuff. Vivaldi can't allow themselves this as of now as they're not as big as Google.
https://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
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@Gwen-Dragon People expect to get their browser for free, and just a few thousand people would probably use it if there was a fee -- and then there would be no Vivaldi. If a user's priority are built in codecs, they simply shouldn't use Vivaldi.
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@Gwen-Dragon
. i had no idea about the fees
. i can't install codecs
. why free players can play everything ?i understand now, thank you for the clarification
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- Too many bugs
- Drains my battery
- Memory hog
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This escalated quickly
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@chrisvio said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
**** my battery
Something was lost in translation. Maybe it drains your battery.