What is stopping you from using V all the time?
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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.Blog • Vivaldi Review • Server Status
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@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.
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lack of an efficient and simple script-manager addon.
I use Firefox only because NoScript Suite (not joking)
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Just right now i found this thread for those who are interested. -
Lack of a built-in video downloader.
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It still fails on some small things, but less and less with each update. This is why I see no reason to use another browser than Vivaldi, which comes close to the ideal that I look for in a browser for my daily use.
>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
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@catweazle I must admit to very enjoyably tring out Firefox Nightly as well at the moment, which is a brilliant improvement on old, but when not using Vivaldi it just shows up other browsers to all it's benefits.I've always used two browsers, usually in the past for the extensions, but, too true, Vivaldi is closest to the ideal, and leaves Chrome and Edge in the wings
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@jafa I don't think it does. Vivaldi uses multiple tabs in each Window — there is no option to use Windows instead of tabs. If I open a HTML file from Windows Explorer it opens in a new tab in the same window. If I close that tab the previous active tab is still there. Try using the Tab Cycler if you don't want the tabs (Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab or RMB+Scrollwheel).
