Minor update to Vivaldi 1.11
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Off topic, but how is more than a few hundred bookmarks even useful? I find it very very hard to believe that most of those links will be clicked more than once - and by the time they are they're likely to be out of date.
Heck, I go through some of my few dozen bookmarks probably one time every few years... And for those I often find the page no longer exists.
Same with keeping more than a couple of dozen tabs open... Do people really go back to those open tabs again and again all day...? If you only want to look at something once or twice then just open it once or twice!
And it's not like I'm some kind of low-intensity newbie... I use the net for research (although not so much these days) and news, and have done for twenty five years now. I probably see a few hundred pages a day, but I just look and move on.
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@mossman Long term memory replacement.
Search engines prefer recent results and finding older stuff again is sometimes almost impossible.
Of course this is of no interest for people who watch and read only the latest and greatest stuff, but as soon as you do some deeper research, you learn very fast to value your old bookmarks.Even dead bookmarks can serve a purpose: You can search for them in the various web caches.
Lately I searched for something I knew that it had been "out there" about 2002 or '03 and found it in my bookmarks. The site was dead but I could retrieve the contents from archive.org and subsequently changed the URL to point to the archiveNeeds of course good tagging and self written descriptions or else you will not find the right stuff even if it is in your bookmarks.
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@QuHno As I said, I (used to) do a lot of trawling for information for research, but if stuff is worth retaining then I either get a copy of it and archive it properly or note it down somewhere. I also keep a text file "diary" of what I'm doing for each task... just being able to search through those has saved my arse on many occasions!
Depending on far-from-reliable bookmarks for important information seems rather... adventurous to me...!
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@mossman There is important and there is "important".
I store the first and bookmark the later, just in case that I change my mind.
Additionally I can't and don't want to save the whole web (well, I would want to, but I can't) -
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When is the fix for the damn middle mouse scroll usage that ends up selecting page content bug.. it should be highest priority
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yes, middle click scrolling is the worst of 1st world problems.
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@Koolio I am not even able to reproduce this bug. I believe you, but if it's only affecting some users it won't be a high priority. With thousands of bugs to fix and not many developers they cannot fix everything at once.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Minor update to Vivaldi 1.11:
why can't you release the MMB while moving the mouse down?
That's why I could not reproduce it. The normal thing to do is to release the MMB button before moving it.
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@pesala: its faster to hold mmb drag up or down then release.. much faster and more intuitive.. its been that way for decades from those who know better.
The slow thing to do is press mmb, then release mmb, before moving it, then press mmb again and release to stop.. like a clueless n00b who isn't aware of the finer intricacies of said feature. And probably much like the developers of vivaldi who aren't aware of how dumb leaving such a bug in makes the browser function like a poo.
If it was [shift]+[mmb] to combine autoscrolling and drag select content then I wouldn't mind the content selecting based on a modifier key like [shift]. it woudl still feel crap though, so either bug or poorly thought out feature enhancement left in. right now it just makes the browser feel like broken joke for power users who are more aware of the fact the features and functionality of this browser is just copying what power featured browsers and plugins have come up with years or in same decades before.
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It's a bug that slipped in some updates ago, it will be fixed, calm down now.
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@Koolio said in Minor update to Vivaldi 1.11:
its been that way for decades from those who know better.
It may have been that way for decades in other browsers, but for those of us who chose Vivaldi because we are users of Old Opera it has never worked that way to my knowledge.
There is no benefit of holding down the MMB while fast scrolling — it just adds to RSI. Click and release gives fine control over scroll speed, and clicking with LMB or MMB exits autoscroll mode.
Arrogantly insulting the developers and long term users as dumb will not win you any friends or support for your pet bug to be fixed sooner rather than later. It's a trivial issue. You only have to click once to clear the selection.
You will catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
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What scrolling is this?
Clicking the wheel (in a text field) pastes in text from the primary selection, as it should.
Dragging using it selects text; releasing the button replaces that text with the text in the primary selection, and the replaced text is lost. This seems somewhat useful to me, if a little unusual.
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After this last update (1.11.917.43) the color tab change and the icon are extremely slow ..
Before it changed instantly, now, after a fresh start it takes about 20 to 30 seconds to change the color / icon. -
@Spinelli refresh your profile and see if that helps.
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@pesala: Opera was always a broken and flawed browser only ever doing a few things in a polished way while leaving many areas for improvement, and lastly simply not having a framework that attracted third party developers to come in and fix and improve its shit with better extensions like Firefox had the advantage of. Leaving a bug like this in this long well I can only draw two conclusions from that.
"There is no benefit of holding down the MMB while fast scrolling — it just adds to RSI. Click and release gives fine control over scroll speed, and clicking with LMB or MMB exits autoscroll mode."
Speak for yourself and how you use it.. I don't have RSI from using autoscroll with mmb the faster way as i have for decades and judging by the number of others who have reported it and noticed it.. I'm not the only one.
"It's a trivial issue." its very annoying... the only reason I use this browser is its somewhat less shit than chrome for standard built in features to use instead.. but I have zero loyalty to it and will go help another chromium fork implement the the same and better features that have been in other browsers for ALOT longer and done in the better ways with even more customization for users. Maybe Brave will do, actually open source and on github.
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@Koolio That's the door, don't slam it.
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Anybody else having an issue with Window.onBlur() and Window.onFocus() not firing? Issue first noticed here, bug report filed, but haven't got confirmation from anybody. https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/20185/vivaldi-1-11-window-focus-customizations-stopped-working
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@Koolio Thank you for being self-important and hostile. It's pretty certain that the development team will now alter their focus and work habits substantially, owing to the devastating effect of not having made you happy fast enough.