Vivaldi 1.12 – Giving you the browser you want

wardies

[Edit] Never mind - I realised I was revealing copyrighted material

bialyikar

On Linux (STILL!) Netflix, Spotify still not working
Netflix > missing WidevineCdm

bialyikar

@gwen-dragon Ok, Netflixs works (thanks - I made the steps from this link: https://gist.github.com/ruario/3c873d43eb20553d5014bd4d29fe37f1), Spotify launches the player, but does not play music.
Question- why they can not work "Out of the box"? Firefox has no problem with it.

bialyikar

@gwen-dragon Hmm ... I do not sit in the theme, I thought there are some open source equivalents. Thanks again for the help

Catweazle

With some codec there is nothing that can be done by not being free. But there is a possibility if you have installed the VLC media player, which has an app for the browser, which allows you to open multimedia files, sending the link to this player.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-in-vlc-media-player/ihpiinojhnfhpdmmacgmpoonphhimkaj?hl=en

Download VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.es.html

ericw33

Just downloaded Vivaldi 1.12.955.36 and have installed it on my various Windows 10 devices. I mostly prefer low spec convertibles (Acer Switch 2GB/32GB, Acer One (4GB, 64GB) that I can use in various modes (1080p desktop, HD tablet, laptop, media..). I find those devices well suited for travel requirements such as on a jet (Windows 10 works great with such setups).

Thus far it's a VERY polished product. Resource use is good on 2GB RAM setups (I'll try on a 7" HP Stream 1GB tablet later). It's very stable, FAST-FAST-FAST, very easy to use and feature rich. Works great with touch-screen interfaces which I use a-lot as well as the traditional keyboard&mouse which I do not use as much. Amazingly it has Chromecast support (YES!) and can even use Google extensions.
*The ONLY item Opera has that I use a-lot which this doesn't have is built-in VPN.

I mostly use Opera right now with Edge my secondary browser. I don't use google products much as they've become very controlling on Youtube and Google searches -- I prefer free systems. I also wont use Mozilla Firefox due to the organization joining George Soros 'war' against 'fake news' (Mozilla Information Trust Initiative) -- not to mention I find it rather slow.

Very impressive!

davidlip

Great job but still looking for Close Multiple Tabs warning. Getting tired of clicking on the wrong X when one window is on top of another and closing a bunch of tabs.

Ayespy

@terere That's a feature. If you disable notifications and it still runs, then maybe it's a bug.

lopotun

When I open an image locally (e.g. file:///C:/Users/.../DSC_5803.jpg) I see no EXIF data. Vivaldi says "Unable to analyze image". However, when I upload the same image and open it from web ( https://image.ibb.co/kk71W5/DSC_5803.jpg ) then everything works properly. Is it bug?

A Former User

Vivaldi has become my new favorite browser - SR-Iron and Firefox have been relegated to occasional use. But in regards to "Everything you wanted to know about your downloads", one of the things I want to know are the checksums......

Pesala

@dogeroon said in Vivaldi 1.12 – Giving you the browser you want:

one of the things I want to know are the checksums......

Post in the Feature Requests thread.

bm11

When the email will be built in?

Pesala

@bm11 When it's ready, and not a moment earlier.

Ayespy

@bm11 It's built in now, and working nicely on internal test builds - EXCEPT - recent efficiency upgrades just broke it completely. So, once it's sufficiently finished and reliable, snapshot users will get to test it.

An_dz

@gwen-dragon @bialyikar Actually Mozilla does not pay anyone, Cisco pays for them and Google offers Widevine for them too. They say it on the plugins page.

The situation is complicated, there are open-source software that can decode these and that's not illegal, as well as someone using them. But it gets complicated when a company uses them, even if they create their own codec. The copyright is on the very codec and developing something that can decode without paying a license can be seen as copyright circumvention.

Technically speaking you must have the Cisco compiled code to be able to use, you compiling it is legal. but distributing you binary is not. And for a company this can get even more messy by even using it.

As Vivaldi is small and Jon is completely against selling user data for money Vivaldi won't pay the licenses. Instead Vivaldi uses the codecs your computer already has. Windows and Mac come with those built-in but not Linux. My only question would be if Vivaldi could at least offer a button that does all that for Linux users who wish to install those.

Overall the law is so crazy that sometimes it's better to stay on the safe side and avoid future headaches.

A Former User

Great work, great browser. Just a little bit heavy for now, but we may hope improvements again and again. Long life to Vivaldi.

An_dz

@gwen-dragon said in Vivaldi 1.12 – Giving you the browser you want:

@an_dz said in Vivaldi 1.12 – Giving you the browser you want:

My only question would be if Vivaldi could at least offer a button that does all that for Linux users who wish to install those.

A installer script for many distributions is not as easy as you might think.

I forgot Vivaldi doesn't maintain repos.

An_dz

@arsz Are you sure this is not the scrollbar? Your Speed Dial home doesn't have it, but when you open a folder it does. When you move back and forth the scrollbar will show and hide and the content will adjust accordingly just like how it happens in webpages.

iAN CooG

@arsz said in Vivaldi 1.12 – Giving you the browser you want:

Portable

Standalone it's not "portable".

izero

Still not fully usable against Opera:

as advanced user I have 100 - 400 tabs daily (varying daily as I work on topics), Vivaldi takes 5 minutes and 50% of CPU to start (I remember doing something similar with the Opera - it was history parser that blocked Opera from loading, they fixed it. But your problem may also be tabs rendering.)
tabs separator is rendered outside tab, so there is still 1px gap that is not selectable - hard to select tab when I have 350 - 400 tabs. Render it inside tab space.
hard to close - tabs animation takes long time (it works smoothly in Opera) and some tabs have sometime 2px wide separator.
tabs icons is not centered when tab is small (in Opera it is always centered -
negative margins)
very slow rendering - it takes 3 - 5 second to switch from any application to Vivaldi.

(6. why there is so big space between + button, waste space, is there any setting to disable plus button completely?)

(7. do you think about tabs sidebar? Like V7 tabs extension in Opera, very usable extension)

Vivladi is still better and better with new releases but still need improvements. Fingers crossed and waiting.