What is stopping you from using V all the time?

Marko Indaco

lack of an efficient and simple script-manager addon.
I use Firefox only because NoScript Suite (not joking)
Edit:
Just right now i found this thread for those who are interested.

paul1149

Lack of a built-in video downloader.

Catweazle

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.

andyraisbeck

@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

Pesala

@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).

Ayespy

@jafa Disabling the tab bar only hides it. It does not disable tabs. You can still view your tabs in the menu/window view, or the tab cycler, or by pressing F2. As mentioned by Pesala, there is no "windows instead of tabs" mode at this time.

hamalawy

native tree tabs

LonM

@yellowfour I think the engine itself is not an issue. Having to maintain that is part of what sent the original opera down the tubes. As for the extra processes, I like it as it offers some extra layers of protection in terms of stability and security. But you're right about the lack of features and customisation.

iAN CooG

@yellowfour said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:

What is stopping me from using V all the time?

It's not Presto.

no, really? Good luck with browsing internet in 2017 and next years win O12, I switched to Vivaldi because in O12 almost nothing worked anymore.

Nowhere close to customization as Opera 12. Ultimately productivity and efficiency.

Opera took a decade to reach version 12, and for me only from Opera 6 it just started barely to be ok. Give it some time.

Pollutes my task manager with endless processes.

One process per tab and one per extension. Welcome to progress, we have multicore processors and they are finally used as they should.

Can't "find in page" in address bar.

It works for me, f8 to focus address bar, ctrl-f opens find in page and it finds what I type. Explain better what's your issue.

sleez

Hi everybody,

First of all, I really love the feeling Vivaldi brings in usage. Quite fast, fast enough for me that is. And the tab-stacking works fine also, maybe some features to be finetuned but overall Vivaldi works really fine for me.
But there are still some things that bother me, every update I hope they are fixed but still it isn't built, fixed or adressed yet. My biggest obstacles are..:

Using the thumb buttons on my mouse don't work in Speeddial when I'm in a folder with bookmarks. Have to click the 'back' button what's taking me a lot of time. It never worked that way in Vivaldi and even with several different mouses tested on several different systems. Only tested myself on Windows btw, 8, 8.1 and 10. Maybe I'm overlooking something but I didn't find a setting that handles it.
When selecting some text and right-click for the context menu the option appears 'Search for ..xxx...' ( where ...xxx... stands for the selected text, not for some adult stuff though ;P ) , then another tab opens with the search engine preferred but it didn't take the selected text so I have to copy-paste the text to search.
Search in adress bar and also in the search box with the settings for the preferred seach engine done rightly setted it only opens another tab with the search engine, the text has to enterred manually by copy-pasting.

With putting these 'obstacles' here I hope these issues are adressed somehow. Maybe I'll have to submit them in another way, I don't know because I'm not that much over here in this forum. But I still hope these thingies will be fixed in the (hopefully near) future.

Greetz,

Sleez.

burbuja

Vivaldi is now my default browser, I really love it , but what I really miss is a light-weigh chat-client as it has been there in the old good Opera

sleez

@gwen-dragon

Hi Gwen,

I've reported the bugs, the issues submitted one by one.
Thank you for your quick reply, I hope to have helped a bit..!

Greetz,
Sleez.

QuHno

@ian-coog said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:

Opera took a decade to reach version 12, and for me only from Opera 6 it just started barely to be ok. Give it some time.

... about 2 decades to reach Version 12 - but it was fully customizable way before. Been there done that, one of my first "hacks" was a 3 pane view for M1.

XtremAlRaven

It's incredibly slow if you have a lot of tabs. It takes about an hour just to fire up the browser, I kid you not. I don't know what does it do: creating a thumbnail for each page, maybe? If so, can I turn this off? If not, what the hell?
Also, when there are a lot of tabs open then, for some reason, creating a new tab takes tons of time. Like, half a minute until the tab is usable, seriously. So I just keep another browser open and whenever I want to open a link in a new tab I'm more often just copy the link, switch to another browser and instantly open a new tab with a link there (also Chromium-based, has 370 tabs open right now – works instantly; what the hell?!)

npro

Those 3:

No native OS support
(I'm on Windows 7 and plan to stay at least until 2020 when support will be dropped)
White blinking tabs when accessing tabs previously loaded in the background (no, using dark themes is not the real solution)
No easy and fast way to create Speed Dial thumbnails with their logos and without ads on them.

QuHno

@xtremalraven said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:

It's incredibly slow if you have a lot of tabs. It takes about an hour just to fire up the browser, I kid you not.

Lazy load restored tabs.

I have similar numbers of tabs in a startup session because I suffer with tabitis too and even with about 300 tabs it takes only about 5s to start. Yes, it is not instant - but definitely not "hours" and the devs are working on that right now.

XtremAlRaven

@quhno

@quhno said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:

Lazy load restored tabs.

Already have this, of course. Doesn't help. Both Windows and MacOS.

andyraisbeck

@quhno I use Vivaldi all the time, except my dallying with the new restored Firefox 57.
It can be slow, but having just uninstalled Chrome which took 3 minutes not to find a page both Vivaldi & Firefox found in 3 seconds, the choice is clear

XtremAlRaven

@xtremalraven said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:

@quhno

@quhno said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:

Lazy load restored tabs.

Already have this, of course. Doesn't help. Both Windows and MacOS.

Also, doesn't explain why creating a new tab (or opening a link in a new tab) takes half a minute.

Ayespy

@xtremalraven But it doesn't. Not on my weakest, oldest, crappiest systems. Are you limited by hardware, or by some other software which interferes?