What is stopping you from using V all the time?

Ayespy

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

so it shouldn't be a big deal

Famous last words.

Ayespy

@bhau Not yet. It's planned, but not yet. There is an early (pre-alpha) version for Android that has been produced, but only the developers and the founder of the company have access to it - not even internal testers such as myself.

JoelYoung

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

@bhau Not yet. It's planned, but not yet. There is an early (pre-alpha) version for Android that has been produced, but only the developers and the founder of the company have access to it - not even internal testers such as myself.

Looking forward to that! It's only a Web browser so it shouldn't be a big deal. (hahaha)

greybeard

For me it is still the Bookmarking platform. Several issues with that.
Also High CPU usage which probably goes with poor battery life when using V for extended periods as I do.
I still use it often, but if I'm away from my power cord V is a no go.

QuHno

@greybeard Does occasional hibernating the background tabs help with that?

greybeard

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

@greybeard Does occasional hibernating the background tabs help with that?

Does not seem to.

Para-Noid

The ability to move bookmarks around without the need to open the bookmarks panel/page would be a plus for me.

Ayespy

@mau Ideally, one would be able to use the Bookmarks Bar to organize bookmarks.

aach1

@mau i think @para-noid has the bookmarks bar displayed and is saying that it would be nice to be able to drag bookmarks around between folders on the bar. I agree; it wouldn't stop me using V but it does feel odd that you can't just do that.

aach1

@mau ...good example of synchronous replies...

Para-Noid

I'm not going to stop using V on account of not being able to drag and drop bookmarks via the bookmarks bar.
Yeah, I forgot to mention I use the bookmarks bar.

FYI, "I'm A Full Time Vivaldi User". And proud of it too.

TheDonk

Don't use it on battery. At the moment nothing competes with the energy efficiency of Safari, and I don't expect it to change anytime soon.

taka_

This is probably one of the biggest—sync. I have a lot of systems deployed, and I like being able to hop on into Google Chrome and pick up where I leave off on each one, with all my extensions and history in place.

That said, in Google Chrome I lament not having a functional history manager (grr Google... forcing me to re-search everything on your search engine) and not being able to select a specific search engine when right-clicking highlighted objects, which Chrome defaults to Google (again, grr!) Well, to be fair, if you change your default search engine, it'll change in the right-click menu as well...

Don't let me get Scroogled, Vivaldi...

RachelAnn

Tumblr. Tumblr xkit doesn't seem to work anywhere but Chrome. The extension doesn't work on Vivaldi.

Zodius

What stops me is the lack of the video pop out feature similar to Opera/Yandex browsers. I grew quite used to that.

Another more recent annoyance is graphical glitches on Macbook Pros from late 2013, which have been fixed in latest Chrome, but not in Vivaldi or Opera, yet. I am guessing this will be fixed once Chromium engine is updated in Vivaldi.

And another somewhat minor gripe I have is smudgy graphics on Retina displays, favicons look very ugly, but I guess I could live with that if my other big two complains were fixed.

XtremAlRaven

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

The thing is that Vivaldi UI is a webpage and not compiled code, the way it works is far different from other Chromium browsers.

Thanks, I tested it with default settings here too and it took exactly 28 minutes to load. I tried not having tabs visible and it also took lots of time.

For now you'll have to live with saving sessions or saving bookmarks though.

Have you seen Firefox Quantum, by the way? It's awesome. You can have nice tabs on the side with a plugin, loads tons of tabs instantly. I'm seriously thinking to just use this extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-in-firefox/jmjejjdalfogiopknpabihjhplfkjjjk to move all my open tabs to Firefox and use it until Vivaldi's UI response times (like, opening a new tab is always a pain if it's not under those famous 400 milliseconds) improve significantly.

greybeard

@quhno
Seems to give me a bit more life. But I can't really quantify that. I can browse on FF all day and into the evening before having to plug it in while with V I can only do maybe five to six hours and Win 10 gives me the message that my battery is low and to plug it in.

greybeard

@mau
Yep. Using: 1.13.971.8 (Official Build) (64-bit)

greybeard

@xtremalraven
That delay was worse with Cloudfare.
V have since changed to some other company in San Francisco. (104.20.216.21 United States, San Francisco, 94107) but a whois gives no info on that ip address.
It is somewhat quicker.

Ayespy

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

104.20.216.21

104.20.216.0 - 104.20.216.255 Whois | Myip.ms
https://myip.ms/view/ip_addresses/104.20.216.40
Mar 28, 2014 - 104.20.216.0 - 104.20.216.255 - Cloudflare, Inc, USA

It's another Cloudflare IP