What is stopping you from using V all the time?

Catweazle

TOR Browser, nothing else

david.cortes

For me, these are deal-breakers:

Mail client
RSS reader
Keyboard shortcuts (esp. speed dial!)
Automated entry filling (it remembers stuff like internet explorer or chrome, rather than letting you predefine how to fill forms like old opera)
Lack of configuration options
Lack of individual webpage settings
Option to disable javascript and animated images

And then there’s also a lot of minor stuff that is annoying but I can live with.

bowen192

Just lack of android for me.

I like to work on the train/bus home.

siegson

Edit bookmarks from bookmark menu/ reorder directly is not possible yet. Right click on those bookmarks opens the link instead of edit options like other browsers

Ayespy

@siegson By Bookmark "menu" you mean Bookmark Bar - yes?

siegson

@ayespy yes, sorry, it's the bookmark bar (with bookmarks in a folder)
Click on the folder, folder content expands, then its not possible to do anything with the bookmarks

Pesala

@siegson Why does it prevent you using Vivaldi? It is easy enough to organise your bookmarks in the Bookmarks Panel or Bookmarks Tab.

siegson

@pesala true, you can do it from there but it just takes more steps. I need to get used to it probably as all other browsers do support this. Sync was the biggest hurdle. that's fixed now. Will give an other try!

pedja

Lack of syncing and underdeveloped bookmark menu handling prevents me from using Vivaldi as all time browser. I tried for few weeks but got back to Firefox as main browser.

Syncing is announced as soon to arrive option which is great. Cant wait to see it in official release.

For bookmarks, it seems will not be soon.

On issue is that user cannot drag and drop link to bookmark bar. He must open bookmark tab and add new bookmark there.

The second issue is that when right clicked on bookmark in bookmark bar link is instantly open. Right click should always pop up menu with additional options, not to directly execute action.

For example, I often need to open bookmark in new tab or even new window. I cannot, as there is no pup up menu to offer such options. Such menu exists in bookmark tab but not on bookmark bar.

Strangiato

scrolling with touchpad using two fingers is slower than on rest of my system on windows 7 x64

touch screen pinch gesture does not work to adjust zoom level

Betinem

@strangiato The touch isses are mine problem too. It got even worse in the latest Snapshot. Scrolling in touch / tablet mode on windows only works, if you minimize the window and then switch through task switcher back to vivaldi. I really like this browser and story and the team behind, so i will wait in patience until this got fixed still using it as my main browser, sometimes switiching when in touch mode.

paragon

@aach1 nopes, checked and re-checked. Not using wintab, just vanilla touch settings.

Nekomajin

For me, the most important reason is the rudimentary GUI design.

The speed dial is horrible. Using custom thumbnails is great, but I don't want to deal with it. There must be an option to use the icon set from the head of the page, not just a screenshot.
The bookmarks manager is powerful, but the GUI itself is a mess. Too much panels and sections, and it lacks the ability to toggle between list and thumbnails view. It is a great option in Opera.
The lack of native OS design is a MAJOR setback for me. The Opera reborn design is a joke too, but even that looks better, than Vivaldi.

It's nice to have the ability to customize the GUI with CSS, but we are not in the 90s. I am not a kid anymore, and don't have the time to hack the software.

Other stuff preventing me to switch from Opera:

The search popup is a killer feature. It is so simple, yet powerful. And it has a lot of further potential.
The video popup is also handy.
There are great extensions in the Opera addon catalog, which can not be found in the Chrome catalog. I don't want to spend time looking for replacements.

aach1

@nekomajin sorry, but I have to disagree about speed dial. it's the thing I miss most when switching back to Firefox or Edge. There are things that could be improved - e.g. opening everything in a folder into a tab stack - but other than that it's a much nicer and more customizable favorites page than the rest have. If you're comparing with Opera, no opinion as I don't know Opera at all.

Nekomajin

@aach1
I agree with your thoughts, however, there are certain things, that missing even from Vivaldi. The design is subjective, but

if you compare it with Opera's, that one looks much better,
Opera has the ability to use images from the site, zoom/pan the screenshot or use the fallback generated thumbnail, and
in Opera, at least I can zoom the start page to get smaller items.

For me, the most important would be to set a static grid size, because the responsiveness kills the whole feature. Independently from the window size, I want to know the place of each item, because that's the point of the speed attribute. If I have to search the item, because the grid reflows itself, then the most important feature is lost. Of course, miniature screenshots don't help to find the desired item.

fsproede

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

There are great extensions in the Opera addon catalog, which can not be found in the Chrome catalog. I don't want to spend time looking for replacements.

A lot of them also work with Vivaldi.

https://www.howtogeek.com/210925/how-to-install-chrome-extensions-in-opera-and-opera-extensions-in-chrome/

Nekomajin

@fsproede
I know. But I don't want to install and update them manually.

Dropmans

Private tabs. That's the only thing.
The ability to mix normal and private tabs in 1 window is something I used all the time in Opera 12 and later in FireFox. Shame this it still not present in Vivaldi.

nearbaskara

Can't drag my bookmark that in "more bookmark" button.
Sometimes my cursor is gone.
no Turbo/Data saver extension for my greedy internet provider
no mobile browser and sync
Website Icons in tab bar are gone if there are sounds, it's really annoying really.
favicons in tab bar and address bar are still messy.

to be honest this browser has a lot of potential. Gonna wait till it fixed all of that and I will use it erryday.

Merowinger

I can't stand the bookmark manager. It's not possible to sort a single bookmark folder alphabetically.
That's really annoying and I would make Vivaldi to my secondary browser if this would work properly.