Just dying for a new release of Vivaldi
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@contrajur Last week on a Dutch tech site. Google 'translated' it for your convineance;
Opera part that rejected the browser branch, renames to Otello
The company Opera Software ASA, which sold its browser branch Opera Software AS to a Chinese consortium in 2016, changes its name to Otello Corporation. That is a requirement that the buyers asked at the time, the company reports.A spokesperson for Opera explains to TNW that, when selling the consumer branch, including its browser department, it had been agreed that a transition period would apply in which the company could still use the name Opera. That has now ended. The Chinese companies also bought the rights to use the name at the acquisition. The change of name was determined during an extraordinary meeting of the Norwegian company.
The change only applies to the parts of the company that are left over after the sale. These included Bemobi and the American branch of Opera Mediaworks, which among other things compiles reports and is now called AdColony again. The acquisition was closed a little more than a year ago. One of the participating companies of the consortium was the Chinese Qihoo 360, which is active in the security sector.
So pls stop moaning about a non existing problem and get informed before you post typical Fake News
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@gwen-dragon I am using version 1.13.1008.40, and Vivaldi will not hold my pinned tabs when I close down and restart it. It used to do that, but I haven't been able to do it on Vivaldi for at least the last two- maybe 3 updates now. I do lots of research on things, and having the browser hold those pinned tabs until I released them was VERY valuable to me.
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@ncgull Have you checked to ensure every Vivaldi app and process in Task Manager is stopped before you try to re-start it again? There is a bug with persisten processes that is being worked on right now.
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@contrajur said in Just dying for a new release of Vivaldi:
@blackbird I understand that Opera is from the same company. ...
Either there's some misunderstanding or miscommunication going on. Opera and Vivaldi are not 'from the same company', they are entirely separate and different enterprises. Briefly: once upon a time (1994), Jon von Tetzchner was instrumental in starting the original Opera ASA company that developed the first Opera browsers (called Olde Opera by some of us); in 2011, Jon left Opera ASA, but that company continued developing Opera browsers and operating the Opera Community, eventually abandoning its original proprietary Presto rendering engine in 2013 and adopting the chromium engine which had been (and continues to be) developed and released as open source under a spin-off organization from Chrome.
In 2014, frustrated when the Opera Community was abruptly shut down by Opera ASA and coupled with growing dissatisfaction with browser development trends in the marketplace, Jon joined with Tatsuki Tomita to found Vivaldi as a new enterprise, leading initially to the Vivaldi Community and in 2016, the first Vivaldi browser.
Vivaldi is also based on the chromium rendering engine, as is the current Opera browser; however, they have entirely different user interface layers sitting upon that engine. Vivaldi heavily focuses itself on its community of users, seeking to provide as much customization and feature sets contained within the browser as possible - hence "a browser for our friends". Opera and Chrome are pursuing a mass market that appeals to users wanting only a simple, streamlined browser with relatively few controls and built-in features. Opera has existed as an entity for over 20 years, Vivaldi has existed only for about 3 years or so (with their browser only available for less than 2 years).
Contrary to what you seem to indicate, the release tracks (and bug rates) for both Opera and Vivaldi are rather parallel, both having simultaneous developmental and stable versions and both updating on roughly similar time frames, much of that dominated by having to update soon after chromium releases new engine updates (often for security fixes). Vivaldi differs in that, as a browser, it relies on major HTML coding for its user interface in order to enable levels of customization and novel potential features that Opera (and Chrome) have simply elected not to pursue with their user interface structures; instead, those companies have chosen to go largely "stock" with the features and limited customizations directly available from the chromium engine. Vivaldi is plowing a lot of new ground with its approach to the user interface concept, and in the meantime, it must deal with chromium engine updates arriving on a schedule set by chromium, not Vivaldi. Those of us who are excited to see where Vivaldi is headed have learned to be patient while things unfold, and to be somewhat forgiving with the occasional bugs that find their way into stable versions... the result is already greatly worth it to us.
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@blackbird said in Just dying for a new release of Vivaldi:
and in 2016, the first Vivaldi browser
2015.
I discovered & excitedly began testing V on 7 Feb 2015, & made it my default browser on 22 Feb 2015.
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A lot of people like me will be very very very very very happy if Vivaldi can update everyday!
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@ayespy It's usually the next morning; I haven't paid attention to what you're talking about, but assume all would have been stopped by then...
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@ncgull Then perhaps you have background processes enabled.
vivaldi://flags/#enable-push-api-background-mode
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@ncgull It shows as disabled
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@rtransformation said in Just dying for a new release of Vivaldi:
A lot of people like me will be very very very very very happy if Vivaldi can update everyday!
With the advances that Vivaldi has made in a short time, with a marabunta of requests to new functions and complaints of alleged 'serious' bugs, I can only applaud the hard work that the team has done.
I use Vivaldi practically from the first stable version and I have used it almost from the beginning as my default browser, despite the dead birds in the first versions.
I use Internet intensively and Vivaldi has been complying with all my demands for quite some time and I can not confirm 80% of the bugs exposed in this forum.
Of course, always happy about new updates, but I have the patience to wait for them, wishing a happy 2018 and that the team takes the thing calmly, PCs notice that one is in a hurry. -