From me to you: A dev’s take on Vivaldi
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Thank you for your work.
Indeed, Notes is a very important feature that sets Vivaldi apart. In the future it would be great to see some enhancements in the form of text resizing or other simple text formatting options as mentioned by @LonM .
Excellent work so far.
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Hi Trond,
Thanks for sharing your experience. I never thought I would use the Notes feature (I disregarded it in the old Opera), but it's incredibly tempting (and powerful). I do have a question, though.
If I start using it regularly, it will become a core part of my workflow. How can I be sure that the notes are safely saved and backed up ? And I will be able to access them, and search them, years from now ? Without risking to nuke them when updating Vivaldi, or refreshing my profile ?
Is it even reasonable to use Notes that way ? Or are they meant for more short-term use ?
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Since a couple of days ago I wanted to send you a message to thank you for the quality of your work and of your communication. It's of stellar quality. It's awesome
I also love the idea of PWA in panels ! That's excellent !
As of what you should focus on, I already stated that I think the URLBar should be rewritten from scratch, even if I understand it's not possible, and that you are doing your maximum.
For the rest, I would agree with the rest of the comments : opening and switching tabs feels very slow to me. Not native at all.
And I wouldn't be against a bit of love for the menubar too -
Great!
Could you please also work on New Tab Generation speed? It was really slow in the first iterations of Vivaldi and it's gotten better throughout the years but it's still slow on older systems and laptops.
If you go back to Opera 12.x and hold "Ctrl+T" for 3 seconds, you will notice how fast and responsive it was when it spawned more than 20 tabs in a jiffy! But do that in Vivaldi and you WILL feel the jerky and laggy behavior of Vivaldi when generating new tabs in an instant.
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@jacekn: THANK YOU! This is exactly what I had in mind when I posted my comment! If I'd read your comment sooner, I wouldn't post that redundant comment of mine...
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I do not if you work with those that provide us with Bookmarking, but that is an area I personally believe needs some work.
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@npro: High Resolution Desktop Wallpapers used as Vivaldi's background affect the time to spawn new tabs heavily especially on older systems. When I use Vivaldi on a GeForce 1080ti and a Core i7 7700 system, it feels faster but when used on a 4 year old laptop with a slower CPU and an internal GPU, things become really slow. spawning 20 tabs becomes laggy and slow and the UI becomes unresponsive.
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@npro @neltherion I reported this bug as VB-51717 so at least the devs know about it.
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Nice to see someone care about performance. It's my biggest and the most annoying problem with Vivaldi.
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- Multi-Row Tab Bar
- Multi-Row Addon Bar
- Solving Issue VB-43514
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@Michael_from_Germany
Hi, cant find a feature request about.
Btw., nothing to do with Vivaldi performance.Cheers, mib
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The thing that recently slows my workflow a lot is how everything (both the browser UI and a current tab JS) freezes for a long time when you open link in a new tab in background, almost until that new tab loads and renders everything.
And how the tab cycler list is slow to respond (and also often doesn't disppear after you've finished switching tabs releasing Ctrl or RMB if you just wanna quickly switch to the previous tab; just add an interval poll for every 100-500 msec to check whether the user has already released key/button if it's hard to reliably register the event of release itself, idk). But I think tab switching problems kinda already been mentioned. -
I love Vivaldi.
And in the next 6 months I like to see export Notes (with links, pictures) into some document format (docx, pdf...).
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@Pesala
Hm, I searched for Multiple Row and found nothing.
Anyway, there is it and got 26 up votes in one Year.Cheers, mib
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I have a lot of bookmarks in the LHS panel but keyboard cut/copy/paste is flakey, and not usable if multiple bookmarks are selected. The selection/ focused item also gets confused - https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35414/selected-bookmark-doesn-t-retain-focus-after-cut-copy-paste-keyboard-operation.
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I love vivaldi but I'm still waiting on the Android version which I know is near release but it's still the main reason im not using it as my main browser
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@Phosphorus As I understand it, Vivaldi mobile is not truly released and not ready for general use (not even as general "Here's the tech preview for anyone who care to try it") - so I wouldn't expect it to have everything nor even be very stable. I'd like to try it, but I won't run it until it released at least as that. And I generally run the snapshot on the desktop (current snapshot has extension failures after a few minutes, so I've temporarily reverted to stable).
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I'm very impressed with Vivaldi browser. Best browser ever it feels like mine
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@Excommunicado Welcome to the Vivaldi Forum and enjoyment continues with Vivaldi.