Stabilization starts for 2.5 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1525.30
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Why is a Private Window sometimes called an Incognito Window?
(VB-45858) Terminology: Private Window or Incognito Window
Is there any difference between them? If not, why use two words just to confuse users?
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@Joy I confirm.
But it could be a useful bug, in addition to restoring the right behavior you could add a new "Save image" command that uses this bug, i'd delete another extension. -
@brunnopleffken said in Stabilization starts for 2.5 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1525.30:
@ian-coog: What are you talking about? If you don't want to face any bugs then the Stable release is recommended for you. The snapshots are for advanced users for exactly what we're doing here: chasing bugs to release a better version to their final users! If you see a bug, then report it to the dev team gently instead of blame them.
I don't think there was much chasing necessary to find this particular bug, which is a regression from the previous snapshot and not mentioned as a
Known Issue
. Not to be speaking for anyone, but I'm guessing that is the bases of the complaint which I think is pretty valid.2.3 and 2.4 stable are unusable for me, I finally moved on from 2.2 to these snapshots with much more success.
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Folders in the bookmark bar still use a different context menu. This is not consistent with any other place in the browser.
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@AltCode Are you referring to the order of the first three items compared to the link context menu and Bookmark Panel context menu?
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@Pesala Not exactly. The context menu in folders are distinctively different from everywhere else in the browser; they take far more space and use a different font.
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@AltCode This is what mine look like.
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Well, if nothing else, this snapshot has at least allowed me to realise I have a problem and need to uninstall some extensions because I don't use more than half of them kek.
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@Pesala Mine look like this (this is only regarding the bookmark bar):
For a bookmark inside a folder For a bookmark outside a folder Context menu appears as seen on the right everywhere else.
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@AltCode How do you get the context menu with a dark theme like that? Is that only on Mac?
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@Pathduck add --force-dark-mode --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode to the target path of your Vivaldi shortcut, it looks nice
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@Pathduck I actually did nothing. Vivaldi gave itself the dark "theme" when I set my OS appearance to dark. I'm not sure how you would enable it for Windows/Linux.
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@AltCode Mac should enable it by default if Dark OS theme is used, while Win needs to be enforced with the flag in the shortcut: this will be default too, just unsure when. Hope this is also valid for Linux.
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I get a completely black window after installing this update.
It seems that the elements of the browser are there because I can click on the window and hit one of the speed dials and I see that the title of the button on the windows taskbar changes its name, as if Vivaldi is accessing the website, but the window is black.
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Build 7601.23642
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@DriverOp said in Stabilization starts for 2.5 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1525.30:
black window
Seems like your default profile got corrupted.
Close Vivaldi and make sure all vivaldi.exe processes are not in task manager.
Locate your profile dir as described in here
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/10388/refreshing-or-cleaning-your-profile/
go for example
cd "%localappdata%\vivaldi\user data"
locate the Default dir
rename it to Default_old
start Vivaldi, it should rebuild a new Default dir and should start no problems. Close it again. At this point copy over from Default_old to the new Default dir this list of dirs and files"Extension Rules" "Extension State" Extensions "Local App Settings" "Local Extension Settings" "Local Storage" "Managed Extension Settings" VivaldiThumbnails Sessions Bookmarks Cookies "Current Session" "Extension Cookies" History "Login Data" Notes Preferences "Secure Preferences" "Top Sites" "Web Data" file_mapping.json "Last Session" "Last Tabs"
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@LonM Agreed about the poor performance in tiled tabs, this definitely has to be fixed before 2.5. Who knows, maybe it's related to this? https://vivaldi.com/blog/windows-10-bug/ Is it present in Linux as well? Not only does it happen in those pages but in others as well like on anything that uses the disqus commenting platform, or a page with a .gif animation.
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@npro said in Stabilization starts for 2.5 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1525.30:
recently checked most of the other Chromium-based browsers (on 74) and they all were blinking, flashing white to the point of causing epilepsy or were extremely slow, when opening new Speed Dial/startpage/empty tabs
I cannot tell if you wrote this humorously, or seriously. Is this supposed to be interpreted metaphorically, or literally? If seriously/literally, then can you please explain some more, coz atm i do not understand. Eg, i just launched my Chromium 74, & it absolutely did not do anything even remotely like what you wrote.
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@brunnopleffken said in Stabilization starts for 2.5 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1525.30:
If you don't want to face any bugs then the Stable release is recommended for you
I'm afraid that you are deluding yourself if you actually do believe that each Stable version is sans-bugs.
Furthermore, it's mildly amusing that you're attempting to lecture Ian, who has been here much longer than you, knows the lie of the land very well, & has made numerous positive constructive contributions over the years. Though clearly you disagree, fwiw i share Ian's disgruntlement that such an exceedingly obvious new bug escaped into the Snapshot stream.
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@Steffie Can't say about how Linux performs nor about the Chromium itself. Try using dark theme/dark wallpapers with the rest of them and open new SD/startpage tabs then watch the flashbangs (or the other things described, like fade-ins, depending on the specific browser) happening on Windows 10.