Vivaldi goes mobile
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For those wanting the Address Bar at the bottom: A double press on the Speed Dial button does basically the same thing for now
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Awesome! Can't wait to try it.
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Congratulations! Just FYI. Searching "Vivaldi browser" or "vivaldi browser beta" returns nothing relevant in Google play. Eventually, I wrote vivaldi beta and i got "Vivaldi Π±Π΅ΡΠ°", beta being written in Cyrillic. I don't think this is normal. Anyway, trying it out
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Looks promising!
A few things that are missing, though, which I need before I can make this my main browser:- LastPass support. Right now, LastPass doesn't offer to fill login forms, and if I force it to, it offers my Vivaldi username/password instead of the website's.
- Either some kind of tracking protection like Firefox Focus (and also Firefox Preview and possibly other Firefox products have) or the possibility to install extensions such as uBlock Origin.
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At last! Still in Beta but it's already one of the best and my new default browser. It is fast, reactive, highly customisable. That's not that boring Firefox for the sake of Android Internet users.
However I really miss the ability to interact (seamlessly) with my other apps. Android's intents are its main strength: you do what you want to do with the app you chose to do this. For example, using the Google Play App instead of play.google.com when I want to go to the Google Play Store. I really miss that on my browser. I should not be captive from my browser if I chose other ways to do things. That's actually the main lack of Vivaldi for Android IMHO. Now I keep Vivaldi Beta as my new default browser because I know how good Vivaldi is, both here and on desktop. But if it does not come in the future, I will likely consider switching to an Android spirit-compatible browser, for the reason I have just explained.
Apart from this essential point, there are few lacks, but the browser is in a Beta status so I will not complain about them. These minor lacks are: videos and sounds which are paused when the app is background or when you are not on the page (i.e. tabs, bookmarks...), the ability to easily mute a tab, search engines sync, extensions... You still have a lot of work and I support you for this, as usual.
I hope that my feedback was enough constructive for you. You are making very good work for years now (I am a Vivaldi preview then Snapshot user for about 4 years, since TP4) and you deserve to succeed.
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First impressions are good! Just a few things that I can't figure out how to do (or should I call it a feature request? ):
- I can't find a way to change those large Speed Dial items to a smaller size.
With the Opera browser, I have five items in a row. With many speed dial items, this prevents the need of scrolling, so that would be IMO ideal. - Once made, I can't change the order of the items on the Speed Dial page.
- It would be great to be able to 'swipe' a tab away to close it, just like one would do with apps on Android.
- A 'text-wrap' option like Opera for Android has would be great.
- Bitwarden password manager auto-fill doesn't seem to recognise the site itself, just the app, so every time I have to log in, I have to manually use the search function. I'm, however, not sure if it's a Vivaldi thing or if Bitwarden needs an update to support Vivaldi.
- I can't find a way to change those large Speed Dial items to a smaller size.
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Thank you guys!
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Great, but just as the desktop app, it install default bookmarks and synchronizes it on my account, so I have to delete them again and again... until I delete Vivaldi for good.
Can't it replace the default bookmarks once an account is synchronized ? Should I expect it to reinstall them after each major update just like the PC version does ?
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@Topha double tap on speed dial icon is not same, yes open keyboard for typing, but not posible edit current url, only write new... try look at "OH Web Browser" have posibility of edit actual url and many more(~=all) with one hand, unique is pull down top of webpage
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Yay, I love it.
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That's wonderful!
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Finally...
Now I think I can switch to Vivaldi from Opera -
This is fantastic news! Unfortunately I can't use it as I don't have Google Play (or in fact anything Google, other than AOSP) on my phone. Please consider offering an apk to download manually from the Vivaldi web site (even if you have to put a warning by it, saying "it's up to you to manually update this"). I believe this is the approach taken by both Whatsapp (warning - owned by Facecrook) and Signal.
Also - does it have either built-in tracker-blocking or extensions support (so I can install a content-blocker)? If not, will this functionality be considered for a future release?
For me, these two requirements are absolute "must-have"s. I can't access anything that's only available on the Play store, and I don't use any browser that doesn't facilitate ad/tracker blocking.
Waiting with hope and anticipation while still using Icecat (de-branded Firefox) mobile...
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It would be nice if future versions can support older Android, atleast 4.4.
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First of all congratulations!
- Where is the "Speed Dial Folder Groups" in the home page, and the "Desktop site" in the settings?
- Can the Panel on the bottom be made thinner or even hidden away? With Android Pie, I don't have anything on the bottom, which saves a lot of area.
The image is here.
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@hdansin said in Vivaldi goes mobile:
Do you have plans to release it on F-Droid or will it be only on Google Play?
This had crossed my mind, too, but... Unfortunately, Vivaldi (desktop version at least) isn't released under completely libre licences*, so if the Android version is under a similar licence, it is highly unlikely it will be possible to include it in F-Droid. Also, an F-Droid version would require a long-winded inclusion process with a dedicated maintainer. Therefore the only realistic hope for Google-avoiders (like me) would be a direct apk download on the Vivaldi web site.
*In short, Vivaldi only upholds the FSF's freedoms 0 and 1 (and possibly 2). I don't remember the Vivaldi licence's stance regarding freedom 2, but from memory it doesn't permit freedom 3.
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Aaaaaaaahhhhh, it's finally here!
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@Hunk Unlikely that they would go lower in future versions. But this was my fear too, that it wouldn't work for me. I'm on 6.something with no way to update other than to load an unreliable community operating system for my device. Have done already too much modding in the past and would prefer to avoid that.
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@jamesbeardmore: A solution would be for Vivaldi to host a F-Droid repo directly, with only one app, this one.
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@Cqoicebordel I'd forgotten you could host your own repo! Now that would be cool as a penguin's pinkies!