Update to Chromium 80 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1800.5

iAN CooG

I don't know what this VB-62314 "fix" did but for example on 9gag videos start by themselves without AutoplayStopper enabled, so nothing has changed.

LonM

I am very much looking forward to the new notes editor!

Interesting new flags with the Chrome 80 update:

#sharing-peer-connection-receiver & #sharing-peer-connection-sender - I'm not sure what is meant by peer connection. Sounds interesting
#sharing-qr-code-generator - Doesn't do anything yet, but seems like a neat tool
#win-use-hybrid-spellchecker - more advanced spell checking for windows users
#enable-ftp - I don't hav eany FTP servers I use regularly, but some user might like this

Ruarí

And remember that is you want to use Netflix, you will need to spoof your user agent as ChromeOS

t0yz

Very nice, with this update I get a Cast to Device button on Youtube that allows me to cast to the TV from the PC (the PC doesn't have wireless BTW, it's connected to the router through cable, the TV is connected wirelessly/5GHz). Previously there was a button to cast on the YT app on my phone, but the PC did not have it.

Edge Chromium which is on v.79 for now doesn't have this button.

As for the Sources sub-menu, it has Tab, Desktop and File. I could not get Desktop and File to work.

Edit: you can get the Cast function from the right click as well, on Chromium 79 it just would not find any devices (as expected, because my PC doesn't have wireless), but now it always finds the TV connected to the home router (has DLNA and Miracast I think). However, the only source I can get to work is YT. Anything else gives a message of "Source not supported".

Would be great if it would be able to stream the Desktop/files/tabs as well,as the Sources suggest to be possible. LG provides an app that can do that (for audio/video), having Vivaldi able to cast the browser would make it a nearly complete solution.

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nutcracker

@cqoicebordel: Indeed! With the pop-up problem (VB-62368) solved in the best possible way, I'm back in business! I must thank the devs because it seems nobody else was particularly affected or interested in this.

rhk

@iAN-CooG I agree, autoplay stop isn't working for me either - turning on AutoplayStopper extension again.

Gigzama

Can anyone confirm links linked to notes are not behaving? Ordinarily I can click on a note and it functions much like a bookmark. Now, not so. Thanks in advance.

Pesala

@Gigzama Confirmed here. Double-click on the note does nothing.

Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit 1909 build 18363.592 • Snapshot 2.11.1800.5 (64-bit)

acnapyx

Weirdly, after update to this shapshot Vivaldi has been a total resource hog on my old-ish Win7 x64 Elitebook 8530w — it made the PC totally unresponsive and didn't allow even opening Task Manager to kill it. Had to downgrade to previous build to get responsiveness back. Tested and confirmed on 2 identical Elitebooks with same specs, so it's not a single PC glitch.

(Specs: Intel T9600 @2.80 GHz, 4GB RAM on Windows 7 x64 with all updates up to Win7 EOL, 32-bit Vivaldi Snapshot Snapshot 2.11.1800.5, now rolled back to 2.11.1792.3)

Anyone else experiencing this on Win7?

Ayespy

@acnapyx I'll have to fire up my win7 box to test in the AM. Won't have a chance tonight.

iAN CooG

@acnapyx not for me, everything normal. I have 5 tabs open, one playing a stream on twitch, several extensions active, max 5% at peak, but I'm on Win7 32bit, [email protected].
If anything you should run Vivaldi 64bit if you use win7 64bit, but with only 4gb RAM you shouldn't even touch 64bit at all, imho, it makes no sense to me. Add 4Gb RAM.

sid6dot7

Site wide tab muting setting seems broken. (soundcloud, youtube, twitch etc.)

Sound is still audible when a tab is loaded or refreshed, ignoring the 'site setting' set to mute. Muting the tab itself in the tab bar works fine and is preserved through tab refresh.

Pathduck

@Gwen-Dragon Ouch

Pathduck

@Gwen-Dragon Yeah, I guess it works just as well or maybe even better. If they do they should style it better so it's more visible where the focus is, like the Vivaldi one.

I actually use this one:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spatial-navigation/gogippjaikoijhcdcioeajgpmlmchkba

Works much better and I've changed some of the code to make it like I want it. Have you tried it?
I wish my JS skills were better, then I'd try to improve the code which is really convoluted and maybe make a new extension as this one is really old and not maintained...

MattSolo45

What about the additives blocking advertising in chromium 80 ? Does Vivaldi somehow react to this and is this version already in force?
Maybe in the next update focus on slimming down the program ? Compared to Firefox, for example, it looks bad.
Will Vivaldi return to the state in which he wanted to distinguish himself from the chrome ? Because looking at the changes in the user's agent or Vivaldi leaving Windows 7 with the chrome together, in my opinion Vivaldi is losing its individuality and its status as a secure browser. Because instead of betting on its own solutions it follows the course imposed by google.

MattSolo45

@Gwen-Dragon
2) I mean the very size of the program occupied on the disk.
3) So Vivaldi will not be innovative, but only faithfully submit to the imposed rule? I thought that Vivaldi is trying to distinguish itself from Google and I think it will be more like the Opera.

Ayespy

@MattSolo45 I think you misunderstand. Vivaldi will be enthusiastically innovative and will visually and operationally completely distinguish itself from Chrome. To do this, it will HAVE TO be larger on disk. There is no way to avoid this, as it has an additional layer that Chrome does not have.

Ayespy

@acnapyx On my paleolithic 32-bit P4 Win7 box with two, count 'em, two whole gigs of 200 MHz RAM, it is comparable to Vivaldi stable. Uses about the same amount of CPU and RAM. That said, it is difficult to measure, because clicking on anything in any app on that old box maxes out the cpu. At idle, however, both the old and the new Vivaldi hover around 2% CPU. Both open and operate just as expected. No freezes, no system capture.

acnapyx

@Ayespy Then it's probably hardware-specific problem on my device, can't tell for sure. Just to confirm Win7 is not the culprit tested latest snapshot on ThinkPad X220 with 8GB RAM, everything went smoothly and I see no difference at all. (You're right about going to at least 8GB but this machine required DDR2 so this upgrade is at best overpriced, at worst useless... probably it's time to let those old Elitebooks rest in peace, I guess.)
Thanks for testing it, hope the problem solves itself in a few more snapshots. It's not a freeze per se, more like heavy swapping from hdd which makes everything unresponsive, but there's no sense to investigate further.

rseiler

@rhk: I can't even figure out where the control for this is in Chrome (checked 80 beta), on the theory that it would be the same in this build. It used to be in Flags, but not anymore.

It's interesting that Vivaldi announces support now (though I'm also confused by the word "always," since I wasn't aware that it "ever" did it before) that Chrome may have dropped it.