Private Window Themes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2022.6

[iPristy]

@pathduck: Yes, thanks i found it as ALT for main menu is now disabled.

[Chas4]

32nd
Had to disable the auto updater as it broke the check for updates from the menu on macOS

[jon]

@vort said:

Built-in adblocker is a good thing.
But don't even think about dropping uBlock Origin support

We will continue to improve our own implementation, but you can still use an extension if you like. Vivaldi is all about choice.

[Sdar]

@MasterLeo29 I'm missing something here? right now you can customize both thumbnails and background image using the context menu. is this a different speed dial that the one i'm referring to?

[Pesala]

@jon I have never used an ad-blocker, but the built-in blocking is a great help on YouTube.

Google did something evil by adding rolling ads to all of YouTubers old videos so there are lots of complaints in the comments blaming the content creators.

All I see is a button to Skip Ads, and the video plays as soon as I click it. I recommend Vivaldi to work around this problem.

Try watch any video like this one with Vivaldi's ad-blocking disabled, then enable it and try again.

[Pathduck]

@sjudenim That's an extremely low-contrast theme... but yeah the problem is this:

Background of address field is --colorBgIntenser (#0b0d13)
Text of Lowlight elements is --colorFgFadedMost (#1b242d)
These are very similar colours.

I definitely think they have more work to do on this, but also it's unlikely it will ever work for all possible theme colour variants anyway. They would have to add fancy contrast-detection or something. IMO they should just drop the whole address-bar highlighting scheme, it's a Bad Thing

Highlight what's important but don't obscure stuff we need to understand.

They should at least consider changing the Lowlight to like colorFgFaded instead of colorFgFadedMost, it would help a lot.

On this topic: @Ruarí The "Highlight Base Domain in Address" setting appears to do nothing now, is this correct?

[Vistaus]

Very nice update! But I won't stop using uBlock Origin until you guys add an element picker

[sjudenim]

@Pathduck

They can use the same fg for domain with transparency for the secondary url bits instead of calculating a different colour.

Using opacity: 0.7 worked perfectly on @tam710562's original mod that did this https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/37609/mask-for-the-address-bar?page=1

Of course if there is very little contrast between the fg and the bg , then even this wouldn't work very well. So as you said, not all themes will

[HalleAndert]

The integrated ad blocker doesn't support all rules of the AdGuard filter lists.
https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-ad-filters

There are also some glitches caused by the ad blocker on https://www.computerbase.de.

[MasterLeo29]

@Sdar Perhaps. I was talking about the start page custom image. As far as I saw, you can now have two themes (one for regular; one for private) but only one custom start page image. (if there is the option, I might have just missed it)

[gorg]

New Tab Page as Blank Page remains broken, as I mentioned in the previous build. "about:blank" text remains visible and unselected in the address bar, which means that every time you open a new (blank) page you have to delete that by hand before you start typing a new URL.

@k3dAR: thanks for the tip, I have been doing the same until the issue gets fixed.

[gorg]

OK, I found that I can revert to previous/desired behaviour by using "Blank New Tab Page" extension by Jarek Foksa. In the Vivaldi Settings I selected:

"TABS/New Tab Page= Start Page" and ticked "Controlled by Extension".

[Pesala]

@gorg Why does anyone need to do this at all?

Just open links or bookmarks in a new tab if you don't want to use the start page with speed dials. Or, use the Quick Commands to type a URL and set it to always open a new tab.

Even easier is to open the Bookmarks Panel, right-click on the Speed Dial folder, and remove it. Then, use the Start Page as your New Tab page, and use a nice image or a plain background, whichever you prefer.

[GT500]

Unfortunately the changes to adblock filter support broke this filter list:
https://www.gt500.org/adblock/gt500org-remove-youtube-sidebar.txt

[A Former User]

@MasterLeo29 Yay! Per-theme SD/window background images!

[gorg]

@pesala: Thanks but you are missing the point. Someone might like to start the browser with a Start Page initially (keeping speed dial and other start page functionality) but might prefer to open new blank tabs consequently. There is a reason there are different options in the settings.

While "vivaldi://startpage" opens a start page, including (or not) Speed Dial, navigation, backgrounds etc, and the URL text disappears from the address bar (allowing you to start typing directly), "about://blank" text is kept in the address bar in the latest builds and needs to be manually deleted before you start typing URLs, which is not the old behaviour. I consider it as a bug rather than a feature.

[Pathduck]

@GT500 It works here, imported 1 valid rule, sidebar is not shown.

[Pathduck]

@gorg said in Private Window Themes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2022.6:

"about://blank" text is kept in the address bar in the latest builds and needs to be manually deleted before you start typing URLs, which is not the old behaviour. I consider it as a bug rather than a feature.

This is definitely a bug and hopefully fixed soon. I've reported it as VB-71014.

[gorg]

@pathduck: thanks

[Steffie]

@rseiler:

The default filter count for uBO (even if you then thrown in Fanboy's Annoyances, which is a big one) is now well below the 200K threshold that was rumored to be the hard line beyond which the new system wouldn't go. If 200K does come to pass, maybe it won't be a big deal for most people after all. I wonder if there has been some filter consolidation to keep the number down.

Filter count ... count count count ... with respect this simply misses the bigger part of the point re why the gargle proposal is so hideous. It applies somewhat to uBO, but it applies hugely to bigger & more powerful sister uMatrix. People like me want the forensic control of the granular dynamic filtering rules that the user can deploy per site & page. If gargle get their evil way, we lose that capability completely [!= my opinion; this is direct from the uBO & uM Dev @gorhill]. That would be a shocking thing. The static block-lists are merely the iceberg tip,