Private Window Themes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2022.6

solidsnake

Real improvement to ad blocker will be adding the possibility to add entries to user's block list by selecting elements on web pages.

Pesala

I see this new Caution icon showing up on these forums and on my Speed Dial. I can see all of the address. Something is not working correctly yet.

Caution Vivaldi Forum is Dangerous.png

Start Page is Dangerous.png

mossman

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

@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.

I think Google - who are definitely now being evil - are making an insane mistake with this recent ad push on YouTube. Personally, the YouTube app on the phone became literally unwatchable and I just stopped using it! I searched for a solution, installed NewPipe and can watch everything in peace again. Shortly afterwards, my wife who thought I was exaggerating also couldn't take it and asked me to install NewPipe for her as well. A couple of weeks later, Google changed something which broke NewPipe - and for the one day it took NewPipe team to release a fix she went absolutely crazy trying to use the YouTube app.

Far from getting more clicks I think all it's doing is driving people to resent Google more than ever and look to alternatives.

Pesala

@mossman This has all the signs of being an everlasting battle between advertisers and ad-blockers.

If people at Vimeo or other sharing sites are watching, this may be an opportunity for them to gain market share.

Priest72

there has to be some leeway..internet is a prime advertising medium..blocking every single ad is not a good balance either.

luetage

@Priest72 Unpopular opinion: The best balance is making adblocking hard for people who don’t know what they are doing. The whole problem is that adblocking got too easy and is even inbuilt in browsers nowadays. Of course there will be consequences.

TbGbe · Win: Snapshot Vivaldi 7.1.3554.3

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

Furthermore, the new SS has now arrived in Arch. I have just finished updating my Arch VM [not yet my real Arch on Tower], & the new SS still launches again, still with en_AU.utf8, because i did that locale two-step the other day. As i said, i did explicitly document this in the forum.

Yes, your "two-step" works for those who do it (and remember the vital "second step")!

The "known problems" solution from @Ruarí is a "one-step" for those who didn't do it!

I would read his replies to you as additional information and not any form of rebuke; just a caution for others.

Priest72

@luetage Business people have a right to advertise and the web is very much a big platform for that..I don't mind well placed ads on a page but pop-ups are a big no-no...but i use an adblocker to cut out the majority of the sludge.

Chas4

@Ruarí Yet there is no progress bar to indicate the status so if you restart to early the update fails. Even if there is no update the auto update seems to break that menu option as it does nothing even when you are updated.

sjudenim

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

@sjudenim: The contrast in your theme is very low to begin with, and that propagates to the other colors. You'll need to increase the brightness of the Foreground color to fix this. But the first screenshots you shared does not look like Vivaldi at tall - is it a different browser, or just heavily modified Vivaldi?

I don't use high contrast or bright colours at night, it's harder on the eyes. I certainly can't be the only one?...

I've been using this to compensate on darker themes

.UrlFragment-Wrapper--ShouldHighlight {
  --HighlightColor: var(--colorFgIntense);
  --LowlightColor: var(--colorFgFaded);
}

but because of the calculation being made for the variables, I run into the issue on light themes where the domain is lighter
and less emphasized.

This is the calculation result on a white(ish) theme
--colorBg: hsl(180deg 8% 97%);
--colorFg: hsl(208deg 8% 47%);
--colorFgAlpha: hsl(208deg 8% 47% / 10%);
--colorFgIntense: hsl(208deg 9% 61%);
--colorFgFaded: hsl(207deg 10% 34%);
--colorFgFadedMore: hsl(208deg 15% 22%);
--colorFgFadedMost: hsl(208deg 17% 20%);

The contrast between the bg and fg is sufficient, but rather than being faded (lightened), the fg is being darkened.

wolden

"Highlighting the base domain"
This is a very nice improvement, thank you!

saudiqbal

@Gwen-Dragon said in Private Window Themes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2022.6:

@saudiqbal This rule fails for you? I remember this block full domain was introduced in Vivaldi:
||example.com^$document

I just tried it and it is not working, uploaded it onto my server

! Title: Private Filters
! Expires: 7 days
||facebook.com^$document

Update: looks like it is working in beta and not in stable. I ll wait for the stable to be updated.

Pathduck

@Gwen-Dragon said in Private Window Themes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2022.6:

Hilighting base domain should be in bold letters!

Completely agree
Vivaldi should dare to be different and not copy-cat what other browsers do just because some obscure research has told Chromium developers that us poor users are "confused" by complicated URLs.

This is what I have now, maybe it's useful:

/* URL Bar no lowlight */
.UrlFragment-Wrapper {
	color: unset;
}
/* URL Bar scheme part */
.UrlFragment--Lowlight:first-of-type {
	color: var(--colorFgFaded);
}

/* URL Bar host part  */
.UrlFragment-HostFragment-Subdomain, .UrlFragment-HostFragment-Basedomain, .UrlFragment-HostFragment-TLD {
	color: unset !important;
	font-weight: bold;
}

claudio

This is not the case with Ubuntu

Bug : open the Address Bar Settings and under Address Field Drop-Down Menu tick Include Browser History
Close and reopen the settings,the setting is deselected.
Confirm?
Reported: VB-71166

luetage

@claudio Noticed that too when I messed around today, but the bug is only visual, the setting still sticks.

supra107

Now it's time to go one step further and add the ability to set a theme for different websites.

ender85

Last several snapshots changed how they render background colour on pages that don't have it set – previously it was always white, now Vivaldi seems to take the colour from my OS settings. Unfortunately this makes a lot of pages unreadable, since I use a dark high contrast theme in Windows, which sets background to (nearly) black, and Vivaldi does not use the Windows text colour for text (but that'd only help on pages that set neither background, nor text colours, and there's unfortunately a lot of pages that do set text to black while ignoring the background).

Here's a minimal sample page, and this is how it renders for me in 3.3.2022.6:
Screenshot of above link

A Former User

@ender85 said in Private Window Themes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2022.6:

set text to black while ignoring the background

Interesting, I was facing the opposite problems when I once tried to set default colour scheme in FF to dark bg & light text…

A Former User

This setting seems to be present since the previous snapshot, but isn’t mentioned in the changelogs: vivaldi.quick_commands.use_notes_manager.

Regarding the private window theme, will we get the possibility to just keep it the same as in normal windows?

Ayespy

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

Regarding the private window theme, will we get the possibility to just keep it the same as in normal windows?

Unless I misunderstand your question, that is already the case.