Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode: the new way to pause the Internet
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Vivaldi 3.3 on desktop and notebooks arrives with a Break Mode, a new default Theme for Private Window, clickable parts of URLs in the Address Bar, base domain highlighting, and improved Tracker and Ad Blocker.
Click here to see the full blog post
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Well, well, well, very well Good job V team
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Cool, that is released. Just pausing ️ now, while I get some coffee
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The "Download Vivaldi" button in the announcement page points to
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-introduces-break-mode/#
which just go on top of page, one has to push the button on bottom to get the installer -
The Vivaldi drink bottle in the break picture is a nice touch.
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@ian-coog: Thanks, fixed now
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Happily the Downunder allergy initially extant in those recent Snapshots & fixed in the latest Snapshot, has worked nicely for this Stable --> i deliberately did not bother with my homespun [temp locale change] workaround, & simply gave it a try; it launched just fine.
As others have recently remarked in Snapshot threads, i do hope the unfortunate too-close-to-windoze icon for the StartPage gets replaced sooner not later.
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Great, installed and put the Break button next to the Adressbar
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Typos in the Blog post:
- [New][Themes] Allow the use of a sperate theme for private windows (VB-28543)
- [New][Blocker] Add support for blocking whole pages: if blocking rule
thathas the ‘document’ option, it will block the whole page (VB-69867)
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[Blocker] Allow ads from partners (+opt-out) (VB-69655)
This sounds a bit like you're allowing advertisers to pay you to circumvent ad blocking, and you're sneaking this in. That would be more than a bit #evil and not at all what I would expect from Vivaldi...
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Just updated on my xenialpup linux..Runs great and thank you vivaldi team.
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Overlapping cookie request of notification/location still there from RC2.
You are the main browser on Ubuntu now, no other is there present, don't make me look bad.
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Is there any reason that -ing doesn't hide the icons of pinned tabs?
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@mscha said in Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode: the new way to pause the Internet:
Allow ads from partners (+opt-out)
This would be interesting to know how and if there's a list, just to know which I want to leave unblocked to help Vivaldi in some way.
EDIT: Found it
In the privacy settings, Manage Sources, there's a "Allow Ads from our Partners (support Vivaldi)" and rightclicking the entry I can copy the origin url, which is https://downloads.vivaldi.com/lists/vivaldi/partners-current.txt
If you're not ok with the sites being whitelisted, you can disable it. It's good it lets you do it. -
@mscha same here. I think it's a bug.
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@mscha said in Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode: the new way to pause the Internet:
Is there any reason that -ing doesn't hide the icons of pinned tabs?
Because the UI is not gone and you can interact with the whole UI and e.g. close a tab and right-click on the pinned tabs and unpin them, make screenshots etc. pp.?
The only thing that is truly deactivated are the tabs contents.
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But it's not good that they're sneaking it in.
And looking at the current contents of the list, they aren't just disabling filters on privacy-friendly sites like duckduckgo, but also on bing, which definitely isn't privacy-friendly. -
@mscha "sneaking" isn't appropriate, they are not hiding it and completely transparent about it. You're free to disable it, even disable native adblocking and using uBO and block everything as you need. Vivaldi needs some incomes, they're not living out of thin air.
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@mscha What @ian-coog said. Have a look at the list he linked to and also read:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/
"Sneaking it in" sounds a bit harsh given we list in the changelog here (in it's own section no less) and it is unambiguous about what it does (i.e. the changelog entry isn't written in a confusing way to hide what this is). We also mentioned it when it first appeared on Android and Desktop snapshots (which followers go through with a fine toothed comb), plus we give you a way to opt out, which was highlighted in the changelog entries.
This is the first desktop snapshot with this change
It was in 3.2 for Android and the snapshot that included it was an RC without many entries (and it was the first entry), so I think it was pretty obvious and widely discussed. What else would you have us do to avoid it being labeled "sneaking it in"?
https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/mobile/android-3-2-1996-10/
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@mscha: Just a bug, fixed internally. Plan to cherry pick the fix for any minor update that comes out