Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode: the new way to pause the Internet
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@iAN-CooG Well discovered! I knew nothing about this, & so immediately checked my Snapshot as well, where i found it was also Enabled [grrrrrrr, i feel this is very dodgy behaviour!]. Unlike the egregious WebRTC setting, at least this one so far seems to stay Disabled after restarts.
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@Steffie said in Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode: the new way to pause the Internet:
dodgy behaviour
It's not more "dodgy" than having default bookmarks/speed dials, it's the only way for Vivaldi to have some income so they initially force them to you but you're free to remove what you don't want.
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@steffie: It was mentioned and discussed in the snapshots that first included it and was listed all 3 times in an unambiguous manor. See also the comments above from myself and @iANCooG. As for the WebRTC setting, third party extensions can overule this setting, a design feature of Chromium. This is why it changes.
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@iAN-CooG You are incorrect. Any new setting that manifestly involves user privacy implications, needs to be announced [done] & set disabled as default [not done], thus letting the user opt in, not set enabled, necessitating the user to opt-out.
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@Steffie ok, you're right.
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Nice job
Middle click a tab thumbnail to close it would be nice
When middle clicking the addressbar with ctrl held, maybe the url should also open in new tab. -
@ruarí: How about explicitly mentioning it on the “What's new” page that automatically opens after you've installed the update?
That way, people who don't read the small print in the release notes are also informed. -
@ruarí: some people would complain about getting free gold, "because it's so heavy!"
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@ruarí: Please reconsider adding searchable tags for bookmarks, Requested over 4 years ago and have around 80 upvotes on feature requests forum. https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/24595/add-searchable-tags-for-bookmarks?_=1599473380543
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@pdwalker Congratulations, you win our First Prize; an all-expenses paid frontal-lobotomy. It's free!
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3.3.2022.35
Break mode now has proper background - good.
It can't be properly unpaused - "" image remains on screen and pages and menus not reacting on anything - bad.I object the statement "Allow Ads was made in the most unambiguous way".
It could've been made visible on the Privacy page in settings.
But instead it is sneaked (yes, I've chosen the same words deliberately) into the sources list, broadening it's actual use without any visual clues. Nasty.While I might be not really affected by this move, it is a worrying sign.
While Vivaldi is still a far cry from a certain competitor, it looks like here comes the time to return the investments and who knows what will come next...Want me to care and show you support?
- Add a whole separate "Support the developers" section in the settings with all relevant setting and any statements on why you think it's a good idea for me to support you. ("It's fast and secure" won't help though.)
I'm not totally happy with Vivaldi - I don't think you understand my needs and instead waste time on bells and whistles, easy to implement cosmetic features. Make me change my mind first.
Sneaking ads might be a short term win but you will waste the trust from your most loyal auditory and lose in the long run. Grow balls to keep it open and stand out from the crowd - show you deserve the trust and support.
- Add a whole separate "Support the developers" section in the settings with all relevant setting and any statements on why you think it's a good idea for me to support you. ("It's fast and secure" won't help though.)
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@Steffie said in Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode: the new way to pause the Internet:
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.
Agreed about windoze, they've must have changed it though to differentiate itself from calendar , a sign that it we' re even closer to getting it (&M3) ?
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@Gwen-Dragon it wasn't sarcasm, it was fact.
Look at all the people whining about the ads. They get to use a wonderful, fully customizable browser, and yet they complain about ads because it wasn't written out in 72 point, bold text as "WE HAZ ADZ!" in words small enough for them to comprehend.
Ok, I think that might need a sarcasm tag.
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@raystanz said in Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode: the new way to pause the Internet:
Nice job
Middle click a tab thumbnail to close it would be nicePlease vote for Close tabs by middle-click on thumbnail if you haven't already
You may also take a look into relevant feature requests like reordering tabs by using the thumbnail and others here
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I like the "Crop and click parts of the URL in the Address Bar" feature. I was using it all the time even before the highlight feature, but can this feature be extended to the url parameters like
vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-introduces-break-mode/?authenticate=blog#comments
The part after '?' delimited by the '&' and '#' is not highlighted with ctrl. As a developer this would be very much apprecieted to be able to cut off some params -
@mscha said in Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode: the new way to pause the Internet:
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.It would only be privacy hostile if an option to not turn off were in force.
I don't use the built in blocker myself as i use an extension but if i were and it helped to finance things a bit better then i see no reason not to allow it.After all we get the browser for free so i see no issues with it.
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@Pesala thanks for your input. It's corrected and updated.
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When I first saw this feature on the blog post page, I thought it was a sort of reminder to get away from PC like the app Stretchly
E.g. every X minutes, stay in Break Mode for Y seconds: