When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?

npro

I started using Vivaldi at around 1997 I think (<presto era). Then after some 15+ years I took a break while it was taking its break, then back with it again. My favourite feature is JvT.

Stardust

@purgat0ri said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:

Is this a setting that has to be enabled? It doesn't work for me out of the box, and I can't find a setting that would seem to enable the feature you describe.

Try to enable this setting: Focus Page Content on New Tab

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Steffie

@npro said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:

started using Vivaldi at around 1997

Um, huh? I'm certain that you're making some cunning reference here, but i'm too dimwitted to grasp it. V TP1 was Jan/Feb 2015, so...

Yes yes, i know i'll be embarrassed once you let me know what you actually meant there.

I wondered if you simply meant Opera Presto, but that can't be it either, because you also said <presto era. Did Opera have a pre-Presto version?

From the Likes, obviously three other people do understand your clever ruse. I wish i didn't have to ask.

npro

@Steffie c'mon, you are so clever you eat those (/edit: this kind of writing I mean) for breakfast!

Did Opera have a pre-Presto version?

Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(browser_engine)

iAN CooG

@Steffie said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:

Opera

yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
I only started appreciating and using Opera as main browser from v6.0 to its end at 12.x

Steffie

Presto was the browser engine of the Opera web browser from the release of Opera 7 on 28 January 2003, until the release of Opera 15 on 2 July 2013

Well well, how cool, i truly had no inkling at all that there were Opera versions pre-Presto, so now your cryptic post makes sense. I can no longer recall & this might be out by a number or two, but afaik i only discovered Opera around v9. It never crossed my mind that Presto had not always, at that time, been its engine. Ta both of you for elucidating!

BoneTone

@npro I had known and used Opera off & on since the late 90s, probably first used it in late 97 or early 98. I can't recall exactly, but I know where I was living so it had to be in that range. IE was definitely my primary browser in those years. I began using Opera more in late 2003, again I know where I was living & working and why so I can date that to the month, November. It's harder to date when it became my primary browser though, it was a gradual transition that occurred in the range of 2004-2006. For my work, I pretty much had to all the popular browsers, so I had a rather complex data model and had all my data stored in several browsers. From late 2003 through 2009 I used them all, but the UI of Opera was my favorite. Unfortunately, unlike Vivaldi, there were a significant number of sites that didn't work well in Opera, so even if it was my preferred primary, I still needed to keep other browsers configured as I liked them to use on a regular basis. My primary browser didn't mean as much a it does now. After the debacle of dumping Presto I tried Raju hard to give Opera a chance, but their lack of support for bookmarks lasting ridiculously long drove me away for good. When they finally brought back bookmarks I tried again, but the love was gone and it didn't offer significant advantages. I bounced between Chrom(e/ium) & Fx, depending on whether excessive CPU or memory consumption was annoying me most in the moment. When Vivaldi appeared on the scene, I knew I had found the browser that suited my needs, and despite its rough edges early on, the pace of development was impressive & encouraged me to stick with it. I joined the forum back then, but dropped off as I switched careers and when I came back I couldn't recall my username or email address that I had used, so I eventually have trying to find it and just created a new one, then I moved, got a new job, feel off again, and the same stupid thing happened. Now I keep better track of my registrations and I shouldn't suffer that loss again.

Catweazle

@BoneTone said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:

Now I keep better track of my registrations and I shouldn't suffer that loss again.

Like my sister-in-law, in a post-it next to the screen whistle

BoneTone

@Catweazle said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:

@BoneTone said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:

Now I keep better track of my registrations and I shouldn't suffer that loss again.

Like my sister-in-law, in a post-it next to the screen

No no no. Absolutely not. I never keep account login ID & password information together like that. I've got a homegrown system that I've developed, for all of our accounts, so should anything happen to me, my fiancée can access all of our accounts and do what is necessary for each (access funds, pay bills, deactivate/lock social media, etc). However, nothing contains both the login ID and password.

What one file does contain is the account description, login ID, what that account is used for, etc. And then it has a random string as the password token. She has another file, kept elsewhere, that is nothing but password tokens translated into passwords. These are never stored together, not even on the same encrypted drives, on which the files themselves are encrypted with a different password. Naturally, every single password is very strong, both files & accounts.

Both of these files exist in printed forms as well, but those printouts are not stored in the same physical location, not even the same cities. The important things are that, in the event of a catastrophe, she will be able to access every one of our accounts and know what actions need to be taken (close them, pay bills on what dates, verify autopayments go through, etc.). And that it's impossible for someone to rob us, and get both files. With the use of random string generation, there is no pattern to the password keys.

We have a couple air gap machines, both more than 2 decades old, neither of which even have networking hardware in them, which are used to maintain these files. The files are stored on different USB drives (a few each for backup purposes), which get physically separated shortly after being updated.

But, all of that is way overkill for this forum account. The important thing to prevent losing access to that now is, 1) the username is meaningful to me, 2) the email address is also easily guessed in less than 10 tries (probably way less than that), and 3) I maintain the email server, so I'll be able to get the password reset email regardless of what happens.

Catweazle

@BoneTone , it is understood and having a 'hard-copy" in a Post-It is reckless, so I have also explained it to my sister-in-law, although it seems to me that she has not understood it very well, unfortunately.
Like you, I use data that is easy for me to memorize with long access codes, mainly phrases from songs and poems, substituting letters for numbers and symbols. I think it is a good method.
Although it is more comfortable, I do not use a password manager, I think that passwords are more secure in my head than online on a server.

richter03

I move here since Opera 12 done for, so my favorite features are those features that keep me on old Opera.

Tab stacks : I like to keep all I think I will revisit again opened so over 200+ tabs opened are normal thing to me.
Customization : One size never fit all, more customizable, more love from me.
Speed dial : Fast, short and simple way to navigate to any bookmark page.

Snarl

I started using Vivaldi around late 2016 early 2017, prior to that I used Opera. Once Opera had the "big change" around 2013 or so I found I no longer liked using it so I bascially bounced back and forth between Opera, Firefox, IE etc.., then Vivaldi came along and took us back to the prime days of Opera

Really like Vivaldi, great browser, love the feature set/customization.

Cheers

Dancer18

@Snarl The same with me. Don't remember why I left the early Vivaldi. Most probably bc there was no integrated email-client.

Favourite feature is the panel with email, notes, webpanels, calendar etc.

Generally spoken working with Vivaldi instead of Chrome or Firefox is feeling like working with Linux instead of Windows.