What is stopping you from using V all the time?
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@Jin V.
Can't tell you how to resolve the other ones, but on #1, do you have the latest snapshot? Because many snapshots ago, it gave the ability to take off the ugly extension buttons. Check for the latest snapshot or the new Beta and check if you can also move the buttons, because I'm sure you can.
Pretty sure you can't. You can remove them, but not move them.
Ah nuts. I wrote that when i didn't have much time.
I checked just now and you definitely can't move them.
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Oh, and the fact that after using Vivaldi for a while I get weird performance issues, every time I open a tab it thrashes the CPU for about 10-20 second on 100% (no matter what sort of tab that is), and sometimes, seemingly more often when dealing with multiple youtube tabs (only one playing), the browser just hangs around at 80-90% CPU usage constantly. Usually closing and opening it again solves this. Also, usually when this happens, when I start the browser the next time I hear a video from the tab that was open the last time start playing about 5-10 seconds before the rest of the browser shows up. So for 5-10 seconds there's a "phantom video" playing without any program being visible on the screen.
I really do like the features and ethos of Vivaldi, it's just a couple of lacking features and performance issues that keep me from going steady with it.
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Nothing is stopping me anymore. I've just switched my default web browser to Vivaldi.
uBlock, LastPass and now Xmarks are functional. I've got all my passwords and bookmarks synced across platforms and browsers (FF, Chrome, IE).
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I did not read the previous posts but,
I would use Vivaldi all day if the "Show Images | Show Cached Images | No Images" toggle would save and work correctly.
I still use Opera 12.15 because of only that. I really love browsing without images.
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I use Vivaldi a fair amount on one of my computers… my final holdout is synchronization of settings and favorites. Once that's in place, I'm in. (Default open new tabs in background rather than foreground tab would be nice, too though.)
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I'm still missing the integration of a mail and IRC client. When Vivaldi is as complete as Opera 12 was, Opera will be obsolete, eventually.
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I did not read the previous posts but,
I would use Vivaldi all day if the "Show Images | Show Cached Images | No Images" toggle would save and work correctly.
I still use Opera 12.15 because of only that. I really love browsing without images.
I assume you mean Opera 12.16 for Unix/OSX or 12.17 for Windows? Those were the last Presto versions.
Anyway, yeah, "Show Images" just seems to block IMG elements, not background-image CSS statements, like Opera (≤12) did.
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i dont know if someone has said it already but is a little bit annoyng the fact that in some cases you have to write the "www" in order to access a webpage. Other than that it would be cool to use the panel just to search so when u want to see a webpage it will open in the main browser rather than opening in the extra pannel
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This is actually getting so bad (constantly thrashing my CPU whenever I open a tab or a link, some sites like Facebook causing constant thrashing on that tab, identifiable via Vivaldi's task manager, etc.) that I think I'll have to go back to Maxthon for the time being.
Damnit, I so want to use this browser but it's just not really possible right now.
Oh, and the fact that after using Vivaldi for a while I get weird performance issues, every time I open a tab it thrashes the CPU for about 10-20 second on 100% (no matter what sort of tab that is), and sometimes, seemingly more often when dealing with multiple youtube tabs (only one playing), the browser just hangs around at 80-90% CPU usage constantly. Usually closing and opening it again solves this. Also, usually when this happens, when I start the browser the next time I hear a video from the tab that was open the last time start playing about 5-10 seconds before the rest of the browser shows up. So for 5-10 seconds there's a "phantom video" playing without any program being visible on the screen.
I really do like the features and ethos of Vivaldi, it's just a couple of lacking features and performance issues that keep me from going steady with it.
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For me it's just mail.
I've already started using Vivaldi fairly frequently now (old Opera just has too much trouble with so many web pages) and I must say it works really great. With the full extension support (stuff like and an ad blocker and Ghostery most of all) it already offers anything I need - except mail. -
Just checked out Vivaldi and tried to use it for some time. Unfortunately, I had to go back to Chrome in the end.
Primary deal breakers for me:
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- Inability to sort extension icons.
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- Tab closing behavior. I want right tab to focus not the left one. Since this browser is supposed to be completely customizable, why not adding that to options?
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- Tab closing behavior. I want right tab to focus not the left one. Since this browser is supposed to be completely customizable, why not adding that to options?
Also some annoyances that I could live with:
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- Right clicking on back/forward buttons to view history do not work, but long clicking does for some reason. Probably a bug.
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- There is no good way to open history. CTRL + H does not work and it is missing from the menu
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- There is no way to hide some extension icons into separate menu for less used extensions like Chrome does
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- You cannot move tabs to other windows by dragging and dropping. Yes I know I can do that with right click menu but it is slower and less intuitive.
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- You cannot shift+click back button to open previous page in new tab.
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- You cannot shift+click back button to open previous page in new tab.
In general I was also pretty disappointed with "Customize Everything" aspect. I thought it would be like Firefox where you can rearrange UI elements around and hide/show them at will. But all we get is Chrome with couple more checkboxes in options.
But I have definitely seen some neat features and I will check this browser again in the future.
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Built in RSS (Depending on benevolent support via Smart RSS is no good for me) and Email. Nail those and I'm yours.
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This:
Is this a bug?
I'm using Pale Moon (yeah, don't laugh) and in it (and Firefox also) the CPU usage playing videos is quite "healty". I mean, LOW CPU usage. But in Vivaldi… even low res videos, be it using flash player or html5 player on youtube, the CPU usage hit nearly maximum.
Why?
Windows 7 64bits Vivaldi 32bitsEdit:
Other thing.
You enter a forum, xenforo based for example. You have a list of topics, some of the have a number o pages. In some the page number appear, in others don't. Sometimes you have to reload the page for them to appear, some of them even so don't.
Why?
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Nothing, actually.
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So from my point of view, there are several key features absent now:
- Inability to sort extension icons.
- Developer console is not dockable.
- Speed dial is limited to 6 columns and not customizable size of page previews.
- No direct download field in download "manager".
- No possibility for custom buttons - for bookmarklets.
- Inability to add "display image" button (all, none, cache only) to main navigation bar.
- Imposibility to hide search field without dirty hack (own css everytime overwritten by new build). - Response of UI is not absolutely instant (even on i7+12g; i didn't tried on older machines).
And some not so important:
- No built-in RSS reader.
- No IRC client
So that are the reasons why my primary browser is still Opera 12.x, but I have to say that now more often I have to switch to chrome because of problems with SSL pages.
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I'm currently missing:
- tree style tabs (main reason!)
- moving/dragging seldom used addon buttons from the big top bar to the status bar
- additional address bar option to use parts of the url for both breadcrumbs (easy directory browsing)
- highlight parts of the url for domain/filename.extension?parameter1=xxx¶meter2=xxx where the domain,filename and parameters are easily displayed
- in opera you could browse e.g. image galleries with numbered image filenames just pressing forward because it increased the image/filename number automatically. Very convenient …
- Speed dial: Entering a folder pressing back does not go back to previous top folder
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It's the mail client, predominantly.
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Still waiting for the bookmarks bar rightclick menu to be fixed (broken on sublevel items).
(and no i don´t like the sidebar menu as a replacement) I use it multiple times a day so for me personally its a must.Strange thing is that the code has been there for a long time (in the sidebar bookmarks context menu) and just not being put into the bookmarks bar to fix things.
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- "find on page" function sticky across tabs
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Major
Speed and polish - it's beta, so waiting for this to improve over time
Memory/resource use - hardest on battery life of all browsers I've used. CPU fan toggles more than other browsers
Speed dial button/toggle - a way to quickly return to speed dial in the open tab like OperaMinor
Customize speed dial tile appearance - the web page image makes the whole speed dial visually busy - ability to customize tiles for cleaner look
Mail - will be nice when it comesOther than that it's great - love that the Chrome extensions just work, love that Netflix works, love that all embedded audio and video files play, love the visual theme (especially the recent change to allow tab background to adopt the page color!)
I'm burnt out on chasing the snapshots, so I'll stick with Opera until the first stable Vivaldi comes out. I think there is a very good chance i'll make the full time switch at that point