Vivaldi 5.3: Tweak and tune your browser with the new Editable Toolbars.

mib2berlin

The fix is published:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-5-3/

Cheers, mib

jplanvers

We do love customization! Any chance of allowing users to customize what mouse chords do? Right now they're hardcoded to navigate back and forward.

Pesala

@jplanvers Vote for Customize Rocker Gestures.

jplanvers

@pesala: I did, back in 2019.

My first post about rocker customization in vivaldi was in 2015. I'm not holding my breath!

rseiler

@thomasp: I don't think the initial question was answered though. Especially after last time, it's very surprising to see this happen again right out of the gate.

Either it was another case of a major issue (somewhat incredibly, despite a couple months of testing) only coming to light on the day of release(!) or there happened to be a post-RC change that did it (also, what are the odds on that one), or something else. Someone should know.

bswn

Mine has no update

Pesala

@bswn Updates are disabled for now. Download the installer from the blog and run it.

guigirl

@npro said in Vivaldi 5.3: Tweak and tune your browser with the new Editable Toolbars.:

not a very smart idea

Yeah but ya just gotta admit that recycling Presto is a really innovative brand-new idea that somehow nobody ever thought of posting about in this forum, ever before!

Priest72

On fossapup 9.5 puppy linux 64 just updated to 5.3.2679.36 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) and am experiencing no crashes and everything appears to run as sweet as a well oiled machine.

Thanks for the update .

intersk

it's cool!

intersk

@bswn said:

Mine has no update
I have not this update too

Ascar

@zakius: Today's release is a great milestone. And yes, we need more. I asked for dragable extension buttons on both sides of the address field here https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/37364/customisable-toolbars/17. I hope we get this soon. For me this is the only missing piece of functionality to proclaim Vivaldi the best browser on the planet.

Pesala

@Ascar Vote for Move Extension Buttons Around Interface. One can already move the extension container to the left of the URL field.

Ascar

A couple hours after updating Vivaldi I am scratching my head - default search engine changed to Yahoo and I can't change it back to what I prefer?

thomasp

@Ascar A few users have reported an incompatibility between the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension and Vivaldi's 5.2 -> 5.3 upgrade process. If you have that extension installed, please try disabling it for now and see if the search engine settings start working for you.

EDIT: if this fixes things for you, you should then be able to re-enable the DDG extension afterwards and everything will work ok.

EDIT 2: it's not just the DDG extension affected by this. Any extension that adds a search engine can trigger this issue.

Catweazle

The error is, I think, that the DDG extension add another DDG search to the list, but without the possibility to add a nick, which is necesary in 5.3, this maybe cause a conflict. Better not to use the extension until DDG extension make optional the search engine.
Meanwhile Trace is a very good alternative (it's OpenSource)

Trace can protect against:

Canvas Fingerprint Spoofing
Audio Fingerprinting Protection
WebGL Fingerprinting Protection
JS Crypto Currency Mining Domain Blocking
WebRTC IP Leakage Protection
WebRTC Device Enumeration Protection
Client Rects Protection
User-Agent Spoofing
Network Information API Spoofing
Browser Plugin Fingerprinting Protection
Hardware Fingerprinting Protection
Beacon/'Ping' Request Blocking
Blocks Malicious Top Level Domains
Hyperlink Auditing Prevention
HTTP Referrer Headers Controls
Google Header Tracking Controls
E-Tag Tracking Mitigation
Screen Resolution Spoofing
Battery API Spoofing
Removal of specific Tracking Cookies
Removal of URL Tracking Parameters

Ascar

@thomasp: Thank you Thomas. With your suggestion searching is back to normal!
A few notches forward with desired functionality and Vivaldi is de-facto best browser in the world.
I wish you could make it to iPad soon....

Catweazle

@Ascar , in this the question is whether Vivaldi finishes before making a browser for iOS, or iOS is forced by the European complaint to remove the restrictions for external apps that go against the free competition norm.

Ascar

@catweazle: I would have preferred that EU prevails in forcing Apple to make their environment friendlier to the developer community. iPad is a great piece of technology, but too restrictive.

Catweazle

@Ascar , that is the plan, because the restriction in iOS make that devs are forced to use the WebKit engine for a browser, this makes it necessary that Vivaldi has to be redesigned from scratch to correspond to this.
This clearly violates EU competition law, as this can be done by large companies with hundreds of dedicated developers, but not so easy by small ones like Vivaldi.
This is why I don't like Apple, the lack of compatibility, which also restricts the possibilities of the user, if Apple is only compatible with Apple, while anyone else, Linux, Windows, Android, LinageOS, etc., can use third-party apps without problems for any need.