What do you expect from Vivaldi on iOS?
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@joeduffus said in What do you expect from Vivaldi on iOS?:
@TalGarik I am an Android user thinking of switching to an iPhone. Lack of Vivaldi is a deal-breaker. At a minimum:
- Sync must work flawlessly, including the ability to access current tabs on other machines.
- Ad blocking must be robust and configurable as on Android
- Password Managers like BitWarden must work.
- I know Vivaldi will blow the Apple-using world out of its socks with its superior tab management, so while that's a must-have I know it will certainly be there out of the gate.
Agreed. I prefer to use iCloud Keychain and would love to see support for that, but I hope the integration with the existing password managers works well. General system integration would be nice, too, provided that Apple supports it.
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A must have option is: new tab next to the previous tab! link open tab next to the previous tab! option dublicate tab! hope this will come true! and scrolling fast through many open tabs.
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I personally love the shortcut feature of the bookmark manager, using own short "keywords" instead of urls, to open a bookmark. I use and love this on my PC. For iPAD OS it would be great. For iOS I wouldn't missed it that much maybe.
Of course bookmarks should sync across all devices.
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I understand what a pain is it to work on an app for such a closed-source system as Apple's iOS. However I would be happy to have as an acceptable option in the interim a "Vivaldi Lite" or Vivaldi for iOS" version that does basic things like syncs bookmarks, notes, etc.
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Similar to Firefox, before they made a browser for iOS, there was a possibility access your sync account and open bookmarks, tabs from other devices. That would be a good starting point before releasing a browser built on WebKit.
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@weasyx since the iOS browser is coming this would be only a waste of time and workforce.
I still hope that by Christmas we will receive a TestFlight version -
Make it like on Android. That's perfect.
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@joeduffus said in What do you expect from Vivaldi on iOS?:
- Ad blocking must be robust and configurable as on Android
this!
lately I am using Safari/AdGuard, last night - needing some stuff synced on desktop - I have used Opera for a while and ... ad-blocking is a huge issue, Vivaldi needs to up its ad-blocking iOS game at least at Brave levels. -
To be honest, I would just like it to exist. I do find it odd that I can use Vivaldi as my browser of choice on my Mac but can't use it on my iPhone.
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@doctorcdf As you can see here, the Vivaldi team is already working on a Vivaldi for iOS:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/80018/sync-vivaldi-bookmarks-and-passwords-with-safari/2
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@doctorcdf Mac does not block valid Mac OS software from being downloaded. It does not have to be in the Apple Store. Vivaldi exists in a valid Mac version.
iOS (the phone operating system) does block downloads not approved in the Apple Store, and specifically blocks browsers from being added to the Apple Store unless they are built on Apple's own version of WebKit. That makes it much harder to introduce a browser to iOS, especially if you don't want it to be merely a branded version of Safari.
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Browse like a PC version
Block scammers, especially the chrome nonsense too.and the main one - Synch with my PC like Firefox does a cross machines.
Thank you
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The biggest feature that I would like to see on an iOS version of Vivaldi would be the ability to have a tab bar visible at all times in portrait mode. As iPhone screens get larger and larger, there is more and more space in portrait mode for a tab bar to be a viable solution. Currently only browsers such as Brave and Red App offer the ability to keep a tab bar visible in portrait mode. Safari offers this feature, but only when in landscape mode mode
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@Ayespy "...merely a branded version of Safari" would be a big uppgrade from how things stand now. Now, don't get me wrong, an awesome browser for iOS would be great. But I think it would be just fine (at least for a while) to build a decent iOS browser purely as an accessory to the great browser on MacOS and other platforms.
So, not a product to wow anybody, but just to make the 1 billion iPhone users consider Vivaldi as their main browser.
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Must have things for me would be;
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Open tab sync.
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Set & Sync custom search engine.
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Tab groups that sync between devices.
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Separate profiles (Like FF Container tabs)
Things that would be out of this world to have;
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Set custom apps for opening links. (eg. open Reddit links in Apollo instead of just opening the page in the browser)
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Ability to install extensions from the FF & Chrome store.
For clarity, everything on this list is 100% possible and allowed on iOS, Orion has already proven this.
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@relink said in What do you expect from Vivaldi on iOS?:
For clarity, everything on this list is 100% possible and allowed on iOS, Orion has already proven this.
Orion is a hit and miss browser, most of what they promise does not work, and some UI choices (example: tabs management) are clumsy at best; it is annoying that Vivaldi is still late to the iOS party but I am confident that when the browser will be ready it will be a great one.
What makes me confident? look at its android versionI hope this will be there form the start
another essential feature - AFAIK Opera is the only mobile browser doing it - is: when I close a tab the browser activates the previously active tab (and it makes no difference if it is a private one or not)
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The iOS version of Vivaldi can't come quickly enough. I am starving. Looking at the requested functionality, most of it I agree on.
I would like to add a Sync of Bookmarks and Notes. Thinking I would recommend adding Notes as a separate OS Vivaldi App.
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@Mogle Sign up here: https://vivaldi.com/de/ios/
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I'm not an iOS user and don't plan on being one, but I would hope that the iOS version is as close as possible to the Android version! (To me it's the perfect mobile browser)
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@Ayespy said in What do you expect from Vivaldi on iOS?:
iOS (the phone operating system) does block downloads not approved in the Apple Store
That's not quite true. You can use the AltStore app store on an iPhone (or iPad) without jailbreaking. Of course, it'd be preferable for Vivaldi to be in the Apple app store. But in case that doesn't work out: AltStore can be Plan B.