Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3

[sjudenim]

@barbudo2005

Forcing me to initiate an action in order for me to proceed is hostile behavior. Just because you only have to do it one time does not change that fact.

[barbudo2005]

@sjudenim

Said:

Forcing me to initiate an action in order for me to proceed is hostile behavior.

It seems to me that you are not being very condescending to Vivaldi who has given you an excellent browser since 2016 and for free………. and really free not like the others.

[sjudenim]

@barbudo2005
Expressing disappointment in browser behavior is part of the testing process and something we have all been doing to help improve it. Calling that condescending is rather ironic. Also I've donated to show my appreciation, so not exactly free either. But that's besides the point as is the fact that the browser is a vehicle for advertisers that are bundled with it (pre-installed Search Engines, bookmarks, the option in Ad-blocking to "Allow ads from our partners", etc.).

People are already not happy with the prompting in the Stable discussion thread over the Mail and Calendar prompts. So clearly this approach is having a negative response. Negative reactions to browser behavior hurts it's growth.

[sjudenim]

@Pesala said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

@iAN-CooG And in London.

I just have a default window with the BBC Weather as the only tab. I work in the single workspace where I keep my mail tab. One could equally well add the Weather page as a Web Panel, and have the full details readily to hand without leaving the current workspace.

The dashboard is just “Creeping Sophistication,” in my opinion. It serves no useful function that did not exist before.

Web panels are always running in the background though. The web widgets on the Dashboard open and close with the Dashboard. I prefer that as I don't want to have memory always being used by background panels.

[Stardust]

@barbudo2005 said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

Somehow Vivaldi must ‘help’ himself to increase his users. Or not?

or decrease. I am not on the latest Snapshot version yet, but those popups are very annoying.
Moreover, I recommend Vivaldi over various social media and such popups do not encourage me to recommend Vivaldi more, probably less?

[Hadden89]

@barbudo2005 said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

Somehow Vivaldi must ‘help’ himself to increase his users. Or not?

I dunno...could actually cause a reverse streisand effect

While is nothing critical to me, the fact it "soft-locks" the browser and is not clearly dismiss-able ("maybe later..." or a close button) can be considered at least a very minor user experience bug.

[barbudo2005]

@Hadden89

You said it yourself, the only thing missing are these two exhaust options:

"maybe later..." or a close button.

[Catweazle]

In Spain I use in the Mobile the Official app from the Stag¡te Agency of Meterology (AEMET) (OpenData), because it0s the most accurate and the source of all other Weather apps, apart also the most private. It permits even to customize your own page with your specific weather forecast.
Same as this one, I think that the official agency of metereology in every country is the best and most accurate solution.

[Vladimyr]

@sjudenim You're right, but my system font is small enough, you see.
Can't make it even more smaller.
I hope that Vivaldi team will make a change in the widget layout: to squeeze gaps between the strings or make a different align for blocks, to eliminate scrolling (until the font is really large).

[isynceo]

Good day,
after the newest update I can't see any notification badges (unread messages count) on web panels.
Tried to remove and re-add the panels, clear cache, cookies, etc., tried a fresh browser installation on virtual machine, nothing helps.
Or is it just me?

[sjudenim]

@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

Unfortunately I don't find the source provider to be very accurate for my location either

Just to follow up on this, the widget tells me the last update was 6:17pm, that was 6 hours ago. I don't know if that's a server side thing or V not fetching, but I would like it a little more up to date than that

[yngve]

@sjudenim As I recall from discussions, the results are cached for a while (up to 6 hours after the date of the last upstream update). One reason is to not overload the provider of the data, and in any case the information is not updated more frequently outside Scandinavia

[qjava]

@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

It wouldn't let me close the browser unless I clicked the copy button.

@Hadden89 said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

the fact it "soft-locks" the browser and is not clearly dismiss-able ("maybe later..." or a close button)

@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

Forcing me to initiate an action in order for me to proceed is hostile behavior

The screenshot in the thread above appears to be cropped, here is the full dialog for context - I think the close button is really hard to miss.

PS: We're working on making it less intrusive anyway.

[SharpBlade]

Very nice!
Unfortuntately, I cannot update past 6.9 due to (VB-110858) Blurry tab titles since 7.0 on linux.
Please take a look at this bug as it is a deal breaker for me if the tabs have a blurry font!
Thanks, and have a nice day!

[barbudo2005]

@sjudenim

Said:

This reminder is really hostile.

Which reminder, I don't see any in your post at the moment.

[sjudenim]

@qjava

There was no close button on my prompt. My image showed that but for some reason it has been removed from my post (not by me). Besides, is a nag really necessary for the people that are already using the browser? I would think most of us have already tried sharing Vivald with others

[iAN CooG]

@sjudenim said in Weather widget – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3527.3:

@qjava

There was no close button on my prompt. My image showed that but for some reason it has been removed from my post (not by me).

maybe it's white on white? for some reason drawn in the same color when in some particular light theme?

[sjudenim]

@iAN-CooG

Perhaps. But since the browser was soft locked (clicking anywhere outside the box would not remove it) so there was no way for me to change the theme to see if that was the case

[izero]

Hi, version 7 fixed my long time problem with freezing of tabs when I quickly open 10 - 20 links from Google results each to a new tab. But there is new problem on main and snapshot version - periodic high CPU usage in "video_capture.mojom.VideoCaptureService" process. How to disable this process? I kill that process, so CPU goes down, but then in unknown cases it starts using CPU again, so I need to kill it again...

[mib2berlin]

@izero
Hi, I don't even have such a process, are you on Windows?
A quick search for capture.mojom gives some results, this is a new buffer to speed up opening many tabs in a short time.
But it is from 2016, maybe some more advanced users can shed some light on it.
I don't think you can disable it.

Cheers, mib