Does Vivaldi's UI feel out of date to you?
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@chenyf Ambassadors are nothing more than users who volunteer.
To be clear, I wasn't trying to downplay anything, I was more just curious where this idea that many people switched to Arc came from?
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@RiveDroite Based on what I see from people around me. But hold on, let me get some statistics and write a paper about it.
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@eskaigarcia said in Does Vivaldi's UI feel out of date to you?:
Went back to this because I has some free time and ended up moving things around trying to make something I think looks clean. I'm pretty sure one can find a thousand problems to it,
Interesting concept. But... where would you have extensions? Zoom controls if enabled?
Having the show/hide panel icon on the panel toolbar won't work if it's closed, so you need to use a keyboard shortcut to open it.
Otherwise 80% of that is doable just using the built-in options. Only thing that would need some work is the workspaces as separate icons, the tab bar moving below the navigation bar, and adding icons to the tab bar.
If you're happy with a right side tab bar, then it's 90% there except for the two extra icons you want on it.
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New user here, and I agree. I had to hide a bunch of things to turn Vivaldi into what I wanted, and it's still not as attractive to me as Chrome/Brave.
With different defaults I think Vivaldi would snag people who are getting fed up with Google.
I wish the default UI looked like Chrome from before its UI started to bloat (maybe 8 years ago?).
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@SaguaroBoxer
Hi, there are so many ways to customize Vivaldi, you can make it look as you like.
The right is the default, except of the colors.
Do you like Opera GX?
The Brave default is OK but you cant change anything if you don't like it.
Please check the Vivaldi themes page for a start:
https://themes.vivaldi.net/browse?s=chromeWelcome to the forum, mib
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@SaguaroBoxer Hmm. Never liked the Chrome UI, new or old. I mean, never. I never understood why they seemed to make such poor UI choices, and why anyone liked them. In fact, I don't like the UI of any browser, except Vivaldi the way I have it set up for me. One thing other browsers don't do is allow you to make the UI your own.
For me, "dated" is a basically meaningless term. To everyone, "new" and "old" as applied to a collection of lines, spaces and icons mean something different to everyone. You can create an impression of "old" by using all of the elements of a browser from 20 years ago, because people will recall that was something from "then," not now.
Otherwise, Vivaldi does not remind me of anything from the last 30 years, nor make me thing of anything futuristic.
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@mib2berlin said in Does Vivaldi's UI feel out of date to you?:
Do you like Opera GX?
Actually, hate it. But thanks for asking.
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@mib2berlin I saw that, thanks! I can make Vivaldi work for me, but probably won't recommend it to my parents.
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@Ayespy
I asked @SaguaroBoxer, just to show what is possible in Vivaldi.
Remember screen shots of your UI and icons, horrible.
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@7twenty Both the "Sync" and "Trash" buttons, but especially the "Trash" one, are indispensable for me! I can access my recently closed tabs much faster.
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@Catweazle said in Does Vivaldi's UI feel out of date to you?:
Of course, you can't prevent searching with Google or using Gmail..
You can: There are many other replacements!
With esteem,
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@eskaigarcia Maybe, a little, especially its buttons(they look a bit as of the first browsers or so)...
But that can be solved, as everyone knows! This is mainly what made me move from Brave to it, plus its extra features.
Vivaldi is indeed "Powerful. Personal. Private", while Brave is only "Powerful. Personal.Private" -
@ThePfromtheO, without a doubt*, but it can't prevent that the user search with Google and/or use other Gogle services,
- I find what I search for, without Google, Bing or other filter bubble big company crap.
>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
- I find what I search for, without Google, Bing or other filter bubble big company crap.
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@Catweazle Me too! We're happy that there are so many alternatives!
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I think that, by default, it does have too many things enabled (the bottom bar that shows the time, when you likely already have a taskbar showing the time). Zoom levels, the side panel, etc, etc. Layering that in, or having an option during set up for those power-user features to be turned on for first setup could be a good idea.
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Actually, only yesterday I was thinking, "oh how nice that Vivaldi has that clock at the bottom, because I have set my taskbar to auto hide"
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@eskaigarcia
I completely agree. I really hate Vivaldi's UI, and the only reason that I am using it is because of some of its features, like workspaces and tab stacks. Comparing Vivaldi's UI to other modern browsers with great UI, like Opera, is like comparing the UI of Windows XP with Windows 10!
The reason that their browser has such a poor UI is because they are keeping themselves busy with features that are completely unrelated to the browser (such as providing Email and Calendar). They want to become Google by providing as many similar services as they can, while when it comes to running a business, that could be a devastating strategy since you won't have enough focus on your main product. -
@mosyx
I am completely disagree.
You can do a lot with themes already but if you want Vivaldi looks like Opera just do it:
Loving the Firefox or Chrome UI, no problem.
Many Vivaldi users coming from Opera 12, the mail client was one of the main features from Opera.
The announcement of an integrated mail was the main message as Vivaldi beta 0.9 was published, this was the reason I immediately change.
If you don't need it leave it disabled and it take zero resources.Cheers, mib
EDIT: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/89427/vivaldi-gx-revisited-updated-opera-gx-mod?page=1 -
@mosyx said in Does Vivaldi's UI feel out of date to you?:
@eskaigarcia
I completely agree. I really hate Vivaldi's UI, and the only reason that I am using it is because of some of its features, like workspaces and tab stacks. Comparing Vivaldi's UI to other modern browsers with great UI, like Opera, is like comparing the UI of Windows XP with Windows 10!
The reason that their browser has such a poor UI is because they are keeping themselves busy with features that are completely unrelated to the browser (such as providing Email and Calendar). They want to become Google by providing as many similar services as they can, while when it comes to running a business, that could be a devastating strategy since you won't have enough focus on your main product.Wow that was what we call a rant
