Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.
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"We made pages load faster. For some of you it will be more than twice as fast."
Which one in the changelog does that correspond to? The only one I can imagine it being is this:
[New][Performance] Reduce latency on domain lookup (VB-114417)
But twice as fast? Doubtful. And it would only apply to sites that you'd never visited before, because otherwise it would be in the DNS cache. Either way we should only be talking fractions of a second.
Maybe it was just omitted from the list.
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This update made a few things I got used to over years dissapear:
- When typing into address bar you could select an element and its address (not title) would appear in the field available for CTRL+C. Now it doesn't until you "Enter".
- It was possible to have side panel open only for a specific pinned tab (RSS Feeds), so it would dissapear when switching to another tab. The side panel stays for every tab now. Why do you even need a side panel for Feeds? Haven't you seen how Opera did it in the past?
- It looks like some bugs were introduced too. I only have feeds enabled, and for some reason, when changing windows (have one open for each of two desktops), they stop working. The Feeds icon disappears from the side panel and I have to add it back manually, which doesn't work most of the time, while the pinned Feeds window shows "Mail is in another window" message.
Wish you'd leave alone the old stuff that works and introduce new stuff only after it's been properly tested. Would also appreciate an option to keep the old behavior, since not many people would prefer to change their browsing habits every update.
There also seem to be some "speed" issues, as sometimes you could end up with an empty page (the mouse pointer still reacts to the invisible objects), which resets when you minimize and maximize the window.
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Hi, Vivaldi Devs! Thanks for the great work! I love this browser.
But i think this last update broke something.
Try this:
Got to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> WEBSITE PERMISSIONS
In Global Permissions, I have cookies / session only.
When I try to add a domain to create an exception, I can't. -
Great update guys, the shortcut override was a feature that was needed, and thanks for reverting the ctrl-f functionality. Also decoupling feeds from mail was the right move and I think you may have fixed an annoying extension crash I had so overall a lot of things have been improved.
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After the update, all my workspaces were empty.
I suppose I shouldn't have been using workspaces like sort of bookmark collections, but it was just so convenient. Collecting all of that context back together is going to be difficult. -
Bug:
Even if "Search in Address Field" is disabled, if you type a search nickname, then space, then something (anything) it triggers search.
I feel like this version should had had several more snapshot iterations before going stable.
"Humans are monsters constructed of lies and falsehood."
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@mib2berlin Regarding the panel issue: Removing "Vivaldi Social" and/or "Vivaldi Mail" from panel seems to fix it.
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@debunix Removing "Vivaldi Social" and/or "Vivaldi Mail" from panel seems to fix it.
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@JyuSensei
Hi, I checked this in Vivaldi 7.1, it does the same so no bug.
Why do you use a search engine nickname if you don't want to search? -
I don't use search nickname in the address bar. I don't use search in the address bar.
I have disabled that setting.I would had assume that disabling "Search in Address field" would... disable search in address field. I would had assume that "Search nicknames" fall under the search umbrella. And I would had assume that if I wanted to write "g lorem ipsum spicy tacos" in the address bar I would get an error page and not a google search for lorem ipsum spicy tacos.
Now, why would I want to type "g lorem ipsum spicy tacos" in the address bar not expecting to search is very well irrelevant.
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Wow, I had no idea that the bowse hotkey otection featue was in the woks. Unfoatunately it's eventing seveal lettes fom egisteing, which I imagine is making this had to ead. I'd indicate which lettes ae not woking, but fo the fact that the keystokes ae doed.
This is what I have set in the otions:
And after restoring the defaults, all of my letters are working again. I was missing R and P, for some reason, though the only keys I added were F1, F2, F3, and Ctrl+Z
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I am actually very excited about this feature, though it seems like it needs a tune-up. For years now I've been annoyed by websites hijacking ctrl+Z and making it so that I can't reopen a closed tab. I also use F1 F2 and F3 for new tab / previous/next tab, and protecting those from being hijacked would be wonderful as well.
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How does one enable the new currency widget? I don't seem to have it. I do, however, have two copies of the settings button, one on top of the other.
Also, could you please bring back the ability to open an entire bookmarks folder by middle clicking it? That also stopped working with the update.
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@vdeane said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
Also, could you please bring back the ability to open an entire bookmarks folder by middle clicking it? That also stopped working with the update.
Apparently, that's a bug.
So it might get fixed in the near future. Unless the devs decide to focus on some asinine feature first.
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And of course, it didn't remember me, again...
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Is there a fix for the non-working automatic sienna theme based on the system one in Linux, non-working native gestures back and forth in history with two fingers and Web Serial API support? Or... Will be?
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An hour with the update and I am already going crazy. Why would you break a thing that's working? My address bar keeps showing me my previous searches and I can't find an option to fix this.
Previous versions had a simple option about what to see on drop-downs. You removed this option and advertising the new feature as "you are in charge." Okay, cool, but, no?
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I get you guys are excited to show off the new update but please for the love of god, stop adding new bookmarks to my browser. I don't want a temu bookmark, if I wanted one I would've added it myself. And stop putting stuff in the speed-dial, I don't want it there, I remove it every 3 updates and then there's a new one.
Also, the text in my address bar is darker now (against a dark background). Can there at least be a setting for it to actually match the foreground color in the theme, rather than just picking something several shades darker? My eyesight is bad enough as is.
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@jon Nice release - Tx!
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Thank you for this update and keeping up different browser experience.
