Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.
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I do not understand such a rapid release of new major versions with underdeveloped features. Wouldn't it be better to release them slower but more polished?
Such versions as now only annoy users and they really might consider changing browsers because of this, especially since MV2 will be discontinued soon.
These are just the last ones that bothered me:
- change in appearance (fortunately, there was an option to restore the old one)
- change in the way of downloading duplicate files (we had to wait a very long time to correct this, as it was until the next major version)
- changing the operation of CTRL+F (here, too, we had to wait until the next major version to fix it)
- address bar (and again the announcement that the features will be restored later)
Point 2 and 3, why couldn't this be fixed sooner in a smaller update so that as few users as possible would complain about it?
Point 4, how long should we wait this time? Is the “Disable Chromium Omnibox search results in Address Field” option in “vivaldi:experiments” safe to use to wait until the address bar is refined?
I love Vivaldi, but more and more, things are starting to bother me after updates, which admittedly get fixed later, but still the distaste remains. So isn't it better to release a slower major version but a better one?
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@sjudenim: I hope this will be changeable...
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@mtaki14: No, not if you use to surf with your mouse now you really need to use the keyboard everytime
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@tealing: I do not understand the constantly need to change the heart of the browser (address bar). I mean it's okay to add features, but strip everything away and call it better? I don't think so.
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@Flikowski said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
Point 4, how long should we wait this time? Is the “Disable Chromium Omnibox search results in Address Field” option in “vivaldi:experiments” safe to use to wait until the address bar is refined?
I agree with all your sentiments, but thanks for pointing this out. During testing, they said that option was going to be removed for the stable release. Good to see that it's still there. This will allow us to use the old address bar instead. It should be safe as it should just be the old code they didn't end up removing....yet
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New version 7.2.3621.67!
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Why did you remove the "Show Fullscreen Reminder" option?
Why does the side panel for Feeds stay open when you switch to a non-feed/mail tab?These might be small things, but they annoy the most.
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@sjudenim: I agree completely. One of the big reason i switched from firefox to vivaldi was the better Addressbar Optimization. All my muscle memory is now wrong since some bookmarks are not found correctly and are not prioritized in quite the same way
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The yellow "Sync Problem" is highly annoying, by the way.
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@mtaki14 said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
@asgatlat: It's been fixed internally already. Hopefully it makes its way into a minor update soon.
@mtaki14 said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
@skonuksal: Bringing back that setting is planned
Can you please use the full quote? I don't know what you mean and I can't see the users' posts.
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@mtaki14 said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
Wouldn't typing a few more letters to narrow down the results be faster than trying to sift through 100s of results?
I use this without typing a letter. It's like bookmarks without saving them as bookmarks.
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Thanks for submitting the bug report megosu.
As for the address bar, the change didn't impact me, because I have the dropdown disabled entirely. It's interesting to see how much resistance there is to this though. Seems that what is going on is the devs made a good-faith effort to improve search, and in so doing, broke the muscle-memory workflow of a lot of users who are simply expecting that it will continue to do exactly as it has always done. These users now pop open their browser and type <thing> into the bar expecting a certain outcome, which they no longer get, which is jarring.
It's easy to see both sides. I expect most of the users will adapt to the new behavior, but a simple toggle was probably warranted.
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@mib2berlin said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
@superiorclam
Hi, you can try to change the device name.
You may get a ghost device until it disappear after some time.Thanks for the suggestion. Do you think this could be related to other devices not having their names showing up anymore?
Device name is displayed in the
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@superiorclam
No, this is a bug reported and confirmed in the bug tracker.
On my systems mostly mobile devices are not shown but I hope for a fix from the Vivaldi team.
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@mib2berlin said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
@superiorclam
No, this is a bug reported and confirmed in the bug tracker.
On my systems mostly mobile devices are not shown but I hope for a fix from the Vivaldi team.Hopefully this will be fixed soon
I excluded items from sync category by category and found out that it was passwords that were causing the sync conflict.
This is just my experience, but I hope this will help others get have their data back in sync.
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🪲 Interesting bug:
Context menu on page "Send to your Device" shows device names
Synced Tabs cloud not.
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For me its all good once the browser its all running, but the startup now takes 5-10 min to loading the windows in! never had that issue before the update
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@Quisquilia Are there many tabs?
Settings → General → Startup → [ x] Lazy Load Restored Tabs
Settings → General → Startup → [ ] Always load Pinned TabsAre there many webpanels?
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@DoctorG I have many tabs and workspaces yes in 4 webpanels, and my settings were already like that, but like i said i never had this issue before. Im on ssd and its was always fast startups
