Starting the transition from Firefox to Vivaldi
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@andyraisbeck It's certainly nice. BTW - downloadhelper (My previous hardlink to firefox) is now available as a chrome extension (IMO better than the few youtube downloaders I tried).
I do find it hard to 'switch' however. I love the app-tabs; with Chromium I open a single application that is GMail, or IMDB (not a browser, though links open in browser windows).
Vivaldi has it's work cut out to beat Chromium... and sadly when using it, it's hard to forget it's neither free nor open-source software.
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I have now installed the following addons/extensions as replacement for functions I had on Firefox(some with addons):
Session Buddy(Manager)
Closed tabs(closed tabs list)
ublock
EditThisCookie
Quick Image Search(Right Click on Image) on Google
ZoomAfter having used Vivaldi for several days with any crashes, this is starting to look good. Only problem so far is the small tabs due to many tabs opened. Hope it will be fixed in future Vivaldi releases.
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As I see it:
The "Session Buddy" functionality can be, at least to some degree, done by pressing "F2" than enter "session" and select "save open tabs as session" (loading them works the same way) And, believing the rumors, there is some improvements for this function upcoming in the next few snapshots
The "Closed Tabs" extension does the same work as the trashbin icon in the upper right corner (Or am I mistaken in this case?)
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@zaibon I've actually never used the trash bin before for some reason. Perhaps because my earlier tests of Vivaldi wasn't extensive enough. OK, Closed Tabs will be deleted.
Session Buddy saves sessions automatically, so I wll keep that one for now.
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@HaaEnn said in Starting the transition from Firefox to Vivaldi:
Session Buddy saves sessions automatically, so I wll keep that one for now.
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If you close Vivaldi it will save the session (of the last window), if you kill Vivaldi it will save the session (all windows) and if you click menu->File->Save open tabs as session it will also save all windows in a session.
Why do you need an extension to do this? What am I missing here?
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@mossman said in Starting the transition from Firefox to Vivaldi:
What am I missing here?
At least this feature from the extension description looks pretty nice to me:
"Search open and saved tabs to quickly find what you're looking for."The rest of it is more or less already integrated in vivaldi though
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@mossman: many users don't understand the difference between kill and close. You might clarify for the non-techies reading.
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@Ayespy said in Starting the transition from Firefox to Vivaldi:
@mossman: many users don't understand the difference between kill and close. You might clarify for the non-techies reading.
Close: turn off the application in the standard way e.g. by clicking the "X" button in the corner of the window.
Kill: ask the operating system (Windows, Linux, OS X...) to stop the program immediately - the program will quit without "shutting down nicely" (saving your data etc.)
To kill an application (in Windows); open the task manager (either select from the menu after pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE or right-clicking the task bar) then right-click the line for Vivaldi(*) and select "end task".
(*) in Win10 there is one line for Vivaldi in the "apps" category - in older Windows versions you may have to find the main one from several lines
I assume Linux users know how to kill a task - and I haven't used an Apple intensively since MacOS 9 but Uncle Google has an answer for OS X.
Anyway - I realised there's a better solution if you want to close multiple open windows and open them at the next restart:
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@mossman: Menu->File->Exit is what I was thinking of. This terminates the process immediately and is what a lot of people mean when they say "kill."
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@Ayespy said in Starting the transition from Firefox to Vivaldi:
@mossman: Menu->File->Exit is what I was thinking of. This terminates the process immediately and is what a lot of people mean when they say "kill."
If it's an option in a standard menu then that doesn't qualify as "kill"...
"Kill" is, to my knowledge and experience, a standard IT term for terminating a process without politely asking it to stop itself first.
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