@LonM Oh ok. I think the heuristic thingy is pretty new, recently some people complaining about the auto discard being too aggressive . And most advise from Internet is disabled the function completely, or enabled with heuristics disabled.

I guess I better disabled it while waiting for it to "graduate" from kindergarten. LOL

As long as there exists the possibility of mapping the 2 different domain name variants (with and without WWW) to different IPs or services, users need to see where they are.
Some domains are setup with WWW for serving a web site, and without WWW for access to email or the server software.

Every time there is a call from Google to obscure the reality of URLs for the sake of making them less obscure, I see an immediate vector open for misdirection and mischief.
We have enough trouble with clever use of encoded URLs and crafty use of Unicode.

Google want to hide everything not the central domain name, thus exposing users to higher risk of being on a fake site and not knowing.
Relying on a valid cert for authenticity is no use to newbies that have no idea where in the cert to look for the correct domain info.
Who issued the cert seems to be more important to display than which domains it is meant for (am I alone in seeing this as the wrong way round?)
Chromium doesn't even use proper OCSP so we have to put up with Googles crappy system (unless you enable it as a policy).

Ultimately this info is UI stuff so can be as optional as needed.
The full info should be on by default, and easy to change.
Personally I prefer to know exactly what I just trod in, so even favour seeing more info, such as a flag for geo-ip and the ability to see the IP of the domain I am on.

@Marko-Indaco thanks for sharing this interesting thread.
Please don't hesitate to retweet it whoever sees it next... 😇

@Pesala said in Nice little review on Vivaldi here: "The Ultimate Browser for Bloggers: Vivaldi":

I commented on the blog, but my comment was not published.

Didn't you get "Your comment is waiting ...... "?

@Steffie
These video codecs, container are really confusing.
Simply h.264 is a compression standard and Mpeg-4 is the standard container include video and sound data, for example.
Confusing is you can have an avi file also compressed with h.264, it is also used for HDTV, Bluray and so forth.
In your case, if the first video play all other avi, mkv and what else h.264 compressed should work, too.

Cheers, mib

@Gwen-Dragon I think this was supposed to be part of the linked thread, but the forum did the silly thing and prompted the user to create a new topic as the original thread is old.

@Gwen-Dragon said in Fixed link to download last stable version:

You can write a script which scans the repo, create URL and fetch with curl, or use rsync to sync the complete Vivaldi RPM repo.

OMG.... jajaja.... why did not you tell me before that there was a repo? (why did not you ask that better you tell me...) that is the real solution 😛 ...
searching with google, the repo is https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/rpm/x86_64/ that is all I need, I will just add the repo and "thats all folks..."

On the download page it could indicate that there is a repository, that would be good.

@Gwen-Dragon Perfect solution! Thanks!

Thank you, LonM, Catweazle and luetage...🙂

That's what I was looking for - and I couldn't find anything specific.
I had searched here, but nothing came up.

And I've gotten to like vivaldi, wasn't very happy with those statements.

@Pesala Nice read @Pesala, it's now featured on Vivaldi.net 😊

@Pesala said in Interesting benchmark test by one of our users!:

in these days of broadband the differences have become insignificant.

I have a very fast internet connection most of the time (7ms), but sometimes it goes all slow. An internet speed test shows everything is as fast as usual, but it takes ages to load all web pages. That's when I run browser benchmarks. The last time I did this, after the problem went away, Vivaldi came out on top. Usually Google Chrome wins, followed jointly by Chromium and Vivaldi coming in at a close second, and Firefox coming in Paddy last.

last test:

Speedometer 2.0

Vivaldi: 90.5
Google Chrome: 87
Chromium: 85
Firefox: can't remember exactly - just shy of 60

I don't have Opera.
When my internet connection is working the way it's supposed to, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference in browser speeds. Nonetheless, it's great to see Vivaldi come out on top. Go Vivaldi!

(computer - Intel Pentium G4560, 2 x 4GB DDR4 O.S. GNU Linux Ubuntu 18.04)

I know, I have already shared MUO articles at times. The first I have even shared and commented on G +
As Vivaldi is updated, positive reports accumulate on various computer pages. In some it is even named as the best browser of 2018.

isn't the email parser the same as the website parser?

It probably is very similar, of course.

But with emails, Opera has always disabled Javascript and external trackers and the rest of the funny business that tries to get into inboxes.

you can easily configure O12.18 to open mail links in your default browser

To be clear, I’m awaiting Vivaldi’s M3 and hope it’s integrated into the browser.

But I wouldn’t recommend having the full Opera Classic suite mainly for the emails/feeds/news to then spend time securing this 5-years-old sitting target (or, as suggested, completely working around it).

Great article with many things that have also attracted me to Vivaldi from the beginning.
I have never found a more addictive soft than this browser

CNET: http://www.cnet.com/news/vivaldi-2-0-browser-brings-sync-themes-new-chrome-conquering-ambition/

(got the link from @MasterLeo29 😉)

@ornorm said in Nice article:

@pesala Thanks for the tip! Vivaldi is a real treasure quest.
Edit : just tried with the spacebar... Amazing!!!!!

Yes, I use Vivaldi right from the start and I still find new things.
What I do use a lot is the rocker function with the mouse to move forward and backward in the navigation history

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