Hi all,
I am very embarrassed to report that I have found the cause of the apparent malfunction to be due to me. I have been working on configuration of this computer over several days and one part of this is to set up firejail, so that the machine can run sandboxed. Seemingly, I had an instance of Vivaldi still running in this mode whilst I used another incarnation when I tried to collect extensions. I apologise profoundly for my stupid error and can only hope I have not caused too much inconvenience to other users.
I discovered my error yesterday evening but I have been unable to post from Vivaldi, even though Blockers and my VPN are disabled.. I can log on to this forum and see the thread but at about this time, your system reports that connection has been lost. When I log out, the Forum reports that I cannot be validated. I have tried to reach the forum several times this morning, without success. I am now using Firefox and this is working perfectly. I cannot offer any explanation since yesterday, I could post from Vivaldi , even though I was in the error condition reported above.
Best regards to all,
hatrack

@D35J Hi, to actually answer your question instead of just giving an opinion on Avast itself:

It's really up to you. If you feel you need the extra features of the extension, like the site reputation rankings, then by all means use it. Just be aware that extensions sometimes cause issues with web-sites that are not always easy to figure out for the user.

Note that Vivaldi's tracker blocker is for privacy, not security, even if the ad-blocker lists will block requests to some known malicious sites.

If running Avast locally it should also block access and warn when attempting to access a malicious site. And I assume the lists it uses are updated more regularly than the public lists used by Vivaldi.

So my opinion is you don't need the extension itself, unless you need the site reputation ranking feature. But keep Avast running locally for overall system security.

TBH I prefer the Dragon's method because I like to see, at a glance, when a new Snapshot has changed the Chromium build the moment I open it 🙂

@Gwen-Dragon totally weird!

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@Gwen-Dragon Thanks Gwen, that worked perfectly fine! 🙂

I agree, the current solution is not ideal.

What I think happened was, a lot of people (me included) were complaining that Vivaldi didn't remember the Site Settings for Flash. My guess is that this was actually done on purpose by Chromium devs to make it harder to playback flash.

Next year Flash will be out of support and probably the Allow Flash setting per site will be removed in Chromium sooner or later. So Vivaldi devs decided to make a global flag to enable/disable flash instead of a per-site setting, it was easier.

What I've done, is to create a policy object in the registry for Vivaldi:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Vivaldi\PluginsAllowedForUrls] "1"="https://z0r.de/" "2"="https://www.newgrounds.com/" "3"="https://dagobah.net/"

Than you can add the sites you want Flash to always run on in this list by creating a new string value for this key.
Easy, right? 😉

At the outset, absolute privacy does not exist on the network, nor using TOR.
I think that each user has a different concept of privacy needs, nor can the best browser fully protect it, if the user searches with Google or posts on Facebook.
Therefore, the most logical thing is that each user uses the extensions they deem appropriate, apart from the basic privacy protections that Vivaldi undoubtedly has, far superior to almost all other browsers.

@LonM
You are absolutely right. I haven't explored that feature in detail but it would solve the problem I described. Thanks!

Is it all sites, and what do you mean by "blocks the site from opening" ?

Are you sure it isn't protecting you from bad web sites, because you can disable "Google Phishing and Malware protection" in the privacy section of the settings, but you probably should not !

If you insist on disabling it, I would advise a second opinion from an AV extension that will do the same job.
Take your pick.

Bitdefender
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trafficlight/cfnpidifppmenkapgihekkeednfoenal
Avira
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/avira-browser-safety/flliilndjeohchalpbbcdekjklbdgfkk
Malwarebytes
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/malwarebytes-browser-exte/ihcjicgdanjaechkgeegckofjjedodee
Windows Defender
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/windows-defender-browser/bkbeeeffjjeopflfhgeknacdieedcoml

I would recommend having the power of VirusTotal automatically scan anything you download.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/download-virus-checker/olldjcoidgojgheennokeojekgepgnhg

@Aelius I think the text doesn't show anymore on browsers. So padlock only is correct.

@gaelle Thanks a lot for this information Gaëlle and, to be honest, I really prefer the competitions organised by Vivaldi on the forum 😍

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I'm just reporting,

I did it with outlook and yahoo, deleting cookies on both sites outlook was the only one that remembered the PW.

Like I said I think it's MSN, I deleted cookies and logging back in to test it for about 2 hours and every time MSN remembered the PW but other sites did not.

But I don't care about it and it doesn't bother me I'm just saying it happens to me as well.

Hello altogether.

Actually I hate to dig out old threads... but this one is indeed the only one I was able to find on the net for this very problem...

It's the same problem for me, be it here in the office or at home... most downloads do work, but even downloading a simple PDF from a parcel service results in opening the download side panel and nothing happens.

I switched to Opera for quite a long time because from time to time Vivaldi refused to download, but tried Vivaldi again from time to time.

Now, that I found this thread, I hope there are others out there with the same problem and probably a solution.

I ran Vivaldi as Admin, I changed the Download-folder (to c:\downloads and then back to my standard profile-folder), uninstalled Vivaldi, installed it - no way.
Certain downloads do not work, others do: right this morning I downloaded several (big zipped) files from Google-Drive with no problem.
Now, I wanted to download a PDF from the parcel-service and... nothing (see above).

System: Windows 10, 21H1, i5-processor with 8 Gigs of RAM. Avast antivirus running in the background.

I would really like to be Vivaldi my "last and forever browser" but this download issue keeps me from that... this is really annoying.

Could somebody help me with this - please? 🙂

Best regards
Marc / controlport2

edit: I also have the default download drawer selected.

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Stored passwords are encrypted. All stored passwords are supposed to be encrypted - that is a common sense.
But because this bug/feature gmail passwords are not effectively encrypted it is like they are stored in plain text.

Maybe it is not such a big deal but it is still a weakness.

It would indeed be a cool feature, and it will draw attention to Vivaldi. But to be fair, there are already some great ad and tracking blockers out there. But a standard feature would be nice. I would say, look at Ghostery for some inspiration.

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