Snapshot 1.0.257.3 - Visual tab cycler and better cookie management
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Adapting a program to the native functions of each OS requires time and human resources.
In Vivaldi's case both are limited, so the whole UI choice was taken (mainly) because they looked for "a single source to rule 'em all".
So, where possible, a single function working decently on all the supported OSes, means more time to fix bugs, and to introduce improvements and novelties.
At the same time the bugs should be (mostly) the same across the operating system, so further time spared for devs and tester.
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I'm not sure what size sets Vivaldi thrashing; I realised it's been doing it for a few days but I've been busy with other things and thought it was Windows doing updates or defrag or something in the background. So far as I can tell from web searching, Top Sites is used for the "feature" that enables Chromium to shove all the adult sites you've visited into your start page when you switch on your laptop in front of your maiden aunt and Google won't let anyone switch off. It seems to be storing a lot of info about browsing history. Like everything Google does, apparently.
It only really got into my consciousness that something was wrong because yesterday my RAID pair went awry and the rebuild was phenomenally slow, eventually I realised because an invisible instance of Vivaldi was doing constant disk accesses while the RAID was trying to re-sychronise the disks, slowing the rebuild down to a crawl.
Perhaps Vivaldi might like to think about removing this carbuncle from future builds.
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Still keeps some problems of here
- I added the Facebook Mobile version site as web panel. It worked but is not loaded the FB favicon.
NEW: I added another webpanel for Facebook to see if the favicon apperears but neither the favicon was loaded and nor the site
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When I bookmark a site, the bookmark button in address field doesn't change the color indicating this is bookmarked.
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I can't use the Task Manager. When I open it, it isn't show the TM window.
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in history manager, the "open as background tab" option doesn't work.
I tested the visual tab cycler, good feature, but here just some thumbnails were loaded
a suggestion:
- with the visual tab cycler active, I could choose the tab clicking on it too not just depending of ctrl + tab
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BUG: I think it's a bug in F2 Filer Quick Commands. 1) I have bookmarked www.petsmart.ca. 2) I press F2 and enter "petsmart". 3) All my open tabs remain listed. Should they not disappear if they don't match "petsmart"? Sorry, I looked and haven't seen this bug reported.
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Thanks for the update!
What I noticed on the thumbnails:
- Tab bar thumbnail not loaded when tab created on background by middle click
- Tab bar thumbnail disappear when tabs are stacked
- Tab bar thumbnail disappear when tabs are reloaded
- Tab bar thumbnail not created when tab is loaded from speed dial
- Speed dial thumbnail not created
An one more remark: I think that the tab thumbnails should be displayedwith the same form ratio than the current window. (or zommed out so the content is centered) For example, I have a 16:10 screen, and the thumbnail seem to be generated like that, but displayed in a 4:3 square. As a result, the picture inside is not centered, there is a lot of lost space on the left, and some truncated info on the right. Because of that, for some websites, the content is very hard to understand on the thumbnail.
To understand: http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=168194vthumb.png -
NaCl is a more native-like language that some "extensions" are written in.
This means that it's nothing to do with the web (HTML and Javascript).I'm happy that Vivaldi does not support the use of it.
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I hadn't realized this until now, but I can finally comment on Youtube again! I still can't access my Google+ notifications, Disqus still doesn't stay logged in between sessions and I can't comment on Facebook based comment sections in third party sites, but at least I can finally comment on Youtube videos using Vivaldi again! Good to see you guys are working on it!
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Win 7 64 Bit 8 Gig RAM, 32 Bit Viv
BUG: I think it's a bug in F2 Filer Quick Commands. 1) I have bookmarked www.petsmart.ca. 2) I press F2 and enter "petsmart". 3) All my open tabs remain listed. Should they not disappear if they don't match "petsmart"? Sorry, I looked and haven't seen this bug reported.
Ditto here:
I'll tell you despite every-ones impatience It really feels closer all the time to the Old Opera and making Vivaldi my default browser.
You guys have done a phenomenal job! Until I listened to a security program on radio yesterday I didn't understand the complexity of browsers now-days. They compared FF and Chrome engines and how and why they used memory on tabs. Tabs individually in a Chrome engine is essentially "sand-boxed" by itself. FF doesn't do this and that is why it uses less memory which I am sure all here know already, but isolation and security of Chrome engine is better.
When I am sure importing bookmarks will work without flaws and some of the features I would like ( like auto delete duplicate urls.) I'll be popping the cork.
Other than above problem Bartsch states, and my Global UI settings not working I haven't found any problems with this version yet. I installed the Win 7 PAPI version of Flash and now working FINE!!
One thing I can't understand is why on a developers forum people don't download the program in full instead of auto-updating ( other than testing that feature out). I never have auto updated or used 64 Bit Ver. YET and really have few problems. You state 64 bit is experimental. I'll wait to try that out when 32 is done stable and feature finished.
Thanks guys and gals….
PS: I really like the little gif indicator on tab showing sound ...makes it easier to kill a streaming process. Also when hovering the X (close tab) showing up but seems to not always work, may need to reboot.
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Yeah, this bug was in previous build too.
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Win 7 64 Bit, 8 Gig, Viv 32
I think on the download above it says:
Windows: 32-bit | 64-bit (experimental)
it MIGHT mean something not unless you are TRYING to help with 64. I think you'd have less problems with 32 for now. -
If we don't test x64, the Devs won't know about bugs.
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@Gwen-Dragon:
I'd like to have a list of tab titles with tab preview of selected entry – like Opera 12 did
I'd be very happy to have this options too!
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No positive changes regarding my bugs in this build…
- When I type some special char (e.g. "@") to the webpage form field, the focus is stolen by address bar
- Some pages that works with another browsers don´t work in Vivaldi, e.g. www.mapy.cz (there is no possibilty to find the adequate route by choosing the start and destination point)
... and new bug regarding the Notes feature:
- When adding new note from the webpage text using the context menu, all added notes are duplicated
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As said a bit above by The_Solutor there seems to be a workaround:
For people who want to workaround the language problem
Just to rename
\Vivaldi\Application\1.0.257.3\resources\vivaldi_locales*it* <–-(Italian example)
to
\Vivaldi\Application\1.0.257.3\resources\vivaldi_locales*en*
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The example above is for Windows, the actual path depends on the OS you are using.Little addon to this explanation, first rename your standard "en folder" to something like "en 1" or so. This prevents overwriting it.
Hope this will work for you
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Just an extra thought regarding the "Top Sites" file in Users[MyUserName]\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default that I described above as being problematic on my system, though it seems the problem with mine was an acute case…
Watching the disk activity via the Resource Monitor, and also seeing the file size shooting up and down in a folder window pointed to that directory, I got the distinct impression that the problem is that the code is manipulating the file on disk rather than loading it into memory, manipulating it, then putting it back on disk when the manipulation is done. It reminded me (a little nostalgically) of watching the progress of a primitive Bubble Sort routine I wrote at school over 30 years ago that worked directly on the (5 1/4 inch floppy) disk holding a primitive "address book" database program.
Even if problems with this file are not common, it might be worth the Devs taking a look at the Chromium code that manipulates it, because it's acting like it was written by a 16 year old in the early 1980s. In BASIC.
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But when you use alt+tab for tab cycling how do you want to fast switch through your other open programms / windows?
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It is known as VB-2148
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Mmh I got rounded upper corners and sharpend bootom corners on win 7 altough I would like sharp corners everywhere.
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New build without blog post? My Vivaldi updated a few seconds ago…
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Seems that way. It's offering me a new build .258.3. Might be a quick bugfix, but I'd like to see the release notes first