Snapshot 1.0.334.3 - Fixes for tab title cropping and Windows XP
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It's just a matter of preference. Some users are used to a search bar and feel lost without it. Then, too, without having to remember one's aliases for search providers, one can enter a search term in the search bar and then select the provider with their mouse. But since obviously not everyone feels any need for it, it can be turned off, just like any toolbar in Vivaldi. Options are the raison d'être of Vivaldi.
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It probably doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the long run but with separate Address and Search Boxes you should only see addresses and address suggestions as you type in the Address Bar or check the Address History; Search suggestions as you type in the Search Box or check the Search History.
If you don't care, turn on Search from the Address Bar and get rid of the Search Box. :lol:
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It's not lost. Just check the use as default bookmark bar in the folder of your bookmarks. After the update the option is unchecked.
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My speed dial thumbs are disappearing - one by one …
After running the latest snapshot for two days ....Win7x64 Vx32
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Some may also be applicable to Vivaldi:
11 Features and improvements we would like to see come to Microsoft's Edge browser -
I like the addition of the trash icon in the bookmarks and notes panel, but why does it have to be different from the trash icon on the tab bar? That one looks cool, and it would make the design more consistent and seamless.
Other than that, the tab title cropping is fixed, which is good. And there are no duplicate bookmarks this time to be seen, which is great! And I update just fine and smooth, so this snapshot is not bad!
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I'm not against options but only if they have a practical use. The best thing about the search bar in Opera 12 was the scenario I described above. You use the same term and go through a number of different search engines and open the results in different tabs one after the other. e.g when doing research you look up google results for a term, the wikipedia entry, videos related to the term on youtube etc all with minimum effort.
In it's current state the search bar just sits there duplicating the functionality of the address bar. I just wonder how come we came this far without having this basic functionality? I get people "being used to" just making simple searches with the search bar but that's not how power users where using it, I can tell you that. In a power user's case it's all about efficiency and doing things quickly.
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mtaki',
You're looking for Opera 12, not the second post-beta snapshot of Vivaldi. The team just recently managed to get the text editor working reliably for Notes/Bookmarks and it's still working with the switch from the Chrome 46 engine to the 47 engine. Yay! Woohoo! :lol: and that dancing bananna-dude even.
Right now, there's an Address Bar/Omnibox and a Search Box. While they work on it you can use both of them or either one to find your favorites and keep the peas out of the mashed potatoes:-
Visualize Whirled Peas
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So anyway, when are we going to get the ability to manage cookies, scripting, plugins, images etc on a per site basis? There used to be a way to at least set exceptions for Cookies, but it is gone. This is not good.
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Give it time…
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Once again, Soundcloud causes Vivaldi to freeze once in a while.
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Add Sync and I will use Vivaldi as my default browser!
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For the last 2 versions, tabs get unresponsive. Like, I have twitter in one tab, then I click on several links which open in new tabs. Sometimes, those new tabs do not fill.
Or, when reading in one tab and I want to return to the twitter tab, nothing happens. I have to close the tab, or more tabs, and reopen again from bookmarks or links.
This makes Vivaldi pretty unusable!
It still also takes a very long time or Vivaldi "reboot" to get login fields filled-in with username and password.It's not dependent on OS or machine type.
W7-W8.1, x86 and x64 with always Vivaldi x86
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Chromium does, of course, come with some limiting factors, such as multi-process architecture.
I have to mention, but Chromium does allow running in single-process mode. Chromium Webview on Android runs in single-process mode only. It's just costly for performance, so there's little to no reason in running in single-process mode.
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A thought on…
Unresponsive tabs.If I close all my (5 or 6) open tabs 'cos some have become unresponsive, and then I go to bring them back from the Trash, some tabs seem to now be embedded in a sub-folder of Trash called, in this most recent case, "Window with 4 tabs >".
I can bring the dead tab back to life from that sub-folder – which then changes its name to "Window with 3 tabs >"
Why do closed dead tabs go into a special place?
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So…
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The 'crashed tab' bug makes this build (and I suspect, the one before it) unusable for me.**The 'crashed tab' bug is present from a completely (and I mean completely) clean install and then visiting a single website.
I uninstalled 334.3 and then wiped all remaining traces of Vivaldi from the Appdata & ProgramFiles and the Registry. I then re-booted.
I installed a fresh copy of 334.3 (downloaded via Opera) and maximised the newly-launched browser. I clicked the + to get a new Speeddial page and clicked Twitter.
Once on Twitter I logged in and went to the Settings section to check details about sending SMS codes to my phone. I clicked a 'more help' link there which opened another tab. I read that tab and clicked on the Twitter tab to go back there again.
Bug: The 'more help' page's content stayed on-screen. It had crashed.
So, the 'crashed tab' bug is nothing to do with old, partially-updated and/or incompatible profiles, caches, user data or anything like that. Nor is it anything to do with long and complex session data; all I had open was the Vivaldi welcome page and Twitter.
This bug exists in a brand new install of this version of Vivladi.
System setup: Vista 32, 2GB RAM, lots of HD space, ATi Radeon X1300PRO video.
HTH.
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I love how you are fixing XP support the same time Google is announcing dropping official support…. which to me sounds really jacktarded since isn't a win32 application a win32 application? Much less dropping Vista while keeping 7 support? Aren't those the same thing?
So keep plucking away at it -- be great if you folks became a haven for all the folks stuck on XP at work or who simply can't afford a new machine, and for whom FF is a unstable mess.
To be frank, I'm using Vivialdi more and more because I don't have to mod it as much making it unstable. Now if you could just fix the blasted ctrl+mouse wheel zoom... and give an option to DISABLE the mouse-wheel over the tabs thing since in portrait mode that's annoying as HELL.
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From the Comments section, Vivaldi is doing way, way, better than Edge!
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Jon's and others' remarks about why not to include email is that the UI and several features need work. It is "not ready." I think with a browser, you can play around with a crashtastic version with no real hit to your daily life. Email would be a different story if, for instance, like me, you use email as your primary business correspondence tool, order receiving route, product delivery system, billing method and filing archive. A data-devouring crash could have dire consequences. A couple of the developers had mentioned that they don't want to take ANY chance of a user experiencing significant email data loss, and I think that's a primary driver in the decision to hold it back until it is more stable and more polished.
I still would love to test and play with the email for non-mission-critical purposes but alas, it's not in the stars.