Snapshot 1.5.618.8 - Drag tabs between windows and performance improvements
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I've a strange problem: at some point my middle button and scroll just stops working in V1.5.618.8 x64 w8.1 x64. It deffinatly works in any other program or windows itself.
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ok, that's not vivaldi's fault, sorry.
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Are you sure about that? I get the "scrolling problem" as well occasionally in this build and I don't think i ever did before in previous ones.
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Please add the following functions:
1. View the download speed, add sound or other indication when the download is complete.
2. In Tile pages concurrently scrolling of all pages in the keeping of certain keyboards etc.
3. Make controls (mouse gestures) for folders fast access (currently for the return of the folder you need to click on <<*Name Floder).
4. The option to customize icon extension field (background color, size, order etc.)
5. Supplement icons such as cut, paste, copy, and so on.
6. Add the possibility to catch and move the icons on Webpages panels and extension icons.
7. Add Sesion manager to the panel.
8. Add History manager to the panel.
9. The possibility of placing the panels up and down, not just left and right.
10. Portable version.
11. More option for right click on Extension icons, not only Hide button.
12. Customize speed dial Thumbnails and Folders.
13. Better History manager (something like Bookmarks manager) inside Speed dial's top bar.
14. Better Download manager (something like Bookmarks manager) inside Speed dial's top bar.
15. Export complete user profile (settings, bookmarks, webpages in panels, themes, background pictures, notes, paswords etc.) It would also as a backup. (I do not think the synchronization feature, because not everyone wants to keep their data on servers, but a full backup of your profile).
16. Add controls +/- on zoom in status bar (by moving the slider to set the desired values it is not as accurate and fast).
17. Hotkey or mouse gesture to Hide or Minimize browser. -
Attn: FYI SSD's and Browers excessive wear
I don't really want to get flamed on this but I've seen MANY complain about Viv and writes to disk…this was originally found out to be true on FF BUT IF you read to bottom Chrome does identical thing. I contemplated for a long time whether to post this at all but figured it was salient to all on this blog and important. I couldn't cut some and leave the total meaning alone for developers that hadn't heard about the problem. I can be an expensive problem common to all new browsers.
Firefox's Continuous Session Save is Chewing up SSD's
https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/<paraphrasing>Firefox users running on SSD mass storage should consider this must-change setting: Today’s modern multi-core processor systems and higher quantities of RAM allow users to open multiple Firefox tabs and windows simultaneously. This can have an unintended effect for those SSDs, as session store data is being written constantly to NAND -- thus fatiguing it.
Purely by chance, the author of this report fired up a free copy of SSDLife on two consecutive days on a workstation used only for email and browsing. For those unfamiliar with this tool, it reports estimated lifetime for an attached SSD and it also shows the amount of data read and written.
In this case, SSDLife notified the user hat 12GB was written to the SSD in one day. Since he didn’t recall downloading any huge files over the previous day or visiting any new sites that could’ve resulted in bringing down a lot of new content to the cache, this puzzled him. He monitored these stats over the next couple of weeks and this behavior stayed consistent. Even if the workstation was left idle with nothing running on it but a few browser windows, it would invariably write at least 10GB per day to the SSD.
Using SysInternals Resource Monitor's disk utilization immediately revealed the culprit: FireFox. It was writing continuously between 300K and 2MB per second to a file named "recovery.js." This is FireFox's session backup file which is used to restore browser sessions in case of a browser or an OS crash or hang.
(See the article for full details.)
about:config
browser.sessionstore.interval / default 15000 (mS) - so every 15 seconds.It is set to 15 seconds by default. This experimenter set it to a more sane (at least for him) 30 minutes. Since then, he's only seeing about 2GB written to disk when his workstation is idle, which still feels like a lot but is 5 times less than before.
Bottom line is that if you have a lower capacity consumer level SSDs in some of your machines, you may want to check and tweak your Firefox config. Those drives can be rated for about 20GB of writes per day and Firefox alone might be using more than half of that. This is especially true if you’re like him and have a several browser windows open at all times each with numerous tabs. Changing this parameter may even help with normal HDDs. Your machine will feel faster if it doesn’t have to constantly write this session info. Users have observed that content open in the browser does have a major impact on writes, as does the number of open windows and tabs. If you are using Firefox and a lower write endurance SSD you should check this immediately.
In an update:
Update 1: We are testing other browsers. Currently in the middle of a Chrome Version
52.0.2743.116 m test. We have been able to see a pace of over 24GB/ day of writes on this machine. (1 GB/hour)</paraphrasing> -
@iAN:
uB0 1.9.14 fixed this behaviour
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releasesBut it is not published in Chromium store. Only Opera. Someone should contact him and say that it interferes with Vivaldi.
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he probably doesn't even know about Vivaldi, it's being months I'm updating uB0 manually from the github repo.
- Unzip the .chromium.zip, eventually rename the created dir ublock0.chromium to ublock0
- enable dev mode in extensions,
- pack extension, selecting the dir where you unzipped, a .crx is created
- in uB0 settings, backup to file (it's saved in default download dir)
- trash uB0
- drag the .crx to extension window until "drop here" appears
- enter uB0 options again, restore settings from file. done
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A bug! When I set the default webpage zoom to 120% it still opens pages in 100% zoom. On a widescreen monitor, have to zoom in every page manually.
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Win 7 64 bit, Viv 32
Followup…SSD thrashing. FYI: It seems that browsers are eventually need to write code to "incremental" backup state file instead of "whole" file. Not only my thought but sites thought also.
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Reported as: (VB-22015) Numpad keys function in text editing fields