Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9
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@mdnjou I was a relatively early adopter of Google back in [i think it was] 1998 [maybe give or take a year; memory dims] when at that time the "go to" s/e was Alta Vista. Back then, for me at least, s/e's were a joke; it was frequently impossible to correlate the myriad results pages with anything remotely like my search string. Hence one morning when i read of this new thing called Google i keenly tried it, & whoa was it a revelation! So it was my default for many years, & gave me sterling service. Slowly slowly slowly i began to sense as the years elapsed that Google [company] was drifting from its early ethos of unicorns & dandelions to The Dark Side of aspirational world domination [teehee], & i began looking for possible alternatives. Eventually i discovered DDG, loved it [ethos, aesthetics & performance], & it's been my default for heaps of years now. I'd never go back to using "native" Google now... they're fully in Empire mode.
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@Steffie A friend introduced me to the TV series "Silicon Valley" at Easter... I have since caught up all four series in just a couple of weeks. For a comical look at the likes of Google, I thoroughly recommend it!
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@mossman said in Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9:
Silicon Valley
Oh? I just searched Netflix for it, but they don't have it in their catalogue [at any of their global libraries]. Pity.
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Yes, I know. Saying just would be nicewith one optional setting to send debug info. Chrome has it, as optional popup.
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@Steffie said in Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9:
Oh? I just searched Netflix for it, but they don't have it in their catalogue [at any of their global libraries]. Pity.
No wonder, it's from HBO. Only Fox can be worse.
@Steffie said in Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9:
@mdnjou I was a relatively early adopter of Google back in [i think it was] 1998 [...] when at that time the "go to" s/e was Alta Vista.
Hahaha, yeah, I remember that. And the only translator that existed was babelfish.
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@An_dz said in Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9:
the only translator that existed was babelfish
Yep, i used that, & though i can't recall now if it was accurate or not, the attraction for me was its HHGTTG titular homage.
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@Steffie Okay... You're now bringing back memories of porting/building NCSA Mosaic from source, maps of the core Internet backbone that still fit on one page, and sites like akebono.stanford.edu that eventually got catchier names.
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@black665 Does vivaldi://gpu provide any helpful insights (or show any errors) about GPU hardware acceleration on your system?
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@An_dz I would really appreciate if it is addressed in some way before stable 1.10 as its a long standing issue for me and boycotting amazon in protest is starting to get to me
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@asianmusicguy It seems the issue is deeper and not just a user-agent thing. Even faking Vivaldi with Chrome for example still does not work. Patricia was looking at it together with other media patches, but I don't know if the patches are good to be included, or already included or anything.
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@An_dz thank you guys for taking a deeper look! bless you so since it has now been identified as a deeper issue can we see about making it it somewhat of a priority I love Vivaldi and amazon is no help they give a scripted response which basically means "we are gods go away"
i suggested once that a outdated Widevine Content Decryption Module might be the cause
I am more then happy to be a genie pig for any solutions you may come up with I have never tested a browser before buit i have 4 yrars experience as a Quality Assurance Tester for a Video game software company -
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