What is stopping you from using V all the time?
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For me the main thing is limited extension support and bookmarks support (I use bookmarks a lot including folders within folders). After that it is lack of built in RSS Reeder and lack of good night mode.
I use an extension on chrome to get night mode but it does a poor job often breaking pages. Maxthon browser has a great night mode and has yet to give me a problem. Also Maxthon has a built in RSS Reader
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Scrolling. Its so sluggish and just meh, if it wasn't for that I'd be using vivaldi full time already.
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Lack of mail client. That keeps Opera 12 going for me
I do not want to start another mail client if vivaldi mail may be "just around the corner"Wolfgang
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Scrolling. Its so sluggish and just meh, if it wasn't for that I'd be using vivaldi full time already.
What OS/system are you on?
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V is getting better all the time. Having said that, for me it's not any one huge thing that bothers me; instead it's a few small things here and there that I'm missing:
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- 1. I've recently become very fond of keyboard-based browsers, and Vivaldi's feature set is somewhat incomplete here. There's a few missing items (like return to home page), and some that don't seem to work quite as advertised (like close all other tabs)
- 2. I use a custom stylesheet for all my web browsing; it converts everything to my favorite font(s) and even does a little ad-blocking. Problem is, I have to reselect this stylesheet every single time I open the browser (and sometimes when I open a new tab). Being able to choose a persistent stylesheet would be nice here.
- 3. Can we open new tabs in background yet?
- 4. I'd love the ability to open external scripts, but this isn't such a big deal for now (there are extensions which can do that).
- 5. Also not super-important but, in Opera 12.x, I absolutely loved how the use of .ini files made everything about the browser so easily accessible and customizable. My eyes just glaze over when I open up bundle.js
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None of these by themselves are deal-breakers for me but, if all of them were in Vivaldi, I wouldn't even need another browser.
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bundle.js is the source of the UI and not a mere config file as an .ini, it's not meant to be edited. You can only compare an .ini with a .json.
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Okay, I can live with that. At least it points me in the right direction for when I want to tweak the innards (and, eventually, I will…)
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NOT BEING ABLE TO USE THE EXTENSINS IN THE GOOGLE WEBSTORE
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NOT BEING ABLE TO EXPORT BOOKMARKS TO SAVE THEM -
NOT BEING ABLE TO USE THE EXTENSINS IN THE GOOGLE WEBSTORE
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NOT BEING ABLE TO EXPORT BOOKMARKS TO SAVE THEM#3: "NOT BEING ABLE TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK"
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(Vivaldi 1.0.178.2)
- Videos, specially on facebook, are freezing a lot. On Youtube, full screen command takes 4 lazy steps to fill the screen, which has nothing to do with my Extensions. On Facebook YouTube in full screen would play hidden. I must hit Esc to retake control.
- Typing is slow.
- Right button "Search With" wasn't implemented yet.
I'm still stuck with Opera 12 and 30. I intend to use only V as soon as those issues are fixed and Sessions is implemented
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Automatically correcting the accidental use of Caps Lock is available in some word-processors, so perhaps it's not such a crazy idea after all.
Often suggested on the old Opera forums was a language sensitive spell-check. There are many users for whom English is a second language, and who may need some help with checking English, but who more often than not write in their mother-tongue, e.g. Russian, Norwegian, or Polish.
Bing translate, for example, is able to autodetect the language so why not Vivaldi's spell-checker too?
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If there was a shortcut to cycle among the spell-checker languages I would already be really happy. Just like Windows 8 & 10 has with Win+Space.
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For me it would be a lack of click-on-tab-to-minimize, or indeed a lack of ability to minimize tabs in any way. I realise this is a basic WebKit problem and maybe hard to work around, but I think I could ditch old O12 for another browser if only this feature worked (afaik no other browser does this right). No minimization makes things plain unusable (at least for my conservative tastes).
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Well, it's a really fine browser with a lot of potential. But there's stil some work to do.
For me I'm not using Vivaldi as my default browser because there are some issues to solve with the Origin plugin from EA Games. I'm not an EA fan but I like to play some Battlefield 4 and therefor I need a browser that supports the particular plugin. I've tried some things but for me it wasn't worth the effort, I couldn't get it to work.
For the time being I'm still using Opera 29 (the latest) but I miss some of the options and features Opera 12 (RIP) had built within. In Opera 29 the plugin works fine, also runs fine in Firefox and Chrome. Somehow I avoid using Internet Explorer like a disease, don't like IE and never had so I cannot tell you if the EA Origin plugin runs on IE. I've tried some other browsers too (Maxthon, Avant, Pale Moon, etc.) but they couldn't do exactly what I wanted to do.
But overall Vivaldi is very promising to me, I like to use it for some layback browsing and doing some research stuff. Most of all, and that's what I miss most on Opera nowadays, is the Tab-Stacking feature. For me the most important feature of Vivaldi, none of the others have that, maybe with a third-party plugin or something like that. So please keep the Stacking feature standard in Vivaldi, it's a really great thing to have and organise all those open tabs..!
Looking forward to see what Vivaldi brings in the near future… Cheerz..! :woohoo:
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I don't know what you mean with 'proper' tab stacking but it works fine for me in Vivaldi. Oh wait, I'll put a screenshot over here…
It's even so I can see how much tabs are in the stack, something I couldn't see without hovering over the stack in Opera 12.17. But like I said before, there's still some work to do for the Vivaldi ppls who are doing a great job so far.
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i can't select multiple bookmarks and move them around (for example select several and move the to new folder)
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Here's my 2 cents.
(1) Detail progression (status) messages is definitely a matter because V, without the page-
loading messages, looks pretty slow compared to Seamonkey (which I'm using.) In fact V's speed
isn't that great.(2) Another thing killing my desire to use V is that I can't disable the crappy font smoothing at all!
And I definitely ain't the only one who complain that. It looks just plain ugly with Opera and V,
but the other, ALL other, browsers never looks so ugly. This is why my disappointment keep stacking up
every time I try every new Opera/Vivaldi but the ugly font-smoothing drama isn't over and
I can simply do nothing with it.
Just how many shoutouts do you think is needed to seriously consider addressing this properly?(3) The memory usage (threads) gets skied up when I open a tab, it will become quite formidable
with my browsing habit (I have 145 tabs in my Seamonkey session list, though not all of the tabs are
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There are many reasons that I don't use Vivaldi full-time, and it's probably too early to ask this. A version 1.x browser can't possibly think of replacing a version 12.x browser for all people.
To me, it's mostly the lack of pre-made skins (maybe I just didn't find them yet) or a skin editor. Maybe I'll try making my own later, but right now I don't want to stare at a bunch of CSS.
There are other UI-related issues too, most of which I have detailed in the wishlist.
I also can't modify and apply page sources, which I liked in Opera. Great for fixing broken web forms. Yeah, I can use the property inspector, but I'm used to editing them right in the View Source page.
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@RRR13:
The indicator for the number of tabs in a stack is only useful when having a small number of tabs in that stack. If you have 10+ stacked tabs it's unreasonably hard to figure out exactly how many tabs are in the stack. But that's just an extra feature, not something I can't do without.
I thought I made it clear enough when I said proper stacking, like Opera 12.17 has. How was that not clear enough for you?
Proper stacking includes the ability to expand the stack, collapse the stack, drag a tab into the stack, drag a tab out of the stack.Don't get me wrong, Vivaldi has some cool tricks for tab stacking, but it's not proper tab stacking yet and what it has doesn't seem to head the right way to evolve into proper tab stacking.
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Totally agree
