What is stopping you from using V all the time?
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Tiny font
Asking for Windows password when trying to show passwords
No user side customization yet - hate the color scheme..
In the new 1.3 snapshot, they added themes that you can customize the color schemes and round the corners if you want as well. So if you're on the Stable channel and don't want to go to the snapshot channel, then stay tuned.
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Inability to edit the context menu - I am used to opening links in a new background tab via context menu and V does not have this as the top item.
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Inability to edit the context menu - I am used to opening links in a new background tab via context menu and V does not have this as the top item.
I look forward to being able to edit the menus too.
Meanwhile, I have assigned GestureDown to "Clone Tab in Background Tab | Open Link in Background Tab," as I often use that method in Opera. Middle-click is OK if you have a MMB, Ctrl + Click requires two hands.
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Keyboard shortcuts still don't work right. Ctrl-B in google docs shouldn't open the bookmark bar, for example.
Google Hangouts screen share doesn't work
No way to disable lazy loading of tabs
Saved session occasionally disappears on startup (simple - make auto backups of the session file. If it's corrupt, load the old one)
Lack of UI contrast: Stacked tabs are impossible to see in the tab bar. Tab dividers are too faint. Not enough differentiation between tab and menu bar color.
Downloads always pop up the sidebar, forcing me to close it again
No Content blocker (though ghostery handles most of this)
No per-site settings on the right click menu
I'm currently using this irritating mix of Opera 12, Opera beta (39.0, right now), and Vivaldi. Would love being able to get back to using 1 browser.
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Optimising performance is something that goes without saying, so there's no need to request it. Before each final build the devs will do what they can to optimise performance.
Specific pages that load slowly can be reported in the Bug Report Wizard. One man's slow is another man's fast. For me, Gmail loads in 3 seconds. What do you call slow?
There is a thread in the Feature Request forum for the current next version (1.4).
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Optimising performance is something that goes without saying, so there's no need to request it. Before each final build the devs will do what they can to optimise performance.
Specific pages that load slowly can be reported in the Bug Report Wizard. One man's slow is another man's fast. For me, Gmail loads in 3 seconds. What do you call slow?
There is a thread in the Feature Request forum for the current next version (1.4).
From a cold start, including login, GMail loads in 3 sec. here. If already logged in, load is instantaneous. Less than 1 sec.
No, there is no voting system.
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I've switched, completely, in the last week or so. Originally on Firefox, I was using Chrome recently because we're a google apps for business shop and firefox has some gmail incompatibilities. I have noticed that on a surface pro 4 with not a huge amount of memory, sometimes Vivaldi starts to chew cpu and needs restarting but that's not a huge deal and the native advantages over Chrome (stacks, tiles mainly) are significant enough that I don't expect to go back.
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I had been hanging on (and on) for mail before switching, but with version 1.5 coming out and my wife getting viruses using Edge on pages that Opera can no longer show I decided it was time.
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Typing this from Opera 12.
RSS. Feeds. I need feeds inside my browser.
Please don't tie them into the release of the mail client a year from now. Please push RSS integration forward.
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@Lupin-III said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
- I never noticed any problem with UI speed, but then I never open loads of tabs. Ten is a lot for me.
- Make sure that you have the latest snapshot. Tab dragging has improved a lot in recent builds
- Try the status bar overlay, but I am happy with a shortcut "s" to toggle the status bar.
- More shortcuts will come later
- The escape key works for me to return focus to the page
- The panels bar is working as designed. Use the F4 "Panel" command if you want to hide the panels. It is a valid feature request for the Bookmarks shortcut to close the panel if it was off before, but it's not a bug.
- Preferences, Tabs, Tab Options, uncheck "Show close button"
- Sort options are available in the Bookmarks Panel
Yes, most of the things you have listed are your own oversights, and the others are minor annoyances that will get fixed/improved in time. The slowdown can be avoided by not opening more tabs than you actually need. Use bookmarks and sessions for tabs that you need to open later. Don't open everything you think you might want later in the day. Twenty is plenty; thirty is dirty, forty is naughty.
Before someone berates me for "telling users how they should use their browser," I am not. I am just advising you that if manage your workflow better you will have fewer issues with Vivaldi. We're all here because we loved old Opera for different reasons, such as it's fast page caching, but you have to make some adjustments for the way things are now.
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I wonder what most people feel is stopping them from using V all the time now, now that it's been developed for over 2 years and we're now in version 1.6 in the snapshot stream. I feel most of the things that were issues, like speed, are pretty much handled now. CPU usage got way better with Chromium 55, and while even more improvements should come, it's not nearly as bad as before.
For me, I use V all the time. The only things left that worry me about staying with V is sync for my bookmarks and notes and so on. Once that, and a history page/panel comes along, and tab closing/opening animations, then we'll basically have a browser that feels complete like every other browser that has been in development for 10+ years.
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@D0J0P said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
I wonder what most people feel is stopping them from using V all the time now, now that it's been developed for over 2 years and we're now in version 1.6 in the snapshot stream.
For example - unstaisfying zoom level with "Ctrl + Mouse Wheel" when scrolling fast
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/12618/unstaisfying-zoom-level-with-ctrl-mouse-wheel-when-scrolling-fast@purgatori said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
If anyone who likes Vivaldi isn't using it full-time by now, they're probably waiting on the features
Exactly!
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@btabke Nothing I'm using it all the time, both at home and work.
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@purgatori said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
@Pinkmeister I've heard "early 2017" for the mail client.
I don't need an email client. I need RSS support. I'm absolutely sure that a single Vivaldi developer could do it entirely from scratch in a month, since it's nowhere near as complex as email.
But it's going to be tied to email, despite having NOTHING in common with email. That's absurd, to say the least.
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@Pinkmeister said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
But it's going to be tied to email,
Huh? Did not yet hear about that. Any sources?
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@QuHno said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
@Pinkmeister said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
But it's going to be tied to email,
Huh? Did not yet hear about that. Any sources?
Well, I haven't heard it will be separated from email, either
If it's separated, why isn't it out yet? Like I said, it's - at worst - a month of work for a single man.
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@Pinkmeister said in What is stopping you from using V all the time?:
Like I said, it's - at worst - a month of work for a single man.
Or about a year for a married man.
RSS feeds in Opera 12.17 come into the Received email tab. One can filter emails and different newsfeeds by account if you wish, but they are all stored in the same database.
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Well, for general browsing I use Vivaldi, due to it's speed and clutter-free look toolbars.
But for serious work, i'm force to use Firefox, which I consider a horrible bloated browser now.
The lack of drag and drop support from Vivaldi to other applications seem non-existental, unless I experiencing a Windows 10 permission problem, or this feature does not exist.
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@D0J0P
Well, there are still a lot of rough edges and underdeveloped features, which make Firefox still the best browser for my taste.Two of my biggest stoppers, that haven't gone away yet:
I find the adress bar to be lacking very much compared to Chrome's superbar or Firefox's awesomebar. It just makes work so much more slower. And I'm really missing Sync a lot...
