A Refugee from Chrome - I just found Vivaldi - hoping it will cure a Chrome problem . .

philiprhoades

People,

I have been a heavy-duty user of Chrome for many years (been using Linux since the 0.9 kernels and RH since almost the beginning and then Fedora).

Chrome on my current Fedora 28 x86_64 has been getting increasingly unstable causing core-dumps over the last few months and all sorts of upgrading and re-installing have not helped - the problem seems to be mostly related to watching YouTube videos but I am not 100% sure. So far I have moved over my Bookmarks (with some to recover that were lost during the crashes) and my Extensions to Vivaldi - things have been going pretty well for the last couple of hours but the first questions are:

Does anyone know how to restore the paid version of the "Tab Outliner" extension in Vivaldi? - I have never been able to get a response from the developer over the years . .
I have my primary Profile going pretty well I think but is there a quick way of moving over my other Chrome profiles? I know I should have a more thorough look around the Vivaldi site but I thought this might be a convenient way of getting started on the forum!

I started off with Google when their slogan was "Don't Be Evil" - with all the hassles that have happened since and where their business model has taken them, I think I will be much happier with Vivaldi - although I am still stuck with YouTube and Drive for a little while yet . . (I am hanging out for the SAFE Network to go live!).

Hopefully, moving from Chrome to Vivaldi will have solved my recent hassles and the problem will not turn out to be hardware issues with memory or something . .

Vivaldi and the community is looking good!

Regards,
Phil.

Pesala

Welcome to the Community. Here are a few links for your bookmarks that you may find useful:

I am not sure how to solve the problem with the Tab Outliner extension, but there are several features in Vivaldi that will help with organising lots of tabs.

philiprhoades

@pesala ,

Thanks for the links - I will have a look!

P.

philiprhoades

@gwen-dragon ,

Yes, so I am finding - and although it looks like it wasn't a Chrome problem after all that started me looking for Chrome alternatives - I am very glad I found Vivaldi ! Looking forward to lots of participation!

lamarca

Welcome to the forums, thanks for starting a new topic and enjoy Vivaldi Browser.

type vivaldi://version on the Address Bar to get the full path of the Profile folder
HTML5 is present on your machine, YT requires it
access to content protected by DRM - in https://demo.castlabs.com there is a video that includes subtitles
HBO, Netflix have a look at this article available on Vivaldi Browser Help (hit F1 to access). @ruario (our Linux Wizard) is the author of many of those shell scripts.