From me to you: A dev’s take on Vivaldi
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@Ayespy Your inside sneak previews are most of the time intriguing.
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Thanks for all the replies, the kind words, and feature requests. We are reading all your comments and are continuously working to improve Vivaldi every release
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@tkbremnes Thank you for all your hard work.
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Hi. I would suggest you focus on basic stuff first. For me the biggest issue is slooow opening of new windows / tabs. Here are the details:
I've just tested the latest Vivaldi on Mac OS X 10.11.6, Core 2 Duo @ 2.5 GHz, CPU at more than 90% idle, plenty of RAM. I hit Cmd-N to open a new Vivaldi window. It takes 2 seconds for the window to appear and 2 more seconds for Speed Dial to appear. So in total 4-5 seconds until I can do something productive. That's really very slow. When I try the same in Firefox (60.6 ESR) a new window opens in about a second or less. The user experience is totally different. I like Vivaldi a lot and I'm a big fan since old Opera, but I cannot spent all my time waiting. Please focus on this and fix it rather sooner than later. It's one of the first things new users will notice and users are very sensitive to slowness. Thanks. -
One more thing, regarding the Vivaldi blog -- I read the article on vivaldi.com/blog and wanted to comment on it. But the text said I've got to log in first. So I clicked on Login, entered my credentials and I ended up on forum.vivaldi.net -- That's quite confusing and I thought it was a bug. I went to Vivaldi blog again, opened the blog post and again I couldn't comment as the text said I've got to log in. Seriously? I clicked on Login button and ended up in forums again. That is really not good and highly confusing behaviour. Please rethink how it works. If there's a comment section under the blog post, we should be able to comment right there. Or just put a link to forums, to the exact place where we can comment on, and read other comments for, that blog post. Thanks.
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@MoonDawg Thanks for the hint on workaround. But do you think this is okay? Or what is the reason it works like it does? I've never seen it anywhere else. If I'm reading an article, and I click on reply or vote up/down, I'm taken to forum's main page. Not even to that article's comment section. That feels so broken. Thanks for the reply anyway.
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@martinko Vivaldi community devs are working on a unified login - so that wherever you are logged in, although parts of the community are on different domains and different servers at present, a single login will keep you logged in everywhere.
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Please do implement PWA for us ASAP it's a very important technology. I develop Progressive Web Applications and without that native capability in VIVALDI it can't serve as my main browser. Tried setting various chrome://flags/ in VIVALDI all evening to enable PWA support to no avail. Cheers!
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The one feature of Vivaldi I use pretty much every day is the native screenshot.
However as great as it is.
I still need to rely on extensions occasionally as a screenshot will not take a scrolling selection.
(It needs some love and seems forgotten and other browsers like opera have passed it by)Step it Up!
Maybe you could take it another level with a loom (video record) type feature. I was recently blown away by the fact someone answered my email query with a personalised loom video, which probably only took a few minutes to record. If that could be done in the browser without an extension, it would be fabulous. -
@dmg in more complex web pages, the native screenshot doesn't work at all. If important I revert to copying the page text into Word, manually copying & pasting each image, then printing the whole as a PDF. Very tedious. Would save so much time if Tools > Capture > Page-to-file was 100% reliable. On the other hand if ctrl+P Printing to PDF were 100% reliable I wouldn't be using Page-to-file anyway.
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