Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached
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Excellent release. Please, do keep those performance improvements on coming!
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@jamesbeardmore Konqueror, as part of TDE, still has a very good User Identity tool. However, Konqueror itself hasn't been maintained very well (as a web browser). I just recently mentioned this in my blog, here. There's only a small percentage of web pages today that Konqueror can properly display. This is my only complaint about the Trinity desktop project; I really wish they could have maintained Konqueror and it's web browser capabilities. As a file manager, though, it's still awesome.
But, yes, it would be great if Vivaldi adopted Konqueror's approach regarding user identity controls.
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Most minor issue ever, barely worth mentioning: after the upgrade, I noticed that the "Specific Page" I had set in General options was replaced with Vivaldi's home page. Interestingly, though, "Go to homepage" does actually take me to my selected home page, so it was a phantom change (which I've since changed back).
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I think there should be an option in settings to set your own UA like
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Vivaldi/2.9.1705.41 -
@dbouley @jamesbeardmore Had similar thoughts upon reading of the newest decision regarding the user agent. But let's be realistic, such a feature is nice to have at best as the current solution works 99% of the time and situation. Therefore a simple user-based whitelist, if any, would be most probable. And personally, welcomed.
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Today we release Vivaldi 2.10 – our last desktop update of the decade.Just a quick heads - up... 2020 is the last year of the decade. There was no year zero. We started counting from 1 C.E. (A.D.), and the year before that was 1 B.C.E. (B.C.). That means 2021 will be the first year of the next decade. I am surprised by how many people make this mistake. Must be the buzz, or the thrill of an even, round number. Like the turn of the millennium, it was on 2001, not 2000.
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Didn't realize browser sniffing was a thing. I guess you learn something every day.
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@kahukura It's known. Devs are working on this.
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@teunissenstefan: But prime video isn't HD is it?
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@Naivatco said in Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached:
Just a quick heads - up... 2020 is the last year of the decade. There was no year zero. We started counting from 1 C.E. (A.D.), and the year before that was 1 B.C.E. (B.C.). That means 2021 will be the first year of the next decade. I am surprised by how many people make this mistake. Must be the buzz, or the thrill of an even, round number. Like the turn of the millennium, it was on 2001, not 2000.
It's more nuanced than that. If you seriously think that when people say "the '60's" they're including 1970, well, you'd be wrong; they're not, so that's largely why. It's like when a word takes on a new meaning over time. Do you still use it how it was used in 1600? No. You want to be understood, so you use modern English.
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Thanks for this update. Unfortunately, even with the user agent changes I am still unable to use Amazon Music. As before, when selecting a song to play it starts for <1 second then says "No Songs Playing". Any idea what's causing this or how to correct?
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I am on Win10 x64 and was unable to start Vivaldi at all with this version. I even tried uninstalling Vivaldi completely (including the "Also delete your browsing data?" option presenting during uninstall), rebooting, and reinstalling with the 2.10.1745.21 installer from https://vivaldi.com/download, and that still didn't work. Finally I uninstalled Vivaldi and got my old stable version from https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Vivaldi.2.9.1705.41.x64.exe. See new bug report VB-61479.
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Browser is not responding (hangs) if in a webpage like this https://store.steampowered.com/labs/divingbell#388430,924960,504370,570 you click on the "<-back" button to the right (/edit for more clarification: inside the webpage, next to the "refresh" button) and wait like 20 seconds (without moving the mouse). There are many ways actually by simple in-page interaction that can hang it if you experiment enough. Must be related to hardware acceleration as with it disabled it doesn't hang. No problems in Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML). No A/V installed.
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@ukanuk said in Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached:
I am on Win10 x64 and was unable to start Vivaldi at all with this version.
Norton Security Suite is the issue, doggone it. I checked the Norton security "History" page and there's no reports of it doing stuff when I'm launching Vivaldi. This made me assume Norton wasn't the problem. But if I disable all its antivirus protection stuff, then Vivaldi works fine.
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@npro try clicking twice, or hold for the history. on my list, the site is listed twice
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@lamarca not the browser's back button, the "<-back" button in the webpage to the right, next to the "refresh" button.
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@ukanuk said in Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached:
Norton Security Suite is the issue, doggone it.
More precisely, I have to go to Settings→Exploit Prevention and disable everything. I found it's possible to leave "Suspicious API Invocation Detection" enabled, but turning on any of the other options prevents Vivaldi from launching. But rather than this, adding the
--disable-features=RendererCodeIntegrityoption as @kswiatly_har mentioned for Symantec also works for Norton. Sounds like both of these companies need to get their act together or start losing more and more business. Scroll to How to fix ‘Aw, snap’ error in Chrome Canary on this page for help on how to add --disable-features=RendererCodeIntegrity for anyone who's not sure. -
@npro I tried reusing this page; opening in a new tab, no difference.
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@ukanuk .... Oh, Symantec and Norton are the same people... I didn't realize that...
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@ukanuk Maybe if enough of us report it at https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive, they'll be more inclined to do something about it.
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