Chromium update and status bar clock – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1843.5
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Gosh, I can't believe there are so many positive comments on this clock feature!
Vivaldi is and should stay a browser! It should not become a bloatware full of stuff thats not related to browsing in any way. If one wants to set an alarm, use the OS functions or an app for that, but PLEASE don't bloat the codebase with gimmicks that likely will be used by 0,5% of the users! So 99% of the users load that code on every Vivaldi start for nothing! Same for calculator... every OS has one I guess, why build another one into a browser? Please Vivaldi Team, concentrate on browsing, and keep it slim, fast and secure...
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@colebantam You may have your own opinion on this, but for me Calendar, Mail and Alarm Clock are great features to have in a browser, just like notes and links panels (still missing). For me, this is part of the philosophy of vivaldi/presto, and certainly the alarm does not qualify for bloatware. You can remove it from the task bar, it won't harm you in any way and it won't take a single megabyte off your drive.
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@colebantam said in Chromium update and status bar clock – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1843.5:
Vivaldi is and should stay a browser!
Vivaldi is and plans to be an internet suite, not just a browser, like the Opera of days gone by.
The good thing though is if there are features you don't like or don't use, you can just not use them. In the case of the clock you can right click and remove it.
Unless you're on a very old or low-spec machine I doubt there would be any major performance impact from the extra code that makes up the clock.
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@colebantam It is not unusual for me to get late for my train while replying in some detail to a forum post. Though I do not really need it, there is no harm in having an alarm remind me to stop work and go and get ready to go out.
Just having the time right there whenever I look up to the tab bar (I moved the clock to the top already) is an aid to keeping a check on the current time. The OS clock is hidden on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. My physical clock is off to one side of my desk.
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@Pesala said in Chromium update and status bar clock – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1843.5:
there is no harm in having an alarm remind me to stop work and go and get ready to go out.
having the time right there ... is an aid to keeping a check on the current time.What you've said reminds me of my computer monitor. It has a feature built in that makes it pop-up a message every hour reminding me to take a break from staring at the screen.
I wonder if there is a way to configure the Vivaldi clock to operate in a similar way. With repeated intervals without needing to re-set the timer each time it runs out.
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@airdex: I was wrong for Linux medias. TuneIn works offline.
Looks like there is an issue with connection cookies. Lots of services looks OK when you are offline and shit happens when you sign in.
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@LonM The clock already has that preset to take a five minute break every hour (or half hour).
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@jumpsq: I know I can configure the GUI very much and I like that a lot. But removing the clock from the status-bar doesn't remove the code for this feature from the binary. And I was a Opera user since very early, so I know the good old Presto-Days. But even old Opera didn't had clock/alarm/calculator.
For the Mail feature: I know its on the agenda, but honestly I hope it will not come into Vivaldi. I'd prefer it to be a Standalone Application. Building an E-Mail-App on an browser-codebase has its drawbacks, as everyone can see on Thunderbird Development... -
@pesala: There is the Windows 10 Alarm app, where you can set recurring alarms. I'm sure other OSes/apps offer similar features. No need to bloat the vivaldi code with such things.
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So... i understand you agree with me: opera have nice features it would be nice to have in vivaldi, right? it is all what i said, i don't know why people is so defensive.
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@AlesPG You are repeating the same thing in every post of yours, current opera's "innovations" are laughable and fake, not to speak about how invasive they are in terms of privacy. Your "innovative" browser was only making circles around the design of its Speed Dial for years and years about the same things (Speed Dials size, transparency or not, sidebar placement) infuriating old and new users all the time, only to return to the Opera Presto and Vivaldi way.
The only thing with what they have been super innovative and successful is to delete all that stuff that made Opera Presto great, and which we all have used, in order to appeal to the casual audience following the path of social media, trendyness and shopping hipstery, so Vivaldi -which is Opera Presto on the Chromium engine in case you still don't get it- brings them back improving them in a polished and modern way, "multiple Startpages" to give a simple example. So, as long as you didn't use those features and obviously don't use them today, you are perfectly fine with that browser of yours and its "innovations", because guess what, you belong to their target group. So you should know by now that your objective opinion on what is nice or not and what is needed in Vivaldi or not does not apply to everyone else, especially when the target group of Opera is different from Vivaldi by design and concept, and you should stop repeating the same thing over and over again, because it gets really boring.
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I'm facing a little gui bug in this build: when i start vivaldi the tab which is shown first can't be refreshed by clicking on refresh icon, even after switching to different tab and back to affected tab it can't be refreshed with click. Such tab can be refreshed only from keyboard with F5 or any proper key shortcut. After refreshing from keyboard affected tab can be refreshed by clicking on refresh icon.
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I'm having issues with slack randomly not showing usernames and it is just a black box where the name is supposed to be. As well as in the channel and people list on the left showing the number of members in the group chat but commas for the usernames.
Testing in chromium and chrome beta I cannot reproduce it. Also issues with some internal things at my job not loading correctly on this release. Such as failing to properly authenticate the connection to one of the backend servers with the session ID.
Other than that some general slowness even with 24GB of RAM free compared to normal speed. Only other thing noticed was the gmail window crashing often like I am out of RAM so it gives the dead canary. Hitting F5 doesn't reload it either.
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What I am referring to with slack. It does this on two different workstations
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One more bug to report but this one is present since some time and is not directly related to vivaldi as it is present also on opera. Amazon fullfilment center's "amazon hub" has some features not working under vivaldi but they work in firefox. In theory amazon hub has a link to report problems with hub but... it doesn't work, under any web browser. If that basic feature would work i wouldn't bother reporting it in here. Amazon hub is kinda internal tool for amazon fulfillment center employees to monitor and manage their own work time and holidays. One of features not working under vivaldi is whole part of managing holidays.
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@colebantam The Vivaldi philosophy from the very outset, and the very reason for its existence, is to be a Swiss army knife with a very keen edge and a comfortable grip - not a dirk. You are, I am afraid, advising them not to fulfill their mission, but rather your idea of what their mission ought to be instead. You might as well tell Amazon to stick to selling books.
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@JamieCat Do you run any extensions, or have you adopted any CSS modifications to the UI?
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@colebantam said in Chromium update and status bar clock – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1843.5:
I know the good old Presto-Days. But even old Opera didn't had clock/alarm/calculator.
Opera 12.18 does have a basic clock that one can put on any toolbar, but the alarm/timer in Vivaldi are extras that we used to have to install widgets to get in Opera.
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@Gwen-Dragon How do you feel about Opera Unite?