Themes installed off of Chrome store
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@Pesala , es, but I thought more about a simple page with a list of links that can be added to the menu of Vivaldi., Not all users want to review a thread in a forum.
Maybe one day I feel like making a list like this, which can be added to bookmarks.
I have already done it in the past in Google Docs, but someone has deleted all the links, leaving it editable for other users. -
@Catweazle Vivaldi will eventually have its own app store. The resources to set it up aren't there yet.
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To be precise: themes could work, as all the usual places a theme changes still exist in Vivaldi (tab strip, start page...), and the vivaldi UI could access the resources as it does with extensions. But it would require a lot of effort from the developers, so right now it isn't possible.
I still hope that one day in the far future it could happen.
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@Ayespy , nor is it for yesterday, but the need exists
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@Gwen-Dragon , in older Vivaldi versions, Icould set round corners in the search and adress bars, framed with accent color, in the last versions this possibility not longer exist in the settings.
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@Catweazle That's strange, it works for me, here's max corner rounding:
(btw, ignore the old-school green padlock, this is a CSS mod.)
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@Catweazle Works for me. Are you looking in the right place? It's under theme editing, and it's called "corner rounding."
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@Ayespy , thanks, I'm getting old
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@Catweazle You and me both, sir!
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chrome does not have that great a theme selection..mozilla firefox sinks it into the water with themes and other extensions.
Firefox themes would be a better choice to implement in my honest opinion. -
A first obvious step should be to precise that this so customizable browser has only just 9 embedded themes, almost the same. And that you can forget Chrome Web Store concerning this point. Indeed, just two sentences here please:
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/extensions/Sorry... Just to share with you what can feel a Vivaldi newcomer. I like it. But just a bit disappointed because the marketing's magic powder around the product.
But I think, everything will be totally fine once I will have played with CSS. -
@ouechTonton , Vivaldi has 9 default themes that are fully editable with millions of possibilities and without even having to use CSS.
It is even possible in the settings to automatically use the theme and Wallpaper of the OS. -
if I can't install a custom crx theme and jerry-rig it to work on Vivaldi then the claim "fully editable with millions of possibilities " is flat out false
ouechTonton's opinion of the browser is truth... a bunch of cloned themes and baked in tweaks is faux customization... its just a lack of full browser control. Don't get me wrong most of Vivaldi is great but you making claims like that is laughable.
Kinda ironic tho the ambassador tag... really highlights a certain bias on your posts. -
@alexcicala Please review the Code of Conduct โ there is no need to be rude even if you disagree with the statement โFully editable.โ
How far did you get with editing a theme, and what problems did you encounter?
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@alexcicala In addition to what @Pesala said, there is also the ability to mod the UI with CSS and JavaScript, which gives a nearly limitless amount of options. I am not aware of another browser that gives that level of control.
That is far superior to Chrome Themes in my opinion. Even if you don't know much about CSS or JavaScript, the modding forum already has loads of mods made by other users.
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@alexcicala said in Themes installed off of Chrome store:
if I can't install a custom crx theme and jerry-rig it to work on Vivaldi then the claim "fully editable with millions of possibilities " is flat out false
"Fully editable" does not mean "compatible with every theme format". You have a lot of control using Vivaldi's settings (theme colours, backgrounds, menu positions and visibility, toolbar button positions and visibility (to some extent), content of context menus, editable keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures, address bar contents, search engines, and so on). And that is without even considering CSS and JS mods (kinda officially endorsed but not officially supported).
I don't know what a Chrome theme can do that Vivaldi can't (because I've never used Chrome), but saying that Vivaldi isn't highly customisable because you can't use themes from a different browser that uses a completely different UI engine and has a UI built in a completely different way is just silly.
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@alexcicala The statement "fully customizable with millions of possibilities" is reality-based and numerically factual.
No one ever has claimed (nor would claim) that the Vivaldi UI is modifiable by technologies (such as Chrome Store themes) which are completely unrelated to, and not compatible with, the technologies used to build the Vivaldi UI. You cannot, and should never expect to be able to, manipulate HTML/REACT/JS with Chrome themes. It would be like trying to run a gasoline car on diesel. No go.
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In fact, most Chrome extensions work stably in the Vivaldi browser. I'm talking about functional solutions, for example, Hola VPN, RDS bar, and so on. I didn't experiment with themes, as I like Vivaldi's artwork. Experimenting with themes in Chrome sometimes led me to all sorts of bugs: a dark search bar in a light theme and other unpleasant phenomena.
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@pektoral , be aware of Hola VPN, because instead of public and encrypted servers, it uses the users' own devices not encrypted, that is, it changes the IPs, apart of the use of your bandwith which it sells and also your log data. This can be extremely dangerous when, for example, a drug lord is discovered with your IP.
This form of practice has already been denounced on several occasions.
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@Catweazle I second this motion! Chrome is the new IE! haha! Let's build it so that Vivaldi users can optionally share their extension configs and other users can 1-click apply.