Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65
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@hilumcool , Indeed. I am very excited about what we are about to show you. For me working on the game has been a lot of fun. The team is very talented. Just like with everything at Vivaldi, this is just the first step.
We will continue to improve the browser. We know you want more. More of everything. We are working on a lot of improvements. Some in this release. Some in next. We are also working on speed improvements across the board.
M3 is then getting closer each and every day. I love using it and I very much look forward to letting you all test it out. I hope you will love it as much as I do.
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@Ice007 , I agree. I do believe we have the best browser, but it is the community that makes Vivaldi. This is a unique community.
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@jon I'm very much looking forward to your steps ahead.
I see the success of Vivaldi not only directly in your product(s), but when one of my non-developping co-workers is suddenly using Vivaldi as his new standard browser - without any enforcement from my side ;-). This tells me that you and your team have really reached something, as many people are afraid of changing a default browser...
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@hilumcool , I think more and more people want to get a browser that is not shy of including useful features and customization. That is what we are about and people sharing the word about Vivaldi is helping us grow.
We have a lot planned and we are looking forward to sharing it all with you!
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@Pathduck said in Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65:
@hilumcool I never made music myself, but I get that real warm nostalgic feeling just seeing the Protracker screen. I loved listening to the songs, setting the drum and bass to solo or just playing around with the samples
There was so much fantastic music on the Amiga. I had a huge collection of MOD, S3M and XM files - sadly lost in a disk wipe years ago.
Fortunately a lot of the classics have been uploaded to YT, even with the tracker interface. One of my favourite Amiga musicians is Jogeir Liljedahl:
Variations by Jogeir Liljedahl
Amiga Music: Jogeir Liljedahl Compilation #1
Amiga Music: Jogeir Liljedahl Compilation #2It was amazing what could be created with tracker in skilled hands, and I believe it's still used today by many professional musicians.
I played around with a couple of trackers on PC in the late 80s / early 90s - had some fun drunken nights with friends recording stupid sounds and making "music" out of it. I also got a CD Rom of a kazillion tracker files ripped from BBS - actually made it a mission to listen to every single one and rate it. Think I still have the CD and ratings printout in a box somewhere...
Here's a little tip - VLC plays tracker files! :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:
Edit: coincidentally I saw a YouTube clip a couple of days ago of some DJ demonstrating how trackers and standalone samplers were used to create all the old house/techno music back then.
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Couldn't help noticing that there was precisely zero administrative presence here, amongst the plethora of fascinating yet completely OT posts, to censor them &/or move them to another thread.
I wonder why...?
:face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:
To help us get 3.4 out the door as soon as possible, please focus your feedback on serious regressions since 3.3 stable.
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@ Steffie I see it the same way. I wanted to read about what people think of the new Vivaldi version.
@ People who are talking about pinball, old computers and so on: Nice stories, but not the right place for this. I can imagine that you sometimes get carried away, but come on, there are several pages just filled with that.
To say at least something to the topic: I don't like it, that the game is included now in the browser. Is it possible to uninstall it?
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@cM0 Yeah i understand your point, & whilst i don't necessarily disagree, i actually had a hidden / not-so-hidden meta-agenda, wrt some unnecessary admin unpleasantness that recently occurred in another thread. I was subtly pointing out by implication a bit of inconsistent hypocrisy, in that the "type" of poster who goes OT, rather strongly affects whether administrative jackboots appear or not.
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@Steffie , hey, I am here.
So we went a little off topic, but in some ways we are on topic. The point is that Vivaldi is about choice. There is always a reason for why we include features and I think this discussion maybe gave a bit of background.
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@cM0 , we include a lot of features with Vivaldi. As always the discussion is about your favorite features. Remember that the reason we have features you love in Vivaldi is because we do not listen to those that think browsers should be limited to the lowest common denominator of needs people have. This is a fundamental difference between us and the others.
I am sure you have favorite features and we will continue to work on them. We will also continue to work on features other people prefer. By including the features in one package you get a browser that has what you need. If you do not like a feature, just hide it. It is easy.
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@jon No Jon, it was not you whom i was implicitly critiquing, but one of your team. There has been a relatively recent occurrence of treating forum members as being too dim to walk and chew gum, such that if one dares to make a post of levity or irony in response to some thread, an unwarranted forum admin response ensued... Part of what makes this community a pleasant place to be, is the spirit of relaxed banter as well as the serious tech aspect. The two characteristics are not mutually exclusive, nor should anyone in your team seek to treat them as such.
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@jon I hope you never feel obligated to put in new features with every single release, though I can't recall one where features haven't led the way.
Sometimes I think it might be more optimal on your end to alternate feature releases as they are now (which include bug fixes, of course) with pure maintenance releases (bugs/performance/internals etc but no new features at all). It would give you more time to work on features and have a little breathing room.
Maybe the blog post announcements wouldn't be as sexy.
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@rseiler , we have a lot of features in the pipeline. Some of those features we have been working on for a long time. We can work on both short term and long term projects at the same time. We know that what our users want is a combination of new features, feature improvements, flexibility, bug fixes and speed improvements.
Obviously the release cycles take up a lot of time, but that is independent of whether we add features or not.
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@cM0 said in Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65:
Is it possible to uninstall it?
I shouldn't think so. But if you don't like that it is there, you needn't interact with it, and it will not in any way impact your browsing experience. I personally am not a gamer, and have not played digital games at all, since the 80's. So, I simply ignore it and go on my way. It does not affect my life, on-line or off-line.
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Still crashes on RHEL 7.4 / tigervnc (VB-71985).
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@cM0 You can't uninstall it but you can chose to hidew the button.
Go to your start page, right-click the game button and take off the tick mark.
You can enable it later (if wished) in the Start Page part of Settings... -
New problem: If you choose to stack by host (domain), the stack will always locate itself to the far left. It used to be that it would locate in the vicinity of where you right-clicked and chose Stack Tabs by Host.
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@jon: Speaking of M3: How will you deal with SMIME-encryped/signed mails? Will M3 support it from the beginning? If not, will M3 display a hint and will it be supported later?
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@pathduck: I'd prefer m3 instead............
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so now, when we are back on topic, I would like to refer to my post from page 3
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@derDay said in Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65:
I have problems with the tab autoreload, since it was introduced:
I have 2 windows with some tabs open (tabs at the right side), one is more or less in the background with some news sites which I have set to reload every 30 minutes.
the visual "counter" decreases but sometimes it "stops" some millimeters before it should end.
I'm not really able to reproduce it because sometimes (the first time?) the automatic reload works but later one it does not.
because we germans had a local problem 2 snapshots ago, this bug perhaps is also related to de-only
am I the only one with this problem?