3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome
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@Stardust said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
Do you remember they were saying that users don't need bookmarks..
Absolutely i do, yes. That was one of their herculean efforts in silliness & disingenuousness. They stonewalled for such an amazingly long time on that point alone.
I still recall my sense of stunned disbelief when i first installed O15. I just sat there, staring at it, with an internal voice repeatedly asking "wait... what, this is it? This? Where are all my settings & options?". Compare & contrast that emptiness to the richness of what we had right from the beginning in V TP1 -- chalk & cheese.
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@Steffie said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
I just sat there, staring at it, with an internal voice repeatedly asking "wait... what, this is it? This? Where are all my settings & options?"
Exactly! And then as an Opera refugee I had to switch to the Firefox...
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Hi,
Have you tested on a Clean Profile?
Whatever extrange behavior should be checked on a Clean environment.- "Right side" |
Rename it as Tests or something related, and use it as a Clean Profile, to test without custom configurations that can alter the original operation.
Since the result, check:
- Active Experiments
- Extensions - Tip
- Clean Cache
- Site Data
Or fill in a Bug Report.
Consider open a Topic and explain there if necessary.
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"Off Topic Tip"
Follow the Signature's Backup | Reset link.
Take the opportunity to start a Backup plan and even create a Template Profile.
Windows 7 (x64)
Vivaldi Back up | Reset -
@Steffie said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
@Stardust said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
Do you remember they were saying that users don't need bookmarks..
Absolutely i do, yes. That was one of their herculean efforts in silliness & disingenuousness. They stonewalled for such an amazingly long time on that point alone.
I still recall my sense of stunned disbelief when i first installed O15. I just sat there, staring at it, with an internal voice repeatedly asking "*wait... what, this is it?
Exactly. I genuinely almost thought it was a joke after all the build up about this amazing new step into the Chromosphere - they're pulling the leg of all the nay-sayers. Then I thought; well this must be just a REALLY early prototype with a bunch of features being finished for the true final release in a few weeks, right...?!?
Sadly not.
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@Stardust said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
@Steffie said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
I just sat there, staring at it, with an internal voice repeatedly asking "wait... what, this is it? This? Where are all my settings & options?"
Exactly! And then as an Opera refugee I had to switch to the Firefox...
I just never moved beyond O12... until the first public Vivaldi release. Hallelujah!
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@mossman said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
I just never moved beyond O12... until the first public Vivaldi release. Hallelujah!
Well, I had a problem with sites compatibility + security concerns. I still have Opera 12.18 portable somewhere.
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@Stardust Heehee...
Spoiler
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@Steffie this is epic! Good memories. I am too lazy to boot into the Windows, so here is a screenshot instead
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@Stardust OT [gasp!].
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Since i switched from win7 to Nix in 2014, & subsequently distro-hopped my way around, i have installed O12.16 in each of my on-SSD Nixes. As we all know, it's largely more sad than productive these days, yet i simply can't bear the thought of uninstalling it. I still hang on to my sliderule, my TI-59, & my O12 through thick & thin, despite none of them being actively in use for mega-yonks, simply because the idea of scrapping them seems like some kind of heinous technological crime.
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@stardust: Well, no need to drag and drop because in Chrome 87 they have added auto group functionality. Enable them under "chrome://flags/#tab-groups-auto-create".
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@Gwen-Dragon said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
@ruulrskybound Stay tuned for some next Vivaldi Snapshots. Vivaldi devs are testing a better UI for tab stacking.
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@gwen-dragon: pog
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@Gwen-Dragon said in 3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome:
a better UI for tab stacking
Tree
Style
Tabs.That does not help Horizontallers, however. Let them eat cake?
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@priest72: I agree. And Firefox is improving a lot its speed and performance in the last recent months.
My wet dream would be a Firefox fork made by Vivaldi to get where Firefox lacks in my opinion (features, customization and integration with different OSes. For example, Windows has the close, minimize and maximize icons on the right, and MacOS has in on the left side. Firefox has the close tabs icons on the right always, but Vivaldi has them on the right side on Windows and on the left side on MacOS). -
@almarma - Vivaldi has plenty of what Firefox used to be good at, namely flexibility.
The one thing Vivaldi could improve a bit on (at least on my Win10 setup with SSD), is a quicker boot at startup. Brave, Slimjet and Edge are always faster at this.
Waterfox 3rd generation (fresh off the press) seems to be on the road to pickup where Firefox left off.
So, in the meantime, keep up with the good work Vivaldi!
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@almarma Gecko is harder to mantain (less people to work on it), tends to change too often (vanilla gecko, goanna, quantum, rust, servo, chromium-like extensions...) and the fact that several minor forks switched from it to chromium is pretty concerning. Would be an huge risk which could even kill Vivaldi. Chromium is more modular and has more people which fix it. I think is the reason why we'll never see a Gecko fork. Most gecko forks are/were just rebranded Firefox, some are tweaked foxes and some are separate branches which couldn't be reliable nowadays (due outdated gecko code).
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@danielson but Waterfox has no sync features, am I right? Also they are based on an old Firefox engine if I'm right.
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@Hadden89 Interesting. I don't know about the intricacies of developing a web browser so I had no idea about the issues.