How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
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@waj Welcome here to the Vivaldi Forum
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@kimmoj: but it can do magical things like dragging tab from Vivaldi to Waterfox and it works
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Webkit and Opera's old Presto engine were developed in the same building on different floors in Norway, also in the building was an adult store (not sure if it is there still). To make an engine from scratch also is hard as you have all the HTML5 standards to implement, then all the different CSS, TLS, and a way to handle Javascript, a way to have updates and handle crashes among other things. -
@Chas4 said in How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome:
also in the building was an adult store
now THIS is a very interesting info, explains many things. Right?
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Great article (mainly because Vivaldi is a great product ️)
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@boruta It would appear you did not read the article fully.The settings you are seeing are "chromium" settings NOT chrome.
Vivaldi is based on chromium so naturally the chromium settings are there. -
@boruta Vivaldi's actual settings are at vivaldi://settings.
OR on the panel
OR in the menu
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@legobuilder26 why would we type that when the settings are in our main drop down menu.
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@Priest72 I like typing more than clicking. I'm kinda obsessed with keyboard shortcuts.
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If you look closely, you’ll notice that no-one has built a new engine from scratch in 20 years. There’s a reason for that. The rendering engine is the most complex part of the browser. Developing a new engine from scratch would take far too long and require significant resources.
Mozilla created (and then abandoned) Servo which is now part of the Linux Foundation.
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"We disable a lot of stuff in the Chromium code to keep your data private."
This is important. Many people think that Chromium is scrapped from all Google stuff. And that is enough to choose Chromium if you want to escape from Google. As this explanation tells us, Google tracking is integrated directly in open-source Chromium, or Blink engine. -
@boruta Chromium does not "automatically" clean anything.The only main browser which does is firefox and other mozilla based browsers.
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I tend to say Vivaldi is the direction ol' good Opera should've taken...
Its full customization is something you're grateful for when you care aesthetics since your browser is where you'll be seeing the whole time when websurfing. It's a nice mix between my Nestcape days and modern browsers.
Continous improvement, showing they love their product and us, the users.
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@kimmoj: "..as basic as..." a function that almost no one does. OK. You can put in a feature request for your rare function and, believe it or not, unlike other browser developers, Vivaldi will actually listen to you.
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We disable a lot of stuff in the Chromium code to keep your data private.
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@catweazle: thanks for the reply and info
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@stardepp: Good tips, ta !
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The difference is Vivaldi is buggy.
They claim to fix issues and they never do. They rather spend their time on useless features like 1980's games that no one ever plays. The open in background and full screen bug is still in the "stable" release for the past month and half. Closing a video screen in full screen mode would keep the browser in full screen. You have to press F11 to return back to normal. The "open in background tab" just doesn't work at all.
I would take Firefox with tab mix plus anytime until they had the recent updates that completely broke those extensions.
That is the main difference.
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@shadowxt said in How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome:
They claim to fix issues and they never do.
That's BS, just take a look at last update changelog, all fixes done during winter holidays
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/happy-new-year-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2160-3/
if there's something you can't possibly do is saying they don't work their asses out to make it right. -
@iAN-CooG said in How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome:
@shadowxt said in How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome:
They claim to fix issues and they never do.
That's BS, just take a look at last update changelog, all fixes done during winter holidays
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/happy-new-year-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2160-3/LOL. I just mentioned two bugs that the developers claimed to have fixed on the development version.
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Open in background tab does not work. Open up any speed dial and click on a button. Instead of a background tab, it opens in the foreground.
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Full screen mode is broken. Open up any video in Youtube in full screen. Press control+W or close with mouse gestures. It would bring back the vivaldi main window in full screen mode. Prior to Vivaldi 3.5.2115.81, it was working fine. I have a copy of the Vivaldi 3.4.2066.106 and it works perfectly. The problem is that if I uninstall Vivaldi and install the over version, it breaks other parts of Vivaldi. The program will no longer save any passwords or logins.
Those are real bugs and has been in the software for close to a month or more. I submitted bug reports and they answered that its fixed in the development version. The stable version 3.5.2115.87 still has the bugs and the version was released in the past few days. That is unacceptable. Bugs should always be the number one priority before you add a single new feature.
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