Reddit Enhancement Suite extension not working

otherdavey

Hi all.

I'm new to Vivaldi and wasn't sure if this question should be aimed at RES or Vivaldi so I'm starting here because I don't know much about the browser and I saw another RES related post here.

The extension installs cleanly, doesn't show any errors in the Dev Console that aren't also there in Chrome. If I enable/disable the extension it appears to have no effect. By all accounts the extension looks to be enabled & configured.

Is there something else that must be done to enable / allow extensions in Vivaldi?

Vivaldi	4.0.2312.41 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision	08924348d4b2ee3ae09abb1c9f1ce83300c32d12
OS	Windows 10 OS Version 2009 (Build 19043.1110)
JavaScript	V8 9.1.269.39
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.166 Safari/537.36

and I'm using RES: 5.22.5

luetage

@otherdavey Just installed it, seems to work for me. Top right new buttons are being shown, which let me access the RES options and a bunch of other stuff.

otherdavey

@luetage Thanks for testing it out!

I do see the RES options & things no the top right, but the RES functionality that alters the appearance of Reddit doesn't seem to be working. I still have the "center column" layout, I can't collapse comments etc... It looks like the only thing it did was to add the RES options there.

I tried exporting my settings from Chrome and importing them into Vivaldi but while it said it was successful, it didn't change anything.

luetage

@otherdavey You said initially you see nothing and you wondered whether it installed. Missing functionality with running extension is another thing altogether. I’m not sure about RES, does it make a difference enabling old reddit?

otherdavey

@luetage Wow, that was it! (old reddit)

I'm sorry about the confusion and really appreciate your help figuring it out.

I'm so surprised that was it - chrome, opera and firefox all looked like "old reddit" but Vivaldi was definitely different. Opting out of new UI and going back to Old Reddit solved the problem!

janrif

@luetage I'm trying to limit my extensions. Are extensions the only way to go for Reddit? If so, IYO what's the best extension working w Vivaldi? Thank you.

luetage

@janrif You don’t need an extension, just visit the site ☛ https://www.reddit.com.