Big update alert: Vivaldi says no to Google Idle API, improves Capture, Download Panel, Sync, adds 68 new languages to Translate, and more.
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@guigirl Textwrap is a mobile feature. Text re-flow and apportionment of line breaks is something some mobile users like, for faster reading.
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@guigirl You're in the right place. I'm not sure Textwrap is.
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Capture has an oh-so-cool revamped look
The Download Panel. It all looks SO good.
Cool and more private!
Must. Download. Vivaldi 4.3. NowLanguage like that feels like an old man, trying to speak to teenagers in "their language". In other words, it's condensing and annoying. It's treating me, the reader, as a stereotype.
Vivaldi team, you're trying too hard to sound cool and hip! I'm not saying you should be dry and overly-formal. But there's a happy middle-ground beaten being dry and overly-formal, and being condescending. It's called "speak normal English, and treat the reader as an adult".
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Is there an infographic that updates with your patch notes? A compare between browsers something simple I can send around so I don't have to look at peoples computers if they don't have Vivaldi?
Most of my support requests by family and friends tend to be browser related, and out of habit they keep clicking everything but the one I installed last time I fixed it... Something to wake them up regarding their choice of browser? -
@guigirl dynamic reorganisation of text and page elements to fit whatever screen you used was actually one of the best things about Opera's Presto engine - and I agree with the first poster in this sub thread: I also grind my teeth when I zoom in to see detail or read tiny text and then find myself scrolling left and right and left and right and left and right to follow lines now going off the screen.
Back then it was "why doesn't every browser do this properly?", so it feels like a step backwards that this still isn't the norm. On mobile but also on desktop. Same thing applies to reading mail - most mail clients and webmail pages fix the view with the text lines too long to read comfortably anyway, and then don't reflow at all when you zoom in. Very annoying.
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Might be the first time since finding the old "o" way back that I'm actually enthusiatic about my browser choice... and with the icing on the cake feeling that "they are for me and not against me"... It's been a long time...thanks team..:)
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Feeds should be able to import OPML file with a list of feeds.
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@mossman How clearly I recall "fit-to-width." Certainly, as the heirs to the originators of it in OldeOpera, Vivaldi devs would be friendly to some version of it...
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@ayespy I remember that too, it belonged to the post-Jon-era "narrative" about why Presto should be (or was) dropped.
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@guigirl Two different things. Text Wrap, an Opera mobile product since 2013, and Fit-to-width, an Opera option for years before the switch to Chromium engine.
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In Windows 11, the opening speed of Vivaldi is significantly slower than Edge and Chrome. I hope to continue to optimize.
On the other hand, I hope to be able to add a clean broom button to the history on the left column to quickly clean up the history (like downloading the broom button inside) -
@tworabbits Until then, you can add that menu entry to the history panel via Menu Customization
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Vivaldi says no to google API and still offers no solution to delete all data automatically when closing the browser, what a farce!
Security is probably only a goal when it goes against others.
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I'm glad that Vivaldi is blocking the Idle Detection API. That thing is creepy and is exactly why I don't use Chrome. GJ Vivaldi team!
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Idle blocking does not work on my end.
I checked and it is indeed disabled by default, but I always notice, when I switch back to the Discord or Microsoft Teams tab, my status shows idle and is quickly changing to green from orange, after the tab is activated.
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@mrdanielharka Vivaldi is blocking an API - a way for websites to know whether or not you are idle. Websites may have implemented their own way of seeing if you are idle.
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@legobuilder26 Indeed. To elaborate a bit more (with my limited understanding), web applications are already able to detect if their tab currently has focus. Detecting this does not require the idle API.
The idle API goes further, allowing the web application to know that you have not been interacting with your computer at all recently, or that you have locked the screen.
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