Friday Poll: Which is your favorite new feature from Vivaldi 4.3?
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In this week's Friday poll we'd like to know which is your favorite new feature from Vivaldi 4.3?
Yesterday we released a new version of Vivaldi for Desktop and Android. On Desktop, it features refreshed Capture, improved Sync, PWA support, and some improvements to the download panel. We've added 68 new languages in the translation function (for both mobile and desktop), taking the total number of languages to 108. On Vivaldi for Android, there's a new Tab Stack Toolbar and revamped Sync UI. We've also disabled Google's controversial Idle Detection API by default.
So, which is your favorite new feature added in this release? Let us know by heading on to Vivaldi.net and casting your vote in this week's Friday poll (you'll find it in the lower right corner of the page). Have you managed to try these new features out yet? What do you think of them?
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- Bugfixes to Mail + Calendar.
- Privacy improvements
- Downloads panel looks nicer
Feel free to educate me about PWAs (do they offer anything else than being a web wrapper for individual sites?) and where to use them, possibly it will end up in 3rd place after all.
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The new download panel looks very good.
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My favorite addition is the PWA's, it's another level.
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@jumpsq said in Friday Poll: Which is your favorite new feature from Vivaldi 4.3?:
Feel free to educate me about PWAs (do they offer anything else than being a web wrapper for individual sites?) and where to use them, possibly it will end up in 3rd place after all.
They behave like independent apps so that you can - for example - play music from Spotify without having to install its app on your device. But the best way to find out what the fuss is all about would be to try it out for yourself.
You can learn how to use them in our help article on Progressive Web Apps. Please also take a look at our collection of PWA's (feel free to add your own suggestions).
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@pafflick Sure, I've now installed the vv forums as a PWA and can start it independent from vivaldi / basically in its own window. Still, I somehow seem to miss whether there can be a real benefit over just having it open as a tab (or its own window, which would be more similar). Is caching different, is additional functionality possible (e.g. having notifications or playing music even if the PWA is closed)? Or is it simply just a shortcut that can be accessed elsewhere, not just within the browser?
If it does not offer additional functionality, it may still come in handy some time, but I believe that I would typically just pin the tab instead.
However, there are certainly different work flows that absolutely appreciate accessing websites with their own icons - window-heavy users, I'm looking at youAlso: Thanks for linking the documentation.
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@pafflick , great the new improvement of the download menu and privacy.
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@pafflick PWAs, easily. Don't have to use Edge any longer!
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Sure Idle Detection API disabled by default, the anti-feature from google!
And the 2nd place - Improved Download Panel (I don't forget about Download button on address-bar )
And I don't care about PWA and Capture Feature
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@jumpsq said in Friday Poll: Which is your favorite new feature from Vivaldi 4.3?:
playing music even if the PWA is closed)?
Hmm, that wouldn't make sense - it's rather the opposite: play music through PWA while the browser is closed. So the main benefit is that you don't have to install separate apps for websites offering PWA support, and you don't have to run the browser if you want to just check for new messages, listen to music, etc.
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