Vivaldi 5.1 RC 2 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2567.38/39
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@killchain
I was suprised too, even wikipedia don't know about zucchini (as algorithm)@Ruarí
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These latest snapshots seem to have broken a macOS feature that I find myself using quite often: look up (VB-86526).
For those that don't know what it is, this macOS feature allows you to force-click/three-finger tap a word and quickly "look up" information about it from dictionaries, and when available, from wikipedia as well.
Here is what using it is like in today's release candidate:
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@derday If you got a bigger one one day it was probably because you skipped over a release. Typically we only do deltas one release back.
The chromium installer (on which the Vivaldi installed is based) supports 3 kinds of delta updates
- bsdiff
- courgette
- zucchini
The latter two are Google inventions with courgette being their first improvement and zucchini the latter. I am not 100% sure why they called courgette, "courgette". However I suspect the naming zucchini is a bit of fun a fun name play on the former. In some versions of English (e.g. British) we have a vegetable called a courgette. In other versions of English (e.g. American) this same vegetable is called zucchini. So effectively Google has named it after the same vegetable twice.
In any case we have been delayed switching over but hey, we are doing it now!
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@ruarí: Cool, thanks for the explanation. From a quick read I thought Courgette is what Chromium is using and Zucchini is something new, but apparently that's not the whole story.
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@altcode I can confirm. I noticed that too, but I was wondering if something was broken in my profile.
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Anyone see this or is somewhat known? Vertical pinned overlap with panels @Ruarí
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@ruarí: The only reason I got the joke is because I've seen a lot of Jamie Oliver shows. I guess next we can look forward to arugula/roquette.
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@ruarí
I know, that a skipped snapshot leads to a full download. perhaps I wasn't in a hurry to get all of the numerous snapshots last week and skipped one by accidentthanks for the little excursion into vegetables
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It could've been a "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" with pigeons for RC1, RC2 and RC3 thumbnails respectively. The white dove being The Good, and a typical flying rat being The Ugly. No idea what kind of pigeon would suit The Bad though.
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A strange one: If I have a Settings tab open, my customizations of the tab/tabbar context menus show, as they should. As soon as I close the Settings tab, the customizations will not show.
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"Remove Tab Spacing in Maximized Windows" setting is not working
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Now, this is a strange bug I have written about in the past, but it would still need other users to test it. Vivaldi loses the startpage background picture when the address bar is disabled. Not right away, but eventually. Definitely not a showstopper, but something to consider going into the next development cycle.
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@ruarí Link leads to: 503 Service Unavailable
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I like new updates.
But I think maybe a good idea to update focused on polishing features, bugs and performance.
Eg: the translator that sometimes doesn't work.And if you can improve the home page, I think it is very old and there are browsers that have improved it as an opera, yandex.
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I've just noticed a piece of text at the bottom of this very page: "A new version of Vivaldi is available. Update now for the latest features and security fixes." But I'm on the latest Vivaldi Snapshot.
Does this page detect the version of Vivaldi and display that message? If so, I wish it handled Vivaldi Snapshot correctly. I almost clicked on the link!
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@ryofurue But the latest snapshot is not the latest version of Vivaldi
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@hlehyaric, @altCode. My case is stranger. As I describe in this thread https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/71799/dictionary-popup-is-gone the lookup function is broken in a different way on my MacBook Pro (2019) with the latest Vivaldi Snapshot on the latest macOS version. The problem exists even on a fresh profile.
On my Mac Mini (M1, 2020) with a Trackpad, however, the lookup function just works as before. Same macOS version and same version of Vivaldi Snapshot.
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Noticed 2 changes - can't call them bugs - with this snapshot and/or OS version (Win11 22000.493).
- notifications no longer appear in the OS action center, but as native Chrome notifications. Can be tested here: https://www.bennish.net/web-notifications.html
- when you maximize the browser window so it's full screen, the OS taskbar auto-hide function no longer works, i.e. you cannot mouse over the bottom of the screen to have the taskbar show, first you need to minimize or get the browser window out of the way.
The last issue appears for other windows being maximized, and the notification bug is also on Edge. Things used to work normally. I feel Microsoft broke some stuff with their patches - maybe anyone else able to confirm? Thanks.
Later edit:
- the taskbar issue, solved by turning off all overlays from Geforce Experience (thanks, Nvidia, used to work normally). Probably it considers full screen apps as games, during which you don't want taskbar popping? Dunno.
- the native OS notifications being replaced by the Chrome-specific ones solved by reinstalling the snapshot on top of mine. I wonder what broke the specific (registry?) stuff that the browsers need to show OS notifications in the action center.
Somewhat annoying that so many things can interfere with a simple browser.
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