What feature made you switch to Vivaldi?
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For Michael Crider from the PC World, it was the Progressive Web Apps support:
The one feature that finally let me switch from Chrome to Vivaldi:
Over the last couple of years Iβve tried all the big alternatives, the newest versions of Firefox and Opera, Brave, even a few more exotic Chromium-based projects. Iβve given Edge a shot, especially now that it can handle Chrome extensions. And indeed, Edge has had this feature for a while (...), but I resent Microsoftβs heavy-handed attempts to force people onto its browser. (...)
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Which brings me to Vivaldi, the hot young single new to town in my increasingly tortured metaphor.What about you? What made you switch to Vivaldi? Was it a specific feature? Set of features? Vivaldi's philosophy? Something else (or all at once)?
As for me, it was the fact that Vivaldi is in a way a successor to the old Opera - which was my favourite browser back in the day. I wanted to continue browsing the web (as well as work with my e-mails) the way I was already accustomed to. My way.
It makes me happy that the spirit of the "user-centric" approach continues to thrive in Vivaldi. And it makes me even happier that I can be a part of that project now. -
@pafflick The promise of built-in email.
For a long time, I had to continue launching Opera 12.18 to deal with my email, but I was already using Vivaldi as my default due to the many amazing features that were inherited from Opera:
- The Speed Dials
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Mouse Gestures, etc.
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Spatial Navigation, custom hotkeys and a fully keyboard accessible interface
As well as the company being many of the Opera people, focusing on privacy and listening to users
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What feature made you switch to Vivaldi?
None: the non-existence of features in Chrome make me
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Hard to remember, it was a long time ago. But Opera (Jon's previous browser) was the first major browser to have tabs. It was an acquired taste (my dad recommended Opera to me), but once I acquired that taste: I really liked the tabs!
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The accent page color feature, which evolved to be part of themes
The ability for the browser to change its color based on the page you're on really caught my attention back in 2016. And themes have only gotten better ever since
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A collection of things:
The promise (since realized) of a built-in mail client.
The ability to have an icons-only bookmarks bar without an extension.
True vertical tabs rather than an extension that produced "vertical tabs" in addition to horizontal tabs that you couldn't get rid of.
Proper tab pinning and stacking.
Customizable themes.
Since then, it's only gotten better.
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I've always had a big gooey soft spot for browsers with three vowels in their name. If Jon had called it Strauss, i'd not have touched it with a barge-pole.
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@Ayespy said in What feature made you switch to Vivaldi?:
True vertical tabs rather than an extension that produced "vertical tabs" in addition to horizontal tabs that you couldn't get rid of.
Oh come on, that's simply incorrect. Tsk tsk.
userChrome.css:
/* guigirl 24/1/19 Hide horizontal tabs at the top of the window #1349 From TST Dev, at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#slightly-betterworse-option-for-hiding-tabs-depending-on-what-you-want */ /* Hide horizontal tabs at the top of the window */ #tabbrowser-tabs { visibility: collapse !important; }
Furthermore, IMO so-called "True vertical tabs" provides infinite nesting, nested-tab bookmarking, undisturbed hibernation during tab-scrolling, iconised pinned-tab row/s, groups, session backups... Sadly, V still provides none of those. Otoh...
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Mouse gestures, and definitively all its superb tab management!
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The fact that it is the spiritual successor of old Opera was enough for me to grasp it since the first available beta version.
Didn't have many features compared to current versions, but still more than other browsers in that time.
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As an Opera fan, I tried Vivaldi years ago, but it didn't have an email client yet.
That's why I stayed with Firefox. For political reasons, I took a break from FF, about 1.5 years ago, and found Vivaldi. With mail client beta!
Although this mail client seemed the most interesting for me, I'm now excited about many other features: notes, calendar, web panel, panel, customizations, a bunch of search engines (33 at the moment) configurable...
EDIT: Reading reasons of others here it is of course more:
i.e. tab tiling, screenshots,
(pomodoro and reader list are also fine, but I don't use it often so far) -
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- Tab closing and switching rules based on usage order, which are unique.
- Open links in foreground/background context menu options (also unique).
- Tabs tiling (also unique, I believe)
- Speed dials (going to be unique)
They all helped me keep my old Opera habits.
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The spirit of Opera presto
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@Stardust said in What feature made you switch to Vivaldi?:
presto
I wonder if anyone ever thought of using that in V...
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@guigirl I hoped so from the beginning
@guigirl said in What feature made you switch to Vivaldi?:
presto
Opera came in at the same time I ditched Windows and switched to Linux. Opera was still very early at the time. Year 2009
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@Aaron Fwiw, btw, fyi ... my post was deeply ironic.
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I did not switch to it. I just added it.