Client Hints and a sense of déjà vu – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2950.3
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@feil0ng: Hmm, I just noticed. It is gone here! I never lost it in the previous snapshots ...
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Actually, sometimes it is there ... white on white ...Win10x64
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@yngve Would be nice to send the real UA/CH at least at the partners & net counters; I really miss the fact of being able to see how much V is used globally
Is pretty clear other sites doesn't deserve any user agent; the only wants chromium. -
@yngve Right - good point!
Bad, bad sites!
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@Hadden89 Main problem with switching for specific sites is that while we can change the Header on the fly, we can't do that with the JS API (unless something can be managed JS side, which is very hacky).
However, the deal breaker, at least for the kind I can implement, is that the code generating the data does not have any access to the hostname, so no possibility to filter.
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Sadly calendar entry problems persist in this update & really should be addressed ASAP. Reported as VB-95358
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@Ruarí Ah, now i understand, what the ’deja vu’ means, dear Santa Ru.
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Strange Brand feature!
At https://browserleaks.com/client-hints i get with switch to "No Brand" this after restart:
sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="110", "Not A(Brand";v="24", "Vivaldi";v="5.8"
Something wrong with Network settings.
Devtools → Network show it sends this Sec-Ch.
Only reset of Settings → Network to Default worked.Initeresting fact: after switching UA, restart and switching to next UA and restart, list gets longer.
See:
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Good. Bing chat works if you mask it as Edge. It would be great if we can set this different for any site. Like in Opera Presto.
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@DoctorG Did you click enabled on the "Append Vivaldi"? the checkbox is supposed to be disabled in the UI when NoBrand or Vivaldi is selected in the drop down. Although it could be that we have a minor bug when it is checked before changing the dropdown. Not sure if it is worth fixing it
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@yngve No append And i always delete fields before switching if i had entered something with Custom.
I reported as VB-95729. -
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@helsten2: strange in the last build it disappeared for me and a few others, but it worked in a guest window ...
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Now everything I try to download from https://csdb.dk is being blocked Vivaldi telling it's "dangerous". Give me a break, it's a Commodore 64 site, not some virus site or anything "dangerous".
an example: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=230076
There is a .prg (c64 executable) and a .sid (C64 song format for PC players)
clicking any of them produces:
other example https://csdb.dk/release/?id=230132
this contain a .d64 (C64 disk format for emulators)
also this gives the "dangerous" popupIt's the entire site blacklisted in some way, not just some random extensions that chromium doesn't know what they are about this time?
Of course if I select (even by error) Cancel, the download is not even cancelled but remains forever in the download list as if it is still downloading at 0k/sec
What is happening? This is so frustrating. Gahh!
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@iAN-CooG You have Phishing and Malware protection by Google Services enabled under Privacy. That is flagging the download. It's a false positive on Google's end.
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@iAN-CooG Was this a new install? If so, how long had it been running?
It takes a while before the initial SafeBrowsing data has been downloaded in a new install. in the meantime that dialog will show up for a number of file types. It can also show up afterwards if there is a match.
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@EricJH That was it, I guess I have to keep it unchecked, thanks
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@yngve Not a new install, I use Vivaldi since 1.0 and always updated the same installation with snapshots. It was been running for some minutes, just turned on the PC, started Vivaldi, updated and went to visit csdb.dk for my daily dose of C64 releases, and found the surprise.
Luckily only takes the Phishing and Malware protection disbled to avoid that annoyance. -
@yngve This must be one of the most annoying dumbing-down catering-to-the-masses "security" features of Chromium. Even with "Phishing and Malware protection" disabled (i.e. Safe Browsing off), I still get these useless warnings when downloading EXE, JAR and sometimes even more innocuous file formats.
For a browser that targets (let's face it) power users, there has to be a way to just turn this crap off. I have no need to be told that EXE files can be dangerous, I run a good antivirus and I know what I'm doing. Hell, sometimes I even download stuff I know to be malware to have a look at.
Is it possible for Vivaldi at some point give us an option to just turn off this useless annoyance?
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@Pathduck Option to Disable the Confirm Download Dialog currently has 80 votes and is over five years old.
However, the feature is implemented in the Chromium code, so it is hard to fix. See this workaround, but use at your own risk.
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@Pesala Yeah, well they disabled FloC, and that was Chromium code. They did changes to PiP, and that's Chromium code. So it's possible.
I have upvoted the FR a long time ago, and I know about the workaround, which (last time I checked) did no longer work. FileTypePolicies seems like it's a component and these have a
_metadata\verified_contents.json
containing what looks like hashes of the file so if any changes are done they will be invalid and reapplied.But thanks for reminding me, I'll give it another go (I guess it'll be valid until the next update or so...)
EDIT: didn't work...Someone even wrote a patch, a single added line, back in 2013.
https://superuser.com/a/594800/18736