Vivaldi bypasses restrictions to access Bing Chat. Improves Workspaces.
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I didn't know, why can I use Bing Chat even in Vivaldi, but not in Chrome or FireFox. Now I do know, why!
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Very good update! Allowing the use of Bing Chat from Vivaldi made me start using it, and it's better than I remembered. I'm not entirely sure about this, but I'll ask: Is it possible to make Bing Chat the default search engine? Without having to go through Bing or finding a way to bypass it, having something like that would be useful.
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thanks to vivaldi for it power functionality
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Not sure if it's of interest to Vivaldi users, but Microsoft just introduced a new Bing Chat variant called Bing Chat Enterprise, which is what many corporate users will see when logged into Bing Chat with their company account. Vivaldi is not compatible with it and it instead simply shows the normal Bing Chat.
It looks like this in Edge:
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@Team_Vivaldi, Very helpful!
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@Pathduck Yes, though they have made rumblings in at least one recent place that "In the future, 3rd-party browsers will also be supported," so maybe it's just a temporary problem and Vivaldi needn't react. Still, how hard can this be for MS given that it's apparently a user agent thing.
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And now today they've said this, which is good and bad news:
Third-Party Browser Support: With so many new, useful features now a part of Bing, we’re excited to announce you can start experiencing the new AI-powered Bing in third-party browsers on web and mobile soon. This next step in the journey allows Bing to showcase the incredible value of summarized answers, image creation and more, to a broader array of people. You’ll get most of the great benefits of Bing and we’ll continue to optimize along the way to meet your needs across different browsers. While these experiences work well in your preferred browser, for the best-in-class Bing Chat experience, we continue to encourage you to use Bing in the Microsoft Edge browser. With Edge, you'll unlock longer conversations, chat history, and more Bing features built right into the browser. To experience the best browser for Bing, and get the full breadth of features, simply open the Microsoft Edge browser and click the Bing Chat icon in the sidebar.
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@rseiler, deep down it was clear, they also have an eye on the competition and surely also on Vivaldi. It is clear that they mainly care about the use of Bing by users, it is this search engine that allows MS to profile them, they know that many people anyway use a different browser than EDGE (mostly Chrome) and by preventing them from using Bing, it takes away the possibility of profiling and log these users.
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Vivaldi issues
Address Bar Won’t Hide - Android
To hide the address bar need to disable all accessibility settings which is not realistic - Android
PIP won’t do more than 1 - Windows
PIP won’t double click for full screen - Windows
PIP button missing a lot of the time. - Windows
Videos stop playing in the background (Possibly fixed under tab section). - Windows
Alt - w stops working in close all tabs extensions. Requires a restart - Windows
Status bar shortcut fails to work and browser needs to be rebooted - Windows
When visiting a site like fox news which requires you to allow ads there is no option to do it - Windows
No button to switch search engines like firefox. You have to go into the settings to do it. - Windows/Android
No way to move the tile button if you don’t wan the bottom status bar - Windows
No tile shortcut - Windows
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@cdenigris
Hi, missing features are not issues and many of your list are not even issues.
Only a few:
Switch search engines, change in the search field or simply use nicknames.
Tile shortcuts:
Tile icon removed:
If you think you find a bug, report it to the Vivaldi bug tracker, the developer don't read the forum, only users here.
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@mib2berlin Thank you for your opinion. However they are very much issues. Big ones, big missed ones. In order for this browser to be mainstream and replace the big guys as my default then they will start paying attention to the things listed. Otherwise I'm wasting my time finding the issues and listing them here on the forums and might as well go back to Chrome.
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@cdenigris
You can move the tile icon where you want in the Vivaldi UI, such issue doesn't exist. The same for tiling shortcuts.
Using F1 for help and search for "tile" will get you to all possible settings.
Many user have there pet features, I don't like PiP and i never used the tile icon I use the tab context menu.
We as users can only create feature requests or vote for existing, report bugs, create CSS modifications for other user to make Vivaldi better.
I am sorry but such posts helps nobody.Cheers, mib
