Vivaldi finds its way into the upcoming Ford Explorer
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Starting in 2025, the Ford Explorer comes with Vivaldi’s powerful browsing integration in its all-new Ford Digital Experience.
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Being the first browser on the Android Automotive OS, we are now available in Lincoln Nautilus, Polestar 2, Polestar 3, Volvo, Renault’s next-generation cars – Megane E-Tech Electric, All-New Austral, Renault Master, and all future cars with OpenR Link system, select Audi models from the Volkswagen group, Mercedes E-Class and CLE Coupe, and the recently launched Lynk & Co.
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This is a positive news indeed. But I wonder how many users will actually enable syncing their data in Vivaldi in their cars. Because then anyone can easily access your data, of course. It would require profiles and being able to log out, for sync to be really useful in cars (or any other shared device).
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And btw speaking of security, Firefox and Thunderbird can use a master password when storing user's logins. They would not use saved logins until you enter the master password after launching the apps. And they require it any time you want to see a saved login and repeatedly so if Saved logins tab/window was closed meanwhile.
How Vivaldi handle user's secrets, please? Are they encrypted when stored on our devices? Both desktop and mobiles? Why no a master password prompt when launching Vivaldi app? And when I want to see a stored password in Vivaldi, I'm asked to provide an OS user password. And then I can see any passwords even after I close and reopen Vivaldi Settings. It surely does not feel very secure. Please review and improve. For now I use Vivaldi to store only unimportant passwords (and for anything else I use a separate password manager). Thanks and regards.
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@martinko: Hi! Thank you for your questions. We understand your concern and the privacy of our users is of utmost importance to us. On all platforms, we use the OS tools to encrypt passwords that are stored on the device. That encryption is typically tied to the OS account. Moreover, Google has a requirement that we cannot save or allow access to passwords or payment information unless the user can block access to passwords using a profile lock.
You can read more about it here, from the official guidelines:
https://developer.android.com/docs/quality-guidelines/car-app-quality#SD-1