Vivaldi update
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Why doesn't Vivaldi have an option to automatically download and update the web browser? Currently, you must manually confirm that you want to download and update the software. I wish it could be done automatically because manual clicking is a pain when updating every week.
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@Campedor922 If for first intsall the Vivaldi installer was used in Advanced option "Install for User" the download/update starts at restart of browser when a new version is published.
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@Campedor922
Hi, really?
Our internal test versions are updating several times a week, two clicks is to much?
There was a kind of similar feature request but get no user votes.
Simply dissmiss the message and work further, you don't have to restart if you want.
This is how it work on Chrome, for example.https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/75777/install-update-without-relaunch
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I'm not sure how it can actually works. Update after a restart and before the launch has sense (is what FF does). But you can't update something is in use.
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@Hadden89
Exactly, I don't have to reboot after an Linux major update, a restart simply boot into the new system, for example.
To my understanding Vivaldi download the new version and create a new folder.
If you start the next time it use the new version and the folder with the old one is deleted.
Anyway, click OK two times is not really to much user activity to get a new version, specially for Beta software user.Cheers, mib
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You misunderstood me. I don't mind restarting the browser. I would like Vivaldi to automatically download and update the version like Opera does - then it only asks me to restart the browser.
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@Campedor922
It does, if the message appears you have to do nothing, after the next start you are on the new version.
I have to check this again on Windows, maybe I lost my memory.
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@mib2berlin This is what the Vivaldi browser update looks like in Windows: a message in a new window about the new version - I click on the message - a new window opens - it asks whether to download the applications - I download - it asks whether to close Vivaldi and update the browser - yes, it updates - the web browser is restarted in the new one version.
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@Campedor922
I checked this on Windows with an older version, after the message appears the new version is downloaded and copied into the Application folder, the old one is copied into a Temp folder.
Simply ignore the message and work further, at next start the new version is used.
I like to get an information a new version is there, Chrome just doesn't tell it to the user
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@mib2berlin Until I click "download - close browser - install" to I still have the old version.
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@Campedor922
Nope, I close Vivaldi without click anything on 3251.53,
3251.55 was already downloaded and copied.
I already spend to much time on testing this, sorry. -
I was one of the people who asked for this feature. Personally, I like it exactly as it was implemented.
I want to know when a new version is available, but not be interrupted by a restart until I'm ready.
I often have Vivaldi running for many days. I would get an update (on Linux, it gets downloaded independently) and forget to let it run for days.
I like to be in control of my systems/applications so that if anything goes wrong, I have a better idea of what changed.
As others have said, the notice can usually be ignored. Sooner or later, Vivaldi will get closed and it will take effect at the next start. As long as the fix isn't for a major flaw or security hole, this is fine.
I certainly wouldn't want anything that could restart by itself - maybe in the middle of an upload/download or a video or text chat...
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@josephj11 said in Vivaldi update:
I like to be in control of my systems/applications so that if anything goes wrong, I have a better idea of what changed.
That's the point totally, but software/OS gets worse at that, regrettably.
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@bariton You haven't said what OS you use, but it sounds like it's Windows. I don't really want to bash Windows any more, but I have pretty full control of updates on Linux. I can easily freeze or, in some cases, even downgrade some packages. When Vivaldi wants to update, I get presented with the new package and I have to accept it or it will not even be downloaded. I can disable the repository it comes from so I won't even be offered updates. This is a lot harder to do in Windows. (And, last I looked, the whole update process is much quicker and easier on Linux.)
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@josephj11 said in Vivaldi update:
You haven't said what OS you use, but it sounds like it's Windows
you can safely assume that, we Windows users don't go around telling others what OS we use, unlike linux users that need to specify which distro they're using even when not asked
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@iAN-CooG I know. But AFAIK, Vivaldi is also on iOS, Android, and Mac.
I don't mention Linux or comment on other people's OS choices... unless the context calls for it.
I hope I didn't offend anyone. That was not my intention.
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@iAN-CooG We Linux users do tend to have strong opinions about the distro we prefer and about a lot of other things! And we often tend to evangelize. I try not to do that, but can't always resist when it could solve someone else's complaint/issue.
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@josephj11 This was about Windows and Android.
For Vivaldi on win auto update is disabled, I can read the change log, watch the forum and do a manual update a few days later. That is very convenient for me. -
@mib2berlin
The process of installing software updates on Windows is still too complicated:
a message in a new window about the new version - I click on the message - a new window opens - it asks whether to download the applications - I download - it asks whether to close Vivaldi and update the browser - yes, it updates - the web browser is restarted in the new one version.In the Opera browser, this is minimal: only a message appears that the browser has been updated and whether it wants to run the program again now or later.
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@Campedor922 If in Settings → General → Updates you activated to update automatically, you will only see a hint in address bar when a new version was automatically downloaded in background and after next restart of Vivaldi you run a updated version.
