Ok finally off chrome and gone to Vivaldi. Have also gone to duck duck go as my search engine.
Decrapification step one completed.
It's only been one work day but delighted with Vivaldi and duck go is capable.
Unfortunately cannot decouple from Microsoft for mail, collab, etc. We need to support clients and unfortunately have to eat the same dogfood. #Vivaldi
I was very vocal about my attempted, and failed migration from #Chrome to #Firefox as a browser. I've given #Vivaldi a chance and have been very pleasantly surprised. The performance matches my expectations and a lot of it's unique features are time savers, especially workspaces which is a better alternative to tab groups in Chrome.
So no tracking, as good or better performance, and great feature alternatives. So far it's checking all the boxes.
The Home button and Panel button are back on Android!
After the release of Vivaldi 6.6 on Android we got to see first-hand how much you care about your browser. You raised your voice and shared your opinion with good reason.
We made a mistake.
You made it clear to us that the removal of the Home and Panel buttons, for those with the address bar at the bottom of your screen, was not something you wanted.
That's why, as of today, both buttons are back.
Our mission is to build a browser that adapts to you, and to do this we rely on feedback from everyone who uses our products.
We at @Vivaldi continue to be the only browser company all in on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
We have made our own instance, Vivaldi Social. Any user that has a Vivaldi account for sync or other services, can easily enable a presence on Vivaldi Social.
We have integrated Mastodon as a Web panel into Vivaldi.
We include links to Vivaldi Social into Vivaldi.
We also work on integrating our blogs and forums into the Fediverse.
We hope others will follow. Mozilla has talked a lot and we hope they will join us fully soon.
I don't know how I've managed to ignore @Vivaldi browser for so long. I had it in my mind the browser wasn't great with privacy protection. I was wrong about that. Been playing with it today and it not only excels at privacy, the customization and user experience are off the charts.
Yesterday, at home, I was able to use #Vivaldi 's built-in adblocker fine on Youtube. Come in to the office today, and I had to shut it off because videos are inaccessible. #UBlockOrigin and #PrivacyBadger by #EFF work just fine though.
I'd love to not have to use other extensions, but looks like we're not quite there at the moment.
It is quite interesting. I am kind of thinking that a platform should be thankful for developer support, but Apple is making it very clear that all of us should be thankful for the privilege of our apps being allowed on their platform. They have spent so much time making APIs and the like, so they need to be paid for that by application vendors. Seems like they are not making enough from selling phones. They must be struggling.
I don't seem to have enough google-fu to solve this myself: On my #Debian installations, #dmesg is full of #AppArmor logs for #Vivaldi. Almost all of them are "ALLOW" entries, which seems completely irrelevant.
Is there a way to get AppArmor not to spam dmesg with messages? I can't find any settings about the amount of log messages in the AppArmor manual page or documentation.
I installed newest Vivaldi Browser 6.6 in my laptop and phone yesterday. I used Vivaldi's first versions few years ago. In that time I had some compatiblity issues and "missing functions" issues with it.
For a while I have not used it, but yesterday I decided to test it again after reading some news about Vivaldi development and new functions.
Now I have to say that Vivaldi might be my new favorite browser. #vivaldi
Leap Day this year came with a new and shiny #Vivaldi release, including the ability to have extensions work in panels! I'm still waiting for @Vivaldi to give me the pretty version of RSS feeds in a panel, but I'm willing to wait.
Dobra, ten nowy ficzer @Vivaldi, czyli wymuszanie trybu ciemnego na wszystkich stronach internetowych, nawet jeśli nie mają dedykowanego trybu ciemnego, to jest złoto! Jedyny mankament, że można go użyć tylko, gdy ustawimy na sztywno Dark mode, ale może pójdzie jakiś feature request, żeby działało to też w trybie automatycznym.
Vivaldi dropping another update to their fabulous browser, now version 6.6. Come raise a brief, appreciative eyebrow over these with me:
🔹Use your favourite Extensions in Web Panels
Big one for me, this. Without the extra protection and conveniences afforded by extensions (entering passwords, etc) this feature was useless for me. This opens it up for possible use again. 👍👍
🔹Get an Instant overview of website permissions
...Instead of scrolling through a cramped pop up or diving into deep settings. Nice. 👍
🔹Faster Translations with Vivaldi Translate
To be tested, but very welcome if they've sorted the Automatic Detection out that routinely fails to recognise commonly spoken languages. A BIG plus for this service over rivals is that there's no user-tracking whatsoever, and no third parties involved. (Tentative 👍)
🔹Dark Mode? Set your preferred website colour theme
Potentially huge if I can ditch The Dark Reader extension I keep fighting with. (Tentative 👍👍)
🔹Find your messages with an Improved Mail Search
Lol, I wasn't unable to find my emails before, they've done themselves a disservice here with their wording, but I definitely appreciate finer-grained and more accurate results. 👍
🔹Migrate your data of Notes and Reading list
And last but by no means most...nice to have but I can't see an obvious use case for it. 🤏
If you’re a web developer using Vivaldi, first thing you should do is go to Menu → Settings → Appearance and, under the Menu section, select Page from the Menu Customization dropdown then right-click on [Developer Tools] under Content and deselect Show as Subfolder.
You’re welcome 🤓👍
Update: You have to do this manually for every item in the Menu section. That’s Audio and Video, Image, Link, Selection, and Text Field in order to have the Inspect item top-level.