Former Opera CEO Launches Vivaldi, A New Browser For Power Users

Do you know the meaning of Technical Preview?

 

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/vivaldi-chrome-alternative-tech-preview-2/

Way anxious to see where this browser's apparently conscientious and continuous plodding along for improvement lands this puppy several months from now. I'm assuming since they appear to be going the route of Chrome extension flexibility, uBlock and uMatrix will not pose an issue eventually. Toss in a perhaps (emphatically hopeful/maybe) the do or die compatibility with Sandboxie and we just might have a nice little box of chocolate in our hands.

p.s. @Rasheed187 At least they got there.

 

That's no excuse. The point that I'm trying to make is that they are not focused enough on details. Actually, this isn't even a detail, I found it to be very annoying when it kept loading sites that I visited since the last browsing session.

Yes, perhaps it will become a competitor to Chrome and Firefox, who knows. But I'm currently not impressed. I got excited when Vivaldi was announced, but that excitement has gone away.

 

All I need to start using Vivaldi some more is for extensions to have widgets so I can actually use them interactively. Having to go in to extensions menu to whitelist a domain gets old very quickly.

 

That is no excuse!?

You are using an unfinished browser, and want that it has all the features in the world and more...

If they are in Release Candidate version, than you can have some reason to complaint, but now...

The goal of these TPs are to test and give feedback, not to critize like a stable version...

 

In current form, does it provide to install portable?

If not, portable is planned?

 

Yes, and they should be be able to prioritize feedback. And for some things they shouldn't even be needing any feedback, somethings should be obvious for makers of a browser geared to "power users". So let's agree to disagree.

 

They are listening, already made a poll, etc...

But maybe they should only listen to you, since you seems to be an expert in browsers, and software development...

Do you really think that, at this point, the most important feature in the browser is the startup options?

Sure.

Please, keep on going...

 

No need to get personal. But I'm sure as hell glad that you're not on the development team. BTW, we go way back, remember when we were big supporters of Maxthon?

 

https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/teamblog/item/30-snapshot-1-0-178-2-with-more-settings

 

I asked them to also add the option "Delay loading of background tabs", like Opera.

This was also in their Poll, some time ago...

 

newest version has come a LONG way. still not (imo) suitable for daily use overall i still see to many quirks. but overall they are heading in the right direction.

 

i agree but they havent even hit beta yet so they still have a long time to work things out.

 

i was unimpressed by the early versions but more competition is definitely needed as far as browsers go so i hope they are successful.

 

https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/tea...zation-ui-zooming-auto-update-on-mac-and-more

 

I tend to agree with you. This is a snapshot of what's basically an alpha version. I think it's coming along nicely on Linux and could fairly soon be a real alternative for those that miss the Presto Opera. But I wouldn't expect to use it as a regular browser yet.

 

It's not even close to being my first choice browser yet. I also hate the current bookmarking system.

 

Yes, I'm not surprised, it's pre-alpha.

 

one day this could be a major player for sure. right now not so much. i like their ideas with the exception of the bookmarks things i really dont like the way they handle that. just give me a simple bookmarks button. why do i need to pull over a menu then pull down a folder and after going to a page then im left where i was before even if thats not the folder i want then i have to close that folder find the other one etc. i would use this much more if they would put more work into bookmarks.

 

https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/tea...ac-build-fixes-windows-64bits-get-auto-update

 

why dont they work on fixing the major things before bothering with all the little things, its the major things that should be working before even thinking about adding more and more.

 

what major "things" are you talking about

 

i guess what i meant to say is get the basics right first then worry about adding in new features imo.

 

Such as... I would like examples

 

Comparing V.1.0.162.9 to Opera 12, I would like to have:

• User Mode, where I can configure background color, font, font size

• A similar list of configurable single-key shortcuts

• R-click on a word and look up in a dictionary/encyclopedia

• R-click on an image to get image properties and the EXIF

• Customize View Source/HTML editor

• Shortcut key to open a page in W3C Validation Service (used when creating/editing a web page)

Those are some of my most used features in Opera. (If these are available, I haven't found them!)

Also, a couple of annoyances with Vivaldi:

• Looking at the Page Info for a site, I don't see a way to block all cookies for that site.

• With the Address Bar at the bottom, the Page Info window does not show.

• Ctrl + Right/Left Arrows for cycling forward/back in a gallery of photographs, or pages of photographs, is not reliable.

While I like much about Vivaldi, I won't abandon the features in Opera I've become accustomed to.

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rich