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

Thank you.

 

I've been running Vivaldi on Windows recently and I'm pretty impressed. I ran the very first release two years ago on Linux. It's maturing nicely.

 

Still not good enough to replace Firefox, I'm afraid. And another problem is that NoScript is not available for Vivaldi. I need it to disable "first party scripts" on certain sites. You can do this with uBlock, but unlike NS, it will break the layout of certain sites. And other script-managers are not good enough.

 

Well, it's replaced Firefox for me lol. Anyway I'm guessing Georgio will have to re-code NS for Chromium based browsers soon.

 

It seems they have released 1.7.735.46 as stable?

 

have they added a bookmarks button back yet (not the side bar but like firefox has a button with a drop down for bookmarks?) a while back they said they were working on that and thats one thing i just want to have lol

 

The 1.7 stable release was yesterday (for me). I don't see any changes in the bookmarks but there is a clever Maxthon-style screen capture feature.

 

When will the Add-on's kick into place?

 

BTW, I noticed that some sites still don't work correctly in Vivaldi, while they do in Chrome. Can you guys see and play the Flash video's?

http://www.rtl.nl/rtlhome/nieuws/60bfcbff-c521-4321-a367-9fc62a988562-de-9-beste-optredens-van-pleun

 

Yes, I can see and play them in Vivaldi version 1.7.735.46 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

 

Thanks, then there's something seriously wrong on my system. The videos don't load at all, even though they are hosted on YouTube. I also have Flash video problems on Firefox, but I'm guessing this is because those sites are not compatible with it. Very annoying, I can't wait for Flash to die, but HTML5 video most get a "click to play" feature.

 

I had the same issue as you. Flash doesn't want to work with my Vivaldi install, and Flash Player had to be downloaded and installed separately on my system for vivaldi to play flash vids.

 

Thanks for letting me know, luckily most sites with Flash do work correctly. I'm actually using Vivaldi mostly for this, because on Firefox it's a disaster.

 

I want to love Vivaldi, as Chrome is the most stable browser on my PC, but I resent Google. Vivaldi is still unready in several ways for my use, but I hope they'll get there.

 

On some systems, Vivaldi will close without opening.

The fix is to right click the icon in Programs, click properties - and in the target box - add to the end of vivaldi.exe -no-sandbox, click the admin permissions when asked and then click OK.

Then launch Vivaldi and it should run normally. Sandbox doesn't work on some Chromium-based browsers so it needs to be disabled to allow the browser to boot up and run.

 

Why do you resent Google?