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

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  1. Rasheed187

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    So it does have the sandbox?
     
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    Yes.
    Note that disabling UAC on Vista and 7 disables integrity levels, thus also the sandbox.
     
  3. Rasheed187

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    OK, so Opera and Vivaldi both feature the sandbox? That would be quite cool, I wonder why no one has mentioned this before. Normally, people only mention Chrome.
     
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    Certainly looks like it.
    For a check I also ran Vivaldi with the --no-sandbox switch, and then there were no Low and Untrusted processes, only Medium.
     
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    Hopefully this isn't just me, but do any of you see a slight difference in clarity (URL text, UI text in general, buttons), in comparison to other browsers?

    For example, when I look at the UI elements of Vivaldi browser, I see a slight soft tone/blur to everything (URL text, UI text in general, buttons).

    Anyone else see a distinction here, in comparison to all the other browsers?

    Note: I'm only talking about UI elements, not the way web sites look.
     
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    I'm not sure what you mean, it looks normal to me:
     

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    BTW, I really wonder how long it will take to add certain features to Vivaldi, let's hope it will not become the new Maxthon v3, I had to dump it 10 years ago, when developers decided not to listen to user requests.
     
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    https://vivaldi.net/en-US/teamblog/97-snapshot-1-0-435-5-closing-in-on-a-final
     
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    Right now the text is not as clear and the UI is a bit smaller, especially when compared to other browsers.

    I sent out an e-mail to the Vivaldi team about a universal pleasing theme for everyone, for people who have vision problems and for those that don't. I recently received a response back and they agree that more work can be done to enhance the current UI.
     
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    The problem I have with this browser is that it will not let me login to sites like Hulu. It's a no go for me.
     
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    Forced lazy tabs and forced tab hibernation are not what I would consider productive or efficient or fun. And they market it as a browser for power users? Are they kidding me?

    Those kind of "features" ought to be optional.
     
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    Did you try disabling vivaldi://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding ?
     
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    Yes. But that's for situations when the system memory is low. My problem is mostly at startup. Tabs don't load until I click on them and doing that merely loads the cached version. So I have to click & refresh every, single, tab, every, single, time I open the browser.
     
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    Seems very annoying.
    They have some priority list, so if enough people request some feature they give it higher priority.
     
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    Yes, but you see, lazy tabs (not loading until you click on them) was at the top of the feature requests... On a desktop browser. On a desktop browser aimed at power users. Go figure.
     
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