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

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  1. Lagavulin16

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    Can someone please chime in on the available "extensions" status? I've been out of the loop on this thread since, like, forever. Thnx!
     
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    Should work with most extensions in chrome web store
     
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    Finally. I already thought it was strange this info was missing, especially when the browser is aimed at power users.
     
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    The rapid updates and tedious attention to detail by the developers is nothing short of impressive to say the least. Recently I've taken this puppy out for a few walks with Sandboxie and there "appears" to be no conflicts. Downloaded this only a week ago so I've yet to experiment with bookmarks, the fancy tab options, etc. But from the recent exposure I've experienced I really dig this browser big time. Definitely pushing the envelope on intuitive menus, settings options, and a snappy response time. If memory serves, there may have been or still is a glitch with the "LastPass" extension. I've yet to venture any clarification/confirmation. But, yeah... so far, way to go Vivaldi for all the grunts and sweat in churning out a class act browser. There's another "Favorite Browsers" (or something very close to that effect) thread drifting around somewhere on this site showing a poll with nearly a two to one preference ratio respective to Vivaldi vs. Opera with Wilders posters. I'm also an Opera (Richard Strauss, anyone?) fan... but yeah, I can relate to the appeal. Rooting and cheering for this fine fledgling to gain momentum on Chrome and then some. :thumb:
     
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    Minor update to Vivaldi 1.12
     
  11. Rasheed187

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    Yeah, it's a pretty good browser overall. BTW, I need to reinstall it, because an older version works better with Sandboxie. Do you know which files/folders I should back up to save my current profile with settings and bookmarks?
     
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    @Rasheed187 I honestly wish I could advise you with back up matters in context. I've never experienced any glitches with loss of data via Chrome, Opera, and the recently added Vivaldi with the extended protection of Sandboxie. So, consequently, I've never ventured a defense measure to counter. And so it goes, an interesting question goes out to the masses and I'll follow up on any replies to Rasheed's query just in case.
     
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    No problem, I did find some info about how to reset Vivaldi, but in the end I had to reinstall it completely. Simply restoring the bookmarks and extensions folder wasn't good enough, so I had to reconfigure everything. At the moment it seems to work correctly again.

    https://help.vivaldi.com/article/full-reset-of-vivaldi/
     
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    On Windows 10-1703, I finally decided to try it since a bunch of things no longer work in Opera 12.18.
    Download was strange in that I had no option to get 64-bit. It downloaded 32-bit version. I installed it and works fine.
    I ran the installer as admin, for all users.
    It went into Program files(x86), that's ok, and data went into user/app data/local.
    BUT - I had to make a shortcut. AND it is invisible in Apps and Features and in the Windows menu in the start button.
    That seems totally wrong to me. How would I, for instance, uninstall it if Windows thinks it doesn't exist. CCleaner doesn't see it either. And it's missing from OpenWith context menu :(

    What should I do now?
     
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    The start of 1.13 stablization
     
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    Since one of the new snapshots, when you close Vivaldi, one process(using 128K) remains running. Don't know if that is intentional or a bug.
     
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    I've had this happen with Vivaldi on Windows; you close it down and when you try to open it again it won't launch. I discovered several processes were still running in Task Manager. Once I killed those it would open.
     
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    Minor update to Vivaldi 1.12 – Crash fix
     
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    I've had that a few times as well, but this was different. Everytime I closed Vivaldi it happened leaving only a single process running and Vivaldi would launch again without needing to kill the process. (Both cases were also on Windows.) However, it hasn't happened again since, probably a weird bug.
     
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    Yeah, weird. I still think Vivaldi is very promising though. I first ran it on Linux three years ago.
     
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    Indeed.
     
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    What I hate about Chromium based browsers is that you can't disable auto-updating of extensions. And there is no ability to limit the amount of child processes (multi-process). That's the main reason why I can't make the switch from Firefox to Vivaldi.
     
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    Is there a way to clean Vivaldi's enormous cache (other than by CCleaner)? In Opera 12 there always was a setting to clear cache on exit or at any time. I don't see any such option in Vivaldi 1.12.955.38 (Stable channel) (32-bit).
    Vivaldi still not visible in CCleaner nor in Start menu. See my earlier post #689. How can I uninstall it in the future to get a newer version or to ditch it?
     
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