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

• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/83595/unable-to-copy-search-for-text-over-an-image/45
  I can't reproduce the issue, at least in the latest Snapshot, so it might be fixed.
• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/82278/bookmarks-performance-too-slow/43
  I see recent discussions and a possible solution about this issue in the bug tracking system, so hopefully the fix will be applied soon.
• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/87407/svg-and-emoji-favicons-not-showing-up-on-tabs/27
  Should be fixed.
• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/89391/why-can-t-vivaldi-block-autoplay-of-videos
  It's best to rely on an extension for now, if the built-in option isn't enough for you. Devs will work on it as soon as they have some availability (or someone takes personal interest in fixing it).
• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/84287/how-about-a-mouse-gesture-for-tab-stacking?page=1
  The request has 0 upvotes. Requests with more upvotes have higher priority.
• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/24801/export-import-for-user-settings/56
  As my colleague mentioned in the thread, the feature is in the pipeline. The devs just have a lot to do and haven't gotten around to looking into it.

 

Thanks a lot JaneN for checking!

I will soon install Vivaldi 6.2, so I hope the first bug is fixed. About the second bug, I now recall that it might be caused by the thumbnails that the bookmark-manager generates. So this should be easy to fix for Vivaldi's team. I mean bookmarking should always be smooth. Fixing bug 3 shouldn't be that hard too, simply add support for SVG based favicons. And I will ask people to upvote my request, but it should be easy to add regardless.

 

I'm afraid I have some very bad news. Besides Vivaldi 6.4 being a complete disaster when it comes to performance, none of the bugs have been fixed! What on earth is going on with Vivaldi's developer team?

Well, bookmark performance has become better, but I still can't copy text on top of images (you can test it on ad.nl, a Dutch newspaper), and the SVG favicons are still not being loaded. Also, still no mouse gesture for tab stacking by hosts.

And I recently downloaded Opera, it's not my cup of tea, but it did have direct buttons for workspaces, why not add this to Vivaldi, instead of the silly dropdown menu? Can you perhaps bring all of this to the attention of Vivaldi's team?

 

And I forgot to mention one of the biggest problems besides the slow performance is that I have to kill Vivaldi 6.4 with Process Explorer because it keeps hanging in memory when you close it. I have never had this problem before! See this thread, others also complain about the sluggish performance and they have way faster machines than me. So something is wrong with Vivaldi 6.2 and 6.4.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/710016

 

Good news, this bug has finally been fixed in the newest Vivaldi 6.4.3160.47, did you have anything to do with it? Thanks a lot.

 

Latest release. Saved sessions how do I delete old saved sessions? The delete button is gone.

Edit: Now the delete option is only available through the side panel.