Vivaldi 3.6 is out with two-level tab stack

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[daniel1212]

RECOMMENDED: The Vivaldi browser team today released a new version of the world's most feature rich Chromium- based browser. Vivaldi 3.6 again exceeds users' expectations by adding more flexibility to the tab row. You can now enable a two-level tab stack that expands the tab group downward instead of taking up space in the tab row.

There is a new option in Settings > Tabs. It is optional [but now enabled by default], and you can enable or disable it at any moment of time.

Once you enabled it, create a new tab group (tab stack in Vivaldi's term). When you click on the tab stack title, a second row of tabs will be automatically shown. It will include all tabs of the group, so you can select any of them to switch to.

When you place the tab row on the right or left side of the browser window, the tab stack will expand vertically, saving the horizontal space for you.

Vivaldi has a nice write-up on this feature in the official blog. Check it out here .

Other changes to note:

Now you can add and remove entries for context menus in Downloads Panel, Windows Panel, History and Notes.

Besides that, there is a plethora of fixes and stability improvements m ade to almost every part of this impressive web browser.

[daniel1212]

Vivaldi - Download

Vivaldi is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Tatsuki Tomita and Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, who was the co-founder and CEO of Opera Software. Vivaldi was officially launched on April 6, 2016.[10][11]

Although intended for general users, it is first and foremost targeted towards technically-inclined users as well as former Opera users disgruntled by its transition from the Presto layout engine to a Chromium-based browser that resulted in the loss of many of its iconic features.[10][12] Despite also being Chromium-based, Vivaldi aims to revive the features of the Presto-based Opera with its own proprietary modifications.[13][14] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)

I wrote this post before this version came out.

it seems that mainly due to security and speed aspects, then unlike legacy Firefox ESR 59.9 with Tab Mix Plus and a few other extensions. which enabled more key customizations than the whole of Edge, which the below critique is aimed at, but much applies to browsers of that engine of which Vivaldi is part of:

1. You cannot make it show multiple tab rows (you can with Firefox
   Quantum but it takes one [1]of the hacks. And unless the latter is a portable version, it cannot run concurrently with FF ESR)

2. You cannot adjust max or min tab width. And the more you open the thinner they get, and all look the same. (except the active tab has an close

3. You cannot close a non-active tab by just placing your cursor on it the top right
   to get a X to click on (so unless you activate it, you need to R. click on it and hit close tab).

4. You cannot enable different colored tabs as with the legacy Colorful Tabs extension (NOT the one in Quantum).
   

5. You cannot choose to open links in other installed browsers via right click.

6. You cannot toggle btwn the most recently accessed tabs using the Ctrl+Tab switch (and its Alt+Tab alternative messes up switching btwn applications).

7. Edge has a very poor spell checker and the dictionary is hard to find in the drive even if you could edit it (as you can with that of Firefox).

8. You cannot create more than one profile (as far as i know).

9. I know no extension that saves your text box posts such as this, like the Lazarus legacy FF extension did/does.

10. MS does not make it easy to set another browser as the default one for all html documents and links (details too long for here).

11. There is no option to keep the Find/Search bar open across tabs (handy in searches), meaning you need to do the search new for every tab.

12. There is no option via right click on a tab to choose “Copy link.”

Since MS writes the software for Windows, than it ought to be able to create a real "utility truck" browser - and which I am sure would become a classic for "power users" - rather than just another minimalist Chrome clone.

However, although using the same engine, Vivaldi has more options so that some of the above criticisms do not apply to it: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50835261511_0edaca21c2_c.jpg

Footnotes
[1]https://github.com/Izheil/Quantum-Nox-Firefox-Dark-Full-Theme/tree/master/Multirow and other functions

[daniel1212]

Ping.

[patriot torch]

Any other options for people like me still trying to master windows 95? Lol

[Migraine]

Is that a 4 Season browser?

[joma89]

Ping

[Spirochete]

... new version of the world's most feature rich Chromium- based browser

Did they strip out all of Google's telemetry, dependencies, and spying?

[daniel1212]

Any other options for people like me still trying to master windows 95? Lol

With the USB Supplement (OSR 2.1) and the Windows Desktop Update (OSR 2.5)? Be careful of new tech! A USB drive is suspected of setting back Iran's nuclear program for years.

[daniel1212]

Is that a 4 Season browser?

Its electric not gas, so you while can use it any season - if the cord reaches - be careful not to cut the cord, Comcast would not be happy.

[null and void]

Did they strip out all of Google's telemetry, dependencies, and spying?

Those are features that make google rich.

It's quite feature rich...

[daniel1212]

Did they strip out all of Google's telemetry, dependencies, and spying?

Such are added by Google to the Chromium- base. The source code can be compiled into a web browser.

Chrome has features that are not present in a default Chromium build. However, some are enabled or manually added to a Chromium build, for Linux distributions.^[17]

• Auto-update capability
• API keys for some Google services
• The Widevine digital rights management module
• Licensed codecs for the popular H.264 video and AAC audio formats
• Tracking mechanisms for usage and crash reports

  As for options, I am not sure if Chrome even enables Ctrl+Tab toggle btwn most recently opened tabs yet. As if no one opens more than 2 or 3 tabs.

  And

  Upon its first release in September 2008 Chromium was criticized for storing saved passwords in a manner so that any casual user of a computer can easily read them from the GUI. Chromium users have filed many bug reports and feature requests asking for a master password option to access stored passwords, but Chromium developers have consistently insisted that this provides no real security against knowledgeable hackers. Users have argued that it would protect against co-workers or family members borrowing a computer and seeing the stored passwords in clear text. In December 2009, Chromium developer P. Kasting stated: "A master password was issue 1397. That issue is closed. We will not implement a master password. Not now, not ever. Arguing for it won't make it happen. 'A bunch of people would like it' won't make it happen. Our design decisions are not democratic. You cannot always have what you want."[24][25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differences_from_Google_Chrome

  Yet despite its minimal interface and few options (yet better than Edge), because of mobile devices and marketing, and a largely superficial public, look at the

  Usage share of web browsers

  NetMarketShare October 2020 desktop share[22]
  Google Chrome			69.53%
  Microsoft Edge			9.71%
  Mozilla Firefox			7.15%
  Internet Explorer			4.53%
  Safari			3.92%
  QQ browser			1.49%
  Sogou Explorer			1.35%
  Opera			0.9%
  Yandex Browser			0.84%
  UC Browser			0.29%
  Other			0.29%

[patriot torch]

I recall that. Wasn’t it named stutze or something like that?

[ShadowAce]

Tech Ping

[Celtic Conservative]

Yes, but if you’re running the “winter” extension, it runs kind of slow.

CC

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Aw man! I thought that Vivaldi was releasing a new CD! Dang.

[Still Thinking]

Huh. I find the breakdown surprising. No Brave for one thing. I use probably Opera 50% Brave 40% and Firefox 10%.

[daniel1212]

Huh. I find the breakdown surprising. No Brave for one thing. I use probably Opera 50% Brave 40% and Firefox 10%.

Most people just go with the marketing.

[martin_fierro]

So much better than the Bad Ol' Days

[Still Thinking]

I remember you from a long time ago. We’re you not posting or did we just manage not to cross paths for a long time?

[Bikkuri]

Brave would go under Chrome (it is chrome based)

[ptsal]

Straight six browser is all the power I need.