[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?

[ShadowAce]

Tech Ping

[Pilgrim's Progress]

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

[martin_fierro]

So much better than the Bad Ol' Days

[IndispensableDestiny]

I never have enough tabs open to even think of grouping or stacking them.

[kanawa]

bfl

[Elsie]

Dang!

My Desktop is nearly full of icons; and now I can cram more stuff on my browser screen as well!

That does it. I’m gonna lay out the bucks for a 42” monitor!

[daniel1212]

NOTE: contrary to what I supposed, this option in Vivaldi does not actually add multiple tab rows as in legacy Firefox ESR with the Tab Mix Plus extension, but it adds stacked tabs, meaning just one tab of like source under another. I you want multiple tab rows than as of Ver. 3.6 you need to,

Open vivaldi://experiments in the browser address bar

Enable the option "Allow for using CSS modifications"

Open the Appearance section in Settings

Look for Custom UI Modifications and hit Slect folder and navigate to the location you want to place your custom.css file in, but choose a place outside the Vivaldi folder (which normally is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Vivaldi). Remember this location.

Close down Vivaldi and go to that location and right click and choose New>text document, and then name it custom.css Make sure that .css is the extension.

Then copy and paste the coding from here inside it. Then modify it for ver. 3.6 according to here. Save the file and launch Vivaldi.

May all we do be done to the glory of God.