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I switched to Vivaldi a year or two ago after using Firefox as my main browser for the longest time. I've considered switching back, but every time I run up aga

I switched to Vivaldi a year or two ago after using Firefox as my main browser for the longest time. I've considered switching back, but every time I run up against several features in Vivaldi that I am just not ready to part with yet: 1) tab stacks, 2) the ability to save and reopen an entire session, 3) a page load progress indicator in the URL bar, 4) using Ctrl-F highlights the position of all matching locations in the page in the right-hand scroll bar, and 5) the window panel, which keeps track of all closed tabs and windows so you can reopen everything if you accidentally close a window. Some of those are small perks, and some of them are major. I'd love to see Firefox implement some of them.

aquova 8y ago
I am in the same boat as you are. After the Firefox Quantum release, I decided to switch from Vivaldi and try Firefox out for a little bit. While I did like it, and it did seem to have a slightly faster performance, there are just many QoL feature s that Vivaldi offers that Firefox doesn't (or at least isn't immediately apparent). Simple things such as rebinding keys or reorganizing the top sites were such a headache that I very quickly switched back.
TACIXAT 8y ago
I'm on Vivaldi right now and I love it. The window panel is so much nicer than tabs (for those that don't know, it's tabs along the side, kinda bookmark style). Tab stacks are amazing. The background downloading is nice where it starts the download while you decide to Save, Save As, or Open. There is a lot of little stuff too, like in the window panel you can select multiple tabs and copy the URLs. The closed tabs stack. Oh, and backspace still goes back a page. I don't usually shill for products but Vivaldi is a really good browser.
- kilburn 8y ago
  > The background downloading is nice where it starts the download while you decide to Save, Save As, or Open. AFAIK firefox does that too, it just doesn't show it. Just test it: click on a large file download link and leave the dialog alone for some seconds. Once you actually click on Save, Save As or Open... it opens instantly (or already has a large downloaded chunk, depending on the file's size and your bandwidth of course).
yosito 8y ago
I'm just now hearing about Vivaldi for the first time. I'm not sure how I never heard of it before.
zmix 8y ago
Vivaldi is being built on Node.js! I did not have the time, yet, to dive into this topic, but it could mean for some real power-horse! https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/5347/technologies-behind-vivaldi-browser/5 https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/5347/technologies-behind-viv...
5thbootloader 8y ago
Vivaldi is an amazing browser! The team behind it actually considers very niche suggestions and implements them in their snapshot releases. Very fast and stylish -- I would definitely recommend!
chrisper 8y ago
Once Vivaldi has a Sync feature like FF and Chrome do, I am going to switch...
- teel 8y ago
  Vivaldi does have a sync feature! But I don't know if you're aware of that already, and FF/Chrome sync have something special in their Sync that Vivaldi doesn't.
  - chrisper 8y ago
    Was it added recently?
    - teel 8y ago
      It's been there at least 6 months already. I think I started using it around the time it was added. According to my password safe, I put the sync name/password in there on 1st of December last year. EDIT: I want to add that I run the Snapshot versions of Vivaldi (currently 1.16.1211.3), and it could be that the Sync was introduced only in a Snapshot in December. So I have no idea if the sync can be found in the Stable releases as well. Anyways, it's under Tools/Settings/Sync tab if it's there, otherwise it isn't :)
      - chrisper 8y ago
        is the snapshot version usable? I might give it another try then :)
        teel 8y ago
        I've used the snapshot versions as my primary browser at work and home at least since... (referring again to KeePass, checking creation date of credentials for some vivaldi related thing) ...beginning on April 2016, and for me it has worked great. I might not be the heaviest of the heavy users (figuratively speaking :), for example I have total of 3 Chrome extensions installed (uBlock origin, some exif viewer and Google translate), so I am not aware of things that may not have worked correctly. I used to use Opera (first 12, then the Chrome version of Opera which I didn't like), and then switched to Vivaldi when I found out about it.
gwenzek 8y ago
1) sounds like you should try Tree Style Tabs addon 5) FF has this too. I'm not exactly sure but I think it's under "history" > "recently closed windows/tabs"
mackrevinack 8y ago
i would have a hard time switching back as well. a lot of the features could be added with extensions but i like having it all baked into the browser. search shortcuts is probably my favourite feature (putting "r" in front of a search term to search directly on rotten tomatoes, or "d" to search on dictionary.com), its a great timesaver

aquova 8y ago

I am in the same boat as you are. After the Firefox Quantum release, I decided to switch from Vivaldi and try Firefox out for a little bit. While I did like it, and it did seem to have a slightly faster performance, there are just many QoL feature s that Vivaldi offers that Firefox doesn't (or at least isn't immediately apparent). Simple things such as rebinding keys or reorganizing the top sites were such a headache that I very quickly switched back.

TACIXAT 8y ago

I'm on Vivaldi right now and I love it. The window panel is so much nicer than tabs (for those that don't know, it's tabs along the side, kinda bookmark style). Tab stacks are amazing. The background downloading is nice where it starts the download while you decide to Save, Save As, or Open. There is a lot of little stuff too, like in the window panel you can select multiple tabs and copy the URLs. The closed tabs stack. Oh, and backspace still goes back a page. I don't usually shill for products but Vivaldi is a really good browser.

kilburn 8y ago
> The background downloading is nice where it starts the download while you decide to Save, Save As, or Open. AFAIK firefox does that too, it just doesn't show it. Just test it: click on a large file download link and leave the dialog alone for some seconds. Once you actually click on Save, Save As or Open... it opens instantly (or already has a large downloaded chunk, depending on the file's size and your bandwidth of course).

yosito 8y ago

I'm just now hearing about Vivaldi for the first time. I'm not sure how I never heard of it before.

zmix 8y ago

Vivaldi is being built on Node.js! I did not have the time, yet, to dive into this topic, but it could mean for some real power-horse! https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/5347/technologies-behind-vivaldi-browser/5 https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/5347/technologies-behind-viv...

5thbootloader 8y ago

Vivaldi is an amazing browser! The team behind it actually considers very niche suggestions and implements them in their snapshot releases. Very fast and stylish -- I would definitely recommend!

chrisper 8y ago

Once Vivaldi has a Sync feature like FF and Chrome do, I am going to switch...

teel 8y ago
Vivaldi does have a sync feature! But I don't know if you're aware of that already, and FF/Chrome sync have something special in their Sync that Vivaldi doesn't.
- chrisper 8y ago
  Was it added recently?
  - teel 8y ago
    It's been there at least 6 months already. I think I started using it around the time it was added. According to my password safe, I put the sync name/password in there on 1st of December last year. EDIT: I want to add that I run the Snapshot versions of Vivaldi (currently 1.16.1211.3), and it could be that the Sync was introduced only in a Snapshot in December. So I have no idea if the sync can be found in the Stable releases as well. Anyways, it's under Tools/Settings/Sync tab if it's there, otherwise it isn't :)
    - chrisper 8y ago
      is the snapshot version usable? I might give it another try then :)
      - teel 8y ago
        I've used the snapshot versions as my primary browser at work and home at least since... (referring again to KeePass, checking creation date of credentials for some vivaldi related thing) ...beginning on April 2016, and for me it has worked great. I might not be the heaviest of the heavy users (figuratively speaking :), for example I have total of 3 Chrome extensions installed (uBlock origin, some exif viewer and Google translate), so I am not aware of things that may not have worked correctly. I used to use Opera (first 12, then the Chrome version of Opera which I didn't like), and then switched to Vivaldi when I found out about it.

gwenzek 8y ago

1) sounds like you should try Tree Style Tabs addon 5) FF has this too. I'm not exactly sure but I think it's under "history" > "recently closed windows/tabs"

mackrevinack 8y ago

i would have a hard time switching back as well. a lot of the features could be added with extensions but i like having it all baked into the browser. search shortcuts is probably my favourite feature (putting "r" in front of a search term to search directly on rotten tomatoes, or "d" to search on dictionary.com), its a great timesaver