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A while ago I switched to Vivaldi. I have never been happier with a browser.

• abandonliberty 8y ago
  Why do you like Vivaldi? I'm using it but am fairly ambivalent.
  • duiker101 8y ago
    I like the bookmarks, that I was able to customise it extensively, the sidebar is very useful and unobtrusive. I do like also that is based on chromium. All in all I feel like it has everything that other browsers have and just a bit more or a bit better.
    • ReverseCold 8y ago
      Also the history view is a lot nicer than chrome, which is better than Firefox. Firefox's history pane is borderline unusable (search doesn't sort by last visit, it sorts by day and alpha or something weird like that).
      • aibara 8y ago
        If the view is set to "by last visited," Firefox's history searches are sorted by last visit. Maybe you had some add-on that changed the behavior.
  • ldarby 8y ago
    I use Vivaldi because the CEO is Jon von Tetzchner. Here's a quote from him from a recent interview: Q: Other browser companies tell us that too many options and features confuse users, and they remove or limit functionality based on that claim. Is that true in your opinion? A: No. [...] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/an-interview-with-vivaldis-ceo-jon-stephenson-von-tetzchner/ https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/an-interview-with-vivaldis...
    • duiker101 8y ago
      I didn't know this one. Love it.
  • hakfoo 8y ago
    I liked that they took the old Opera 12- spatial-keyboard-navigation paradigm.
• tveita 8y ago
  Unfortunately Vivaldi inherits some of Chrome's bullshit, like if you want to print something it will try use Google's awful cloud print thing tied to your account. It even has the flag for this account-consistency feature. Who knows if it will be enabled - would you even notice if it was?
• Seirdy 8y ago
  Even though Vivaldi occasionally releases tarballs, the main browser is a proprietary product. See https://vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-end-user-license-agreement/ https://vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-end-user-license-agreeme...
  • ldarby 8y ago
    Tarballs?
    • duiker101 8y ago
      Vivaldi source code[0] is released in .tar archives. .tar archives are often referenced as tarballs[1]. [0]https://vivaldi.com/source/ https://vivaldi.com/source/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)
      • ldarby 8y ago
        Thanks, Vivaldi is literally the only "proprietary" software I use and had looked for the source before, can't believe I didn't know about this...
• int_19h 8y ago
  Last I checked, they still haven't had stabled cross-device tab sync.