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I tried Vivaldi a few days ago as Firefox, despite their efforts to up performance, is still far too slow for me. The disadvantage I found that Vivaldi has is t

I tried Vivaldi a few days ago as Firefox, despite their efforts to up performance, is still far too slow for me. The disadvantage I found that Vivaldi has is the number of extensions is basically 0 (please correct me if I am wrong). Installing chrome extensions is possible if you build from source and bake in the extensions, which is not something I am interested in. I currently use Opera, but I am unsure about the privacy. Opera works very well though and there is an extension that allows installing chrome-extensions which works out very well. Any thoughts on Opera's privacy?

dvdgsng 8y ago
You can install any Chrome extension using the regular Chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ Link is on the "Apps" page: vivaldi://apps
- mosselman 8y ago
  Wow, how strange. I just reinstalled vivaldi and checked and I couldn't install extensions because 'Add to Chrome' read 'Available on Chrome', redirecting me to a chrome download page. After refreshing the button changes to 'Add to chrome'!? Either way, now I CAN install extensions. Thanks for making me retry.
a-ve 8y ago
They were bought out by a Chinese consortium a few years ago. Other than that, they have an in-built VPN (SurfEasy) that mines your data: https://www.surfeasy.com/privacy_policy/ https://www.surfeasy.com/privacy_policy/
- mosselman 8y ago
  Thanks for pointing this out to me. Seeing as I was wrong about the chrome extension support I'll give them another try!
petra 8y ago
What are the benefits of Opera over chrome?
baal80spam 8y ago
> I found that Vivaldi has is the number of extensions is basically 0 (please correct me if I am wrong) Vivaldi uses addons from Chrome store. I never had any issues just clicking the "ADD TO CHROME" button.
- mosselman 8y ago
  Wow, as I commented above here as well, when I tried the chrome store a few days ago I saw a 'Available in Chrome' button the lead to the download page of google chrome. What I didn't see is that when I refresh a few times the button changes to 'Add to Chrome'. Is this a bug in either the chrome store or Vivaldi? Not sure, but now I can use Vivaldi WITH chrome extensions. Thanks for making me try it out again.

dvdgsng 8y ago

You can install any Chrome extension using the regular Chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ Link is on the "Apps" page: vivaldi://apps

mosselman 8y ago
Wow, how strange. I just reinstalled vivaldi and checked and I couldn't install extensions because 'Add to Chrome' read 'Available on Chrome', redirecting me to a chrome download page. After refreshing the button changes to 'Add to chrome'!? Either way, now I CAN install extensions. Thanks for making me retry.

a-ve 8y ago

They were bought out by a Chinese consortium a few years ago. Other than that, they have an in-built VPN (SurfEasy) that mines your data: https://www.surfeasy.com/privacy_policy/ https://www.surfeasy.com/privacy_policy/

mosselman 8y ago
Thanks for pointing this out to me. Seeing as I was wrong about the chrome extension support I'll give them another try!

petra 8y ago

What are the benefits of Opera over chrome?

baal80spam 8y ago

> I found that Vivaldi has is the number of extensions is basically 0 (please correct me if I am wrong) Vivaldi uses addons from Chrome store. I never had any issues just clicking the "ADD TO CHROME" button.

mosselman 8y ago
Wow, as I commented above here as well, when I tried the chrome store a few days ago I saw a 'Available in Chrome' button the lead to the download page of google chrome. What I didn't see is that when I refresh a few times the button changes to 'Add to Chrome'. Is this a bug in either the chrome store or Vivaldi? Not sure, but now I can use Vivaldi WITH chrome extensions. Thanks for making me try it out again.