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You see, I see this as a mis-step, and I think it's important to discuss such missteps. But I don't know enough about the internals of Vivaldi the company to kn
by undecisive 5y ago
You see, I see this as a mis-step, and I think it's important to discuss such missteps. But I don't know enough about the internals of Vivaldi the company to know whether the company has bad attitudes and this is yet another manifestation of a draconion culture, or whether someone just tried doing The Right Thing (modern edition) and ended up legislating unintended consequences.
In other words, I'd like to assume the best intentions, and they might yet choose to rectify it.
- jqpabc123 5y agoLooks like a standard vendor lock-in tactic to me. It makes it harder to switch browsers. But they all do this. Passwords and bookmarks that can't be exported or transferred easily are the usual suspects Vivaldi seemed big, bloated and slow the last time I used it.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThere's no lock-in here on the desktop version of the browser, even if they were big enough for that strategy to work. Passwords and bookmarks are freely exportable, and even if they aren't in the future, they can be transferred to another computer or extracted from the profile data without issues.