Former Opera CEO Launches Vivaldi, A New Browser For Power Users
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It's a nice browser but I'm disappointed that you can't make multiple windows by dragging tabs off the titlebar.
Hopefully they'll make it less chrome-like under the hood.
It's borked with fullscreen videos/html5 elements for me.
Open a youtube video in fullscreen, then exit fullscreen. Does anyone else have the main window just up and vanish?
[QUOTE=Matrix374;47019552]Maybe now I can finally manage my 400 tabs[/QUOTE]
One of my programmer friends pretty much maintains no less than 30 browser windows with at least 300 tabs in each, all for reasons completely unimaginable by myself.
I mean seriously, why?!
Yesss. More vertical space. Always appreciated, a normal widescreen monitor is always lacking in vertical and has too much horizontal for most websites.
I don't mind it using chromium, Presto was great, but it also had plenty of issues such as not being supported by quite a few websites, more often than not I'd need to go and use IE or Chrome to make something work.
What I wanted was more features, with good website support. Sure it's working a bit iffy right now but that's what the preview is for, to give us a taste of what is to come.
Had the settings window opened when I closed the browser window, which broke the entire browser requiring a reinstall. But seeing as how its chrome based, I can enjoy using 600MB of ram for a single tab
is it going to be every company's goal to release a chrome skin now
Doesn't follow my GTK themes, and doesn't have options for it.
It is just a tech demo, but I don't have my hopes up.
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;47025020]One of my programmer friends pretty much maintains no less than 30 browser windows with at least 300 tabs in each, all for reasons completely unimaginable by myself.
I mean seriously, why?![/QUOTE]
How the fuck has he not crashed a thousand times over already?
I had ~700 tabs (don't ask why) open in Firefox at one point and it crashed at least once every two days.
The most tabs I've kept open at once is like, ten
There's also lunascape, mouse gesture support and supports multiple rendering engines, its awsome for devs just for that alone, can switch between trident, webkit, and gecko on the fly.
From the sounds of things though, I'm going to be using this once ad-block comes to it
[QUOTE=n0cturni;47026731]The most tabs I've kept open at once is like, ten[/QUOTE]
Man, whenever I do stuff like compare PC parts or shop for trading cards or anything like that, I end up with at least 30 tabs open.
This is some fancy pants shit.
[editline]28th January 2015[/editline]
Installed/works well on my Xubuntu thingaling.
Is there a way to make it so that if you are scrolling by dragging the scrollbar, moving the mouse a bit off to the left will NOT make the page jump back? I hate it in Chromium and I hate it in this.
Using it right now. Quite snazzy.
Don't know if I'll stick with it, but I'm interested to see where it goes.
[editline]28th January 2015[/editline]
Did an HTML5 test, scored the same as Chrome.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iwrvluF.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Wint3r;47028875]Using it right now. Quite snazzy.
Don't know if I'll stick with it, but I'm interested to see where it goes.
[editline]28th January 2015[/editline]
Did an HTML5 test, scored the same as Chrome.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iwrvluF.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Maybe because it practically is chrome.
Max tabs I have open is like 120 when I open my entire webcomic folder but I close and reopen the browser so that it only loads each tab as I access them. With Firefox BTW. Usually I hate having more than 10 tabs open at any single time.
[QUOTE=Sgt. Lulz;47025977]How the fuck has he not crashed a thousand times over already?
I had ~700 tabs (don't ask why) open in Firefox at one point and it crashed at least once every two days.[/QUOTE]
I run about 15 or 20 tabs and Firefox falls on its face once a week or so. But that may be because I've always got some flash stuff open(Two instances of a roleplay chat, a youtube vid or three, occasionally some e-radio). It's always the flash-enabled pages that make Fireflaps faceplant.
I wish you could edit those 8 most visited squares in chrome it's so hard keeping those in order and i really don't want youjizz to keep popping up there
The Vivaldi colors really fit well with the Facepunch colors
[QUOTE=Megaman1811;47031680]The Vivaldi colors really fit well with the Facepunch colors[/QUOTE]
From what I can tell they are dynamic to the page you are on
Yeah, it changes depending on, as far as I can tell, the favicon. Though the way it decides what color to use seems bizarre - reddit's bar is black instead of blue, for example. Weird.
There's no support for the ctrl+enter shortcut when navigating to a URL. It's small, but it's noticeable. It really fucks me up when I type "facepunch" ctrl+enter and it doesn't do anything.
So far the memory management is better than Firefox in my tests, just with a couple YouTube tabs opened and playing on both FF/Vivaldi, Vivaldi is using considerably less memory (~67MB vs 225MB for FF).
I like that Vivaldi is also snappier when it comes to releasing memory (i.e I go back to google from that youtube video), however I'm not to keen on the residual memory it has when I do a warm start.
I uas using an older site that I guess it didn't recognize had a text box so when I started typing, it jumped between tabs because it also uses single key shortcuts mapped to numbers. I was going to report it, but every third post on their forum was basically this issue.
Otherwise, it's pretty nice, but not worth picking over, say, Opera.
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