Anyone played with the new Vivaldi browser?

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Had a play today and liking it. I have the tabs down the side with the previews, homepage with all my main favourites on with screenshot thumbnails.
 
I should give it a go sometime - been an opera user for more than a decade, and not a fan of the direction they've recently gone. Tried Vivaldi in beta but never got round to doing anything since.
 
not another browser... it's just complicates things to all developers... Think firefox and chrome it's all you need :) i even use firefox on imac, can't stand safari :)

I may even try it to see what it's like :)
 
asaspasas6 said:
not another browser... it's just complicates things to all developers... Think firefox and chrome it's all you need :) i even use firefox on imac, can't stand safari :)

I may even try it to see what it's like :)
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Uses the Chrome engine apparently.
 
Tried it for about a week then uninstalled it.

It didn't seem to do anything better than Chrome, and a few websites wouldn't open in it which meant having Chrome as a standby anyway.
 
A wee bit slow and don't see any way to transfer favourites etc.
 
asaspasas6 said:
not another browser... it's just complicates things to all developers... Think firefox and chrome it's all you need :) i even use firefox on imac, can't stand safari :)
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I think you mean it's all you need, I use Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox regularly and no, I'm not a developer. They each have their uses. I was an early adopter and paid for Opera browser which was streets ahead of the others at the time so have some hopes for Vivaldi.
 
i was a diehard firefox user since the 0.1 firebird days, went to chrome after firefox lost it's way and performance really sucked, and then moved back to firefox a few months ago after chrome's performance started to suck.

i am really liking vivaldi. there is a lot to like, the customisability is great, but there are a few niggles.

performance isn't as good as firefox yet and the lack of google search suggestions is a real pain in the backside, but the feature i really love is the split view... such a simple idea, i know you can do the same by just having two windows open, but it's so nice to have say a youtube video open in one screen and something else in the other.

i think it will be worth sticking with - i do find it strange that now everything is web based, web browsers themselves are dumbing down, removing customisability. hopefully vivaldi will be the answer.
 
I have my tabs down the side and love the small previews
 
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