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Vivaldi has released version 1.3 of the browser, with the addition of customizable themes and mouse gestures, the ability to disable WebRTC or just hide your IP address, and several fixes for the Linux platform.
The Vivaldi browser is keen on using mouse gestures, which are also user configurable. The new version supports more than 90 browser actions that are "either mapped to mouse gestures by default, or can be mapped to mouse gestures by you."
In addition:
Vivaldi [have] optimized the browser for Linux users by addressing Linux-specific issues. This includes a fix for Tab Hibernation -- works now -- and support for "some" proprietary media embedded in HTML5 content.
[Provided s]upport H.264, AAC and MP3 on OpenSUSE and Slackware if suitable libraries are available: Use libs from chromium-ffmpeg and AlienBob's Chromium packageSupport
You can find the full changelog here.
Have you replaced your browser with the new upstart Vivaldi? If so, what have your experiences been with the Vivaldi browser? Is it worth the current hype or is just another browser?
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(Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday August 13 2016, @05:37AM
Running it now on Linux Mint. It works. Earlier (many months ago) I tried a Windows build, but it crashed and burned (such as refused to launch) and was promptly forgotten.
This one... it has a lot of uncommon features that not too many people will find interesting - assuming that they first comprehend what "tab stacks" mean, for example. I still don't know, as I don't see that option in menus, and Ctrl-F7 does nothing (3 tabs are opened.) So it doesn't work. The rest is equally obscure. "Tab Hibernation"? What is that? "The main idea behind the feature is to give users options to free up memory used by the browser." Hand-operated virtual memory? You can't be serious! :-)
But in exchange for these unclaimed advantages the browser offers some real disadvantages. For example, its settings are quite complex. The menu bar does not follow the mouse - you can move mouse inside the "File" menu, for example, and all is well, but if you point the cursor to "Edit", nothing happens - the "Edit" menu does not drop down, you have to click.
The browser certainly has more eye candy in terms of colors... but Chrome has click animations on tabs. So Vivaldi doesn't offer much advantage here. As they both use the same renderer, and same extensions, the only area where they are different is the UI. I would say, for 99% of the population Chrome UI is just right. It is simple, it is functional, it is sufficiently eye-pleasing, and it works right out of the box. Vivaldi works as well, but it is nowhere as polished, and it does not offer anything of value that would be obvious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @07:31AM
Sounds nice. But is there a way to disable mouse gestures and themes?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:41PM
They're not even enabled by default.
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