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I was checking out the Vivaldi browser yesterday
and was impressed with its features and performance.
Comments/caveats?
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Sounds like a browser for all four seasons... 
Will have to check it out...
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Good for ordering pizzas is it? I'll have to give it a go! 
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I found it a bit fiddly....
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It's Chrome with lots of additional bells and whistles for control freaks power users. Can't see anything that makes me want to change but no doubt it has its appeal for people who should probably get out more.
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I've been playing with it on and off for a while; currently I only have one blocker. A few months back they added lazy tab loading at startup with no option to disable it and reload everything. This breaks tabs with pages that auto-update and show new content in a different style (or just load an x new items notice); as well as those where i use my short term memory to do the same thing unless I want to click my way across the entire tab bar to force them to load.
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I'm not keen on the way it composes the pages.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yeah, sounds interesting, but it's just another kind of Chrome since it's built on the same source as Chrome, i.e., Chromium. So it'll have the same sort of "issues", namely memory and resource hoggishness.
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Wiki says it was founded by Opera Software co-founder.
Don't know if there was a Chrome connection.
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Many people say that if a browser uses Chromium then it's "just a Chrome clone." But a web browser is more than just the rendering engine.
Kevin
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And "Chromium" is more than just the rendering engine. It's an entire browser.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The point is that there's more to a web browser than just the fact that it uses Chromium. They have different feature sets. Whether any particular user cares for these differences is subjective though. But it's silly to say that these other browsers are "just clones."
Kevin
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Sure just as it would be silly to say that humans are merely clones of one another rather than different kinds of the same thing. I see the point, but I didn't say it's a "clone" but rather a different kind of "Chrome" (i.e, of the same genus). Sorta like saying of a certain individual, oh, he's a Xyxxzing, so you can expect XYZ from him. I was merely pointing out that Vivaldi will have the same sorts of issues as Chrome does since they're both based on the same source. That is, descended from the same stock.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yes, I agree with that and I acknowledge my mistake in the first post. Just emphasising that features differ and for some they matter, for others not.
Kevin
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I didn't say anything about who or how Vivaldi was founded but on how the software is written and upon what it is based.
Google's Chrome browser is based on the open software project "Chromium".
Vivaldi's browser is also based on "Chromium" and that is the only way the can support all Chrome extensions.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I have it installed. It has some interesting features and I will probably use it for specialised tasks but it's not quite polished enough for me yet.
Kevin
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An unexpected robbery
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Money Matters!!
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