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Vivaldi polishes its browser, adds a dashboard • The Register

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/vivaldi_browser_refresh/

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mozilla were really ahead of their time when they implemented detached tabs.

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    • clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In fact Opera were more ahead of their times, because they were the first to add tabs and had a lot of features that we now take for granted. I know this because I used Netscape browser (before they were called mozilla) and Opera 4.x at the time.

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      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Opera were visionary. But I was only referring to detached tabs, which Mozilla implemented, Chrome followed and now Vivaldi.

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  • FoD@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know all the reasons I should be on Firefox, but I just love Vivaldi so much.

    I’ve been using it for years and have it tuned perfectly for anything I do. It’s feature rich, and fast.

    Occasionally there are apps or even tools in life where you are like holy shit, this is exactly made for how I want to do a task/job.

    My gestures are so ingrained in me, sometimes I catch my hand moving the mouse to perform an action in another unrelated app. My brain notices instantly but can’t stop my hand from trying to do it anyway. It makes me laugh.

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    • Firipu@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, as long as Firefox (or a fork) doesn’t have native gestures, I can’t fulltime swap to it. Gestures addons are not the same. Anyone that used vivaldi (or opera) for any serious length of time knows what I mean.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey check out this turd I polished.

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    • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How would you say it’s a turd? I assume because it’s still chromium based, but I don’t want to put words in your mouth.

      It’s my browser of choice for my work computer but I do run Firefox at home and on mobile.

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      • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, chromium based means adblockers cannot work as effectively.

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      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s a popular phrase “you can’t polish a turd”. The meaning in this case being that if you put a nice UI on chromium it’s still chromium.

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  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some months ago they completely fucked up their address bar suggestions to the point where I have tried again to move to another browser. I’d prefer them to fix that before updating their UI.

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    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fucked it up how?

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      • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No matter how I set it up it gives me suggestions to specific pages I don’t want instead of the base domain.

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  • natecox@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now if only they could add “swipe to go back” to their Linux client. Only thing keeping me off of Vivaldi these days.

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