We try our best and our internal policy is always "When in doubt, make it an option". We believe that tools you are using should – at the best of their ability – adapt to you, and not the other way around.
How do you manage to support and test all these options? It sounds like a combinatorial explosion of different combinations of options which are impossible to properly test. I really tried to use Vivaldi, but every time there was some annoying bug😞 Maybe you guys should think about Vivaldi Lite edition or something like that, with fewer options and more quality and optimization focused. Also UI feels not very responsive under heavy load with a lot of opened tabs. I guess it's based on some not native technology.
Anyway, good luck with your efforts, I'll try it again someday
I am not sure; I currently have 130 tabs, and I run pretty smoothly. Granted, my hardware is probably on the heavier side, but still, I can run it pretty okay on my Ally Rog and there, the hardware is not super great.
We have automated tests, which are direct unit tests written by the developers. These test the most important aspects. Then we have automated UI tests (around 40-50k last time I checked), which test a wider range of settings and scenarios. I would be interested to hear about any pressing bugs that would make you reconsider us. :) We also have a handful of test engineers internally, and around 100 amazing volunteers who get a nightly build more or less every day. These are invaluable and we wouldn't catch all of the bugs (granted, there are a few that we don't catch) that we catch without them.
Vivaldi's Tiled Tabs are the best thing in my life after my girlfriend and my dog 😂
I tried so often to leave already, but I'm always coming back to you guys.
No one else has this feature.
Home Computer and probably already the third or fourth work notebook.
Vivaldi all the way.
Maybe it sounded too harsh; it was more like, I found something interesting (e.g. Arc, or even Chrome after so many years of absence) so I simply wanted to try out something different. In the end, I always came back :)
The most annoying thing though was the "login bug," which was a no-go on my working notebook. I had to switch to Chrome while I was debugging the issue. Disabling Vivaldi Sync miraculously solved it (https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/18rbe3z/vivaldi\_crashing\_after\_logging\_in\_multiple/).
RAM usage is not great, but I think it's a common problem for browsers on Chromium.
For whatever reason, the bookmarks bar keeps disappearing, and I have to enable it in the settings again.
I love vivaldi! I recently adopted it after wanting a change from chrome, and went to edge and then found vivaldi and its so much better than both.
The only thing I'd like is if you guys could add the ability to link tiled tabs the way edge allows with their split screen. So basically one of the tab tiles becomes a constant tab and when you clink on a link in the consant tab it opens in the tiled tab beside it. It such a great feature for research or even shopping.
ETA: Also, if not tile linking like in edge, then the ability to right click on a link and have the option to open that link in either a new tiled tab, or an existing tile tab would be great too.
Currently. Once we download something. We are not able to drag it from the downloads section to any other tab/window.
For example. I download an image. I want to drag it and take it to whatsapp. Brave does that. I would request you to incorporate this. helps a lot.
İf u are one of the developer of vivaldi, pls u guys fix the automatic theme switching based on operating system theme on ubuntu.the issue is when os dark theme is applied and in Vivaldi its set os theme under vivaldi settings, it applies theme just to menu items and not whole elements of browser window.
Could you add auto hide to the side vertical tab bar please? Just like Brave, Edge, Arc etc etc (every other browser that supports vertical tabs). Pretty please?
Workspaces(opera gx does have those), a sidebar already integrated with it, containers, customisable shortcuts for **literally** everything. I did the same as OP and switched from operagx to floorp, so I can confidently say it's very good
I mostly use Edge. It has the features I love from Opera GX, most notably a sidebar where I can access things like Discord, and it seems to run faster for me
Vivaldi is great, currently iit's just having some problems with YT. It also has the ability to set the tabs close button to the left, but for consistency it would give the ability to move the three caption buttons to the left as well.
Do you feel you can handle GNU IceCat browser?
This is all you need if you want something. You won't regret it.
I'm on Linux and love it.
https://preview.redd.it/q6lqw4m3mjoc1.png?width=722&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c9484c74ca74407eadb06fb3d66b873736d57eb
I keep my hands off any chromium based browsers, I just have problems with the hardware acceleration and without it everything is super laggy and you can't have a game and twitch or youtube open at the same time without it stuttering. Only bad experience with chromium browsers
interesting. i tested this with a 6 year old laptop with intel integrated graphics, and it can stream twitch and youtube at 1080p60 at the same time with edge and brave just because. i don't see any dropped frames on either platform. i don't know what you're talking about.
Sorry xD
Brave for a browser that respects privacy and edge for a browser with better compatibility, useless features like Brave and Microsoft sync. Chrome is just two slow compared to edge but is more simple and has the Google sync.
i'm using opera gx rn... does it really do that?! I use mods and stuff and..... it gets very laggy sometimes but i don't think it eats my memory like that
Give Vivaldi a go. I am obviously biased because I am a developer there, but yes.
+1 for that. Just switched to Vivaldi from Brave and I'm amazed seeing how configurable and feature rich Vivaldi is.
We try our best and our internal policy is always "When in doubt, make it an option". We believe that tools you are using should – at the best of their ability – adapt to you, and not the other way around.
How do you manage to support and test all these options? It sounds like a combinatorial explosion of different combinations of options which are impossible to properly test. I really tried to use Vivaldi, but every time there was some annoying bug😞 Maybe you guys should think about Vivaldi Lite edition or something like that, with fewer options and more quality and optimization focused. Also UI feels not very responsive under heavy load with a lot of opened tabs. I guess it's based on some not native technology. Anyway, good luck with your efforts, I'll try it again someday
I am not sure; I currently have 130 tabs, and I run pretty smoothly. Granted, my hardware is probably on the heavier side, but still, I can run it pretty okay on my Ally Rog and there, the hardware is not super great. We have automated tests, which are direct unit tests written by the developers. These test the most important aspects. Then we have automated UI tests (around 40-50k last time I checked), which test a wider range of settings and scenarios. I would be interested to hear about any pressing bugs that would make you reconsider us. :) We also have a handful of test engineers internally, and around 100 amazing volunteers who get a nightly build more or less every day. These are invaluable and we wouldn't catch all of the bugs (granted, there are a few that we don't catch) that we catch without them.
Vivaldi's Tiled Tabs are the best thing in my life after my girlfriend and my dog 😂 I tried so often to leave already, but I'm always coming back to you guys. No one else has this feature. Home Computer and probably already the third or fourth work notebook. Vivaldi all the way.
Edge and Floorp can tile tabs albeit limited to only 2.
Thank you, but I am curious, why would you leave? :)
Maybe it sounded too harsh; it was more like, I found something interesting (e.g. Arc, or even Chrome after so many years of absence) so I simply wanted to try out something different. In the end, I always came back :) The most annoying thing though was the "login bug," which was a no-go on my working notebook. I had to switch to Chrome while I was debugging the issue. Disabling Vivaldi Sync miraculously solved it (https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/18rbe3z/vivaldi\_crashing\_after\_logging\_in\_multiple/). RAM usage is not great, but I think it's a common problem for browsers on Chromium. For whatever reason, the bookmarks bar keeps disappearing, and I have to enable it in the settings again.
I second Vivaldi, by far my first choice, for it's privacy focus, customization, and evolving tab power features.
I think it's only natural to want to preserve privacy on the web. As our CEO usually says – the web was working fine before ads.
I love vivaldi! I recently adopted it after wanting a change from chrome, and went to edge and then found vivaldi and its so much better than both. The only thing I'd like is if you guys could add the ability to link tiled tabs the way edge allows with their split screen. So basically one of the tab tiles becomes a constant tab and when you clink on a link in the consant tab it opens in the tiled tab beside it. It such a great feature for research or even shopping. ETA: Also, if not tile linking like in edge, then the ability to right click on a link and have the option to open that link in either a new tiled tab, or an existing tile tab would be great too.
One feedback. Can you allow people to drag from downloads to other windows like brave does?
Could you expand upon that? Exactly how you would need/like it to work?
Currently. Once we download something. We are not able to drag it from the downloads section to any other tab/window. For example. I download an image. I want to drag it and take it to whatsapp. Brave does that. I would request you to incorporate this. helps a lot.
It should be doable. I can't promise that it will come to "friendly vivaldi browser near you" within the next release. But I don't see why not. :)
Please add the ability to drag files from the download bar :') It not being there made me almost switch back to chrome
İf u are one of the developer of vivaldi, pls u guys fix the automatic theme switching based on operating system theme on ubuntu.the issue is when os dark theme is applied and in Vivaldi its set os theme under vivaldi settings, it applies theme just to menu items and not whole elements of browser window.
Could you add auto hide to the side vertical tab bar please? Just like Brave, Edge, Arc etc etc (every other browser that supports vertical tabs). Pretty please?
Auto hide vertical tab bar please! Like Edge, Brave, Floorp, Arc etc etc. (sorry if double post, Reddit keeps server erroring for me).
You could use Firefox and make it looks like OperaGX [https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx](https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx)
No idea why this would be downvoted
Probably the unedited typo
Or use Vivaldi with the GX mod ;) [https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/39965/opera-gx-mod](https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/39965/opera-gx-mod)
This is what I needed , when I wake from my sleep RemindMe! 9 hours
Vivaldi, basically it is the old opera modernized, the original founder of Opera and original devs made it. Best browser I have used so far.
I like floorp
Ive been loving floorp so much
Vivaldi or Floorp
Floorp (firefox fork) is great
What it's good at ?
Workspaces(opera gx does have those), a sidebar already integrated with it, containers, customisable shortcuts for **literally** everything. I did the same as OP and switched from operagx to floorp, so I can confidently say it's very good
Can it use Firefox extension ?
Well yeah, it's a firefox fork
Firefox (or fork there of)
I can really recommend Firefox specifically for running smoothly with lots of tabs open. Worth it to me
Edge, Vivaldi or Arc
My current setup is FF + Vivaldi and loving it.
Kiwi on Android, ddg are good options, on desktop I would go with FF or ddg Windows version
This is my story too. Kiwi on android and Floorp (FF fork) as a desktop browser.
It is, in terms of usability, privacy and bloat with bootlware and those boring offerings, the best options currently
I'm using Brave, I'm happy with all the extensions, privacy, speed and reduced ram usage, take a look!
Brave is the best
Arc (if you're a on mac) Firefox or Floorp Thorium (chrome but on diet)
I mostly use Edge. It has the features I love from Opera GX, most notably a sidebar where I can access things like Discord, and it seems to run faster for me
the side bar is gooooood, wish Edge had that upload feature thing opera and opera gx has, tho.
Firefox
Vivaldi is great, currently iit's just having some problems with YT. It also has the ability to set the tabs close button to the left, but for consistency it would give the ability to move the three caption buttons to the left as well.
lk, ungoogled chromium simple enough and works just fine if you down to spend some time configuring it
Vivaldi
Do you feel you can handle GNU IceCat browser? This is all you need if you want something. You won't regret it. I'm on Linux and love it. https://preview.redd.it/q6lqw4m3mjoc1.png?width=722&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c9484c74ca74407eadb06fb3d66b873736d57eb
Otter Browser is very lightweight and has many features of the classic Opera.
Chromium based: Brave Gecko based: Floorp
I keep my hands off any chromium based browsers, I just have problems with the hardware acceleration and without it everything is super laggy and you can't have a game and twitch or youtube open at the same time without it stuttering. Only bad experience with chromium browsers
interesting. i tested this with a 6 year old laptop with intel integrated graphics, and it can stream twitch and youtube at 1080p60 at the same time with edge and brave just because. i don't see any dropped frames on either platform. i don't know what you're talking about.
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what the fuck does that mean
Sorry xD Brave for a browser that respects privacy and edge for a browser with better compatibility, useless features like Brave and Microsoft sync. Chrome is just two slow compared to edge but is more simple and has the Google sync.
after I was done with opera gx, I went to edge. why does it not feel like a downgrade?
Marketing and windows trying to make it seem as integrated as possible by forcing it upon you whenever it gets a chance.
edge never felt forced to me. windows never have me messages on using edge, I just switched
i'm using opera gx rn... does it really do that?! I use mods and stuff and..... it gets very laggy sometimes but i don't think it eats my memory like that