Unfortunately Vivaldi inherits some of Chrome's bullshit, like if you want to print something it will try use Google's awful cloud print thing tied to your account.
It even has the flag for this account-consistency feature. Who knows if it will be enabled - would you even notice if it was?
I use Vivaldi because the CEO is Jon von Tetzchner. Here's a quote from him from a recent interview:
Q: Other browser companies tell us that too many options and features confuse users, and they remove or limit functionality based on that claim. Is that true in your opinion?
I like the bookmarks, that I was able to customise it extensively, the sidebar is very useful and unobtrusive. I do like also that is based on chromium. All in all I feel like it has everything that other browsers have and just a bit more or a bit better.
Also the history view is a lot nicer than chrome, which is better than Firefox. Firefox's history pane is borderline unusable (search doesn't sort by last visit, it sorts by day and alpha or something weird like that).
Even though Vivaldi occasionally releases tarballs, the main browser is a proprietary product. See https://vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-end-user-license-agreeme...
Tarballs?
Vivaldi source code[0] is released in .tar archives.
.tar archives are often referenced as tarballs[1].
[0]https://vivaldi.com/source/
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)
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Unfortunately Vivaldi inherits some of Chrome's bullshit, like if you want to print something it will try use Google's awful cloud print thing tied to your account.
It even has the flag for this account-consistency feature. Who knows if it will be enabled - would you even notice if it was?
Last I checked, they still haven't had stabled cross-device tab sync.
Why do you like Vivaldi?
I'm using it but am fairly ambivalent.
I use Vivaldi because the CEO is Jon von Tetzchner. Here's a quote from him from a recent interview:
Q: Other browser companies tell us that too many options and features confuse users, and they remove or limit functionality based on that claim. Is that true in your opinion?
A: No. [...]
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/an-interview-with-vivaldis...
I didn't know this one. Love it.
I like the bookmarks, that I was able to customise it extensively, the sidebar is very useful and unobtrusive. I do like also that is based on chromium. All in all I feel like it has everything that other browsers have and just a bit more or a bit better.
Also the history view is a lot nicer than chrome, which is better than Firefox. Firefox's history pane is borderline unusable (search doesn't sort by last visit, it sorts by day and alpha or something weird like that).
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I liked that they took the old Opera 12- spatial-keyboard-navigation paradigm.