Playing around with Vivaldi

[mikeymikec]

Well, one feather in its cap is that it opens the 32-tab job that I often use a heck of a lot quicker than Firefox 🙂 I haven't timed it yet, but it seems a lot closer to Chrome's 15 seconds than Firefox's 40.

One thing that's a bit of a shame (if it's how I think it is), is that bookmark folders cannot be told to 'open all in tabs' from menus on the bookmark bar; you have to click on the bookmarks button on the sidebar and do it from there by the looks of things.

Has anyone figured out how to stop the UI colour scheme changing depending on the site that currently has the focus? That's weeeeeird 🙂

I wish that when the menu bar is enabled that it would confirm to the normal behaviour of menu bars on Windows, ie. if you click on a menu to open it, then move the pointer to the next menu option on the menu bar, it's normal for the next menu to automatically open without being clicked on. In Vivaldi, you have to click on each menu to open them. I like the fact that it's possible to have title tag content visible again though.

 

[sweenish]

I switched back to Chrome about a month ago due to idiosyncrasies that I didn't want to re-develop for which Vivaldi offers no settings. Like middle-clicking to open the new tab in the background. My browsing habit for years has been to open tabs in the background and get to them after I'm done with my current launch page, whether it's reddit, anandtech, or whatever.

Vivaldi's a pretty sollid browser, though. I actually liked the color changing, although on some colors it's nigh impossible to easily glance and see which tab is active. I don't see a setting to control it, but I wonder if it's buried somewhere in vivaldi://flags

 

[sweenish]

I have been using it ever since it launched and its my daily workhorse on both my PCs, at home and work...
As for the middle mouse button opening links in new tabs, well, that works without an issue

Maybe read what I wrote a bit closer.

EDIT: My apologies. I dont' know when, but the behavior has changed. It used to open a foreground tab on middle click. It did it long enough that I switched back to Chrome. I may revisit Vivaldi as my daily for a while and see how that goes.