I think you can select between it displaying your history when you search, your bookmarks, or nothing at all. I personally go for the latter - it's a huge benefit, especially seeing as in Chromium you do not have this option.

I agree, that's why I wrote that I am going to play with the settings. So far I really like Vivaldi and hope to make it my default browser once some things are cleared.

A new version of chromium was released this morning so a new version of vivaldi should be out shortly.

Indeed, plan is to get it out before Christmas.

Dear Ruarí,

do you know why md5sum of the fileschanged today?

Any guidance on getting Widevine working? I followed the directions here, but the tests still don't work and I get an "Unexpected Error" on Netflix. I do have the Widevine plugin enabled in Settings. It works fine on Chromium.

Did you use the Sbo script to build and install Vivaldi?
It installs Vivaldi to /opt/vivaldi and vivaldi, in turn, looks for the widevine plugin in /opt/google/chrome.
Ruario has a script that will download and install the latest widevine. You might search his messages for the link to the script.

I was his latest-vivaldi.sh script. Now that I've switched to the SBo version, it works. Thanks cwizardone.

Great - for future reference you may find this thread useful. Particularly this post.

EDIT: I see you posted in there too, still, you may find ruario's post valuable as a reminder.

Yes, see attachment


We take a files from a google hosted URL. Nothing is sent back. Of course because a connection was made to request the file, Google know that someone from that IP requested the file but that is about the sum of it

What are you talking about? Why would you jump to this. The reason that we state that we capture the IP address in our privacy policy, is that it is impossible for us not to capture this, since a connection was made and you can always see the IP of incoming connections. If we didn't mention this people would accuse us of lying. We don't send through your real IP address. So, if that connection is through a VPN, then it is the VPNs IP. In addition as already stated, we scrub our logs and remove the last octet of these IP addresses anyway. Thus all we know is that someone who appears to be hosted in country X sent the request. In addition we are not sharing this info with others.

[EDIT]: Ok, I misread you and missed “not”. Yes we know the rough location of people not using a VPN but we do not know who they are. We know, their screen dimensions, OS and architecture and a generated unique identifier, plus roughly where they are connecting from. This isn't really enough to pinpoint them. Websites you frequent can know just as much if not more due to extensive user of cookies, login data and JS. I would not be able to find “you” by looking at the collected stats, there is not enough to go on. I suspect the dozens of sites where you likely have an account (LQ included) probably know a lot more about you than we would. Even many sites where you have no account likely know a lot more, since not everyone scrubs their logs and they could infer stuff by where on the site their visit, particularly if the site is big and diverse (Wikipedia being a more extreme example).

Just unset: “Settings → Address bar → Address Field Drop-down Menu → Include Bookmarks”

They were re-signed with the new package signature as the one we were using before will expire early next year. The contents of the files are identical. If you still have the old files you can verify this for yourself. unpack the old and current versions in different directories then construct a find command to run sha265sums against all included files and compare the results. You will see they are identical.

That is not something I can replicate but I will say that Netflix in particularly notices a failure from the past, puts down a cookie to state that things are broken and then will often not allow a video to work even when you fix things. Which is really annoying. In fact Netflix's own help page about "Unexpected Error" even states,

Usually clearing cookies for Netflix and trying again fixes the problem.

Another thing to keep in mind is that even if widevine is setup perfectly, you still need to add proprietary media support first or it will fail anyway.

P.S. I have updated the help page to hard code 4.10.1196.0 because Google's https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/current.txt file tends to lie. 4.10.1196.0 is the version used in Chrome stable and is the latest version as of today. I also wrote a comment in my widevine update script about how to specify this version manually, since current.txt is always out of date.

That makes zero difference, since they both source Vivaldi from the same binary package and hence are the same. More likely your Netflix cookies expired by the time you tried again.

P.S. This is the latest widevine https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/4...-linux-x64.zip

The test videos from the Vivaldi help page (I linked to them in my other post) also failed in my initial tests. I doubt it was a cookie issue.

The help page from Netflix suggests otherwise. But anyway, if it wasn't that, it was lack or proprietary media or some other issue. It was not because you switched to the SBo Vivaldi package. If you don't believe me switch back and you will still have working Netflix. Better yet, read the SlackBuild and you will see that nothing special is done with regards to widevine and the source .deb is identical to the one my script fetches.

I know what happened. In the process of installing Vivaldi from SBo, I also installed vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra, and then promptly forgot that I did that. If I had remembered that, I'm sure I would have realized that that was the real fix. Thanks for correcting my misdiagnosis.

No problem. I am just glad it works!

The Vivaldi-2.2 has been released,

https://news.softpedia.com/news/viva...n-524256.shtml

Among other things,

The automatic Widevine stuff happens in the official packages only. As I said previously the common Slackware packages (my latest-vivaldi script and the SBo package) do not call the script that sets up Widevine in post install. So if you want that:

[EDIT]: I edited the "quote" above because the example commands had the snapshot path and now (for stable), you will need the stable path. Of course, now it is not a real quote :p

In addition, to watch the likes of Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, you need proprietary media support. A suitable libffmpeg.so (with Chromium patches and the patented codecs enabled) is available on Ubuntu and is very often pre-installed. This is not the case on Slackware. However, if you start Vivaldi from a terminal and it does not find a suitable libffmpeg.so, it will print instructions on how to obtain one.

In summary, while this will all generally work out of the box on Ubuntu, on Slackware you will need to do a couple of things. They aren't hard but it is not automatic!

Your script +

was all that was needed to get Amazon Video working on 2.2.1388.34. Great stuff, ruario.

I migrated to Vivaldi on my work computer and laptop. Made an account, enabled syncing and followed riario's instructions from earlier. So far it has been amazing.

For people who like to play around with the browser's multifarious appearance options, here are a couple of good official blog posts:

10 ways to customise Vivaldi
Perfect textures in Vivaldi

The latter gives several repeating patterns, textures and photos for the window background image.

I set the background image from Slackware's web-site :p

If you are enjoying it, you could always tell us on our forums and maybe get a trip to Oslo?

https://vivaldi.com/blog/win-a-trip-to-oslo-2019/

P.S. Plus I would love to meet some of the people on this forum. Always nice to meet fellow Slackers :p

So, I have to admit, after first installing Vivaldi, going through the NUMEROUS configuration options, not arriving at something I felt happy with, uninstalling Vivaldi, reinstalling Vivaldi today, going through the configuration options AGAIN, I think I have arrived at something I actually like and can use, and might even supplant Firefox.

I don't really care for much in the way of toolbars and tabs, so here's my setup:

That's pretty skimmed down! Good that it works for you, straightforward, clean and functional.

Vivaldi has so many configuration options that one can spend a long time 'ricing' it - too long, sometimes. It's the paradox of choice. I could never get mine to look completely how I wanted since I have my taskbar at the top, I even changed the taskbar button icon to a monochrome one. However, the missing piece of the puzzle was when I found it was the Xfce panel shadow that was making things look a bit off, not anything in Vivaldi. When I removed the shadow, everything fell into place. So this is mine, which I'm totally happy with. I've also adopted solarfield's idea of putting the Slackware desktop background into the window background image - it's very subtle so you can't really tell, but I know it's there ;)

I have grown to like Vivaldi, mainly just because it allows me to use the Chrome extensions I like (uBlock Origin and Vimium) while not being made by Google. I can't say I necessarily understand the need some people have to endlessly tweak the look and behavior their browser, though, but maybe that's because I missed out on the original Opera.

Endlessly isn't the right word here. It takes me about 5 minutes to tweak the look and behaviour of Vivaldi and that's the end of my tweaking.

Helpfully, because I set up syncing in Vivaldi, getting up and running in another *ahem* UNIX variant was a snap. I like the Vivaldi syncing feature better than the Firefox syncing feature; it more completely brings in your particular settings than Firefox does. This is a big WIN for me.

My recent foray into playing around updating older Slackware versions install images has convinced me web browsers are becoming an extremely critical issue driving software requirements and only increased my growing preference for Vivaldi. Coming from IBMs OS/2 my very first browsers were Gopher, Mosaic and IBM's own Web Explorer and the introduction of Netscape has kept me with Mozilla ever since. It was simply head and shoulders above all of the rest. After so many years with the Mozilla Way, I'm pretty dug in and recent changes in Firefox cause me to sadly want out, and it's looking like Vivaldi might actually be that saving grace.

This is pretty much where I am at. I've been a loyal Firefox user since the beginning (well, before, if you count Netscape and Mosaic). On the Mac, I've been primarily using Safari (which is actually a really good browser, but the plug-ins suck) in favor of Firefox, lately. Now with Vivaldi, it looks like I'll be making a multi-OS switch from Firefox.

When the statistics are gathered is Vivaldi separate out as a unique browser or are all the chrome clones lumped together and counted as being chrome.

Well, clone isn't the right term. It is based on Chrome's/Chromium's Blink web engine, but I wouldn't say that makes it Chrome. I do wish there were more alternative web engines, but developing and maintaining one is a huge undertaking and not worthwhile for most projects/organizations (even Microsoft, now).

For all practical purposes that is exactly what it is, a clone, and most web sites see it as chrome.

Lysander666,

are you using Vivaldi on Slackware 14.2? If so, you may have issues with fonts, same as I used to have with Chrome:
https://slackalaxy.com/2017/08/22/chrome-broken-fonts/

It has something to do with Freetype version, because on -current it is just fine. The fix I found for Chrome works just fine for Vivaldi, putting the following in the beginning of /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi

Ruari, messing with /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi like this is not harmful, right? Is there a smarter way?

This looks great, but how do you function with no tabs? Or do you have separate windows for each page like in the old days?

Well, fonts look great to me on 14.2, but that's probably because I use infinality as standard with each Slackware install.

The tabs are there, just not outwardly visible. Ctrl+T to add tabs, Ctrl+Tab to navigate between them, Ctrl+W to close them.

Actually, what I would like is to see only the tabs, and nothing else (no address bar, etc.), but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

EDIT: Nevermind, got it.

A clone, in software terms, would normally be something that is not the same, but is designed to look and behave the same. Vivaldi is kind of the opposite of a clone in that sense, because it is Chrome (under the hood) but is designed to look and behave differently.

Just a me too and another $0.02 here ...

I've been running Vivaldi built via ruario's `latest-vivaldi.sh` script ( very nice work ! Thanks ruario !! )

I have to say I am sold on Vivaldi -- I've not run PaleMoon at all since Lysander666 opened this thread and I saw the positive feedback.

Thanks for the great discussion all'Y'all !

-- kjh

Tried vivaldi coz of this thread and liking it. It is mildly buggy, but what surprises me is that it seems to run faster than chrome, despite being from the same code base!

Same here, it has replaced Safari and/or Firefox on the Mac, and Firefox on Linux for me. Glad I gave it another look, and started more thoroughly digging into the customization features. I'm now using it at both home and work.

The answer to this seems to be to start Vivaldi with the --incognito option. So, far, so good.
I have become very comfortable with Pale Moon, but as Vivaldi does a better job of displaying web pages, I'll use it for the rest of today and see if it grows on me.
:)

While I think about it, is it, one, possible to change the user agent override on a per web site basis, a la Pale Moon, and, two, is it possible to change the default icon set used on the location bar?
Many Thanks.

Edit in: Just FYI, this morning the latest build (as of the moment) of Vivaldi became available via SBo.

Well it is - if you do it yourself! I have a monochrome icon in my bar. The default icon is in /opt/vivaldi/resources/vivaldi/resources and is called icon_16.png. I just renamed the old one and replaced the new one with a monochrome one that I made in GIMP.

Just stick the icon I've attached in your home folder and change your home folder name in the below command:

I thought I'd give Vivaldi a spin on my netbook, expecting it to chug along modestly, but I'm surprised at the result.

On this machine, a 1.6Ghz single core CPU-d netbook, it's surprisingly fast. It's also great that the team are still building 32bit versions so I'm able to run it. Thanks to ruario and everyone involved.

What slightly confuses me is that I didn't sync, but Vivalidi chose a dark theme that I would like and automatically installed uBlock origin for me which I would have done anyway. Weird but appreciated.

@ruario just want to say thank you for the Widevine update script command in post 70. It helped resolve issue watching shows on view.yahoo.com (which is also part of HULU) here in the USA. It would be great if that command could be mentioned in the slackbuild script of either the vivaldi-codecs or the vivaldi build. I'll email the sbo maintanier to request the add also. Cheers.

Wow. Just took a trip back to Firefox-land after using Vivaldi exclusively for a couple of weeks. I'm kinda sad to say, it was a bit painful. Lack of decent interface control, slower, and some display issues had me scrambling back to Vivaldi in a hurry.

Firefox has really gone to the dogs of late, since version 57. It's faster but it looks dreadful and the start page is horrid. Is seven million lines of code overdoing it?

I'm still shocked by how fast Vivaldi is on my 1.6Ghz netbook. I consider Vivaldi a 'heavyweight' browser but it's faster than Falkon [apart from when it comes to YouTube, but I use qmplay2 for that].

It's only a two-horse race now in the browser wars: Firefox and Chromium-based, and Vivaldi is the best of the latter.

I actually do have seamonkey installed too, it - at least - doesn't follow the newest/latest/extra features trend of both chrome and firefox.
They haven't seen the need to bring out a new major release every two months and the 2.49 series only had 4 minor releases (to 2.49.4, in july) in a year.

Thank you! I pushed an update to the SlackBuild that adds downloading libwidevinecdm.so to /opt/vivaldi/. If it will be accepted, after the next update there will be no need to use the update-widevine script.