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!

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The thing that impressed me at first with Vivaldi was the snappier loading of pages.

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The one thing I am missing with Vivaldi is being able to visit DoD Smartcard/CAC enabled sites. I have the necessary drivers and libraries installed. On Firefox I can go into Security Devices and load the Coolkey module (actually, it was loaded automatically once everything was installed and running), and it brings up my Smartcard credentials when I go to those sites. In Vivaldi, I just get a ERR_BAD_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT error. I've found a few Smartcard Chrome extensions, but they seem to be intended for ChromeOS and don't have an effect here. I don't suppose anyone has insight on this particular use case?

According to this, you need to install mozilla-nss-tools. But it's been a few years since I attempted to get my CAC working on Linux. Maybe I'll give it a go again soon... I do have some CAC readers floating around here.

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Hm, no luck. I'm getting the bad database error when running the initial modutil command. I will have to look into it more later. Thanks for the lead, though.

Nevermind, I should have read more carefully. I was not in $HOME when I ran the command. Now it works. Thanks bassmadrigal!

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