32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera.

[fracicone@mastodon.uno]

@jon I switched to Vivaldi lately and I’m very happy with it. It’s part of a migration plan away from big tech. Thank you for your precious work!

[rejzor@mastodon.social]

@jon I wish Vivaldi had its own extensions store just like Opera still has and not depend on dictatorship of Google.

With own store you can still host ManifestV2 extensions like uBlock Origin, something you can't when using Google's extension store.

For starter it could only offer alternative extensions that are restricted on Google's own, but maybe later expand to be entirely own thing.

[synthyx@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon

Love vivaldi, I do wish there was a better explanation on how to get the Vivaldi webmail though...the reputation system is kinda vague.

[artfors@mastodon.social]

@jon There is just one thing that's bartering me, and that's that I can't incorporate Vivaldi in gnome's design language. It hurts my eyes.

[dougiec3@libretooth.gr]

@jon
Vivaldi has been the only browser I've ever had that I installed, then forgot about. It's been great not to have any problems with it whatever.

[marcin_kras@mastodon.social]

@jon Isn't Chromium dependency a liability in terms of digital sovereignty? I am trying to understand those who argue that Mozilla, by maintaining Gecko, is the last stand against Google's technological monopoly.

[makeratschool@kanoa.de]

@jon That’s why I’m such a big fan of the Fediverse: honest people do honest things and talk about them—not just with their investors, but above all with their users.
Many thanks for the work all if you are doing.

[cynical13@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon

#Vivaldi is my favorite Chromium browser. Some of the features, like the ability to strip tracking info from links, is really helpful. I think it has one of the nicest looking reader modes that I've come across. The ability to hide specific UI elements until the mouse is moved over them has really helped with screen real estate on my small laptop screen.

But I wish it had a way to pin tabs across workspaces the way #ZenBrowser does.

Or how in Gecko-based browsers, when you take a screen capture, it will highlight different items on the web page automatically, instead of dragging a box to capture specific parts of a page.

If I could cobble together my ideal web browser from existing projects, I'd definitely take a lot from Vivaldi.

[cynical13@social.vivaldi.net]

@Petesmom @jon

That would be nice. For a browser that partly sells itself on #NoAI, there are a lot of partners who have dived right into the deep end on AI, like Proton, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, etc.

[baardhaveland@snabelen.no]

@hobbs

I create at least one profile per customer to avoid mix-ups. And also one per admin account tier to avoid ID conflicts when juggling more of them at once.

(Hopefully profile groups will come in the future.)

I add random colours to each profile to help keeping the windows apart visually.

What happens within each profile window, does not affect any other profile window. This includes active tabs, favourites, password manager, and addons.

Endless possibilities!

[flense@mastodon.social]

@jon the only reason i dont try it, is because it is Chromium.

[ross@crikey.social]

@jon Recent Vivaldi adopter here. Thanks for all that you do. Took me a while to get going but I’m in and enjoying it now.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@jon i tried it and once i upgrade my linux desktops, it’ll definitely become my default browser but i cant on android, which i use way more these days thanks to my tablet.

i tried vivaldi-andoid but i can’t use extensions? is there a hidden, developer feature to add extensions?

i need my obsidian extension and a few other extensions as part of my normal browsing. it’s both a usability and workflow issue.

the firefox redesign ―which nobody asked for― messed up my usability setup.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@jon Too many pestering emails immediately followed installing Vivaldi. It irritated me multiple times a day for a week. I'd barely begun to even look at the damn thing. I uninstalled it and blocked the emails.

[wojtek@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon I'm still sad about #Opera and #Presto. I do SO DAMN FAAAST

[alaknar@mastodon.social]

@jon Are you guys ever thinking of writing your own engine, to get away from the monopoly of Chromium?

[leeloo@c.im]

@hobbs @baardhaveland @jon
There are two way of creating profiles in Vivaldi, and only one is available in the UI. As far as I know, the UI one is not able to open two profiles at the same time.

The other one is, but requires using the command line or creating a new shortcut.

Simply add

--user-data-dir=<path to a new empty directory>

after the path to the Vivaldi executable.

This does not allow running different profiles in tabs in the same window, they are completely separate.

[baardhaveland@snabelen.no]

@hobbs

Yeah, I know how it is... Good luck!

[lupinoarts@mstdn.social]

@alaknar @jon or switch to Gecko, the backend of #Firefox... Just to get away from Google...

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@LupinoArts @alaknar @jon Anything not under EULA would be nice.