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Vivaldi (Opera [inspired] browser alternative)
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 6:40 am
by Nh
Re: Opera (Presto)
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:59 am
by Specular
Also
Otter, a project by former Opera forum members. Tetzchner (the one-time Opera CEO) apparently wants to make money from the new browser (presumably through search revenue), but I can't see how with what would be a virtually non-existent marketshare. Some think this doesn't bode well for the project's future, but we'll see.
It also has a long way to go before it can catch up with the feature set Presto included. Still looking forward to the progress of both browsers though
Re: Opera (Presto)
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:02 am
by the_watcher
I was about to post it. Vivaldi looks very promising so far. Don't know if it will be able to replicate Opera 12's featureset, but this technical preview already looks more like Opera (12) than Opera (Blink) itself. Yes, I'm excited!
Re: Opera (Presto)
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:44 am
by guinness
I just came across the
Ghacks review today and decided to quickly test it. The installer has a standalone option, though I haven't really tested whether or not it's truly Portable to its counterpart. The impression I get is it's kind of meant to mimic what Opera was before version 15 came into play, which I really haven't had a problem with since I use Opera 26 (now 27) on a regular basis.
Re: Opera (Presto)
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:04 am
by joby_toss
This must be quite embarrassing for Opera Blink devs.
Edit: tested Vivaldi - portable but not stealth (some registry keys).
Re: Opera (Presto)
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:29 pm
by guinness
joby_toss wrote:Edit: tested Vivaldi - portable but not stealth (some registry keys).
Thanks for testing joby_toss.
Re: Opera (Presto)
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:02 pm
by freakazoid
Request to split Vivaldi into its own thread.
Re: Opera (Presto)
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:58 pm
by joby_toss
Vivaldi web browser
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:43 pm
by joby_toss
This is a continuation of this discussion:
viewtopic.php?p=73125#p73125
https://vivaldi.com/
https://vivaldi.net/forum
https://vivaldi.net/blogs
I tested the weekly build no. 1.0.94.2 (now TP2) and got some interesting results. My previous statement that the first TP was portable is not entirely accurate.
It saves the profile folder wherever it was installed the first time (I used "Standalone" option during the process as recommended for portable use), so you can't really move the app somewhere else on your HDD, because the Profile folder always "stays behind". It might work for installation on a USB stick, but I didn't test that.
There is a file named
stp.viv (where
vivaldi.exe is) in which the installation path is saved in absolute format (I hope they'll change this). You can manually edit it to solve this portability issue.
The default installation structure looks like this:
and if you want it preserved as portable, the content of your
stp.viv file should be:
I much prefer the following structure (don't understand why this isn't the default one):
so my
stp.viv file content looks like this:
Regarding the stealth status, these are some registry entries left behind:
Re: Opera (Presto)
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:35 pm
by webfork
freakazoid wrote:Request to split Vivaldi into its own thread.
Split ahoy.
Edit: merged Joby's other post as well.
Re: Vivaldi - Opera Browser Alternative
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:36 am
by joby_toss
I created another Vivaldi topic right before your split. Could you merge it with this one, please?
Also, regarding the title of this topic, why is it called an alternative to Opera? I think it's an alternative for any other browser out there.
Re: Vivaldi - Opera Browser Alternative
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 3:50 pm
by webfork
Although I certainly hope that Vivaldi follows in the footsteps of Opera since so many folks were a big fan of that browser, I've been really surprised by all the non-open source browsers that keep coming out. With even Microsoft getting nagged to
open the code to their browser to make it compete, I can't understand all the non-open browsers coming from an open source (Chrome-based) camp.
Now there's Opera, Vivaldi, SlimJet, Maxthon, and Sleipnir. The only exceptions are two some-junk-removed versions of Chrome and then a lightweight QupZilla. What the hell?
Re: Vivaldi - Opera Browser Alternative
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:20 am
by joby_toss
https://vivaldi.net/blogs/entry/snapshot-1-0-98-2
Olafur Arnason wrote:...I have no intention to bore you with the weather, so we go str8 to the juicy details
...
This got to hurt!
Not to mention that this newborn is already a better browser than the other one...
Re: Vivaldi - Opera Browser Alternative
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:13 pm
by freakazoid
joby_toss wrote:https://vivaldi.net/blogs/entry/snapshot-1-0-98-2
Olafur Arnason wrote:...I have no intention to bore you with the weather, so we go str8 to the juicy details
...
This got to hurt!
Not to mention that this newborn is already a better browser than the other one...
Oh snap! Shots fired
Re: Vivaldi - Opera Browser Alternative
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 11:58 am
by joby_toss