#vivaldi web browser

[buindia]

A customisable and privacy-focused Vivaldi Browser is now available on iOS. Enjoy a seamless, fast, and secure browsing experience.

[bunabyte]

Is there a Vivaldi blog on here? Like @firefox-official?

[theslackerjack]

vivaldi been actin up so i switched to firefox like all the kiddies been telling me to do

[bloxxel64colonthree]

If you haven't already, try vivaldi browser, the workspaces and custom themes are a godsend.

[dandelionsprout42]

How to fix Vivaldi Widevine "Update error" on Windows 11

This is certainly one of those "Problems that only I have ever run into" moments. Though in this case it's approx. 80 other people who've run into the problem, but none of their fixes worked for me.

So under rather complicated circumstances, and I've already forgot most of them after I got them to work maybe 10min ago. It was something like this:

In "%LocalAppData%\Vivaldi\User Data\WidewineCdm", create a new subfolder with a version number. The folder can be named for instance "4.10.2830.0".

Inside that new subfolder, copy various Winevide-related files from other browsers' Widewine folders (In particular from MS Edge, but plausibly also from Firefox), especially "widevinecdm.dll" and "widevinecdm.dll.sig", possibly also "manifest.json" but I'm unsure if that file is needed or not. Paste those files both in the top of that folder, and in "_platform_specific"→"win_x64", relaunch Vivaldi, and hope for the best.

It sure seems to have worked for me and then some.

[panayator]

Vivaldi is amazing

To whom it may concern, Vivaldi is excellent. Not the composer. I mean I guess he is too but I'm talking about the browser lmao. Much better than Chrome or OperaGX (also they're pretty much spyware).

I wanted to switch from OperaGX after having switched to it from Chrome and I was between Vivaldi and Brave. Don't get me wrong, Brave seems just as great, and might possibly be faster, but I got hooked by everything Vivaldi has to offer in terms of customization and personalization (which is why Vivaldi takes up a pretty good chunk of RAM when you've enabled pretty much everything, like at least 1GB when casually browsing so you're gonna need a beefy pc/laptop)

[guyrcook]

The Secret to Lag-Free Streaming: Optimizing Your Browser

In this episode of *Practical Digital Strategies*, viewers learn how to optimize the Vivaldi browser for improved performance and a better browsing experience. The video covers essential tips such as disabling unnecessary plugins, enabling lazy loading for tabs, clearing cache regularly, and managing system resources through Vivaldi’s task manager. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of…

[macmanx]

When web applications are only tested in Chromium, they will inevitably have bugs that are showstoppers in non-Chrome browsers. But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter whose fault it is. If users cannot reliably use a browser for everyday tasks, they will switch and never look back.

It's almost impossible to argue for other people using Firefox. The abstract damage of the loss of the free web, of handing control to Google, is intangible and pales in comparison to the real pains of using a lesser browser daily. We're too removed from the benefits of browser engine diversity right now to make the case.

I really feel this. I love Firefox, I really do wish it the best, but I’ve been using Vivaldi lately.

Yeah, Vivaldi is a Chromium browser, but everything just works better in it, and lately that’s what matters to me.

[phillogbook]

Ho pubblicato in Navigazioni Annotate, il mio fedele blog nella community di Vivaldi Browser, un compendio attualizzato di tutti i miei luoghi nel web (almeno i più importanti e frequentati). Dateci uno sguardo...

[platformdecentral]

In the latest iOS 17.4 drop, Apple is now allowing third-party web engines and will prompt users to set a default browser

Apple is implementing significant modifications to the way web browsers function on iPhone and iPad for customers in the EU. With the latest drop of iOS 17.4, users will have the option to set their preferred default browser when they first open Safari, and browser makers will be able to utilize other browser engines. Firstly, there is a change to default browsers. Third-party browsers have been…

[professional-007]

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[laikaflash]

I crashed Vivaldi within a minute after importing from Chrome. This is going well.

I'm not a fan of the sidebar, but I'm really not asking a lot out of this thing.

ETA: Oh, now I find out about uBlock Origin Lite. And it works on Chrome (for now). I'm keeping Vivaldi as a back-up option.

Chrome turned off uBlock Origin on my end. Looks like I'm moving my browser game shenanigans to Vivaldi. Failing that, I might try Midori again.

[cuprohastes]

Don't do this:

OK so do not go to Github and search for yt-dlp and don't either isntall it using brew, or download the binary.

Do not, I repeat do not then launch a command line...

MacOS: Command+Space type Terminal Windows, Right-click the Start Menu and open a command line

... then type something like

yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL" -S "ext" --embed-chapters --embed-subs --mark-watched --cookies-from-browser firefox

Because that will download the best quality audio and video format (mp4) at the best size, using your YouTube Watch Later playlist, mark all the videos as read, and give you MP4 files with subtitles and chapters, but no adverts. You can switch firefox for your browser if it's supported. Shit, I mean, don't do that.

Currently supported browsers are: brave, chrome, chromium, edge, firefox, opera, safari, vivaldi, whale.

Especially do not replace the URL with a BBC iPlayer page in case it accidentally downloads an entire series, or individual video. Or try non-DRM'd web pages, or you may find it's also downloaded those individual videos for later use too.

And whatever you do, don't spend a few hours on the GitHub page learning to use it. For example to rip just the audio files from YouTube videos for use as a personal musical playlist, or Twitch streams to play back when it's quiet.

And also beware if you slip and use the right flag it may even mark the YouTube video's sponsored ad reads so they can be auto-deleted or skipped.

This has been a public announcement to prevent you from accidentally downloading video or audio for your own personal use.

[autolenaphilia]

Fuck Chromium (and that includes Brave and Vivialdi)

I have made multiple posts about why you should use Firefox, and of course I get the reply "not all chromium browsers are bad, they are not all as evil as Chrome." And sure, browsers who use the chromium code are not required to do all the shady things that Google does with it.

Still, I think it's bad that chromium-based browsers are getting close to total market dominance. By this point it has made Google's competitors like Microsoft and Opera drop their own unique proprietary browser engines for chromium. Browsers are becoming a fucking monoculture at this point. And Chromium becoming the browser code base of choice empowers Google, since they are the ones who mainly develop, maintain and fund its code. It means supporting them in their quest to become an internet monopoly that can do things like drm the web itself.

So let me be clear: you are still supporting google by using chromium-based browsers. By helping out in making chromium the de facto standard for browsers, you are giving google power. They are the ones driving chromium development, they will set the standards. And those standards will be in Google's favor. They are an ad company, their goal is to kill off adblockers by making them impossible to use, first with manifest v3 for extensions and now WEI, their web drm.

Brave is a joke.

The supposed "good guy" chromium browsers people recommend are actually shady as shit.

The one i see recommended the most is Brave, and it's fucking terrible. For one thing, it is funded by right-wing techbro Brendan Eich. He was Mozilla CEO for some time, but then people found he was a massive homophobe who funded campaigns against marriage equality, and Mozilla forced him to resign. And that's why he created Brave. That's who you are supporting by using Brave.

It runs off chromium because that's the easy and lazy choice for a browser. And it's literally funded through cryptocurrency, probably the negative environmental impact is a plus in Eich's book. And its adblocker runs off the same dishonest business model as adblock plus does, it will not block ads if advertisers pay them for the privilege. This betrayal of the users is opt-in at least, and you get paid for watching ads, but it's in the aforementioned worthless crypto beans. Brave is a joke.

Vivaldi and the importance of open-source

And then there's Vivaldi, it's a freeware proprietary browser run by a for-profit company, which alone should scare you off it.

"If you aren't paying for it, you are not the customer, you are the product" is a phrase that sometimes unfairly gets applied to open source projects to dismiss them. If it's open source and either community-run or run by a non-profit foundation like the Open document foundation for Libreoffice and or the Mozilla foundation for Firefox/Thunderbird, you are safe even if it's free.

But that phrase 100% applies to free products from for-profit corporations. These companies need to make profits at some point for for their shareholders, and if it is not from selling goods or services, it comes from things like selling your user's data or "attention".

That applies to Vivaldi, who makes big promises about how they will respect their users privacy and never sell their data. But promises mean nothing, Google also says they respect your privacy. And the thing is, Vivaldi is closed source. Not entirely, ironically the bits they got from Google's chromium are open source, but other parts of their code is closed-source. And what that means is, they can make any and all promises about what their browser's code does and there is nobody except Vivaldi that can check if their code actually fulfils those promises. Only Vivaldi has access to that code.

I'm no open-source fanatic, like I don't care if some random game i install and play is closed-source, as long as it is from a credible developer. But open-source is important for security and privacy, because that means someone else other than the company who develops the program can vet it's code for vulnerabilities and privacy violations. Your browser and e-mail client (vivaldi has an e-mail client too) should be open-source for your own safety, because those programs handle sensitive data like your passwords or your e-mails. Closed-source is not more secure, since Kerckhoff's principle applies to digital security and privacy.

And Vivaldi by being proprietary software fails that test. Their own justification is that being closed-source is "their first line of defense, to prevent other parties from taking the code and building an equivalent browser (essentially a fork) too easily." It's the same hypocritical argument that Red Hat used to justify making their Enterprise Linux distro closed-source. "It's fine if we use chromium's code to build our own browser, and expressly for making an Opera clone (that's the literal point of Vivaldi, that's why the name is a music reference), but if someone does the same with our product, they're evil." It's nauseating and alone justification to distrust Vivaldi as it is crying out to be trusted.

Listen to some Antonio Vivaldi instead, his music slaps. And install Firefox and Thunderbird instead.

[zillanovikov]

@blanchesboy I trust you on internet things, is Firefox bad now or is it still mostly good?

I like having 2 different web browsers for different accounts and right now I use Vivaldi and Firefox but I don't know what to use to replace Firefox if it's evil now

(other people who know stuff please share information too)