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Re:Vivaldi 1.2 release by evook on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:35AM (#11829433)
What he calls out as stupid was the mistake of using those technologies for the UI.

Although I defended Vivaldi as the Opera Successor since its Beta, I stopped to support and suggest it because it failed to fix the js/css/HTML sluggishness with Version 1, and even more sadly with Version 1.2. I started using unofficial stable Chromium Builds with Codecs and Sync disabled via ChrLauncher and couldn't be happier.

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Re:Vivaldi 1.2 release by CelticSuperhero on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:00PM (#11834125)
What do you expect from a non native UI which is rendered by the Chromium extensions system? It only can be as fast as the used System is.

So, Vivaldi is nothing at all for people who value speed more than functions. But for people who value functions over speed, i can see that these could be drawn to it.

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Re:Vivaldi 1.2 release by Al-Khwarizmi on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:45PM (#11833501)
Try Otter too, it's promising as an Opera successor, although it's still lacking some stuff like password manager.
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