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Re:How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome by Al-Khwarizmi on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:48AM (#25790314)
I love Opera 12 (and older versions), I still miss their customizability and efficiency today. I tried Vivaldi when it was in beta (or maybe alpha, I don't remember. The first few publicly downloadable versions) and unfortunately it didn't meet my needs: it did have customizability, but didn't support some of the most useful Opera 12 features for my workflow (e.g. MDI) and even more importantly, the UI had a quite bad latency. As you mention, the Opera UI did have a lot of stuff (which you could choose to use or not) but it was the snappiest by a mile. Unfortunately, Vivaldi wasn't recreating that when I tried it.

I'll give it another chance one of these days, though. I'm hearing a lot of news about it lately so I suppose there will be improvements and maybe the newer versions are closer to what I want.

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Re:How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome by lucideer on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:33AM (#25790736)
> didn't support some of the most useful Opera 12 features for my workflow (e.g. MDI)

I'm still on Firefox for a few reasons but I've been checking it out as it evolves, and been pleasantly surprised with progress over time.

There's a few things that I think are inherent to Chromium, that I doubt they'll ever get back; one of these is definitely MDI. But on the other hand, there's also a few things that I believed were Presto-specific (HTML renderer-related, e.g. text-selection of link text) that they have somehow managed to re-implement on top of Chromium, so never say never.

> Unfortunately, Vivaldi wasn't recreating that when I tried it.

Yeah, Vivaldi is not snappy. But... given the state of browser UI performance today (massively regressed from 8 years ago), it compares favourably to competitors. Which isn't to be sniffed at considering they've added so many things on top of the beast that is Chromium.

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