Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends

Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by crucialfelix on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @12:55PM (#8954543)

its much much slower. scrolling down a page often chokes. changing tabs can take 5 or 6 seconds to re-render. I might have low disk space issues on my iPad, but Safari performs flawlessly.

and its not Chrome's fault. Apple do not allow any other web browser on iOS, so Chrome is just WebKit except you don't get the same javascript engine as Safari does.

I stubbornly continue to use it because I want my history and bookmarks to match my desktop.

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Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by davydka on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @01:22PM (#8954682)

iOS has recently opened it's advanced javascript engine to developers which should put App web page rendering speed on par with Safari.

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Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by vhbit on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @02:11PM (#8955026)

I believe because of other limitations Chrome can't use it anyway and it might take a couple of iOS versions before everything will be solved. For details see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423444

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Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by kayamon on Thursday January 29, 2015 @02:39AM (#8964831)

If they opened their platform up properly, then Chrome could simply use the advanced javascript engine it already has.

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Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by wingerlang on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @11:03AM (#8960562)

I had none of those issues.

I also use my devices jailbroken, and there are fixes for the Javascript engine. That being said, I mostly used it without them, and even when I did I noticed no difference. Again, probably because I use the iOS browsers very little.

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