Vivaldi gets more powerful and works across all devices | Vivaldi Browser 6.4
The latest version of Vivaldi on the desktop gets more powerful and personal, and ensures secure data syncing across platforms including Android, iOS, and in cars.
This update includes various small fixes.
This update includes various small fixes.
- App captures incorrect Speed Dial thumbnail (VIB-380)
- Bookmarks and Speed dial URLs are stored lowercased from editor (VIB-240)
- Make sure What’s new page is shown after each update (VIB-356)
- Sync button from Privacy settings shows Chrome Sync UI (VIB-395)
- Vivaldi iOS does not accept backup encryption key file (VIB-410)
Today is the first ‘Snapshot’ update for our new iOS browser, allowing you to try the latest fixes and changes before they hit Final.
Announcing the launch of Vivaldi on iOS – a new browsing experience available now on the App Store.
Announcing the launch of Vivaldi on iOS – a new browsing experience available now on the App Store.
Vivaldi on iOS has our distinctive look and feel with a set of built-in tools that includes Desktop-style tabs, Speed Dials, Panels, Notes, a Reading List, and a Tracker and Ad Blocker. And, of course, with the Sync functionality, we give you a secure way to take Vivaldi – and your browsing data – with you.
The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims to end unfair practices by companies that act as gatekeepers in the online platform economy. Read our open letter to the EU Commission.
> > > While attention is often focused on the responses of Apple, Google, and Meta to the DMA, Microsoft's actions should not be overlooked. > Recent months have revealed Microsoft's concerted efforts to > either intentionally disregard the incoming regulation or expand its market power before the DMA takes full effect. > >
> > > This disregard for the DMA manifests itself in a variety of areas, but > notably also in how Microsoft operates in the browser market: > >
> > > Section 2.1 Microsoft has increased the prompts to users that look for an alternative browser > Section 2.2 Microsoft is imposing de facto Edge default exclusivity and is making it harder for Browser providers to create user-friendly browser default settings > Section 2.3 Microsoft increasingly ignores and overrides default browser settings,including in Outlook and Teams > Section 2.4 Microsoft is leveraging its innovative Bing Chat feature by requiring users to use Edge > >
https://vivaldi.com/wp-content/uploads/Vivaldi-Open-Letter-Microsoft-DMA-Comp.pdf
Spying on people’s behavior & profiling them is wrong. That’s why we have made sure that Google’s Topics is disabled in two separate ways in Vivaldi browser.
> > > Google’s Topics API will not be enabled in Vivaldi, and it cannot work in Vivaldi. It would need two things to make it work, and we have disabled both of them. > > > > 1. It would need a setting enabled for it to collect local profiles about you. We disable the setting by default, and we forcibly do it in a way that means that changes to Chromium cannot remotely enable it. We do not provide any settings UI to allow you to change it, and we will soon remove the new Chromium settings section for it. (Technically, you could enable it by editing your settings or installing an extension that manipulates it. However, all that would do is enable local data collection. It will not be used because of #2) > > > 2. Before exposing the Topics API information to websites, Chromium checks if the setting is enabled or disabled. We forcibly make it always return “disabled”, even if it is enabled. So that even if you somehow manage to bypass #1 and enable local profile collection, it will not expose it to Google or other websites. > > > >
Vivaldi on desktop enables the “Browser windows in Portal”: an underlying change to how Vivaldi handles multiple windows to open faster & reduces memory usage.
Vivaldi on desktop enables the “Browser windows in Portal”: an underlying change to how Vivaldi handles multiple windows to open faster & reduces memory usage.
Get Vivaldi 6.2 now.
Yes, just add https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld.rss in a rss reader of your choice.
Works with any mastodon account. I.e you only need to add .rss to any url.
Changelog
[New][Mail] View Filters are confused for being a Mail Action Toolbar (VB-95308)
[Address bar] Engine icon is often not displayed in search field (VB-94157)
[Address bar] Search Field dropdown remains opened (VB-98720)
[Address bar] Emojis as favicons appear blank (VB-81544)
[Address bar][Bookmarks] Display folder nickname (VB-98925)
[Calendar] Subject of event not visible in the reminder window (VB-98736)
[Chromium] Upgraded to 116.0.5845.59
[Crash] When adding vivaldi://discards as a speed dial (VB-98877)
[Downloads][Panel] Google Safe Browsing causes downloading to get struck (VB-96539)
[Feeds] Icon disappears when page loads (VB-50729)
[History] Shows http entry after https entry on a redirect (VB-26114)
[Keyboard] Cycling focus stuck when tab bar is hidden (VB-95976)
[Keyboard] Focus Panel Controls has stopped working (VB-93688)
[Linux] Vary Process names to ease use of tools like killall and top (VB-99065)
[macOS][Media] Poor video performance (VB-81757)
[Mail] Cannot mark all mails as read in custom folder (VB-94347)
[Mail] IMAP folder names not decoded from UTF-7 (VB-98829)
[Panels] Closing floating web panel hides the sidebar unexpectedly (VB-98621)
[Panels] The scroll bar is covered by the side panel handle when it is set on the right side. (VB-98065)
[Panels][Workspaces] Not all Workspace functionality is available in the Window Panel (VB-98479)
[Performance][Clock] Button can slow down the creation of tabs (VB-83297)
[Performance][Downloads] Progress animation stresses GPU (VB-98841)
[Spatnav] Box is moved on scroll (VB-89443)
[Speed Dial] Fast bookmark drag+click may block pointer events (VB-98930)
[Workspaces] Button title spacing wrong (VB-99111)
[Workspaces] Loudspeaker icon on Workspace tab keeps appearing and disappearing (VB-97425)
[Workspaces] Make sure tab opens in the last-open workspace when started (VB-96702)
[Workspaces] Moving tab to new window switches workspace in existing window (VB-98804)
[Workspaces] Replacement tab from root workspace moved into active workspace when moving original tab in Window Panel (VB-99014)
Oh,forgot to mention there is support for sharing screen and separate window on desktop. Unsure about mobile clients.
Cookie Banner Reduction - iPhone/iPad?
So i just checked in on Desktop Beta 117 and noticed that CBR is available in settings so i started to wonder if anyone has any clue if there are plans to implement this on the iPhone/iPad app?
Jon ran a poll on Mastodon with regards to what linux packages people mainly use.
722 votes =
58% DEB
43% Flatpak
24% RPM
7% Snap
Jon also mentions Flatpak specifically:
At @Vivaldi we clearly like to support the packages our users want. At the same time adding packages is not just a question of making the packages, but also a question of testing, which can be quite time consuming.
The issue with Flatpak is that the Flatpak sandbox requires us to disable the Chromium sandbox, which is not optimal.
If there is a way around that, that would be great!
Disabling the Chromium sandbox is a potential security problem and requires changes in Chromium.
Source
Linux Flatpak support
@Stardust said in Upgrade to Chromium 114 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3023.3: I am ready to test Vivaldi flatpak even without proprietary media! I have media working but this is the least of my concerns right now. Firefox does not contain the same sandbo...
There seems to be a security concern by Vivaldi that flatpak might break chromium sandboxing according to this comment from one of their staff, although he does admit that he’s not a expert in the matter.
If nothing changes then getting Vivaldi as flatpak might be up to the community to create and manage. I am not knowledgable enough to comment on the sandboxing nor to create a flatpak.
But i am interested to hear what others might be thinking regarding this?
For me Ultramarine seems like it's main thing is to offer Fedora with patent encumbered software included ootb. I.e rpmfusion enabled and probably some other bits and tweaks.
The Ultramarine team aims to make Fedora a little more user friendly by allowing users to install or package any software they want as long as someone maintains it in either RPMFusion or the Ultramarine repository.
Source
They do mention under planned features
System configuration application similar to YaST
So that could be interesting and combined with rpmfusion ootb help ease new users into the Fedora side of Linux.