holy shit Vivaldi is good

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It was nice to be able to stick it to Google by switching to this, using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine, and using AdNaseam. Now, if only we had a viable alternative to YouTube.
 
Just got started with Vivaldi, and I am loving the UI and everything, but can someone help me figure out how to access magnet links with it? Whenever I click on them nothing happens.
 
I'm sick of Firefox changing their interface and removing useful functions with complete disregard of users. In their next major version slated for release in November, they are going to use a new system of add-ons which will render many old add-ons non-functional. The author of one of the add-ons that I use, the Classic Theme Restorer, has said he is not rewriting the add-on for the new Firefox, because the add-on is so complex. And the irony is: I had to rely on the Classic Theme Restorer because, back in version 40-something, Firefox had forced users to accept their bizarre idea of how a search bar should be.

Since I have to adapt to a new interface anyway, I may as well switch to a new browser. Google Chrome is for trannies so it is not an option. I've been test driving Vivadi for about a week, and it looks like I'd make it my default.

What I like:
  • It is very snappy
  • Speed Dial is a godsend. To me it is better than Firefox's page thumbnails (other people will differ).
  • Search-engine nickname. Must be the most handy function I discovered so far. Now if I want to look for any dirt about some cunt on ED, I just type ae zoe quinn in the address bar. This makes the search bar nearly obsolete.
  • Great screenshot tool.

What I don't like:
  • The interface is not as customizable as I expect; I cannot remove the useless "home" button without UI hacks.
  • The right click context menu is very busy, and unfortunately I cannot find any way to edit it:
    whyvivaldi.jpg
  • I need something similar to Firefox's "view page info", that lists all images on a page for downloading. This is necessary for pages like Instagram where they disallow the right-click save.
  • There is some glitch with the navigation of Kiwi Farms: when you click on the quote arrow of a post, and if the quoted post is on the same page as the post whose quote you're clicking, the browser does nothing. If the quote is on some previous page, the browser switch to the source of the quote, as intended.
 
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Good LORD the Firefox 57 update (Quantum) fucked up my life real good. And some extensions I loved are going to die because of it, probably (at least one dev sounds extremely mad, even while working on a port). I'm currently moving to Waterfox, but since I saw this thread on the subject, I may take a look.

How incompatible is it with firefox (legacy) addons, and how much of my information is being sold by using Vivaldi?
 
Luigi said:
Good LORD the Firefox 57 update (Quantum) fucked up my life real good. And some extensions I loved are going to die because of it, probably (at least one dev sounds extremely mad, even while working on a port). I'm currently moving to Waterfox, but since I saw this thread on the subject, I may take a look.
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It's kind of painfully obvious Mozilla wants to drive away as many of their users as possible. I thought this was obvious when they started that UX shit years ago.
Mozilla is the Konami of not-games.

Luigi said:
How incompatible is it with firefox (legacy) addons, and how much of my information is being sold by using Vivaldi?
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It uses Chrome addons, so just use those. It also doesn't spy on you, it's just Chromium with a better shell.
 
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