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Morgenmuffel

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#1559474 25-May-2016 17:16

venomio:

Morgenmuffel:

I have been using it as my main browser for a while now, replacing opera, the only thing that bugs me about it, is I can't figure how to stop videos in facebook etc auto-playing Opera had a setting to prevent this, but I dont seem to be able to find that setting in Vivaldi

You can do that via:

From the top right of Facebook, click and select Settings
Click Videos in the left menu
Click the dropdown menu next to Auto-play Videos and select Off

Ok that works for facebook, which was my main issue so all good there

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#1559489 25-May-2016 17:33

After reading this thread I decided to give it a whirl again. I had not used it since Beta. I still find the interface clumsy and bookmarks managed poorly. Importing bookmarks would be a start.

It renders fast but most browsers do that well these days.

I just feel that it does not really have an advantage over others.

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#1559803 26-May-2016 09:05

Main reason I still use Opera 12 (just getting harder and harder to stay with now so much is broken) and Vivaldi is I want the tabs at the bottom (ie close to windows tabs). These are the only two browsers allow this. I would move fully from Opera 12 if Vivaldi would add IRC.

StructureDr

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#1572104 15-Jun-2016 08:59

rb99:

Have tried it, though it's quite nice, but am waiting for them to get Xmarks working on it. Might switch to it then (though I'm far from a power user), though equally might go for Edge once that'll take add-ons.

I've been using it for about 6 months - progressively more and more as main browser. The kicker for that switch was when Lastpass became properly functional about 3-4 months back.

Xmarks works fine for me - the only quirk being that the Vivaldi bookmark structure was a little different to other browsers I relied on (mainly Firefox) - from memory the issue related to the 'main' bookmark list being an (arbitrary) folder on the bookmarks toolbar - rather than a separate category in Firefox/Chrome.

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#1572107 15-Jun-2016 09:11

I'm using Vivaldi as my daily driver, and have been since 1.0 came out. I had tried the beta and thought "meh".

It took me a little time to get used to some of the quirks, but in the main I'm loving it.

I was able to import my bookmarks and speed-dial settings. It also imported my saved passwords, which I hadn't expected, but liked.

I'd been an Opera fanboy for ages, but this is the new hotness for me.

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#1572221 15-Jun-2016 10:55

Lastpass works fine for me and Xmarks kind of, except it still puts almost all my bookmarks in the Trash folder, which I guess I could just ignore. On the Vivaldi forum it said they use a different storage structure (or something) for bookmarks and Xmarks is never likely to work properly, so can us it as is or use Eversync, which apparently works pretty well.

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