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For years I've been using opera because it used to be smaller and
faster than most of the other browsers. But lately it's been following the same trend of most browsers and I get more and more crashes.
Two of the people who were behind opera in 1994 started a new project,
vivaldi.
From what it stays on their web site
(fast, very keyboard oriented, ...) sounds attractive.
I've tried the Tech Previews but they crash with a segmentation fault every time I try to log in to the Vivaldi Community. I don't want to be a lab rat so I won't test it again until they release a more stable version.
Yes I have tried it. It is interesting and has features that certain long term Opera users would appreciate but it is also quite raw and buggy at the moment.
Opera 27 is crashing for you or do you mean 12.16? Opera 27+ and above has been very stable for me and we certainly get far less crash reports per user than we di for Opera 12.
I have a script to make a Slackware package for Vivaldi. When I get a moment I'll share.
All its dependencies are fulfilled in a full Slackware install.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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For years I've been using opera because it used to be smaller and
faster than most of the other browsers. But lately it's been following the same trend of most browsers and I get more and more crashes.
Two of the people who were behind opera in 1994 started a new project,
vivaldi.
From what it stays on their web site
(fast, very keyboard oriented, ...) sounds attractive.
I guess we will want to clarify what you consider a clone. It utilizes the Chromium engine, like Chrome and Opera, but I would hardly call it a clone. UI is custom built as well as including different features compared to Chrome.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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I guess we will want to clarify what you consider a clone. It utilizes the Chromium engine, like Chrome and Opera, but I would hardly call it a clone. UI is custom built as well as including different features compared to Chrome.
Well, we shall see. So far the "chrome clones" look and operate pretty much the same.
From reading their site it sounds like they maybe trying to bring back some of the features from the "original" Opera.
At the moment I'm running the ms-windows version in Xp, inside of VirtualBox, and so far, so good.
Last edited by cwizardone; 02-18-2015 at 08:25 PM.
Opera 27 is crashing for you or do you mean 12.16? Opera 27+ and above has been very stable for me and we certainly get far less crash reports per user than we di for Opera 12.
I'm currently using opera 12.15
And all previous versions (for a long while) I've used had crash issues.
Two of the people who were behind opera in 1994 started a new project,
vivaldi.
From what it stays on their web site
(fast, very keyboard oriented, ...) sounds attractive.
Vivaldi looks like what we got promised by Opera when the switch to WebKit was announced. I like how it has already a mail tab in the sidebar, looks good.
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