As an aside, it's good to see you're back, ruario.

I installed the 1.7 update, using rpm2tgz. I must say Vivaldi is turning into a really nice browser. It is just so good to see so many browser interface options again. Tab bar and panels to the side; more keyboard shortcuts than you can shake a stick at; excellent themes; sepia and grayscale filters; reader view; sensible speed dial. And scrolling capture of full web page! Geniuses!

In my despair I really did think Google, Mozilla and MS had killed off any hope of ever again having a browser as customizable as the old Opera. Not so, it appears. May they rot in hell for imposing their brain-dead browser interfaces on us all. May they rot a second time for then telling us this was what we really wanted anyway. They know best, as always.

Great work, Vivaldi team. I really am cheering you on! And thank you. A huge thank you.

It's very late. Sleeping patterns disrupted lately. Time for bed. Night all.

What is Vivaldi's business model? Are they going to be selling your viewing history data or including ads? I'm curious how they plan to make money.

Good question. But I'm so sick and tired of Mozilla preaching from the rooftops at this stage I'm prepared to give Vivaldi the benefit of the doubt. Mozilla have lost sight of their original goal, and now preoccupy themselves with social, political and gender campaigns. I distrust foundations and organizations who take it upon themselves to guard my freedoms. When was I asked whether or not I wanted them to do so? When were they appointed high priests to the EU, taking it upon themselves to dictate to our representatives here in Europe what they should and shouldn't do? And, most importantly, at a technical level Mozilla and Google stopped innovating years ago. Their browsers are the same boring, monotone browsers they were a decade or more ago. Vivaldi are innovating again, and obviously paying attention to what users want. That's a good start.

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Somewhere around is a link to an interview with the founder who admitted that is their income source.
Also, a few versions ago, it became necessary to reset your "delete private data" options each and every time you tell it to "delete private data." Plus you can no longer tell it to never save private data and the shortest option is one day. This is suppose to be a bug and they have said, on their forum, they will fix it, but being the cynic I am..............