anybody tried the vivaldi browser

vonbiber · 02-18-2015, 01:36 AM

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.

https://vivaldi.com/

It's distributed in .deb .rpm packages (64-bit) and recently
a 32-bit version (.deb, and .rpm).

I wonder if it's possible to build a slackware package.
I don't know what the dependencies are.

Didier Spaier · 02-18-2015, 02:10 AM

https://vivaldi.net/en-US/forum/viva...1-linux-builds

Toutatis · 02-18-2015, 02:51 AM

You can do this (it works also in the same way for google-chrome and opera-beta rpms)

-- first :
rpm2targz Vivaldi_TP2_1.0.94.2.x86_64.rpm

you obtain Vivaldi_TP2_1.0.94.2.x86_64.tar.gz

-- you extract this somewhere :
mkdir XXX
cd XXX
tar xvf ../Vivaldi_TP2_1.0.94.2.x86_64.tar.gz

-- then as root :
mv opt/vivaldi /opt/
chown root:root /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-sandbox
chmod 4755 /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-sandbox

-- Then to run vivaldi :
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi&

To uninstall you have only to remove /opt/vivaldi

hegobald · 02-18-2015, 12:09 PM

Just tried 2 times, it crashes my Nvidia/Graphics driver.
Nvidia version 331.67

mats_b_tegner · 02-18-2015, 12:54 PM

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.

ruario · 02-18-2015, 12:55 PM

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.

mjolnir · 02-18-2015, 01:18 PM

I just d/l and installed Vivaldi-snapshot 32bit on Ubuntu 14.04. Seems pretty "snappy" so far.

rokytnji · 02-18-2015, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjolnir

I just d/l and installed Vivaldi-snapshot 32bit on Ubuntu 14.04. Seems pretty "snappy" so far.

Same here on AntiX 14. Pretty fast rendering pages.

Code:

$ apt search vivaldi
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
vivaldi-snapshot/now 1.0.105.7-1 i386 [installed,local]
  A new browser for our friends

http://www.alltechflix.com/5-power-f...owser-vivaldi/

cwizardone · 02-18-2015, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vonbiber

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.

https://vivaldi.com/

It's distributed in .deb .rpm packages (64-bit) and recently
a 32-bit version (.deb, and .rpm).

I wonder if it's possible to build a slackware package.
I don't know what the dependencies are.

IIRC, isn't it just another chrome clone?

mjolnir · 02-18-2015, 02:20 PM

@cwizardone - I believe it uses the same "engine", Blink?

WoefulNarvik · 02-18-2015, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

IIRC, isn't it just another chrome clone?

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.

cwizardone · 02-18-2015, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WoefulNarvik

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.

vonbiber · 02-19-2015, 03:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ruario

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.

mister_b · 02-19-2015, 09:38 AM

Tried Vivaldi for a few minutes after OP's post. It seems snappy and looks clean, but not being able to use Pentadactyl had me right back to Firefox.

Nonetheless, if a vim-like extension for Vivaldi were available, I'd very likely use it over Chrome/Chromium.

jtsn · 02-19-2015, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vonbiber

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.

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...64/241/9e9.gif