Second minor update for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 3.8 (2259.42):
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/min...p-browser-3-8/

Is there no build from source option, one has to just use a .deb converted? I have seen rumors that Vivaldi is not open source?

Vivaldi is only partly open source as explained here:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

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BroX do you still experience this? Do you use KDE? I have a similar problem on an Ubuntu derivate with XFCE Desktop.

Yes, the option "Save files to default location without asking" still has no effect here. I am always presented with the last-used location. This is on Slackware-current with i3 window manager.

Vivaldi 4 released. Mail, calendar and rss feed added.

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How does the mail feature compare to old Opera M2?

One lesson the Opera abandonment taught me however is to not invest my workflow heavily in some proprietary solution that may be here today, gone tomorrow, so I'm wary of Vivaldi, but I do miss Opera12/m2.

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Great. Now how can I get rid of them. These things would be better served as addons or extensions. Right along with that game that they baked in. And language packs should be ripped out as well.

When you start Vivaldi-4 for the first time it gives you three options as to what you want to be included.

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Been playing around with it (Mail) for the first time ; in other words, I didn't sign up to the beta program, until today, so first time seeing it, and not sure how far and how fast it has come on. Mail and calendars just a little rough around the edges, but promising, and mail is certainly reminiscent of Opera 12's mail client. Once it stabilises a bit more I will use it for sure, at least for my non-Fastmail accounts.

It shouldn't be too much of an investment of course if you access your mail by IMAP.

I used to swear by Opera 12 Mail, but these days I find Fastmail's webmail very close to the best desktop clients, especially with its single-key shortcuts. Only problem is that Fastmail have their servers in NY, so at least for those of us in the EU -- with one eye on our data, where it is stored and by whom it can be accessed -- it's less than optimal.

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There are three versions of the browser you can choose when you configure it: Essential, Classic and Fully-loaded. Only the latter has the mail and RSS etc.

That said, I do really like the Firefox 89 overhaul. As in, really like it. It's enough to make me consider moving. I'm testing it for a bit longer before I do.

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This doesn't make it any "lighter". It seems to be going the way of Firefox, with added "features" (aka bloat).

I'm not a fan of Firefox so I haven't even looked at it lately. Looks like I'll be going back to Basilisk which is half the size and starts up twice as fast as both Firefox and now Vivaldi.

I did just check out Vivaldi 4, and I was not impressed. Quite disappointed actually.

Nice. Never heard of it. Bookmarked.

Vivaldi is a great browser, and the team are respectful of users. Startup speed here, with hundreds of tabs open, is perfectly normal -- a few seconds, and I open the browser only once a day.

Among the pluses for me with Vivaldi is its configurability, and its great keyboard shortcuts, including single-key shortcuts. Most importantly, the browser allows you to select vertical panels and vertical tab bars. It is staggering and incomprehensible to me that Firefox and Chrome still don't allow this, given that nearly all displays these days are widescreen. I was at my brother's computer yesterday and he had what must have been 50-100 browser tabs open in Chrome, all along the top, with neither tab title nor icon readable. At least with vertical panels on one side and vertical tabs on the other you can squeeze the actual browser content into a narrower space that makes reading on the web much easier. And you can immediately see your tab titles.

Another plus is Vivaldi's single-key shortcuts, which are slowly catching up with Opera 12's. In the early 2000s I showed a wheelchair-bound woman with severely impaired mobility how to browse the web on her laptop using Opera's single-key shortcuts, and she was absolutely thrilled to bits. She found the touchpad very difficult to use. It changed her life.

So the Vivaldi team are showing respect to ALL users, not just the able-bodied and the younger, mobile generation, who are probably the generation developing Chrome and Firefox, with a typically cavalier attitude to anybody who doesn't fall into their demographic.

(They're not alone, of course : Plasma, Gnome/Gtk and Android, among others, are anything but accessible to users with impaired mobility and/or sight, despite the claims and half-hearted efforts of their respective teams. Hint, if anyone is listening : accessibility is more than just making text bigger.)

For that reason alone I will be sticking with Vivaldi. It's called respect.

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Heh, your signature says a lot about how I feel about Vivaldi right now. And Vivaldi is a very nice browser, but "showing respect to ALL users" doesn't mean that I need all the extra "features". I would just once like to see someone do something that doesn't force all the "features" on ALL their users. Maybe a plugin system would be a better route for browser devs to take instead of including everything in the default.

I've just never experienced Vivaldi as a bloated browser, and I'm a tab junkie, with sometimes hundreds open. It's really responsive for me.

I'd prefer that they had their own engine, and that the browser interface was less "electron"-like, but the browser is really a breath of fresh air in a browser world that was very quickly becoming sterile and monopolistic.