Vivaldi users here?
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DerHimmelssheriff99 last edited byI wonder if there are any Vivaldi users here, who use it and Opera side by side. I always keep an eye on Vivaldi, although Opera became my primary one some two and a half years ago.
What are your thoughts on both and which one do you prefer and why? I tend to think that Vivaldi is a more traditional kind of browser, resembling browser suites like old Opera or Netscape.
Opera feels more modern and straight forward to me. Still, both have a lot in common.
Vivaldi claims to be far more private than Opera and fixing security patches faster.Opera on the other hand claims 300M Users whereas Vivaldi does 3M. So that‘s a huge gap.
As I like both, preferring Opera through, How do you think about both?
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Leighsong last edited by
I use Vivaldi quite a bit next to Opera and Firefox on a Linux desktop. It's hard to really say which I prefer. Vivaldi is definitely more customization than Opera. Vivaldi supports Chrome extensions the same as Opera and over all I find no drawbacks. It supports YouTube videos a lot better than Opera. I'm a music nut and run across many music videos Opera complains about. Just wont play em. Vivaldi and Firefox does though. Not sure why really. I haven't tried Vivaldi's email feature. I'm so use to Thunderbird I don't really need it. Overall, if Opera just stopped working, I wouldn't really miss it that much.
One pet peeve I have with Opera besides refusing to play some Youtube videos, is the page zoom feature. I cannot find a way to add it to the address bar. I have to open a menu to do the zoom then close the menu. If i were able to put it in the address bar like I'm able to with Vivaldi and Firefox, it would be more convenient. Anyway, I find Vivaldi a sold browser, especially if you spend some time to tweak it to your liking. All three browsers mention are very secure and easy to clear data cookies history etc, especially with the help of extensions to automate it all for you. I believe Vivaldi is only closed source with its UI leaving most of what's under the hood open source. Kind of a cross breed.
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McTesch last edited by@Leighsong Interesting post, thank you. Actually, two things keep me from using Vivaldi:
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They have no Aria, they are even against AI
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They are such a small time. I don’t trust them to have the ressources for building a secure and working browser. They had a sync outing that lasted nearly three weeks in December. Can’t imagine this would happen to a bigger outlet, though.
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Leighsong last edited by
I was just curious enough to try it. I remember long ago when I installed Arch Linux. It was a new distro and not very popular at all back then, and had a small following. Anyway, most good things start out small.
