We at @Vivaldi continue to be the only browser company all in on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
We have made our own instance, Vivaldi Social. Any user that has a Vivaldi account for sync or other services, can easily enable a presence on Vivaldi Social.
We have integrated Mastodon as a Web panel into Vivaldi.
We include links to Vivaldi Social into Vivaldi.
We also work on integrating our blogs and forums into the Fediverse.
We hope others will follow. Mozilla has talked a lot and we hope they will join us fully soon.
It is official, @Vivaldi have included advertisment into your address-bar suggestions. This is opt-out, so it is enabled by default and is triggered only after two characters in your address-bar.
For me, the address-bar in a browser is like terminal in Linux, what I type is sensitive and should not be cluttered with advert and junk. #Vivaldi crossed a big red line here. Having advert in favorites and quickdial is one thing, having advert in address-bar is another.
The DMA is having an impact and the choice screen is coming! Soon you will be asked to select your browser of choice, when setting up a new phone or updating it. This only applies in the EU and Europe, at this time.
I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?
This is a big story. In a way the idea of a antivirus company or a browser company actively gathering user data for marketing purposes just feels so foreign, but still it is far too normal.
Most of the largest browser companies are also ad companies.
One day after launching Vivaldi on iOS, Vivaldi is the top iPad app in Norway and #5 on iPhones. Not a bad start at all. We are on the list in many other countries as well.
Make sure to share the great news with all your friends! @Vivaldi is now available!
This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.
Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.
Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.
If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!
If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!
If you're looking for alternatives to Chrome in terms of which browsers to use on Android, Talk Android has compiled this nifty list of the latest and greatest browsers you can switch to.
✍🏾 The tech writer and journalist, Irene O., talks about how she used our highly customizable Vivaldi browser and its features, like tab stacking, and the built-in Notes and Translator.
📝 It's nice to see writers and journalists alike share their appreciation for Notes, a noteworthy tool built right into the browser. This way, there's no need to switch between apps to jot down quick notes or to add text to an existing note.
📲 It even syncs across devices making it effortless to carry all important notes on your desktop, tablet, and mobile.
Just wanted to bring this to the #blind community's attention: Giving two massive thumbs down to the #Vivaldi browser as the experience for those of us using a #screenreader is #atrocious There's no seperation between the toolbar at the top, the main part of the window & the status bar at the bottom. Trying to use a shortcut to access the toolbar or even the address bar won't work as there's no keyboard shortcuts to do that with. Even accessing the menu is a hit or miss proposition for a screen reader user. Also, don't get me started on the focus jumping that goes on when you're navigating between pages, it's frustrating to say the least. Very #disappointed that accessibility seems to be an afterthought for this browser. #Avoid using this hot mess of a web browser until they bother to fix it, assuming they actually give a shit in the first place. Boost if possible, as I'd like to save others in the blind community from a poor #accessibility experience.
I am excited and honored to announce that I am now an official Ambassador for the @Vivaldi web browser!
This is a browser I've been using for about 8 months now and absolutely love everything about the browser itself as well as the team that makes it and the community they have built.
I couldn't be happier to endorse a browser that works as great and as quick as Vivaldi!
Today I discovered that Windows launches #Edge in the background at startup by default. If you use a different browser like #Vivaldi or #Firefox, disable Edge in "Settings > Apps > Startup" and "Settings > Privacy > Background apps" to speed Windows startup and improve performance in general, especially on old or low end PCs.
@Vivaldi has just released the latest "integrated" Vivaldi game onto Steam. This is a game that's historically been built into the browser, so you had to have #Vivaldi to play it. I use Vivaldi as my daily driver, and I'll tell you how awesome it is for hours if you let me, so at first I was thinking this was kinda cool, but it didn't really matter to me personally. But I have a #SteamDeck and now this is awesome for me personally. Vivaldia 2 on the SteamDeck!! Awesome!
If the survey I did on Mastodon is anything to go by, most people do not.
2% Want AI in their browser.
25% Want AI in their browser, if their data is not used for other purposes, such as ads and profiling.
73% Do not want AI in their browser at all.
575 entered the poll.
A lot of browser companies are now pushing AI in their browsers.
I guess the 2% have a lot of browsers to choose between.
Vivaldi on Android: How to turn off notifications for a scam web site
Yesterday I started to get scam notifications labelled Vivaldi. Well, actually they were labelled "Vivaldi adminivista.com".
I naturally became worried and wondered if my phone or account had been hacked. I turned off Vivaldi notifications, and the scam notifications stopped coming.
Today Vivaldi suggested that I should enable notifications. I did so, and now the scam notifications returned.
I finally figured out how to stop just these notifications: In Vivaldi on Android, open settings -> web pages -> notifications -> web sites, and look for a likely web site, in my case adminivista.com, open that item in the web site list, and turn off notifications for that web site.