Some search engines can’t be added to Vivaldi by right-click in the search field > “Add as Seach Engine …”, but only manually. The following describes a possible method to add some of those. If searches do not use a regular search field in […]
Category: Vivaldi
Discarding Problems in Vivaldi
While testing a new Vivaldi function (which is not yet in the public builds at the time of writing), I have found a serious bug (not a real bug, but more of a serious annoyance) in connection with my Auto Discard extension: The extension […]
Better Tab Stacking
Vivaldi’s tab stacks are a fiddly thing if you don’t use the window panel. Disadvantages of the existing tab stacking solution: If you have a large tab stack of maybe 60+ tabs, the tab previews can block the whole UI. (VB-17414) Especially in windowed […]
How to write a good bug report for video bugs …
… so that we have a chance to reproduce it. In the end of the day, developers can only fix bugs they can analyze or see. This is especially valid for video bugs. If you encounter a video bug, like e.g. video flickers, shows […]
This is frustrating (small things matter)
134 lines of code, 4 normal functions, 20 calls to chrome.something APIs, some of them nested, 0 const, 0 let, 0 var, 0 ESLint errors, 0 Vivaldi debugger errors. 5h wasted with refactoring and debugging because I wanted to make it run, but it […]
Hunting Down Audio Bugs – a view from behind the scenes
All what should become a great mess later started with a single bug report some time back: “[SlowAudio] HTML5 Live stream has bad sound and video” (dramatic music effect) found by Gwendragon, who in the following events tested, logged and categorized a lot of […]
Why Vivaldi’s Reader, and others too, sometimes don’t do what you expect
TL;DR Vivaldi Read Mode was was never meant for pages like Twitter, Youtube comments, or Facebook chats but for articles. As general rule of thumb you can assume that everything that has a continuous or adjacent text chunk of more than 300 characters counts […]
Always ask for the download location (hack)
Deprecated – is now built in. Several users, one of them me, prefer Vivaldi to ask for the download location for every download. Sadly unchecking the option Settings > Downloads: “always save to default download location” does not work for some types of downloads, especially downloads […]
