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 … Read more
VPNs, Proxies und Datenschutz
Original: VPNs, proxies and privacy. (translation draft) In unserer Serie über Datenschutz und Sicherheit befassen wir uns mit echten VPNs, sicheren und anonymisierenden Web-Proxies, Browser-VPNs und erklären, worauf Sie bei einem VPN-Service achten müssen. TEAMBOLG … Read more
Harmony Keymod – Update
I got a bit spare time and once again added a small bit of functionality to the script: Flood fill – or maybe better known as “bucket” tool to most people. The basic function is … Read more
Rest in Peace, KartOO
Back then … Whenever I knew what information I needed but didn’t know which search terms would lead me to this information, you were there and helped me reliably. I only needed to enter a … Read more
The odyssey of finding a certain video
This is only a short rant about the stupidity of a bunch of search engines that basically all use the same search database. I knew that I had once seen a video of Brendan Eich … Read more
How To add Search Engines that use POST to Vivaldi
There is a long standing problem with Vivaldi not adding every kind of search engines, e.g. the current implementation still does not add search engines like SearX This happens because those engines use POST instead … Read more
Doodling with Harmony Keymod
I am definitely no artist but some people liked this image – I wonder why, no joke. The Original is about 4000*3000px and was created with “Harmony Keymod”, a heavy modified version of Mr.Doop’s Harmony, … Read more
In the Name of Accessibility: Check Your Alt Attributes!
Occasionally I am browsing the net with images switched off because I am only interested in the text and don’t want to download gigantic amounts of decorative images – especially since several pages started to … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
