Vivaldi Jon: Mobile – yes. Feeds and an ad blocker… probably not Hats off to any woman or man who is fighting the dumbing down of software. Twenty years ago our pocket computers were as sophisticated as any desktop, only more reliable. Now they’re vastly more powerful, always connected, but the apps are sub-Fisher Price. No, scrub that: today’s apps would insult a toddler. Opera founder …
It isn't really for power users, is it? I was so fed up of Chrome nagging me every time I connected to internal servers I switched back to FF. Vivaldi still does this, as it is based on Chromium.
*I know the cert isn't valid* stop nagging me about it!
"Power users" put proper certs into their internal services (rather than connect over https:// when they aren't bothering to even use a cert to do so).
You've no excuse with LetsEncrypt. They are actually free nowadays, and accepted by all known browsers.
I've got plenty of internal appliances that wouldn't work with LetsEncrypt. They aren't going to handle internal only domains either?
But I'd agree with putting proper certs on, with an Enterprise CA, and pushing out your trusted roots properly.
Don't get in the habit of clicking through errors all the time, you'll miss the time when you really needed to pay attention to that bad one.
"people feel they need a blocker because of the irritating ads"
IMO that's the least important reason for using an ad blocker .. MALVERTISING is by far the most likely way people's PCs are getting hit these days and until the Ad industry learns how to stop serving 'bad ads' to us then Ad Blockers are a MUST for anyone serious in trying to defend themselves, coupled with NoScript's ability to block iFrames.
Web design wisdom around 2000-2008 said that controls were a balance between overwhelming the user, and making the user feel empowered by control. I hate the app driven trend towards full retard. That's a race to the bottom:
Figuratively because Gaussian wise, there's always a stupider user.
Literally because the simplest interface is a single red button which produces farst noises.
I was interested right up to the point where I read the words " uses the Chromium engine".
Thats why I dumped Opera. I dont think there is a browser now that I 100% like, and coming from someone who once had a paid sub to Opera (back in the pre Firefox days) Thats a sad place to arrive at - "progressing" backwards it seems
Opera stuck to the standard and didn't display many pages.
Since the "standard" is now whatever works on chrome it does at least display the pages.
I suppose Chrome is the new IE6 might be regarded as progress.
ps although it is odd that Google sites tell you to upgrade Vivaldi to the latest version of Chrome
"Twenty years ago our pocket computers were as sophisticated as any desktop, only more reliable. Now they’re vastly more powerful, always connected, but the apps are sub-Fisher Price."
Vastly more powerful?
The most powerful mobile phones today are about on par with a 2007-era Core 2 Quad desktop. Which one is vastly more powerful than an I7-6700k desktop PC? I believe I would like to see that.
The most powerful mobile phones today are about on par with a 2007-era Core 2 Quad desktop.
They're quite a bit beyond that except for single-threaded stuff: or since when could Core 2 Quad's encode 4k video in real time? (Yes, I know it's the video chip doing it but the point still stands).
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