*cough* Promised mail client on desktop version? *cough*
Phone home: Indie Chromium browser Vivaldi goes mobile
The independent Chromium-based browser outfit Vivaldi has finally emitted a mobile client. The Android app has been a long, long time coming. CEO Jon von Tetzchner told us back in 2016 that something was in the works. The gang was still working on it last year, with Von Tetzchner admitting the first iteration would be " …
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Monday 9th September 2019 10:04 GMT Lee D
I have 20 years of email tied up in an SQLite database that, if I dare press "update" on the old Opera, will likely just disappear.
They even released an unintentional Vivaldi preview with the functionality in it... nothing since.
I see no reason to use Vivaldi while it's literally just Chromium in a fancy wrapper. I can get that anywhere... hell, that's basically what Edge will be very soon.
Email clients are 10-a-penny. One that works and imports all my old email (from accounts that no longer physically exist) are not.
There will come a time when I just script the whole damn thing out into Dovecot etc. mailboxes and never touch Opera or Vivaldi ever again, but I was silly enough to believe their years of initial announcements that it was going to come.
They have literally zero USP over just using Chrome.
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Monday 9th September 2019 12:06 GMT LewisRage
"They have literally zero USP over just using Chrome."
Except they don't stream every aspect of your interaction and your data back to the google mothership.
Arguably they have no USP over other browser makers (brave?), although the desktop version was highly configurable (i think?) which nerds like us like.
Either way I'm happy to tick along in Firefox land on the desktop and Brave on the mobile.
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Monday 9th September 2019 12:25 GMT Terry 6
Chromium browser on my phone, Meh. Got PaleMoon and Firefox
Email client, Meh! Lots of choices out there
Email client with a calendar* a la Outlook or Thunderbird+Lightning? That would be worth considering.
I was stuck with Outlook on my desktop for years before Lightning integrated to TB better. There's lots of room for improvement. Filters more like Outlook's with sophisticated rule making (and organising) would be a starter.
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Monday 9th September 2019 09:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Javascript ?
Since running NoScript, I have discovered that well over half the sites I visit simply will not work without javascript. Some I am happy to whitelist, the main site, but they insist on dragging in several other sites which I have to temporarily enable before they'll work.
Taking a YouGov survey is interesting. Works OK with YouGov.com whitelisted until you get to the "And finally..." where you need to enable a whole shedload of sites or enjoy a blank screen.
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Monday 9th September 2019 10:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Google do themselves a disservice
With all the recent controversy over API changes, rather than explain and collaborate, they basically dug their heels in. They may be the gate keepers of Chrome, but that does mean they are the masters - that should be the contributors and end user.
I held out with Chrome, but this put the nail on the coffin.. in my household I've got a dozen laptops, desktops and even more VM. A month ago, I ripped out Chrome and replaced it with Vivaldi.
The last vestiges are on my family mobiles.. I imagine, that will also shortly be taking a back seat.
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Monday 9th September 2019 15:47 GMT ArrZarr
Re: I'm sure it's a nice browser
I haven't used Chromium, but Vivaldi comes with a pretty decent speed dial system. If your work entails lots of different logins to the same tool, chrome profiles are a godsend, having independent versions of a single, mainstream browser on one install. The problem with having all sorts of different Chrome profiles is that having Chrome as your default browser means that any link you click will open into the last Chrome profile you were in. A non-Chrome browser with all sorts of configuration options as default sidesteps that problem neatly.
As the place where I access the most sites, the Speed dial system on Vivaldi working well, out of the box without needing to faff around with extensions but that can sideload Chrome extensions if required makes Vivaldi a compelling choice
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