# Vivaldi browser **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [May 17, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176 "2016-05-17T23:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GofBorg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8491ac/32.png) [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/1 "2016-05-17T23:16:01Z")
Anyone using it? Trying it out on Linux for a few days. So far, I like it. It’s apparently a spiritual successor to Opera but it seems like the management calling the shots is a lot more focused. Who knows maybe I’ll stick with it. Seems stable enough and no goofy rendering issues. ## – GofBorg GofBorg’s Profile: [https://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=163319](https://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=163319) View this thread: [https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=498390](https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=498390) ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/2 "2016-05-18T00:23:47Z")
Hey GofBorg: [color=blue] > Seems stable enough and no goofy > rendering issues.[/color] That’s a miracle. Mainstream browsers like Firefox, Chrome, (IE) etc. have goofy rendering issues. – Kim - 5/17/2016 3:22:48 PM ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/3 "2016-05-18T17:34:37Z")
G: I have it installed, but don’t really find myself using it that often. I know they released their stable version recently, and I updated to that. I’ll have to try it again. I was very locked into Opera for a number of years, because of its speed and stability, but it didn’t work for some critical sites I had to deal with, and that got to be a larger pain than it was worth, so I moved to Chrome, where I’m pretty locked in again. 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/4 "2016-05-18T18:55:34Z")
I have some sites/applications that only work with IE. Some sites don’t render well with FF or Chrome and one application I use all the time that only works with FF. I find I must have all three installed to get done what I need to do, and between the three of them, I don’t need any others. My main browser is (currently) Chrome. – Kim - 5/18/2016 9:53:31 AM ---
**Author:** ![GofBorg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8491ac/32.png) [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/5 "2016-05-18T22:26:01Z")
@Kim, Yes I have all the major browsers installed and on any given day I have to switch because of some new flaw. It is what it is I guess. @Susan, I tend to lock myself in as long as everything is working. You get a bit brainwashed after awhile and get a ‘go to’ browser. I noticed I spontaneously reached for the chrome icon today. Thanks for reminding me I need to switch back to Vivaldi for more testing! 🙂 ## – GofBorg GofBorg’s Profile: [https://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=163319](https://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=163319) View this thread: [https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=498390](https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=498390) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/6 "2016-05-19T17:19:04Z")
Kim: If something only works with IE, I don’t go there anymore. LOL I know you don’t have that freedom. I can’t even remember what wasn’t working with Opera before, but it was something I visited daily. It might have been Ancestry, at the time. I can’t think of anything other than genealogy that would have gotten me to give up Opera. And I still keep it updated and use it when something isn’t working in Chrome, to see if it’s just Chrome. 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/7 "2016-05-19T17:19:04Z")
G: Is it brainwashing, or just convenience? I was locked into Opera because it had features the other browsers didn’t, at the time. Now they all pretty much have the same features. Opera was also very fast compared to the others, at the time, and you didn’t really have to use a mouse. Now they all have keystrokes and are pretty speedy. I’ve got them all installed, also. I use one for genealogy, another for long distance telephone calls through Google Voice, so I don’t have to keep logging in and out of my main Google account, and one for daily browsing. I never use IE. I can’t stand the thing. 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/8 "2016-05-19T19:42:16Z")
Hey Susan: [color=blue] > I never use IE. I can’t stand the thing.[/color] I used to be the same way, but with recent versions, it’s improved a lot and I find it on par with the others now. Firefox used to be my browser of choice, but it got bloated and became too slow compared with others, even IE, which is when I switched to Chrome. FF has made some improvements in the last couple of years though. I like how you can set up profiles so you can use one browser for various things, like you mention you use different browsers for. One browser I tried, but really can’t get a handle on yet is Edge. Besides, it doesn’t accept extensions yet so it’s not an option as I use xmarks and LastPass across all my browsers. Most of the browser reviews I’ve seen (I try to keep updated) for 2016 list either Chrome or Firefox as the best of the bunch. Chrome has finally overtaken IE in market share this year. Vivaldi is too new, I think, to make it to the top of the lists, but who knows where it will sit a couple of years from now. – Kim - 5/19/2016 10:25:16 AM ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/9 "2016-05-19T19:43:19Z")
Hey Susan: [color=blue] > If something only works with IE, I don’t go there anymore. LOL I know > you don’t have that freedom.[/color] Yup…I have to use it from time to time because some applications I work with require it, unfortunately. – Kim - 5/19/2016 10:42:38 AM ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/10 "2016-05-20T17:00:58Z")
Kim: My objection to IE is more on a personal basis, than a practical one. And for some reason, I never “took” to Firefox. I couldn’t say why. Probably because it wasn’t Opera. LOL I also sometimes use a browser named Maxthon. I need extensions, also, for LastPass. I can’t live without LastPass anymore. 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![RichardET](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RichardET](https://forums.suse.com/u/RichardET)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/11 "2016-06-04T13:58:55Z")
[QUOTE=kgroneman;32591]I have some sites/applications that only work with IE. Some sites don’t render well with FF or Chrome and one application I use all the time that only works with FF. I find I must have all three installed to get done what I need to do, and between the three of them, I don’t need any others. My main browser is (currently) Chrome. Kim - 5/18/2016 9:53:31 AM[/QUOTE] I don’t like chrome - its boring. plus you’re too hooked into google as well. ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vivaldi-browser/28176/12 "2016-06-06T17:22:34Z")
Hey RichardET: [color=blue] > lus you’re too hooked into google as well.[/color] I like being hooked into Google. Google enriches my personal life with calendar, search, maps, GPS, earth, gmail, sites, drive, docs, Chrome, YouTube, Google shopping, trends, finance, Google +, hangouts, translate, voice, wallet, books, etc. My phablet is Android. I use it in my professional life too with Analytics, Google docs, YouTube, Google keep, forms, etc. And what do I have to pay for it? Nothing monitarily, and just allowing them to use a bit of my data that I don’t care about making public anyway. What a deal! I love Google. It enriches my life. – Kim - 6/6/2016 8:15:12 AM ---
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Kim: I like Google, also. I use Google Voice as my long distance service, so I can let my soon-to-be 90 year old friend in Hawaii talk as long as she wants to talk, at no cost, while I’m comfortable in my chair listening on a headset, and working on something else on the computer. 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy)