Tabs Page annoying after update.
The latest update made the tabs page annoying. The tabs darken if I scroll down making it hard to see the contents and/or X icon to close them. The Inactive Tab bar moves to the center of the screen for some reason. Great browser otherwise.
Solid
Solid browser, however, hiding navigation buttons in a submenu appears to be counterintuitive.
A great browser
This is the second browser on my iPhone. Vivaldi is a wonderful browser and I’ve tried all the others.
Search engine guesses what you mean and returns unrelated results
Hello! I've somewhat enjoyed using Vivaldi. I got it so I could search questions accurately and filter results, but the results I pull from specific searches are very similar to other browsers.
As with many of the other browsers offered, I notice the search bar doesn't actually search for the input you entered, rather it isolates keywords and promotes results that share the same keywords.
This is often inefficient or pulls results completely unrelated to the topic.
I.E.
"Why would a camel bare its teeth at me?"
Results:
Why do camels have carnivore teeth?
The science behind camel teeth
Study on camel teeth shows [...]
The keyword system is not a good tool when it comes to sentence searching, because the "why" and "bare its teeth" were entirely ignored in the results pulled. It felt as though I would've gotten the same results had I entered the phrase "Camel teeth". Not a single behavioral article or research paper was presented.
This issue presents itself continually regardless of how the question is phrased, as there's always some clarifying word being glossed over- which in turn ruins the relevancy of the results.
All in all, this is a privacy browser. I came to this app with the notion that I would be able to return to the old way of searching, where an entire string of words/sentences would be scanned for in the database and pull back the most relevant results. (Without AI!)
Instead, relevancy is decided for me with each search, as important words are seemingly ignored and I am almost always presented with offtopic or topic-adjacent results that don't leave me satisfied, and often forces me to look elsewhere- like blogs or other browsers- where you can actually search for what you want based off the full dang sentence.
Pretty please remove keyword search, or make it toggleable. I would like full sentences to be searchable and pull back coherent results.
As with many of the other browsers offered, I notice the search bar doesn't actually search for the input you entered, rather it isolates keywords and promotes results that share the same keywords.
This is often inefficient or pulls results completely unrelated to the topic.
I.E.
"Why would a camel bare its teeth at me?"
Results:
Why do camels have carnivore teeth?
The science behind camel teeth
Study on camel teeth shows [...]
The keyword system is not a good tool when it comes to sentence searching, because the "why" and "bare its teeth" were entirely ignored in the results pulled. It felt as though I would've gotten the same results had I entered the phrase "Camel teeth". Not a single behavioral article or research paper was presented.
This issue presents itself continually regardless of how the question is phrased, as there's always some clarifying word being glossed over- which in turn ruins the relevancy of the results.
All in all, this is a privacy browser. I came to this app with the notion that I would be able to return to the old way of searching, where an entire string of words/sentences would be scanned for in the database and pull back the most relevant results. (Without AI!)
Instead, relevancy is decided for me with each search, as important words are seemingly ignored and I am almost always presented with offtopic or topic-adjacent results that don't leave me satisfied, and often forces me to look elsewhere- like blogs or other browsers- where you can actually search for what you want based off the full dang sentence.
Pretty please remove keyword search, or make it toggleable. I would like full sentences to be searchable and pull back coherent results.
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Bookmark Mess
Bookmarks are a cluttered and complete mess. Trying to import and organize bookmarks is impossible. Not worth the hassle.
Not working after update
Like other reviews have said, the browser is unusable after the 8.1 update
AI Free - No News Feed on Start
I’m running from constant news and “AI”.
When opening Vivaldi, you’ll be struck by how empty it feels.
This is exactly what I was looking for. So far, the experience is what you want it to be, not what a corporation beholden to shareholders needs it to be.
Very grateful to the devs for the work done here. I’m 33% less anxious this morning because I didn’t have to see any ‘recommended for me’ junk.
I am now going to use this as my PC default browser as well.
When opening Vivaldi, you’ll be struck by how empty it feels.
This is exactly what I was looking for. So far, the experience is what you want it to be, not what a corporation beholden to shareholders needs it to be.
Very grateful to the devs for the work done here. I’m 33% less anxious this morning because I didn’t have to see any ‘recommended for me’ junk.
I am now going to use this as my PC default browser as well.
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New 8.1 update has a major bug with tab.
Scrolling through my open tabs causes the screen to darken until I can't see anything.
As a person who almost always has 70-80 open tabs this is a critical bug / issue for me that makes the browser now unusable.
As a person who almost always has 70-80 open tabs this is a critical bug / issue for me that makes the browser now unusable.
Nice
In this scary surveillance world we're living in, Vivaldi is one step to some peace of mind. Honestly, it's not the best browser for hyper-specific questions and the ad blocking can prevent you from accessing certain sites, BUT those might just be my settings. All in all, I'm happy with it.
amazing AI-free browser!
I love using Vivaldi !! It’s easy to use and figure out and it’s AI free, easy five stars :]
Document Functions
Overall, I really love Vivaldi. I switched in December and it has been so refreshing to use a browser I know is AI-free and convenient to use. My only large complaint, is that pdf and similar style files are practically impossible to read through the browser. It will automatically push you down to the bottom of the document (for shorter docs) or 4-5 pages down (for larger docs) and will not let you scroll up.
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Goodbye, AI
I was so annoyed that everytime I search something I get an AI answer and social media posts, Vivaldi is like searching the web in 2018 and I love it
Version 8 caused the most grief ever
Used this since v1 for many years. v8 arrives and wipes all my bookmarks and settings, on three Windows computers, all synced. Since then the browser opens and just hangs for upto 2 minutes before opening the tab. Every tab then opened displays a warning that the URL is wrong, then loads it correctly a few seconds later, 30 seconds before I had to uni-stall it and do a cold install and import data from Firefox which is now the default browser as vivaldi just cannot be trusted to work efficiently anymore. Hours of work troubleshooting this to no avail and re-stalling the start page widgets so many times. Sad, sad sad .
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Excelente Navegador
Vivaldi es un excelente navegador web por que cuida mi privacidad es rápido y confiable soy una
Persona que me gusta la privacidad y que no salgan anuncios de la nada y Vivaldi cumple con esto y lo uso continuamente
Persona que me gusta la privacidad y que no salgan anuncios de la nada y Vivaldi cumple con esto y lo uso continuamente
Ad Blocker is Completely Ineffective
I picked up this web browser because of my growing distaste for a competing private, ad-blocking web browser. It certainly does some things better than the browser I was using… but Fandom websites stonewall the browser, blocking access, and YouTube ads aren't even remotely blocked since it all comes from the same server as the content. Other websites don't seem to care either. Very disappointing.
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A necessity
This is the best mobile browser. The ad and tracker blocking are a godsend. I tried out firefox for a few days and was immediately bombarded in other apps with ads for things i'd searched for. Switched back immediately. I also just really like the tab system, especially the baskets. It's nice to have something that just works well and is convenient without a huge catch, and especially without AI.
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FIX WINDOW BUG
if you close the browser in stage view as a window, it will delete all tabs, all folders, your entire session- with no way at all to restore it.
regardless of any other feature this browser has, this bug makes it unusable.
regardless of any other feature this browser has, this bug makes it unusable.
Away with the AI. LOVE VIVALDI
Amazing alternative search engine without AI ! Make the switch!
No complaints
Lots of options to make it comfortable to use. Ad-blocking, AI shoved out of the way. What’s not to like?
Poor ad blocking ruins a great browser.
This browser, which is really nice and customizable, is ruined by the crude and ineffective ad blocker.
It fails to address the anti-Adblock techniques on most sites, which require the adblocker be disabled, rendering it nonexistent.
They need to use the UBO extension for adblocking.
Without it, this browser is unusable.
It fails to address the anti-Adblock techniques on most sites, which require the adblocker be disabled, rendering it nonexistent.
They need to use the UBO extension for adblocking.
Without it, this browser is unusable.
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