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If you want to contribute to Vivaldi, you can do that in a number of ways:

  1. Share with your friends. Help us grow.
  2. Utilize the included search partners, with which we have deals. Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia and Yahoo. We do not have deals with Microsoft and Google, unlike our competitors.
  3. Use our included bookmarks and direct match partners.
  4. Donate.

We are fighting with Big Tech and they want us gone. You can make a difference.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

@[email protected] but can i reduce resource usage when i am streaming with OBS on Twitch? I have not had an answer in this, so have not switched over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

@[email protected]
Greetings!

I am a fan, what can I say, I'd been using Opera since it had ads, 8.5 afair, till the last presto version 12.18 became unusable and the standalone mail client way longer than that.

Obviously I jumped on Vivaldi right when I found about it. I am very happy that you recreated old Opera functionality (and then some), because that's what I wanted to get.

I love the mail client for its different paradigm - don't do folder filtering, instead use contacts + real time full text search. I had a very heavy business mail account 2005 - 2010, it was so fast in Opera, by the time my oultook colleagues found anything in their mail I was long done & gone making coffee. It was sad to watch sometimes.

One thing I miss is aesthetics. Opera had a very elegant UI (at least till Vista showed up with its fake glass). I udnerstand Vivaldi goes for 100% pragmatic look determined by technology and it's fine i guess. We could do way worse but I yearn for times of chunky icons and bars full of 3D buttons when we were young.

Also, features for tab hoarders on withdrawal (highlight duplicates in windows panel, highlight the same domain, stack duplicates etc).

Anyway I work in IT and install Vivaldi on most machines that come through my hands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

@[email protected] , thank you for your kind words and support.

Have you tried looking for a theme? Pretty sure you can find one with the look you want!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I remember that the only search engine that wouldn't provide revenue for Vivaldi was Google. I switched to Bing to support you guys. Now I'm trying DuckDuckGo. It has a nice AI Chat untracked anonymous feature: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/aichat/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

@[email protected] , yes we no longer have a deal with Bing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I didn't know you have a deal with those browsers. So basically, I search via them on Vivaldi and that's it? Cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

@[email protected] , yes, we have deals with these search engines, Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant and Yahoo. If you use them as default in Vivaldi, that will generate revenue for us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

@[email protected] Alrighty, time to head back to the Duck.