Latest Vivaldi snapshot introduces interface scaling
The makers of Vivaldi have released a new development snapshot of the browser that introduces several new customization options.
The web browser, which is still only available as a technical preview and as development snapshots, offers already more customization options than most Chromium-based browsers and today's update introduces several new ones.
Probably the most interesting feature of snapshot 1.0.190.2 is the new user interface scaling that the developers have integrated in Vivaldi.
What's meant by that is that you can change the scale of the UI of the browser to make interface elements such as toolbars and icons smaller or larger as you see fit.
To change the scale of the UI in Vivaldi, do the following:
- Select Vivaldi > Tools > Settings from the menu.
- When the Settings window opens, switch to Appearance.
- Scroll down until you find the User Interface Scale slider there.
- Move it to the left to decrease the scale of the UI or to the right to increase it. This can be done in 10% steps only currently with the minimum being 50% and the maximum 200%
Please note that this affects only the browser UI and not the websites that you load in the browser (e.g. the text font size used by websites).
The browser screenshot below shows an interface scaled down to 70% of the default size.
Interface scaling can be useful in several situations. For instance, if you like the UI out of the way and as minimal as possible. Or, if you have a hard time reading interface elements and want them to be larger instead.
Firefox supports a similar feature as well but only in form of browser extensions such as Theme & Font Size Changer.
A custom background color and image is the second customization feature added to Vivaldi's latest snapshot.
You may select one of three default background colors or pick a custom one, and do the same for the background image that is displayed on the browser's new tab page.
You may furthermore select whether you want the background image to be stretched to fill the available space or repeated, and whether you want a dark or light color theme.
The color scheme affects only the new tab page and not the browser UI unfortunately.
The third and final customization feature enables you to disable tab thumbnails. This can be useful if you display tabs on the side in Vivaldi as you save lots of space if you only display titles and not page thumbnails in the sidebar.
The new customization options add several interesting settings to the Vivaldi browser that give you more control over the browser's look and feel.
Downloads for all supported operating systems are provided on the official Vivaldi Blog.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.