Latest Vivaldi browser build ships with UI-less mode
Vivaldi released the fourth technical preview of the browser the other day which introduced an assortment of interface customization options to the browser among other things.
It took the company less than a day to push out another snapshot of the browser. The new snapshot ships with a new customization feature that Vivaldi calls Chromeless UI.
It is different from fullscreen mode even though there are some similarities. Chromeless UI basically is an attempt to remove most of the user interface from the browser.
You can toggle the mode with the shortcut Ctrl-F11 and will notice immediately upon activation that most of the user interface is removed from Vivaldi.
Tip: You can enable UI-less mode permanently in the settings. Click on the Vivaldi icon and select Tools > Settings from the menu. When the settings window opens, switch to appearance and remove the "show UI" checkmark.
This includes all toolbars, including the url bar and tab bar, and the status bar.
The mode has been designed specifically for users who prefer to use mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts, but may prove useful to users who at times want to concentrate on a single website or content.
You are probably wondering how you navigate to other sites when in that mode. While you could toggle it whenever the need arises to switch to another site, it is usually easier to hit F2 to bring up the quick commands window that you can use to load a new site.
There are two core differences between fullscreen mode and the new UI-less mode of Vivaldi. The first is that the UI-less mode is independent of the size of the browser window whereas fullscreen mode will always use the full width and height of the display.
The second difference according to Vivaldi is that you can use Vivaldi's tab tiling functionality while in UI-less mode. This enables you to display multiple websites and applications next to each other in a single browser tab.
A quick test showed however that tab tiling is also available in the browser's fullscreen mode.
Downloads are as usual provided on the official company blog but also in form of automatic updates when the browser is already available on the computer.
Next up for Vivaldi is work on the first beta version of the web browser which the company plans to release in the near future.
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.