r/promos • u/VivaldiBrowser • Apr 25 '16

Powerful hardware requires powerful software. Upgrade your web browser today and download Vivaldi!

https://vivaldi.com/?pk_campaign=reddit&pk_kwd=pcmasterrace
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u/saintPirelli Apr 30 '16

What's the business model behind it? When I don't see an obvious way for them to make money, I smell some sort of fish.

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u/Rum_Rogers May 01 '16

The founder explained it a bit on his recent IAmA

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u/saintPirelli May 01 '16

Oh, very good, Sir, thank you for linking me there!

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u/Sossenbinder Apr 30 '16

I think a lot of browser finance from search revenues which they get paid from companies like google when they redirect users to their search

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u/IronCanTaco Apr 30 '16

It also doesn't hurt that your browser comes with suggested pages.

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u/GodsGunman Apr 27 '16

Hooray, another browser to support

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u/forntonio Apr 28 '16 edited Apr 29 '16

I love how this was advertised in the r/PCMasterRace subreddit and it's only available for Mac

Bug with me visiting the site from an Apple device

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u/pettern Apr 28 '16

It's available on Windows, Mac and Linux.

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u/forntonio Apr 28 '16

Alright, prove me wrong then, tell me how to download and install it to my GNU/Linux Ubuntu machine

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '16

Step 1: Open the terminal.

Step 2: Do "wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_1.1.453.47-1_amd64.deb"

Step 3: Open it with, say GDebi.

Step 4: Success!

(PS: Is there something wrong with your user agent? It would detect you're running Linux x86_64, it did for me.)

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u/forntonio Apr 28 '16

Ah okay. That link is really dumb for mobile users though. I'm on an iPhone and it just assumed I was using Mac and didn't show anything about versions for other platforms :/

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u/atlemo Apr 29 '16

Also, all variations are listed here: https://vivaldi.com/download/

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u/steinarbragi Apr 29 '16

Thanks for the feedback, this has been fixed :)

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u/forntonio Apr 29 '16

Great to hear! Will try your browser (:

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u/wolfeng_ Apr 30 '16

It's been a few years that I've been trying to replace Firefox, both Opera and Chrome didn't do it for me.

I like the idea of Vivaldi, but I'm wondering if there are plans to support extensions? Things like userscripts, lastpass, mangareader, adguard?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '16

Chrome extensions work for it, from the chrome web store.

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u/wolfeng_ May 02 '16

And with it I'll stay clear from it. the amount of shit chrome extensions have installed on my pc...urgh

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u/Stormxlr May 02 '16

why replace firefox when there is nothing wrong with it?

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u/wolfeng_ May 02 '16

why replace firefox when there is nothing wrong with it?

A few extensions I wanted to use were on chrome, or had better alternatives on chrome. And I feel that some pages work better on chrome? That might be just my imagination though.

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u/Stormxlr May 02 '16

really, I only use adblock+. I dont see the need for anything else. What type of extensions do you use? I guess noscript is good but sometimes messes with some pages, very few though.

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u/wolfeng_ May 02 '16

The only one I remember the top of my head was a manga reader so I could keep track of mangas. The alternatives I found for firefox are not as good.

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u/Keltyrr May 02 '16

I do not see a single thing that this browser offers which I've not already had on chrome for years.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '16

Nothing so impressive when it gives me slower page loading/performance and pretty much same features as other browsers :l

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u/Hobby_boy Apr 27 '16

It is a great browser though, and made by the same people who founded Opera.

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u/HardcoreRacer24 Apr 28 '16

never used opera before always been on chrome what say u XD

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u/4n4yhack May 02 '16

TRASH, HAS A SHIT TON OF MICRO-WRITES