Pages Tagged βVivaldiβ
Reviews
- Consent-O-Matic β β β β β Convenient browser extension that detects cookie consent pop-ups and automatically fills them out according to your choices. Lets you know itβs working without getting in your way.
- Floccus Bookmarks Sync β β β β β Very flexible, syncs across many different desktop browsers and mobile devices, and for privacy it can run on your own server or encrypted on another cloud service.
- KeePass Password Managers β β β β β KeePassXC, its browser extension, and KeePass2Android are a nice, clean set of apps to manage your passwords on your OWN desktop and mobile devices, auto-fill websites and apps, and sync over your own server or cloud provider.
- Privacy Badger β β β β β Tracking protection add-on for web browsers that also converts embedded media to placeholders and adds GPC support to browsers that donβt have it built in. (It used to detect new trackers automatically, but had to stop when someone figured out how to track that.)
- Vivaldi (Web Browser) β β β β β Spiritual successor to the original Opera browser, this ultra-customizable web browser can open into a full suite for email, calendar, feeds and more β but only if you want it to.
- Wayback Machine Browser Extension β β β β β Useful for when you want to make sure the pages youβre reading will still be around in some form in the future, and to easily get at additional context. Checks every page you view against the Wayback Machine, so turn it off when youβre not using it.
Tech Tips
- Install Vivaldi on Arch Linux for Arm64 If you donβt want to use Flatpak or Snap, hereβs how you can modify an AUR package for x86_64 to build an Arm64 package for Arch.
- Move Email Archives to a New Account Thunderbird, Vivaldi, Apple Mail and Outlook can move messages from one IMAP account to another. Just drag and drop! But Gmail makes it a bit more complicated.
Blog Posts
- Split Opera, Hold the Viking Helmets
The reporting is a bit confusing, but it looks like the Opera web browser has been sold to a Chinese consortium. The group wanted to buy the Norwegian company outright, but the bid failed, and they fell back to an alternate deal. According to NewsWeb: The following business units of Opera will be included in [β¦]