<story><title>Vivaldi Browser 5.0</title><url>https://vivaldi.com/changelog-vivaldi-browser-5-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drcongo</author><text>Vivaldi is the exact opposite of what I want from a browser. I want a rendering engine and some tabs, that&amp;#x27;s pretty much it. Vivaldi decided to encumber those two good things with a 1000 features and some horrific themes, making the entire application 1000 times slower than it could have been. Every time I&amp;#x27;ve tried it it&amp;#x27;s just reminded me of that old screenshot of MS Word with all the toolbars switched on [0], a ton of unnecessary cognitive load that 0.1% of their users will find useful. Browser design by committee.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86d6311970b-pi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;02...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kunagi7</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a lot of browsers out there that already give the experience you want. Like Ungoogled Chromium (or regular Chromium).&lt;p&gt;I always see a lot of power users being enraged to other browsers when they remove features that the 1~5% of their users use so it&amp;#x27;s a bit weird to see protests against one of the few browsers that attempt to reverse the oversimplification trend.&lt;p&gt;Vivaldi&amp;#x27;s main deal is allowing the user to customize most of their browser. Themes, buttons, custom CSS, even side menu options. Even if they have improved it quite a bit there&amp;#x27;s still a performance hit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Vivaldi Browser 5.0</title><url>https://vivaldi.com/changelog-vivaldi-browser-5-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drcongo</author><text>Vivaldi is the exact opposite of what I want from a browser. I want a rendering engine and some tabs, that&amp;#x27;s pretty much it. Vivaldi decided to encumber those two good things with a 1000 features and some horrific themes, making the entire application 1000 times slower than it could have been. Every time I&amp;#x27;ve tried it it&amp;#x27;s just reminded me of that old screenshot of MS Word with all the toolbars switched on [0], a ton of unnecessary cognitive load that 0.1% of their users will find useful. Browser design by committee.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86d6311970b-pi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;02...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RussianCow</author><text>&amp;gt; a ton of unnecessary cognitive load that 0.1% of their users will find useful.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s been designed specifically for that 0.1%? There&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with not catering to the masses.</text></comment>