Comment on AMD, you infected my PC with zombies! by sleeper6

In reply to <a href="https://yngve.vivaldi.net/amd-you-infected-my-pc-with-zombies/comment-page-1/#comment-1718">netscapenavigator</a>. Your solution looks like the most clean solution out there, but still you can not be sure if Microsoft decides to reinstall them by force through windows update or "windate" (ha, HA, h ... ok, no one is laughing). Manufacturers are releasing patched drivers which are completely ignored by Microsoft. It happened a lot of times to me, even on Nvidia and Intel drivers. That is why I always check and update drivers by myself and at least once a year I choose "complete reinstall", which will uninstall old driver, clean setup files and install new driver. Also drivers installed by PC builder are not a holy grail.

Comment on AMD, you infected my PC with zombies! by netscapenavigator

Nvidia and Intel, unfortunately installs a lot of junk beside their GPU too, these days. It is why, I do not install their software. I use 7Zip to extract the setup file (it is extractable) and have Windows search the folder for the drivers (Inf files).

AMD, you infected my PC with zombies!

In spring 2024, I completed Vivaldi’s developer build assistance transition from Goma to the newer Reclient system. Goma and Reclient are remote build assistance that can perform compilation of files that you need to build, but do so on remote computers (workers), managed by a backend server, resulting in a cache of build results that […]

Comment on Broken Windows Updates by ingolftopf

Thank you very much for your always interesting contributions.

Broken Windows Updates

Every month Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of the month in order to remove security problems in the installations of the Windows Operating System. January 9th was no exception, but this time there was a problem. One of the updates (KB5034441) failed with the error number 0x80070643, and kept failing on several […]

Comment on The trouble with Chromium translations by Yngve

In reply to <a href="https://yngve.vivaldi.net/the-trouble-with-chromium-translations/comment-page-1/#comment-1706">kaludon209</a>. This is about the translation of the text used in the browser itself, specifically the original texts coming from the Chromium project. What you are having issues with is the translation of online web pages, using the translation service.

Comment on The trouble with Chromium translations by kaludon209

Same is happening to me, I like to browse on some french forums and since yesterday it's ot offering to translate, I used to fix this issue by refreshing the page but now nothing is working anymore, I've even tried enable the "Offer to translate pages that aren't in a language you read" option but it's already enabled. i wonder if it's a glitch. Also I tried to download google translate add-on but it's garbage since I need to manually enable it every time I change pages

The trouble with Chromium translations

Most applications that are intended for a broad international audience have their UI translated to various languages, the number of which can vary widely, depending on the resources of the vendor, especially their ability to recruit translators. Vivaldi is currently being translated to 91 languages, a few more than Chrome. Under the hood Vivaldi’s UI […]

Microsoft, you broke Visual Studio!

One of the most important tools when developing software is a good development environment, called an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), with at least an editor, build functionality, debugger, and being able to go directly from a compile error listed in the compiler output to the broken part of the code. On Windows, my primary tool […]

Comment on Are Rockport XCS shoes still hiding under a rock? by ingolftopf

Are Rockport XCS shoes still hiding under a rock?

Back in (pre-covid) 2019 I posted an article asking where the nice things disappeared to, including where the shoe brand I have been using for ~20 years walked off to. It was 8 (now 10) years since I had last been able to buy any Rockport XCS shoes (which is the only ones I have […]

Comment on Soooo … you say you want to maintain a Chromium fork? by john5

It's not just chromium, though... It's an example of the saying that if you want to make a cog-wheel with 50 teeth, you can't just add a tooth to a cog-wheel with 49 teeth.

Comment on Soooo … you say you want to maintain a Chromium fork? by ingolftopf

Thank you for this informative, nicely written, detailed article.

Comment on Soooo … you say you want to maintain a Chromium fork? by chas4

:fork: 1st There is a lot people don't realize when making a browser, and you list many of the issues a browser has when using Chromium.

Soooo … you say you want to maintain a Chromium fork?

Photo by Ari Greve (Note: this article assumes you have some familiarity with Git terminology, building Chromium, and related topics) Building your own Chromium-based browser is a lot of work, unless you want to just ship the basic Chromium version without any changes. If you are going to work on and release a Chromium-derived browser, […]

Comment on Microsoft! You broke my backup system! by chas4

The other thing about cloud backups is that it requires an internet connection. Any different with the build update of Windows 10 20H2 (the build after 2004)?

Microsoft! You broke my backup system!

Backing up the data on your computer is one of the most frequently given advice to computer owners, and there are a number of ways to accomplish it. The oldest way is to copy the data to an external media. Originally this was tapes, today it will frequently be one or more external harddrive or […]

Ars Technica’s privacy-invading Privacy Policy update

Ars Technica is one of the major technology news sites I follow, as it carries a lot of interesting stories about computer, general technology, and science news. Last week, however, reading the site became much more difficult. In relation to the California Privacy law going into effect January 1st, the owner of Ars Technica (and […]

Sophos: An update

Two weeks ago I posted an article about the occasional problems of getting false positives in security software fixed, and specifically about our recent problems when trying to solve a problem related to a Sophos security product. A user had reported being prevented from using Vivaldi to browse the net by their company’s firewall. Some […]

The problem with unsophosticated customer support

False positives causing a legitimate application to be blocked is a common problem with security software, and if not handled properly and quickly, it is one that could hurt, or even destroy a security product’s credibility, or in the worst case, the credibility of the entire sector. It is therefore very important that whenever a […]