Vivaldi makes History

Previously: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13984122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13984122</a>

What happens tomorrow, if Vivaldi becomes history? Do we own this data? How is it stored? Where is it located? Can we access this with any other tool?<p>I know I&#x27;m begging for down-votes but I simply cannot understand how people can commit something as personal as web browsing to a closed source solution.

Meta: I find it odd that we live and work on an internet where everything we do is tracked and logged in fine detail. Huge companies do this every second of every day. Many folks, including me, don&#x27;t like it. Each day my feed is full of news from these companies offering new products and services.<p>But when a new company comes along that is trying to break that cycle? Suddenly a ton of people pop out of the woodwork to warn us there might be a privacy concern.<p>Ok sure, but where the hell were you guys when Apple talked about it&#x27;s new file system, or LG released new smart TVs, or when a dozen other newsworthy things happened in the last week from big companies who are scooping up all of our data? These are not companies that <i>might</i> scoop up data. These are companies that are <i>already doing it</i>.<p>Look, I&#x27;m full-bore tinfoil hat guy, but after watching this for years, there seems to be a lot of selective outrage going on online. Some folks get a free pass. Some folks get trashed for much less. I find that very odd.

While I rarely looked at the code behind a browser (mostly webkit, to debug some weird stuff with capybara-webkit), it is highly uncomfortable to me to use a non-free browser... Does it track my behavior, do they sell that information - I don&#x27;t have time to mess around with Wireshark and see what it does;<p>On the &quot;history&quot; upgrade idea - that&#x27;s a really cool one; It&#x27;s quite often that I&#x27;m looking for that page I accessed last year, or that youtube video somebody sent me a few months ago, and I forgot it&#x27;s name - hopefully chromium&#x2F;firefox steal this idea and improve upon it;

As nice as all the features they&#x27;ve added are, I can&#x27;t help but see Vivaldi as &quot;Chromium but Blink probably isn&#x27;t completely up to date&quot;, and it worries me more than a little to use a browser where the latest (potentially high impact) changes to the browser rendering engine aren&#x27;t remedied until the next browser patch.

I have used tools like this in the past, to track how I spend my time while browsing.<p>I made it a habit to look at the tool after a session of browsing, and try to understand if my browsing was productive or not. Then try to think what I would to differently the next time.<p>This can help improving your browsing habits.<p>Now, the title feels a bit like clickbait (had to click to get an idea of what it was about).

One so-far-unsolved problem for me in browsers is how to make using multiple profiles at the same time smooth without adding many windows to desktop.<p>I&#x27;m using Chrome and run several profiles: personal, work, social media etc. Since I tend to use all of these throughout the day, I have several browser windows and several tabs. This is not very convenient. I would prefer system where I could share the same window with multiple profiles, maybe even having a list a combined list of tabs from different profiles on the left side.

It&#x27;s good to see a company trying to push browsers forward again. Seems like once again things have stagnated a bit with the current browser experiences.

Vivaldi looks so stable and rock solid, uses Blink engine, although the title is a clickbait. About the history feature, if a website is important i will bookmark it, i want history only for that session, not save it for future search, again that&#x27;s my opinion. However the features like tab muting, taking notes are very good and that&#x27;s what the user needs. Wish it would have been Open Source. I prefer Vivaldi over IE. But Firefox MasterRace!

Wouldn&#x27;t it be great if the browser could be configured to simply sync this information to a calendar app of your choosing?<p>This way, be it local or an online service like Google Calendar, the data would be under your control and would make sense across computers, and could be viewed in relation to other time-based data.<p>i.e. if your tweets also ended up in a calendar you could see the tweets that led to a browse, that led to a bookmark, that led to a new tweet. You could later on make sense of your own activities.<p>If I were at Google, this is what I&#x27;d want to work on: How to bring together data to make it useful for the user, rather than just useful as part of a profile for advertisers. History is a lot less scary when it provides the user with the bulk of the value.

Would prefer it, if it was simply a plugin.

Syncing feature is still missing while a lot of things are being introduced, which is hard to tolerate.

My first thoughts on this:<p>- I still won&#x27;t use it because googling&#x2F;favorites are faster.<p>- Somebody might find this useful if he&#x2F;she wants to spy on the user.<p>Not sure if the time investment was worth it. I only use it as a reference browser.