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G'day LateAdopter,

Thanks for the suggestion re chrome://flags. I'll give it a try.

This morning, on loading one of the yesterday-affected sites in iron in a pupjibaro-jessie, the images were displayed, at least for the first page.

This erratic behaviour is a concern but hopefully your help will fix the pseudo-problem for chrome et al.

I'll report back if I see something useful.

David S.

Vivaldi 1.10 is released but it is based on Chromium 59
It is 64bit only and requires GTK+3
I tested it in Tahr64 after installing libgtk-3.0 and it ran OK.
I won't be uploading any packages for the time being though.
I will leave the version 1.9 packages up for now as these may be the last ever 32bit / GTK+2 ones. I expect they will continue to work for quite a while.
https://yadi.sk/d/euoIiDRDqcFnK?force_show=1

OscarTalks wrote:Vivaldi 1.10 is released but it is based on Chromium 59
It is 64bit only and requires GTK+3

Opera-46-stable has gone the same way - 64 bit only:

Note that since this version we have dropped support for Linux i386.

in very small print!!!

I see that the latest Vivaldi snapshot has a 32-bit version. The explanation is here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/146005

Saikrishna Arcot has 32bit builds of Chromium 60 beta here for 16.04 but 14.04 failed. https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+arc ... omium-beta

It's getting messy...

Respect to the Vivaldi developers for working out how to patch the Chromium source code so it can still be compiled for 32bit.

The Vivaldi Snapshot version 1.11 is compiled against a later version of glibc and libstdc++, so unfortunately it won't run in Precise or Wheezy. Looks like 1.9 might still be the last one that works in those, unless they change their build environment to match the previous ones (which might not even be possible).

It does run in more recent 32bit Puppies though, that includes the current official ones and those that are in development. Tested briefly in Tahr 6.0.5 and Slacko 6.9.9.9 and Dpup Stretch.

From packages.ubuntu.com:

2017-05-17
Reflect zesty release, add artful, remove precise.

I assume Vivaldi dropped support for Precise since it is EOL at Ubuntu.

Aimed at LxPupSc (32-bit) but may work on other pups (not tested).....

vivaldi_1.11.890.4_lxsc.sfs

No Flash - BBC iPlayer does not work, Youtube does.....

Probably a "one-off".....

Hi peebee.

No Flash necessary, I think.

With Vivaldi, one would use Mike_Walsh's latest PepperFlash pet for Chrome,
since Vivaldi has a "Chrome heart", right?

I tested the older Vivaldi-1.9 with Mike's PepperFlash, and the combination
works great.

BFN.

peebee wrote:... may work on other pups (not tested)....

I just confirm that this sfs works on Puli. Needs only a few symlinks to access it as "vivaldi" instead of "vivaldi-snapshot". Thanks, peebee.

• Flash OK, needs http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/poo ... 1_i386.deb
  h264 OK, needs http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/ ... 6_i386.deb
  Youtube OK

Same for the developer (beta?) version of tthe 32-bit Opera

https://deb.pkgs.org/universal/opera-i3 ... 6.deb.html

• Flash OK with the plugin linked above
  h264 OK, needs my pet http://smokey01.com/gjuhasz/packages/co ... 1-i686.pet
  Youtube OK

Have fun!

Regards,

gjuhasz

Hello all.

I've uploaded an sfs for Vivaldi-1.12_32 bit (the latest as of this writing),
with all languages provided by vivaldi, here:
http://augras.eu/documents/ws-default/Dpup_Stretch
under the Internet directory.

The md5 sum and the file tree of that sfs are at the bottom of this post.

This Vivaldi-1.12 (32-bit) comes with the pepperflash and libwidevinecdm
libraries included. Pepperflash needs no explanation as to why it's
included, but widevine is used for netflix streams in Canada and the US.
Should you need a future update for the widevine library, the update and
installation script from
https://gist.github.com/ruario/3c873d43 ... 4d29fe37f1
is included in /opt/vivaldi. Just re-run < /opt/vivaldi/latest-widevine.sh >
when you need to.

Since vivaldi takes a few seconds to launch, a wait panel is displayed while
it does. (Thanks to vovchik's bcm.)

This sfs has been adapted for PuppyLinux, from the Vivaldi *.deb archive
available at the vivaldi site, at
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vi ... 1_i386.deb

Enjoy.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Important P. S. for those of you who have a frugal install.

Do not browse with vivaldi on first run. Do the first run, but
immediately afterwards, shut down vivaldi. Here's why:

There is a definite risk that a pupsave that's too small will not absorb all
the caches, etc., created in /opt/vivaldi/profile by vivaldi during browsing,
resulting in a freeze of your system.

Before you start browsing, it is strongly recommended that you move
dir. /opt/vivaldi/profile to a partition outside your pupsave (e.g. /mnt/home
or /mnt/sda2) and bring it back in /opt/vivaldi as a symbolic link.

IHTH

Hi - that link for vivaldi doesn't seem to work properly... gives me an xml file with "SQLite3Result::fetchArray(): Unable to execute statement: database disk image is malformed". Tried also the augras.eu root directory and don't find vivaldi listed among the telechargements / downloads.

Vivaldi 1.12 (stable) is based on Chromium 61
My slightly tweaked package runs out of the box quite nicely in Dpup Stretch.
That is why I uploaded it here:-
https://yadi.sk/d/nzC5YTU93MgVaf?force_show=1
For some of the other very recent Puppies you may find that you can get it to work without too many modifications.


In TahrPup 6.0.5 for example:-

1) Install libgtk-3 via PPM

2) Update PaleMoon to latest version because this has the newer NSS libs needed by Vivaldi 1.12

3) Make sure those newer NSS libs can be found and are given priority. There are various ways to do this, but one easy method is to add the /opt/palemoon directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in first position in the wrapper script /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-pup thus:- For slightly earlier Puppies such as Precise, 14.0 Slackos and Dpup Wheezy there is still Vivaldi 1.9 with updated Pepper Flash here:-
https://yadi.sk/d/euoIiDRDqcFnK?force_show=1

Well, I eventually managed to install the 64-bit version of Vivaldi 1.12 made by Terry H (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 9&t=111963), which worked after following the same instructions of Oscartalks for his 32-bit version and modifying the script so it didn't ask for -- no-sandbox.

With the 32-bit version of Oscartalks, in my 64-bit Tahr 6.05, there was a complaint about the wrong ELF class.



I was upgrading from a Vivaldi 1.9 64-bit Vivaldi.
Thanks everyone.

Vivaldi 1.13.1008.44 (32bit)
This starts and runs in Xenial and Dpup Stretch (both of which have libgtk3 included).
For other/earlier Puppies you may need tweaks or additions or alternatively stick with an earlier Vivaldi.
This runs as root. The --no-sandbox argument is in the launcher script.
You can modify this script at /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-pup to run as spot and activate sandbox if it is important to you. Not really sure if there are disadvantages to running as spot but this was always a bit of a workaround in Puppy.
You may find that Vivaldi 1.12 runs sweeter and this does run with sandbox as root.
For middle-aged Puppies use Vivaldi 1.9
https://yadi.sk/d/euoIiDRDqcFnK?force_show=1

EDIT:-
Also now TESTING Vivaldi 1.14.1077.50 (32bit)
Comments pretty much as above.
Comment out one line and uncomment one other line to switch from run as root to run as spot.

--removed by author---

Vivaldi 2.0.1309.37
Based on Chromium 69
Running as root with --no-sandbox
Switch to running as spot (with sandbox) via a small edit to the launcher script.
32bit version.
Only works in recent Puppies because it needs gtk3 and recent nss libraries among other things.
Seen here working in Dpup Stretch.
Repackaged as .pet and .sfs and uploaded strictly for testing
https://yadi.sk/d/euoIiDRDqcFnK?force_show=1

Hi Oscar,

Wanted to ask a question about Vivaldi: In Phil's latest Bionicpup64 7.9.7, I downloaded the most recent 64-bit Vivaldi (v2.1) yesterday, and installed it in /opt, and set the flag in the vivaldi.desktop file with "--no-sandbox".

At first, Vivaldi seemed to run great.

But, then, when more than 3-4 tabs are open (for example, all tabs here at murga), Vivaldi just grinds to a halt. Then, it eventually locks up & freezes.

Is there something else I should be installing in Bionicpup64-7.9.7 to make Vivaldi run smoother? I mean, I've 8GB of ram (just on this laptop) with a recent corei3 chip, so I am not sure what is going on. Vivaldi also freezed up on my big dekstop machines, with 16GB and AMD chips in there.

As comparison, Chromium, Google Chrome & Slimjet all run like gazelles on my machines.

What am I missing here???? Vivaldi cannot be this slow, otherwise people over on the Web would be posting about it. So maybe I need to install extra libs or something in Phil's Bionicpup64??

Thanks.