Daniel Aleksandersen

Web design trends I hate: Styling the text you enter into inputs fields in italics. Why‽ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-07-24

New Autofill Settings – #VivaldiSnapshot 6.9.3405.3 https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/desktop-snapshots/autofill-and-ui-density-vivaldi-snapshot-3405-3/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-07-08

“The search for the random numbers that run our lives” — Chris Baraniuk https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240704-the-search-for-the-random-numbers-that-run-our-lives Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-07-06

Ah, I see @Mastodon is now cargo-culting RDFa metadata on webpages. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/
Context: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/rdfa-socialmedia-metadata.html
This new tag should also have been a <link> and not a <meta> element. https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/html-link-metadata.html Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-07-03

—and here’s the more extensive documentation. https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/troubleshoot/decryption-failed-risk-of-data-loss-error-dialog-on-startup/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-06-28

“Please try and disable all your extensions,” might have to go on my gravestone at this point. Yes, all those symptoms can be caused by one or a combination of extensions. No, I’m not surprised the issue went away after you disabled your extensions. #browserLife #QA #ManifestV3Now Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-06-23

Autofill Settings – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3405.3

You can now manage your saved autofill credit cards and addresses in Settings: Privacy.

‘Do-Not-Track’ privacy setting gets legal backing in Germany

Legislators are finally paying attention to concerns about how our digital data is tracked, collected, and stored. Find out what this game-changing ruling means and how it could affect us.

Sync privacy incident affecting our Snapshot test users

A privacy incident affected our Snapshot test users in versions 6.4.3160.25 through 6.4.3160.30 for desktop.

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.

The trouble with decommissioning a used FIDO security key

You can’t throw out your worn-out USB security keys when you can’t recall what locks they’re for. Physical security tokens come with their own problems.

Northern Summer Fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3077.3

Vivaldi adds a new Clear Browsing Data button in the History panel.