Add vivaldi browser

wilburns · February 7, 2020, 4:53am

Add vivaldi browser.

Thank You

ahkok · February 7, 2020, 4:40pm

Already requested a while ago, please read this thread:

github.com/clearlinux/distribution

Alternate Browser Option with codecs

opened 06:19PM - 08 Feb 19 UTC

rbharathkumar

enhancement

Hi Team, I have been absolutely enjoying Clear Linux and the team has been very… responsive. So great work. I am raising this request merely as a reflection of the number of requests on going through some of the issues. It would be really nice to have another browser option, one with codec support. I appreciate the fact that firefox is bundled and works great, but it lags a little on the multimedia front even with youtube. I have also considered the use of flatpaks and have tried epiphany and falkon each coming with its own set of quirks such as the inability of flatpaks to integrate properly with the file managers and so on. From the responses to several of such issues I understand that packaging Google Chrome + Codecs has its own set of difficulties and licensing issues, but how about other browsers. Opera and Vivaldi are two really good open-source browsers with great codec support. They both would do great with the ClearLinux optimizations. Another reason for raising this issue is that because of the UN-availability of default browser and codec support, I have seen people resorting to scripts, compiling code and other ways to get around the problem. This is possible and a good option to technically knowledgeable folks but for others who copy scripts off the internet it is a dangerous practice that can easily be avoided. I hope this does not get closed or even if it does I hope and understand that the team has practical difficulties with these requests. :+1:

Apollo18 · February 9, 2020, 3:11am

Please consider adding Microsoft Edge when they release a Linux version.