The new work laptop came with Windows 11 installed and the Edge browser as the default. While I don’t especially mind the browser being the default, there ewas one thing which I found a little annoying; if you opened an attachment from an email, an Outlook pane opened on the right side of the browser:
There are a few websites which display content, I don’t want to see and I’ve been looking for a way to block it. I am a user of the Vivaldi browser, which is Chromium based. The browser supports all of the extensions in the Google Play Store, which includes the uBlock Origin ad-blocker.
As well as doing traditional ad-blocking, the extension also allows you to block arbitrary elements of the site. In the caes of Twitter, I want to hide the Bookmarks and Verified tabs on the navigation pane:
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I’m a big fan of Vivaldi browser, but they keep doing things in updates which really annoy me. The common ones are adding lots of extra bookmarks or adding extra entries to the side panel, but there have been others like changing how the themes show active tabs or ,a href=’https://www.azurecurve.co.uk/2023/04/vivaldi-browser-no-longer-asking-for-folder-when-adding-bookmark/’>changing how new bookmarks are handled.
The most recent one I’ve encountered after applying an update only affected a couple of machines (although every profile on those machines) was lots of extra space either side of the address bar. You can remove the extra space by right clicking on the buttons to one side of the address bar and selecting Edit » Customize Toolbar:
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I recently wanted to delete a specific cookie from the Vivaldi browser and it took me a few minutes to find the place to do it, so I thought I’d document in case I need to do it again and don’t remember where.
Open the Settings page from the menu and select the Privacy and Security tab; click the (highlighted) Show Saved Cookies button:
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A recent update to Vivaldi browser changed the behaviour when adding bookmarks. Prior to this change, when a bookmark was added, a dialog was displayed which allowed you to select a folder to which the bookmark would be added.
Following the change, all that happens is a small notification in the address bar that the bookmark had been added:
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One of the things I’ve been finding somewhat annoying with Dynamics BC is that pages open in a small size and need to be manually maximised. It turns out that I am not the only one to think this; Milan Milinčević, a Dynamics 365 Business Central developer with experience of .NET and JavaScript, also thought this, but had the skills to do something about it and created a plugin for Chrome and which is available in the Google web store.
He blogged about the BC Maximizer extension, including technical details for those interested, and included an animated gif showing the plugin in action:
I installed the extension into Vivaldi (a Chromium based browser) to give it a test drive; it does exactly what Milan said it would do and makes every page open full width. I’m going to install it onto my other machines and give it a proper testing, but so far it looks really good.
A extension for Edge is also currently under going review before being available in the Microsoft app store, although you can enable loading of apps from the Google web store in Edge. When asked on Twitter he also responded that he would look into what was needed to make a Firefox version of the extension.
You can get the extension from the Google web store.
I use Vivaldi as my main browser on desktop PC, tablet and mobile phone. I typically install the same extensions on each of them (excluding mobile which I don’t think supports extensions), but have sometimes installed them in a different order which means they end up in a different order on the toolbar (I regularly use about four computers and one tablet).
I have Google Translate installed on all of them as I listen to a lot of German music and my German is still rudimentary, although I am actively learning.
I prefer Google Translate to show up in the left-most position, but it is only there if I install it first.
Extensions can be reordered:
This should probably be obvious, but I’ve alwys struggled to switch the feed off in Microsoft Edge. I’ve never found the feed useful in anyway and want to switch it off on every machine on which I use Microsoft Edge.
To fully switch it off, click the cog icon and select Custom; under the Content heading you can then choose from several options with Content off being my preference:
I don’t use browser private/incognito modes very often, but sometimes when I do I also want some of the installed Extensions to be available. My browser of choice is Vivaldi and it does allow you to enable extensions, on a per extension basis, in private mode.
To do this, open the Extensions page from the menu or using Ctrl+Shift+E and click the details button on the plugin you want to enable in private mode.
At the bottom of the window which opens, click the Allow in incognito toggle to enable:
The next private window you open will have the extension enabled.
I started using Vivaldi browser while it was still in beta test and have seen a number of iterations over the years. Most of the changes have been neutral or beneficial, but one of the latest I’ve found very annoying. I first encountered this in April and forgot to post about it, but I’ve been creating some new VMs and have had the same issue again recently so thought I’d post as a reminder.
The issue is that the active tab is darker than the active tabs when you’re using a dark theme. While I like dark themes, I prefer the active tab to be lighter than inactive ones. The previous version of Vivaldi did have a lighter active tab:
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