Still the best thing I ever did to allow me to check what versions of @Vivaldi Browser we have out in public at any given time
finger vivaldiversion@happynetbox.com
Works on all desktop platforms.
Go on… finger Vivaldi yourself. 😉
Ruarí Ødegaard
Ruarí Ødegaard
ruario_at_social.vivaldi.net@momostr.pink
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I work in QA for #VivaldiBrowser and also handle much of the release process for desktop products.
I generally favour very simple technologies that allow me to better understand and fix things. On the other hand Vivaldi is so powerful and permits so much flexibility, that I love it anyway. 😉
I am also a keen #unicyclist and a fan of other unusual simple cycles. #ActiveTransport for the win! 🚴
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Oulipo account: https://oulipo.social/@ruario
Vivaldi Version Tracker 🤖: https://social.vivaldi.net/@vivaldiversiontracker
Vivaldi team member: https://vivaldi.com/team/
Vivaldi snapshot users, who use Google or Bing for search. Have anyone seen the following prompt on startup in the last couple of snapshot snapshots?
So I just discovered that proprietary media (H.264, AAC, etc.) was not working with the Snap version of @Vivaldi Browser on Linux—I mean .snap packages, not Snapshots.
I found this out as I attempted to use the Snap version to play a video and it failed. I am on vacation at the moment and not really monitoring our forums or bug tracker right now. I addition I do not usually use the Snap at home personally, so this was just by chance. 😱
On investigating, it seems that on 2024-12-17T13:39:10.926512+00:00 (last Tuesday) the "chromium-ffmpeg" snap package that we use to provide support for proprietary media was updated by Canonical and version 115541 (which we were still using) was removed entirely.
Since I can update things myself and most of my colleagues are likely asleep I have now switched the Vivaldi 7.0 Snap to use "chromium-ffmpeg-118887" (which Canonical offer now) and released this live as of 2024-12-23T00:03:01.156148+00:00. That seems to have resolved it for me. If anyone is using the Snap version of Vivaldi, could you also confirm (after a Snap refresh and a restart of the browser) that it works for you also.
There is a test video (with sound) here for you to check against:
#Snapcraft
Vivaldi Browser Help
HTML5 Proprietary Media | Linux | Vivaldi Browser Help
HTML5 “proprietary” audio and video includes all media types that are patented, such H.264 (video) and AAC (audio). Find out how to install & t...
For you Vivaldi users using Flathub who are wondering where the 7.0.3495.26 update is. I made the changes on a branch 3 hours back but I cannot make things live without a test build created by Flathub and there is quite a backlog on Flathub's buildbot instance right now. It looks like there was a massive rebuild of KDE packages.
So again, the lack of update is not a reflection on how much I care about Flatpak, it is just delays inherent in the system used to roll out.