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Oracle can likewise either deal with a rapidly diminishing pool of compatible browsers or find some other way to implement their Java software via a browser - that's their choice. You can choose to continue viewing all of this in the narrow terms of a "power-user-unfriendly issue", or you can deal with the reality that browser designs are almost universally moving away from plug-ins entirely for security and stability.

Frankly, I find it rather 'telling' that Oracle is choosing to stand pat with an aging Java plug-in amidst a circle of fast-shrinking compatible browsers. That is Oracle's choice, of course, but it has consequences that make it incompatible with evolving browser technology and security design considerations. For a chromium-based browser to now provide plug-in compatibility, either they would have to freeze the chromium rendering engine version (with all the attendant security and support issues that raises) or somehow provide independent, parallel plug-in functionality without either conflicting with the chromium engine or risking the destabilization of the browser.Īs explained in the other thread, Oracle (not Vivaldi) has declined to offer Java for browsers via anything other than its old NPAPI plug-in form. Currently, even those kinds of plug-ins are in process of being deprecated in chromium. As a result, there was a movement toward PPAPI plug-in technology which (for a time) was deemed less destabilizing to browsers. As such, it is limited by many of the architectural limitations imposed by the chromium designers, one of which was the deprecation of NPAPI 'plug-in' inter-functionality due to the greater vulnerability of browser designs compatible with NPAPI technology. Vivaldi is built upon the chromium rendering engine. I'll keep checking on Vivaldi, but for now it comes up well short of the bar for the browser I'll use daily.

To have the ability (not the requirement: the CHOICE) to run Java in a sandbox for the benefit of those who need to run it but are not able to protect themselves. allowing users to run Java or deny it as they wish. It seems to me that a great feature would be 1.
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Programs for power users are supposed to remove those barriers that prevent user preferences from being implemented, provide options not available in lesser programs and respect users' power to decide how to protect themselves.
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Examples include VLC media player, a multimedia framework/player/server, which includes a complex, feature-rich, and highly customisable interface (and multiple interfaces moreover, beyond simple skinning) with numerous built-in capabilities not typically deemed useful or even understandable to users in the context of other media player suites such as Windows Media Player or iTunes. Some software applications are often regarded as being particularly suited for power users, and may even be designed as such, due to their inclusion of sophisticated function and feature sets not typically found in other comparable applications. According to Wikipedia's article on power users: The sidebar is fabulous and configurable.īut without the ability to run Java on my own responsibility and at my own risk, Vivaldi can't call itself a browser for power users. Vivaldi is fast! The interface for downloading is the best there is. Instead the colors guide your actions and give context to what you are doing.
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Although it uses the same sharp angles and primary colors of Windows 10, it doesn't look childish and garish like Windows 10 does. While parts of Vivaldi show there is some understanding here, its blanket blacklisting of Java shows that it at the core, contains the same hand-holding, choice denying authoritarianism as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Exploder and that Windows 10 abomination. The essence of a power user stance is the respecting of users' preferences and choices. Asking why it is reasonable for a "power user" browser to "protect" users from the evils of Java is NOT sufficient reason to close a thread.Īs a matter of fact, I quote the developers of Waterfox. If they do, then Vivaldi is doomed to be a bit player in the browser world. I hope the management of this forum does not reflect the attitude of Vivaldi developers.
