Daniel Aleksandersen

I’ll want Corning’s new Gorilla Armor glass in my next smartphone. It’s anti-glare properties look amazing on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. I’m hoping we’ll see it in more affordable devices from other manufacturers soon! #betterLivingThroughChemestry Posted on Bluesky on 2024-04-25

I’ll want Corning’s new Gorilla Armor glass in my next smartphone. It’s anti-glare properties look amazing on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. I’m hoping we’ll see it in more affordable devices from other manufacturers soon! #betterLivingThroughChemestry Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-04-25

My employer, @jon, is celebrating his 30th anniversary of “working on web browsers.” My first online purchase was a paid license to the Opera web browser (his previous browser company). I don’t remember the exact year, but it must have been over two decades ago. Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-04-25

Hate those pesky consent dialogs? Give #Consent-O-Matic a try! This is a better approach (causes less site-issues) than whichever ones you might have tried in the past. Available for most desktop browsers. #CMP #browserExtensions consentomatic.au.dk https://consentomatic.au.dk/ Posted on Bluesky on 2024-04-22

Hate those pesky consent dialogs? Give #Consent-O-Matic a try! This is a better approach (causes less site-issues) than whichever ones you might have tried in the past. Available for most desktop browsers. #CMP #browserExtensions https://consentomatic.au.dk/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-04-22

My #Zstandard decompression browser test pages now actually works in Chromium and Firefox (with the right experimental flags enabled). Before today, the decompression test was accidentally double-compressed. Zstd is on the track to be enabled by default in Chromium. #WebDev https://www.daniel.priv.no/tools/zstd-browser-test/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-03-17

‘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.

Geolocation for MacOS and Customizable Address Field Suggestions – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3070.3

Vivaldi now uses CoreLocation for geolocation on MacOS. Categories in the address field suggestions drop-down can now be reordered. Mail and Calendar accounts supports Fastmail OAuth logins. Plus 20 other changes and fixes!