Vivaldi tips & tricks

[Eadwine Rose]

How to get rid of the funky fonts that just showed up. It was only Chrome, but this morning I updated and BAM, Vivaldi had suffered the same WOFF2 fate. I have posted this in the Chrome topic as well, to help those out.


How to change the font on specific website(s)?

I found an extension that is easy to use, that saves the preference per site so things are not changed globally, and it still works on those sites after closing and reopening the browser (without extra clicks and reactivating and stuff you don't want to do every time).

What you need to do is go to the Chrome store, and get the extension Advanced Font Changer.

Looks like this:




Install that, and to use it, go to a site, click on the extension icon, choose a font, and hit the apply button. I chose MS Sans Serif on the site below:

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-prime ... 9c9adf3e6a

Before:


After:

[Eadwine Rose]

Now this is interesting. Followed it, and it indeed works on Chrome.

If you go to the github link, and click the "Chromium: Install from the Chrome store" link there it will take you to the extension in the store directly (you cannot find it anymore by searching), and in Chrome it indeed lets you know the no longer blahblah.

In Vivaldi, however, you can still add the thing from that page like normal. Matter of time, I think. But yeah.. if that is no longer available when another update comes through, and you want your old uBlock Origin back, follow this.

BrenTech - How I Got uBlock Origin BACK & WORKING in Chrome 140: Full Guide!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sCizHKQBAQ

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

Store link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detai ... phjbkeiagm


Now if that store link doesn't allow you to install it from there, below are the YouTube steps written out:




How to get uBlock Origin back:

Go to github and download latest stable release, uBlock0_x.xx.x.chromium.zip (x for version number), I unzipped that, don't know if that is needed. He doesn't, but he works on Windows, so.. not a clue.

Put it in a location where it is not bothering you, you cannot delete that folder as everything will be pointed to it.

Go to vivaldi:flags

Find Temporarily unexpire M139 flags (which is now the latest), and enable. Relaunch.
In the search type mv2, allow legacy extension manifest versions, and enable that, relaunch.

Go to the extensions page, turn on developer mode in the top right, then click load unpacked in the top left.

Navigate to the uBlock0.chromium folder and select that. So not the zip, but the folder in the zip.


It has now been imported, you will see an errors button, click that, clear all. They might come back but the extension works just fine.


If you have never removed the extension, and it still is in the extensions overview, no need to download the latest stable and do all the above. Just enable the two flags and turn on developer mode.

[Jerry3904]

I haven't noticed this yet, but will start looking more carefully. Thanks for the post.