I've just remembered one major thing that was bothering me in @Vivaldi for quite some time.

It's about how address bar auto-complete feature is working for some time.

Right after release and for several years everything was fine and I've used it like any other browser and was very glad about how it worked.

But some time ago (a ~year?) they changed something in the algorithm and since then MOST of good experience with address bar is broken.

I didn't try to research what exactly is wrong yet because I mostly use speed dial, but when I'm not it's frustrating.

Here's one of my scenario examples:

1. I want to open Google Translate.
2. It's in the history and it's the most popular resource which starts with "tra" in my history.
3. I type "tra" and it's not even there.
4. I type "tran" and there's still nothing helpful. See screenshot 1.
5. Only when I type "transl" Google Translate will be selected as default autocomplete option and I could hit enter to go there.

I've tried to rearrange drop-down menu priority in Settings -> Address Bar, but it couldn't return me the same experience I had before THAT update.

One more ridiculous example I experienced some time ago. I have my own Gitea where I store my source code.

I was talking with @blue about configuring self-hosted CI for our repositories and opened Vivaldi to show him example from my repos.

1. I typed "git."
2. I've got @blue's Gitea as default choice instead of mine. See screenshot 2.

And it's still there! I didn't need to visit Blue's Gitea first to make Vivaldi suggest it by default.

It's like Vivaldi continuously tries to make me angry with it's autocomplete suggestions by making me type more to get what I need.

It's not something that'll make me switch from Vivaldi right away, but it's very frustrating. Especially considering the fact that before some specific update it was working perfectly for me.

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