Vivaldi – a new web browser for demanding users
Vivaldi Technologies has launched the first major release of its desktop browser – Vivaldi 1.0.
Vivaldi originally aimed to target users who struggle to fit multiple open tabs on one screen.
“We set out on a mission to make web browsers powerful again,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Vivaldi head and Opera Software co-founder.
Vivaldi is built on Chromium, Google’s open-source browser project on which Google Chrome is built.
The browser supports Chrome add-ons, though the company said you shouldn’t need too many thanks to its standard features.
Key features included in Vivaldi 1.0 are listed below.
Tab Stacks, Tab Stack Tiling, and Sessions
Tab Stacks lets you create groups of tabs by dragging one tab onto another.
You can then tile the stack, which will display all the tabs in a stack on the screen at the same time.
You can also save your favourite set of tabs.
Notes
Mark a quote and save it as a note.
Quick commands, gestures, and shortcuts
Access open tabs, bookmarks, history, and settings through a command interface.
Users can also type a character to specify a particular search engine they want to use.
Typing “w List of common misconceptions” will take you to the English Wikipedia, for example.
Vivaldi also supports mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts that remove the need to click on buttons or traverse a context menu.
Speed Dial
Vivaldi lets you add websites to a dashboard, automatically creating a thumbnail image from a screenshot of the site.
Web Panels
View websites in your Vivaldi sidebar.
More on Vivaldi and web browsers
Hands-on with new web browser Vivaldi
The most popular Internet browsers in the world
Microsoft Edge not getting a native ad blocker
Loading ...