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Hands-On With the Vivaldi Browser

Posted by Soulskill on from the does-not-consume-all-available-memory dept.

justthinkit writes: Vivaldi is billing itself as the power user's browser, and Ars went hands-on with it today. They say, "Vivaldi has so many great features, but it can be a little frustrating because it is still very much a technical preview. It's been largely stable during testing (most of the bugs we encountered using the first release are gone in the second), but it's still missing some key features." It appears to have the cred, with Vivaldi's CEO being Jon S. von Tetzchner, the co-founder and former CEO of Opera. Does the thinking behind Vivaldi appeal to you? Do you plan to switch when it's more feature-complete?

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  1. Looks like Windows 3 by bjwest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why in hell are we going back to 2D windows? Hell, we just go to the point where they were looking decent, and now everyone's going back to that ugly flat-ass look of the 90's?

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  2. Re:Not even slightly interested by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Given that I don't like bloat, no, Vivaldi holds no interest for me. I don't need a swiss army knife to browse the web. I need a stable, fast web browser with support for my chosen extensions.

    You like the "infantile interface they refer to. I want control of my browser, Safari gives none, Firefox gives little, so I'm downloading VIvaldi and giving it test run.

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  3. Re:Not even slightly interested by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ironically it's the swiss-army-knife gecko-based Seamonkey that's less bloated and faster than 'fast & lightweight' Firefox nowadays.