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Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta (vivaldi.com)

Posted by timothy on from the wish-it-was-open-source dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Following well over 50 developer snapshots and 4 technical previews (Alpha), the new browser upstart has hit its first Beta release today. Following almost a year of work on alpha, Vivaldi is coming out with many unique features such as tab stacking and tiling, notes, and quick commands for navigating and feature use. Other features are in the works, such as sync and built-in mail client that will be introduced when they hit a more stable state. It's a refreshing take on the browser: as many others are diverging to a common design template, Vivaldi is taking a more feature-rich and customization-heavy approach. (We linked to a hands-on report about Vivaldi earlier this year, too.)

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  1. The browser wars are over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nobody needs a new browser.

    1. Re:The browser wars are over by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yeah, but this browser is robust, and innovative, and refreshing, and exciting, and some other PR buzzwords that are supposed to make us give a flying fuck.

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    2. Re:The browser wars are over by nmb3000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Especially not one that looks like the UI was designed with MS Paint. Seriously... this is what passes for a modern and aesthetically pleasing application these days?

      The Notes feature sounds marginally useful, but that's already in Firefox via one of a dozen addons. Actually, all of their "killer features" exist already or could easily be implemented as addons for Firefox. Remind me again why I should change to an ugly Chromium clone without advertising or script blocking features?

      Don't get me wrong -- Firefox is going to hell too, but it seems to be running a slightly slower race than other browsers. I'm not going to switch to a front-runner.

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    3. Re:The browser wars are over by sydbarrett74 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Some, maybe even most, of the Vivaldi developers' experiments will fail miserably. What counts is that they're shaking things up slightly, and that's a good thing. With Firefox and Chrome increasingly becoming a mutual admiration society and MS Edge looking like it'll end up just as shitty as its predecessor, another player in this horse-race might effect some positive changes.

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  2. Huh? by jbmartin6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "diverging to a common design template" does not compute

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  3. Would love a "simplified" browser project by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> Vivaldi is taking a more feature-rich and customization-heavy approach

    No thanks - we already have this from Firefox (yuck) and to a lesser extent Chrome. Give us the ability to shut off Flash animations and HTML5 video by default on our browser and you'll have millions of downloads.

  4. How about feature-poor? by tompaulco · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We have lots of browsers with too many features. At the moment, I am staring at my Firefox session using nearly 1 GB of memory. I usually shut it down when it hits 1.5 GB. There is really no excuse for a browser to be using that much memory. Including images, each tab is probably using less than 1 MB of space. I have maybe 20 tabs open, so 20 MB seems like a reasonable amount of memory to be using. A feature I WOULD like to see is a breakdown of memory and CPU usage by tab, so I can permanently block sites that use too much CPU or memory. Also, something which can tell me which tab is playing some audio, so I can permanently block any site that does that without being told to do that.

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  5. Dear world ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Other features are in the works, such as sync and built-in mail client that will be introduced when they hit a more stable state

    Can we have a browser which is, you know, just a browser?

    We don't want social integrations, we don't want cross device linking, we don't need an emailclient, a chat client, something to manage our contacts, sidebars, or any of a dozen features we just turn off an ignore.

    We want a browser, small, lean, standards compliant, not a memory pig, and which respects our privacy.

    Stop trying to make some do-everything turd which wants to be the center of our freaking lives. We don't need another one of those.

    Do one thing, a web browser, that's it.

    kthanksbye

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