Opera's Ex-CEO Launches Vivaldi 1.0 For Power Users

Opera co-founder and former CEO Jon von Tetzchner on Wednesday launched the v1.0 of Vivaldi browser. Vivaldi v1.0, which is aimed at "power users", is available to download from the company's website for Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. The Norway, Oslo company has been working on it since 2013. Vivaldi offers a range of features such as support for Chrome extension, Tab Stacks, Rewind and Fast Forward, and built-in support for custom keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures. There are plenty of other handy tools including the ability to check how much data a Web page has consumed in real time.

Comments

Why the email client overhead in a browser?

[QuietLagoon]

I see that Vivaldi will get an embedded email client. Why bloat a browser with an email client? The Opera email client never really fit my needs, it was too weird how it handled emails.

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Since the early days of Netscape, I never saw the logic behind bundling email clients with browsers.

Re:Tired it a few weeks ago

[Billly Gates]

Whether we like it or not Flat and minimalism is in as gradients and skuemorphism where objects and icons look like objects are very outdated to the millennials today and the art professors who teach this stuff to students.

Vivaldi didn't have much of a choice as this crowd would shun anything with gradients, 3d icons, and colors.

Re:Vivalid kicks the shit out of Firefox.

[Shortguy881]

That first one is a huge issue for me. I'd be all for jumping on the Vivaldi bandwagon, but I cannot put software with no security/privacy review on my work machine, and I will not put it on my personal machine. They either need some security audits or to open source it.