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it or not Flat and minimalism is in as gradients and skuemorphism where objects and icons look like objects are very outdated to the millennials today and the art professors who teach this stuff to students.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

Opera? For power users?

[jandersen]

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to call it 'Wagner', then? Vivaldi is fairly light-footed and pleasant, whereas Wagner tends to sound like it was written for - and performed by - The Hulk on bad day.

Re: When will Mozilla wake up?!

[jemmyw]

And yet despite its problems it runs smoother for me than chrome. With the devtools open Firefox is significantly faster. I was really surprised and only found this out when having a look at the Developer Edition of Firefox, but it is now my default browser.

Re:Tired it a few weeks ago

[theArtificial]

Julie Larsen-Green is totally a millennial. She's responsible for Metro and is in her 50s. When you start misattributing things to the youth you sound old and misinformed.

Re:adblock option?

[Anonymous Coward]

As far as I know, you can only install Chrome extensions in Vivaldi by typing in the internal extensions page address, enabling developer mode and then manually downloading and adding each extension.

You sure don't know much, then. Vivaldi has an Extensions page (Tools -> Extensions or Ctrl-Shift-E) which has a "Get more extensions" link to the Chrome Store. You install extensions the same way as in Chrome--browse or search the store and click on the "Add to Chrome" button for an extension you want to install. There is no going into developer mode, no manually downloading or installing anything.

The last time I tried Vivaldi, it was a crashy and buggy mess.

Cool story. Given this is the very first 1.0 release, whatever you used was Beta quality at best, as in a not-finished product. How about taking the three minutes it would take to install Vivaldi v1.0 and educate yourself? Or are you the same pathetic troll that keeps saying "Oh yes, I have recently installed [alpha quality] Servo browser and it is crap! utterly crap! and will never amount to anything!"? Vivaldi is a very usable and fast browser. It's also very flat and closed-source. But it's worth checking out if you're not completely satisfied with your current browser.