There’s a new browser in town: Vivaldi 1.0 (Chrome based) released today.

Published on April 6, 2016 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Well, I’m using it at the moment, and it’s truly fast! Setting it up is easy peasy. And Po’ will love it because of Opera…although it’s based on Chrome, it’s appearance is that of Opera, and it’s really directed at personalizing your browsing experience…and designed for power users. It’s open sourced, uses Chrome extensions.

It is feature rich – like Opera, and that is way different than Chrome and Edge.

Martin Brinkmann wrote a very good review a gHacks.net: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/04/06/vivaldi-web-browser-review/

which I’d encourage you to read.

No point in a screenie, really. Oh, btw…it has the ability to adopt the colors of the website you’re browsing, or just keep to one of several simple themes.

It supports Windows, Mac and Linux.

Sources:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/04/vivaldi-browser-version-1-0-released/Vivaldi

Comments (Page 2)

PoSmedley

on Apr 07, 2016

I'm really liking it so far. Aside from not playing well with Windowblinds, it does work well with Windows 10 style of theme. I just opt out skinning it. It works nicely with some of the more material style themes and I am really likeing the color changing based on website. The green for WC is particularly nice.

So far, it does not play well with Xmarks for my bookmarks but works well with LastPass. I installed Adblock Plus and I'm stopping there. Also trying out Duck Duck, Doc.

Anyone who actually signs up for the email (which automatically gets you all the extras that are free as well ie; blog, social, ect.) feel free to add me.

PoSmedley

fictitiousfellow

on Apr 07, 2016

Thanks for the heads up, trying it out fresh again; definitely worth further investigation.

DrJBHL

on Apr 07, 2016

There's an update available as well.

fictitiousfellow

on Apr 07, 2016

DrJBHL

reply 18

There's an update available as well.

Got it!

Thanks!

captainmoonlight

on Apr 08, 2016

I like it I have all my tabs on right side. Like the windows 7 sidebar and my down loads show with panel on the left side mite be my default browser after play around with for a while.plus its a power browser to,and my tabs panel changes colour with the wed page I AM ON

fictitiousfellow

on Apr 08, 2016

Hankers

reply 14

Quoting captainmoonlight,

reply 13

It doesn't like WindowBlinds.

go to settings inappearance tick use native window try that.

That's where it doesn't like WB.

The titlebar of a window becomes transparent and the min-max-close buttons are not visible.

If they can fix that and also have it touch screen friendly then I would use it.

This is the most I could get the Vivaldi header to skin, you can just make out the 3 buttons.

I set 'Title Bars' to 8 in 'Change Text Size' settings.

DrJBHL

on Apr 08, 2016

News from Hankers:

Vivaldi is working on making the browser touch capable for Tablets. Nice.

Thanks, Hank.

Uvah

on Apr 09, 2016

When it doesn't interfere with WB I'll consider it

Borg999

on Apr 09, 2016

I checked it out. It seems OK. Nothing really special enough to make me want to use it as my main browser.

The overall look is too Win 10-ish for my taste, but I suppose if it gets popular, someone will make a "skin" to change that.

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