Posted on 01/28/2015 2:26:58 PM PST by 4rcane
Ex-Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner has revealed a technical preview of Vivaldi, a new Chromium-based browser for Windows, Mac and Linux.
As this is a first release, the big features are mostly "coming soon". There will be extensions support, a built-in mail client, syncing across your devices, but they’re not here yet.
The Technical Preview does provide some smaller practical features. Tab Stacks are a handy way of grouping browser tabs, and work much like buttons on the Windows taskbar. Hover your mouse over a tab, thumbnails appear for each site it represents, and you simply click the one you need.
A Notes panel allows you to take text notes and screen shots for any web page, add tags, organize and search your collection. It doesn’t work as we’d expect at the moment, but the potential is there to build a useful research tool.
Vivaldi’s extended Speed Dials page can organize your favorite sites by interest, context, and even include folders.
A Quick Commands menu (Ctrl+Q) makes it easy to access all the browser’s core functions from the keyboard.
All this is presented in a streamlined and straightforward interface (browser tabs, address and search bar at the top of the page, a menu button top-left, left-hand panels for Downloads, Bookmarks, Contacts, more).
Vivaldi is such a long way from being finished that you won’t want to use it for long, but if you’re a long-standing Opera fan -- or just interested in new browsers -- then it’s worth taking for a ten minute trial.
There are tons of Chromium-based browsers out there, not sure this needs its own post. lol
This is actually pretty good, worth 10 mins to check it out. I’ve been using Opera all this time but the slow pace of its development has been fustrating, so this is a good alternative to keep an eye on
A new browser named after Vivaldi? So it will be fast, yet often times vapid?
But how many are worth checking out? I think this one is worth it
If they finish making it
I’m still using Opera v12.17 and like the Speed Dial feature too much to upgrade to one of the new versions. Thanks for the Vivaldi tip; he’s my favorite composer, too.
I’m an Opera user/addict here as well, and look forward to trying this new browser. The concept of integrating an email client with a browser is just fantastic (not to mention built-in IRC and RSS feeds). Also, the Opera ‘notes’ feature is a tremendous research tool.
He was CEO of “Ex-Opera”?
On the recommendations of Freepers I switched to Pale Moon and was able to find a plug in to get a speed dial that's even better than the old Opera SD feature. Even set it up so that it's what displays when I open a new tab. Very nice. Also found a very nice password manager.
Highly recommended.
Great shades of Netscape!
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