Vivaldi Browser

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Vivaldi is a freeware web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Opera Software co-founder and former CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner.[4] The browser is aimed at staunch technologists, heavy Internet users, and previous Opera web browser users disgruntled by Opera's transition from the Presto layout engine to the Blink layout engine, which removed many popular features in the process.[4][5] Vivaldi aims to revive the old, popular features of Opera 12 and introduce new, more innovative ones.[6] The browser is updated weekly and has gained popularity since the launch of its first technical preview.[7]
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https://vivaldi.com/

I just installed it, and it works wonderfully. I like it a lot. It seems fluid and elegant. The sites seem to load fast and without any issues.

Give it a try.
 
I used Vivaldi back at the end of July/early August when Chrome encountered a bad update that left it dying all the time on me. (I'd open a tab and it'd open to a "He's dead jim" page. Which was Chrome's way of saying it crashed.)

I haven't tried any of the new versions though so I don't know all what's been added since I last tried it. But I may need to give it a go again since I did like using the browser and for being still a work in progress it was coming along quite well. (Hard to believe that it's still based on the Chromium engine like the newer versions of Opera.)
 
If the maxthon browser ever fails me, I'll give this a try.
 
I hope Vivaldi come out with a Google Android, and iOS version of their desktop web browser since there are a lot of people using larger Google Android and Apple iOS tablets for browsing desktop websites on larger sized tablets.
 
alakazam said:
It lacks a lot of plugins, but the developers are constantly improving it, so I say that in a year or so it will be a good competitor for Chrome...
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Not really, I mean you can open the Chrome web store in Vivaldi and install most of Chrome's plugins. (I installed Adblock in Vivaldi back on snapshot 1.0.219.50 and they're up to snapshot 1.0.298.15 now...) This is due to the fact that Vivaldi uses a heavily modified version of the Chromium engine (the same thing that powers Chrome) so most plugins will work just fine. I wouldn't suggest trying to install themes though just because Vivaldi is very heavily modified when it comes to appearance and so those themes may not work well.
 
VirusZero said:
Not really, I mean you can open the Chrome web store in Vivaldi and install most of Chrome's plugins. (I installed Adblock in Vivaldi back on snapshot 1.0.219.50 and they're up to snapshot 1.0.298.15 now...) This is due to the fact that Vivaldi uses a heavily modified version of the Chromium engine (the same thing that powers Chrome) so most plugins will work just fine. I wouldn't suggest trying to install themes though just because Vivaldi is very heavily modified when it comes to appearance and so those themes may not work well.
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really? I mean Torch Browser uses the Chromium engine too, and it has Torrent and Download Videos Ability.
 
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Torch could install Chrome apps too if it uses Chromium.

alakazam, why would it be better if they made their own plugins and opted not to allow others? I mean if they use Chrome's they can tap into an already massive library of choices for users. Plus it would encourage people to at least try Vivaldi if they knew their favourite plugins would go with them.
Making their own though would be slower, have far fewer choices and take time away from working on the core browser and making it great.
 
VirusZero said:
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Torch could install Chrome apps too if it uses Chromium.

alakazam, why would it be better if they made their own plugins and opted not to allow others? I mean if they use Chrome's they can tap into an already massive library of choices for users. Plus it would encourage people to at least try Vivaldi if they knew their favourite plugins would go with them.
Making their own though would be slower, have far fewer choices and take time away from working on the core browser and making it great.
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That might be true, but it would show pride and determination. I've never liked it when companies leeched on other companies' products. That's one of the reasons why I never bought one of the latest Blackberry smartphones despite being a Blackberry fan for years. They were too lazy to develop apps for their OS and they just said, 'meh, we'll just leech off Android apps'. A company that respects itself would never do that.
 
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