Vivaldi browser review: Powerful features outshine slightly sluggishperformance

Vivaldi is the newest big player in the browser market with the stable version released in April 2016. It was created by a former founder and CEO of the original Opera. Unhappy with the direction Opera took after moving from its own Presto engine to Chromium’s Blink, they decided to create a new browser that reintroduces many of the features and functions removed from Opera. As a result, Vivaldi is currently popular among advanced users and geeks.

Perhaps the most striking difference Vivaldi has over other browsers is the color changing theme which alters the UI color to match the general color of the current web page. A very useful space saving feature is the tab stacking which allows you to drop one tab on top of another to group them together. What Vivaldi has in abundance is tons of options to tweak things like appearance, tabs and the address bar to your preference. As it’s still pretty new, Vivaldi should improve further and pick up more options and features as time goes on.

Selected Features:

• Customizable Speed Dial/Start page with folder groups


• Auto Color changing UI to match the website you’re viewing


• Custom themes with scheduling for day and night time themes


• Mouse and rocker gestures


• Tab stacking, tiling, cycling, hibernating and preview options


• Page actions including CSS debugger, content blocker, color filters


• Side Panel to view bookmarks, notes, downloads and web pages


• Vivaldi button or horizontal options menu


• Customize tab bar position, display, handling, cycling, stacking and pinned tabs


• Custom keyboard shortcuts and quick commands


• Save and load all tabs in a custom session


• Reading view mode


• Bookmark system with thumbnails and nickname shortcuts


• Quick commands (F2) to quickly find the function or keyboard shortcut

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