Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

A lot more interesting information on the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)

Looks like it uses Blink engine, first release was 8 months ago. Looks like you can also use Chrome extensions with it.

Uh oh. They made the browser mistake.

There are a ton of great ideas in Vivaldi's user interface. And it's built on Chrome, so you still get all the standards and extension compatibility. They regularly add clever new features that materially improve tab management and navigation. I'm looking forward to making it my default browser at some point in the future when they add sync for bookmarks etc.

I switched to Vivaldi as my default browser 6+ months ago after new-Opera became such an overwhelming disappointment I felt I had to abandon what it had become after fifteen or more years of use. Vivaldi definitely has the old Opera spirit, but not the performance. On original Opera I could have hundreds of tabs open, in Vivaldi I can have 60? not such a big deal, right!? well it's partly that, partly just a constant reminder that software has become horribly inefficient even with scads of system resources - Opera always felt extremely small and efficient. Vivaldi feels big and heavy like emacs (that I also love and use) but less performant.

I feel that came off negatively! Vivaldi is a fantastic modern browser.

On Arch: yaourt -S vivaldi-snapshot