Wednesday, April 6

Vivaldi 1.0 tries to reverse web browser simplification trend

(credit: Vivaldi)

It's been roughly a year since the first technical preview of the Vivaldi browser landed, and now version 1.0 has been released.

The new contender on the market—courtesy of Opera co-founder Jon von Tetzchner— takes pride in adding all kinds of tweaks and additional functionality, while other browsers on the market try their best at simplifying, and streamlining their products.

Catering first of all to power users, Vivaldi is based on Chromium, Google's open source browser project that relies on the Blink and V8 engines. It is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Unlike other browsers, however, Vivaldi is built using technologies that traditionally belong to the Web, such as CSS and JavaScript (namely React and Node.js).

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