In 1994, two developers wrote fast and unpretentious browser that could run even on low iron. Thus was born one of the most popular mobile and desktop browsers - Opera. For 20 years, the creators supported the idea of creating a browser, perfect for its users. In 2015 the company changed the ideology that prompted a small team of developers to separate and create your vision of the ideal browser - Vivaldi.
Editorial Layfhakera used a novelty a few days and draw their own conclusions about its perfection.
The new browser for our friends.
For now novelty It exists in the format Tech Preview - the period when developers are open to criticisms and suggestions that indicate the direction of further development of the browser and modify only the announced features. Nevertheless Vivaldi already has several unique and useful features that make it stand out against the background of the most popular browsers.
First of all, it is a special toolbar, located on the left. On it you will find quick access to bookmarks button, contacts, downloads, notes and email. That's right, the creators decided to make Vivaldi browser, in which most wholesome and necessary functions of the user is "out of the box" without having to install additional any extensions. Mail client, unfortunately, that is not available, but take notes or add contacts, you can now, and make it really convenient.
The second feature is the steep Quick Commands mode - sort of a local Spotlight. It called it the key combination ⌘ + G on OS X or F2 on Windows. In this case, the owners of Mac computers is worth considering that hotkey for now only works in English layout. Nevertheless, it is one of the most convenient ways to navigate within the browser. Here a list of all of the tabs, and quick access to the most popular topics, and even organic search.
Fans keep open many tabs will also appreciate the possibility to group them by simply dragging each other. And for easy navigation among your favorite pages suitable feature of combining popular pages into thematic folders and separate pages.
Maybe, Vivaldi design can not be called an incredibly attractive and lovers install third-party extensions will stay out of work, but the novelty does not take away the speed and convenience. The browser is actually much less greedy in terms of memory than Safari and especially Google Chrome. Well, the developers set out to create the world's fastest browser, and as long as they have it pretty well.
Assess the benefits of new products can now, and to do so will not only owners MacBut also users Windows and even Linux.
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