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As of March 2019, Vivaldi has 1.2 million active monthly users.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/vivaldi-mobile-browser-due-in-2019-but-no-ad-blocking/|title=Want more control over your browser? Vivaldi for Android due in 2019|last=Shankland|first=Stephen|website=CNET|language=en|access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref>
As of March 2019, Vivaldi has 1.2 million active monthly users.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/vivaldi-mobile-browser-due-in-2019-but-no-ad-blocking/|title=Want more control over your browser? Vivaldi for Android due in 2019|last=Shankland|first=Stephen|website=CNET|language=en|access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref>

Vivaldi released a mobile (Android) beta version on September 9, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vivaldi.com/press/releases/vivaldi-goes-mobile/|title=Vivaldi goes mobile|date=2019-09-09|access-date=2019-09-21|website=Vivaldi Browser}}</ref>


==History==
==History==

Revision as of 10:16, 21 September 2019

Vivaldi
Developer(s)Vivaldi Technologies
Initial releaseApril 6, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-04-06)[1] (Technical Preview released on Jan 27, 2015)
Repository
Written inC++[2]
EnginesBlink, V8
Operating system
PlatformIA-32, x86-64, and, only for Linux: ARM
Size
  • Windows: 38.9 ~ 44.8 MB
  • macOS: 60.4 MB
  • Linux: ~45 MB
Available in53 languages[4]
List of languages
Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Macedonian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Peru), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
TypeWeb browser
LicenseProprietary Freeware[5]
Websitevivaldi.com Edit this on Wikidata

Vivaldi is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Opera Software co-founder and former CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita. It was officially launched on April 6, 2016.[6][7]

Although intended for general users, it is first and foremost targeted towards technically-inclined users as well as former Opera users disgruntled by its transition from the Presto layout engine to a Chromium-based browser that resulted in the loss of many of its iconic features.[6][8] Despite also being Chromium-based, Vivaldi aims to revive the features of the Presto-based Opera with its own proprietary modifications.[9][10]

As of March 2019, Vivaldi has 1.2 million active monthly users.[11]

Vivaldi released a mobile (Android) beta version on September 9, 2019.[12]

History

Vivaldi began as a virtual community website that replaced My Opera, which was shut down by Opera Software in March 2014.[13] Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner was angered by this decision because he believed that this community helped make the Opera web browser what it was. Tetzchner then launched the Vivaldi Community—a virtual community focused on providing registered users with a discussion forum, blogging service, and numerous other practical web services—to make up for My Opera's closure. Later, on January 27, 2015, Vivaldi Technologies launched—with the community in mind[14]—the first technical preview of the Vivaldi web browser.[15] Its name comes from the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, which, according to one of its creators, is an easy name to be remembered and understood worldwide.[7]

Releases

Vivaldi version history
Version Date Features
Technical Preview 1[16] January 27, 2015
  • Tab stacking
  • Tab-bar placement
  • Notes
  • Speed dial
  • Bookmarks manager
  • Downloads manager
  • Quick commands
  • Mouse gestures
  • Page actions
  • Sidebar
  • Colored tabs
  • Visual tabs
  • Recently closed tabs
  • Shortcuts
Technical Preview 2[17] March 5, 2015
Technical Preview 3[18] April 28, 2015
  • Tab stack tiling
  • Unseen page marker
  • Native window
  • Auto-update
  • Personal data importing
  • Plug-ins on demand
  • Background tabs loading indicator
Technical Preview 4[19] July 16, 2015
  • Startup options
  • Color schemes
  • UI zoom
  • HiDPI support
  • Pinned tabs
  • Task manager
Beta 1[20] November 3, 2015
  • Web-panels
  • Chromeless UI
  • Tabs visual navigation
  • Private window
  • Page loading progress indicator
  • Typed history list
  • Smooth scrolling
  • Geolocation support
  • HTML 5 H.264, AAC, and MP3 support
  • Extensions support
Beta 2[21] December 18, 2015
  • Fast tab closing
  • Bookmarks and notes trash
  • Panel hiding
  • Silent tabs for users (STFU)
  • HTML 5 notifications
  • Global font settings
  • Default character encoding settings
  • Moving tabs between windows
Beta 3[22] March 4, 2016
  • Bookmarks export
  • Interface zoom
  • Web-pages global/individual zoom
  • Double-click for tab closing
  • Color tabs settings
  • Tabs closing/opening management
  • Sessions
  • Tabs hibernation
  • CSS debugger
1.0[23] April 6, 2016
  • Search suggestions
  • Welcome page
  • Minimize tab by click (click active tab to switch to previous tab)
1.1[24] April 26, 2016
  • Closing all other tabs by Alt+Click on close button
  • Open links in current tab stack
  • Keyboard shortcut that toggles all the others on or off
  • Tab closing activation options
  • Importing speed dial from Opera 12
  • Tab stack hibernation
1.2[25] June 2, 2016
  • Editable mouse gestures
  • New tab start page specifying
  • Closing multiple selected tabs
  • Keyboard shortcuts for opening edited URL in address field
1.3[26] August 11, 2016
  • Customizable UI themes
  • Color picker for themes
  • WebRTC IP handling settings
1.4[27] September 8, 2016
  • Individual width of web panels
  • Themes scheduling
  • Retrieve closed tab by middle-click on trash
1.5[28] November 22, 2016
  • Tabs drag-and-drop between windows
  • Integration with Philips Hue lighting system
  • Automatic screenshots in Notes
  • Reader mode available from address field
  • Incremental updates
  • Chromecast support
  • Search with context menu option for selected text
1.6[29] December 15, 2016
  • Tab notifications
  • Tab stack renaming
  • Tabs selection by domain
1.7[30] February 8, 2017
  • Built-in screenshots
  • Mute/unmute multiple tabs
  • Configurable top-level domain expansion
  • Extensions visibility toggle
  • Extra warnings for HTTP websites that request passwords
1.8[31] March 29, 2017
  • History redefined: Structured and Visual
  • Create notes by drag-and-drop
  • Auto-update control (Microsoft Windows version only)
  • Image search from the contextual menu
1.9[32] April 27, 2017
  • Removed web-panel restoring
  • Ecosia green search integration
  • Extensions buttons rearranging
  • Area capturing button
  • Notes sorting
1.10[33] June 15, 2017
  • Custom speed-dial thumbnails
  • Docked developer tools
  • Extension-controlled new tabs
  • Sorting of downloads
  • Desktop wallpaper as speed-dial background (Windows 8+ only)
1.11[34] August 10, 2017
  • Reader mode configuration
  • Configurable gesture sensitivity
  • Disable GIF animations by setting
  • Optional speed-dial buttons
  • Updated Vivaldi application icon and Windows installer backgrounds
1.12[35] September 20, 2017
  • Image properties display
  • File download properties display
  • Control Website accent-color saturation
1.13[36] November 22, 2017
  • Protect against accidentally canceling downloads
  • Resume downloads from previous session
  • Show download speeds in entries
  • Add window panel (phase 1)
1.14[37] January 31, 2018
  • Vertical reader mode for CJK users
  • Markdown editor for notes
  • Web-panel order now can be changed
  • Change order of search engines
1.15[38] April 25, 2018
  • Possibility of having an image as window background
  • "Bookmarks" item in the main menu
  • Access individual panels and toolbars in full-screen mode via keyboard shortcuts or quick commands
2.0[39] September 26, 2018
  • Implement syncing of bookmarks, settings, etc.
  • Add options to support for floating/overlay panels
  • Make tiled tabs resizable
  • List layout for visual tab cycler VB-19167
  • Add predefined shortcuts for moving tabs left and right: Windows/Linux = Ctrl+Shift+PgUp/PgDn; macOS = Command+Shift+↑/↓
  • Tile new tabs in a tab stack
  • Holding command/control opens new tab on history buttons
  • Web-panel suggestions with favicons
  • More speed-dial suggestions, using favicons
  • New welcome page
  • Updated predefined themes: added "Vivaldi" as the new default theme, replaced "Redmond" with "Beach"
  • Set minimum active-tab width
2.1[40] October 25, 2018
  • Create notes from quick commands
  • Notes search from quick commands
  • UI zoom, and support for command-line parameters in quick commands
  • Open items in a new tab via modifier keys from quick commands
  • AV1 support
2.2[41] December 13, 2018
  • Save selected tabs as a session
  • Numbered accelerators to elements in main Window menu
  • Closed tabs access from quick commands and with keyboard shortcut
  • Configurable address toolbar
  • Configurable status toolbar
  • Mute all other tabs via the tab context menu
  • Search box on speed dial
  • Option to show a webpage access-key shortcuts
  • Pop-out video (picture-in-picture)
  • Middle-clicking in back/forward history drop-down opens the page in new background tab
  • Automatically fetch Widevine (EME), to enable Netflix, Prime Video, etc. (Linux only)
2.3[42] February 6, 2019
  • Option to automatically create a tab stack
  • Option to show frequently visited pages in the URL drop-down
  • Custom screen-shot file name
  • Save webpage as MHTML
2.4[43] March 27, 2019
  • Buttons moving between panels
  • Context menu inside folders on the bookmarks bar
  • Bookmarking selected tabs
  • User profiles
  • Built-in calculator
2.5[44] May 8, 2019
  • Razer Chroma support
  • New select/unselect tab options
  • Resizable SD thumbnails
  • Contextual menu inside folders on bookmarks bar (macOS only)
2.6[45] June 20, 2019
  • Built-In Abusive Ads Blocker
  • Unread tab counter in Window Panel
  • Filtering saved passwords
  • Display search engine icon in Search Field
  • Razer Chroma headset support
2.7[46] August 21, 2019
  • Allow to mute website that is currently silent
  • Global setting for Flash player
  • Add info to the status bar when a page is loading
  • Desktop shortcut for user profile
2.8[47] September 19, 2019
  • Keyboard navigation at the bookmark menu bar
  • Resizable columns in the Bookmakrs and History managers
  • Support for hovering across horizontal menu or the bookmarks bar
  • Toggle images via keyboard

Features

Vivaldi 1.0.228.3 displaying the Wikipedia homepage in its "Chromeless UI" mode

User interface

Vivaldi has a minimalistic user interface with basic icons and fonts, and a color scheme that changes based on the background and design of the web page being visited.[48] The browser also allows users to customize the appearance of UI elements such as background color, overall theme, address bar and tab positioning, and start pages.[49] According to CEO Jon von Tetzchner, Vivaldi's vast, unique customizability is a huge part of how the browser caters to experienced users.[50]

File:Vivaldi browser 1.8 session in use.png
Vivaldi 1.8.770.56 with multiple pinned tabs, regular tabs and tab stacks, open history side panel, new tab with multiple speed dial folders and websites and highlighted "Toggle Extension Visibility" button

Vivaldi features the ability to "stack" and "tile" tabs, annotate web pages, and add notes to bookmarks.[51][52] Furthermore, users can place digital bookmarks on a "speed dial" page for quick access and harness "quick commands" to search bookmarks, browsing history, open tabs, and settings.[53] Vivaldi is built around and based on web technologies such as HTML5, Node.js, React.js, and numerous NPM modules.[54] As of Technical Preview 4, Vivaldi also supports numerous mouse gestures for actions like tab switching and keyboard activation.[50] Vivaldi can also be set to a "Chromeless UI", which gives users more screen real-estate and the ability to focus on a single page without distractions.[55] To accommodate users who prefer to use a large number of tabs at the same time, Vivaldi supports hibernation for both individual tabs and for tab stacks, freeing resources while the user does not actively use those tabs.

Extensions

As a Chromium-based browser, Vivaldi can use many browser extensions developed for Google Chrome, and users can install them directly from the Chrome Web Store. Most of these should work properly in Vivaldi, with the exception of user interface customizations, because Vivaldi's interface is quite different from Chrome's.[56][57]

Future additions

The company hopes to integrate the email client "M3" into a future version of Vivaldi.[58] The developers are planning to release their own extension platform for Vivaldi.[59]

Market share

Further information: Usage share of web browsers

StatCounter estimates that Vivaldi had a 0.05% market share for desktop browsers in December 2018.[60]

Reception

Ars Technica reviewer Scott Gilbertson wrote about version 1.0 in April 2016. He praised its innovative features, such as its tab handling, while noting that it will most likely remain a niche browser and not see widespread uptake.[61] In October 2018, Gilbertson gave version 2.0 a very positive review and stated that Vivaldi is now his usual browser and that he would be hard put to go back to a browser without its unique features.[62]

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