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 Vivaldi 3.0 running on macOS | |
| Developer(s) | Vivaldi Technologies |
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| Initial release | April 6, 2016[1] (Technical Preview released on Jan 27, 2015) |
| Stable release(s) [±] | |
4.0 (2312.27) (June 13, 2021[2]) [±]
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| Preview release(s) [±] | |
2238.3 (March 24, 2021[4]) [±]
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| Repository |  |
| Written in | C++[6] |
| Engines | Blink, V8 |
| Operating system | |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64, ARM (macOS, Linux & Android only) |
| Size |
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| Available in | 53 languages[8] |
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 | |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | Proprietary freeware[9] |
| Website | vivaldi |
Vivaldi is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Tatsuki Tomita and Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, who was the co-founder and CEO of Opera Software. Vivaldi was officially launched on April 6, 2016.[10][11]
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.[10][12] Despite also being Chromium-based, Vivaldi aims to revive the features of the Presto-based Opera with its own proprietary modifications.[13][14]
As of April 2020,[needs update] Vivaldi had 1.5 million active monthly users.[15]
Vivaldi released a mobile (Android) beta version on September 6, 2019 and a regular release on April 22, 2020.[16][17]
Vivaldi began as a virtual community website that replaced My Opera, which was shut down by Opera Software in March 2014.[18]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[19] the first technical preview of the Vivaldi web browser.[20] 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.[11]
| Vivaldi version history | ||
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| Version | Date | Features |
| Technical Preview 1[10] | January 27, 2015 |
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| Technical Preview 2[21] | March 5, 2015 |
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| Technical Preview 3[22] | April 28, 2015 |
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| Technical Preview 4[23] | July 16, 2015 |
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| Beta 1[24] | November 3, 2015 |
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| Beta 2[25] | December 18, 2015 |
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| Beta 3[26] | March 4, 2016 | |
| 1.0[27] | April 6, 2016 |
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| 1.1[28] | April 26, 2016 |
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| 1.2[29] | June 2, 2016 |
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| 1.3[30] | August 11, 2016 | |
| 1.4[31] | September 8, 2016 |
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| 1.5[32] | November 22, 2016 |
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| 1.6[33] | December 15, 2016 |
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| 1.7[34] | February 8, 2017 |
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| 1.8[35] | March 29, 2017 |
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| 1.9[36] | April 27, 2017 |
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| 1.10[37] | June 15, 2017 |
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| 1.11[38] | August 10, 2017 |
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| 1.12[39] | September 20, 2017 |
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| 1.13[40] | November 22, 2017 |
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| 1.14[41] | January 31, 2018 |
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| 1.15[42] | April 25, 2018 |
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| 2.0[43] | September 26, 2018 |
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| 2.1[44] | October 25, 2018 |
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| 2.2[45] | December 13, 2018 |
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| 2.3[46] | February 6, 2019 |
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| 2.4[47] | March 27, 2019 |
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| 2.5[48] | May 8, 2019 |
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| 2.6[49] | June 20, 2019 |
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| 2.7[50] | August 21, 2019 |
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| 2.8[51] | September 19, 2019 |
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| 2.9[52] | October 31, 2019 |
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| 2.10[53] | December 19, 2019 |
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| 2.11[54] | February 12, 2020 |
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| 3.0[55] | April 22, 2020 |
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| 3.1[56] | June 11, 2020 |
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| 3.2[57] | August 5, 2020 |
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| 3.3[58] | September 8, 2020 |
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| 3.4[59] | October 15, 2020 |
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| 3.7[60] | March 17, 2021 |
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| 3.8[61] | April 29, 2021 |
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Vivaldi has a minimalistic user interface with basic icons and fonts, and, optionally, a color scheme that changes based on the background and design of the web page being visited.[62] 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.[63] According to CEO Jon von Tetzchner, Vivaldi's vast, unique customizability is a huge part of how the browser caters to experienced users.[64]
Vivaldi features the ability to "stack" and "tile" tabs, annotate web pages, and add notes to bookmarks.[65][66] 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.[67] Vivaldi is built around and based on web technologies such as HTML5, Node.js, React.js, and numerous NPM modules.[68] As of Technical Preview 4, Vivaldi also supports numerous mouse gestures for actions like tab switching and keyboard activation.[64] 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.[69] 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.
Vivaldi can use many browser extensions developed for Google Chrome and Firefox (they use common WebExtensions API[70]), and users can install extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store. Most of these work properly in Vivaldi, with the exception of user interface customizations, because Vivaldi's interface is quite different from Chrome's.[71][72]
The company hopes to integrate an email client into a future version of the browser, and also plans to release their own extension platform.[73]
In version 2.10, the browser identification was changed from Vivaldi to Chromium. For this reason, since then Vivaldi has almost disappeared from stats counters.[74]
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.[75] 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.[76]
Subject to the terms and conditions herein, Vivaldi hereby grants You a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to install and use the Software and Services for its intended purpose. [...] Without limiting the foregoing, you are neither allowed to (a) adapt, alter, translate, embed into any other product or otherwise create derivative works of, or otherwise modify the Software; (b) separate the component programs of the Software for use on different computers; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software, except as permitted by applicable law; or (d) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices on the Software or the applicable documentation therein.
Extensions, or add-ons, can modify and enhance the capability of a browser. Extensions for Firefox are built using the WebExtensions API cross-browser technology. The technology for extensions in Firefox is, to a large extent, compatible with the extension API supported by Chromium-based browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera. In most cases, extensions written for Chromium-based browsers run in Firefox with just a few changes.
By: Wikipedia.org
Edited: 2021-06-18 12:38:30
Source: Wikipedia.org
