We often end up copying text from different sites and pasting it in a notes app for further reference. Then there is our favorite feature – notes. In Vivaldi, each search engine has a letter tagged to it, and if you want to switch to it, all you have to do is type that letter in the address bar, hit space and voila you have switched search engines – so you can go from Google to Bing by just typing ‘b’ and hitting space in the address bar. And the same can be said to switching between search engines. Every time you open a new tab or launch the browser, you see a Speed Dial option with the sites you visit the most just a tap away. There is also the matter of Speed Dial, which is basically a collection of links to websites you want to visit, represented by icons. Frankly, this is the way tabbed browsing is supposed to be, not the current version inspired by multitasking app interfaces. There, you need to hit a button to see the number of open tabs – here you just scroll across them and yes you can even reorder them by holding and moving a tab back and forth. It definitely makes a change from Chrome and Safari where one keeps opening tab after tab simply because one does not know how many are open. It takes the tabbed browser look that many web browsers have, allowing you to see open tabs right on top of the display and switch between them by swiping across them. What we really like about Vivaldi is the UI. We will only know how effective this is in the coming days but going by the stats the browser displays, it certainly seems to be working.īut that’s beneath the surface for the geek brigade. Vivaldi says that this approach is better than the one seen in most browsers, which is limited to stopping trackers from setting cookies and limiting access. You can also choose separate options for different sites if you want or just go to the settings and choose a mode for everything you browse (we did that). You just have to tap the tiny shield icon on the top left corner of your browser tab and choose from three options: No Blocking, Block Trackers, and Block Trackers and Ads. Although it is turned off by default, it seems very effective. Of course, a lot of the talk has been mainly about its privacy tools, mainly a tracker blocker in collaboration with DuckDuckGo. Vivaldi, to its credit, brings some neat touches to the mobile browsing experience. We mean, when was the last time you got really thrilled about a browser feature…dark mode? (Duh!) Well, we would say, you can never have too many browsers, quite simply because as the IE-Netscape battle showed, the absence of options can tend to stifle innovation and new features. The big question that many will ask, of course, is: do we actually need another Internet browser? After all, most Android devices come with Chrome installed out of the box, and Google’s Chrome is pretty much omnipresent on desktops and notebooks as well, be it Windows or Mac. The browser had been available in beta form for a few weeks and is properly official on the Google Play Store. After being desktop-only initially, Internet browser Vivaldi has made its full-fledged debut on Android smartphones.
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