Modern classic - Vivaldi 1.0 browser

Hello!

Today is a significant day for you - the first final version of the Vivaldi browser is coming out. And the generalization here is not figurative - what we were able to do today, we did only thanks to you, our users. You helped us test the weekly builds, sent us your ideas and wishes, and you just urged us on, not letting us relax and filo. But, most importantly, all these fourteen months since the release of the first public test version, you have let us know that you need a browser like Vivaldi, you are waiting for it and hope that it will not deceive your hopes.

Well, that kind of attention is expensive. And we tried to give everything in full. If you remember, once the Opera browser went to the top of its development for fifteen years, filling with useful and irreplaceable functions, developing controls both the browser itself and the content displayed in it. We are currently still far from that level, but what has already been done allows us to say with confidence: we will go the opera way in a year or two. Look at the volume of all the functions implemented to date - I’m sure that the list of what you want to see in Vivaldi in addition to this will be much more modest:



If you remember, a little over a year ago, we conducted a survey among users to determine the most popular features. The full list contained 48 items, and today almost half of them are fully or partially implemented:


Let's dwell on some of these functions, but for a start - a couple more words.

Modern classic

As you probably already understood, the main motto of our first final version is modern classics. This means that the Vivaldi browser not only includes the latest technologies, but also aims to return to the browser market some classic principles that today are almost irretrievably lost by most browsers. But these principles are simple and clear: by default, the user must have the most accessible set of functions for working in the network in the browser, while the browser developers give him maximum freedom in configuration and management, allowing him to flexibly adapt the browser to his needs. To do this, of course, is much more difficult than to say, but at the moment we are doing it, and in our opinion, it’s quite good.

Grouping and placing tabs

Grouping tabs is one of the classic ways to clean up dozens of open pages. It's simple: drag one tab over another and get a group of tabs. But we decided to slightly improve this function, following current trends in increasing the size of displays. Using the placement function, you can arrange several tabs of the group in one window at once and work with them simultaneously:


By the way, you can place in this way not only grouped tabs, but also regular ones - just select them by holding the Ctrl key and then select the appropriate type of placement.

Notes

Here, traditions are also combined with certain innovations. Now you can not only create a text note by highlighting the text on the page, but also save a link to the source and even a screenshot of the original page - in case it disappears from the network over time. Additionally, you can attach various files to the note, which further expands the capabilities of this classic browser function:


Web panels

Web panels for the first time, if I am not mistaken, appeared in Netscape Communicator in 1996 - it was then that the ability to place some content appeared in the sidebar of the browser. 20 years have passed, but that good idea continues to live and develop in new browsers. For example, in Vivaldi. Of course, today web panels provide users with much more features than before. And they look more attractive in appearance - if there is a mobile version of the website, Vivaldi will use it as a web panel:


Express panel

At one time it was a very popular opera function. So popular that almost all browsers have adopted it in one form or another, and today it is a real classic. Frankly, we have not been very actively involved in this component of the browser, but we have a lot of ideas. So this year you will find many pleasant surprises here. Well, for now, we have only slightly expanded the capabilities of the Express Panel by adding the creation of folders. In fact, we have made it possible to create many Express panels and switch between them in one click. Try it - you will surely like it:


Settings, settings ...

If you closely monitor the release of test assemblies, you may already have noticed that almost every new version adds new settings. In fact, browser settings are a completely traditional component that no browser can do without. But in fact, today the number of possible combinations of settings available in Vivaldi exceeds one million! It is probably hard today to find another browser that provides a similar variety. But we have just begun:


Everything is just beginning.

Indeed, today we are only at the beginning of the way, and the version of our browser is proud number 1.0. This is the starting point, the foundation on which we begin to build a new modern browser. Modern, but preserving good classical traditions, and not only preserving, but also raising them to a new, modern level. Another round of browser history has begun - let's go along it together.

That's all. Remember to install the first final version of the Vivaldi browser:

And also do not forget to report on errors found - we traditionally have them. :-)