Seemingly or not, to meet the launch of a new Microsoft browser dubbed Spartan, ex-Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner along with start-up Vivaldi Technologies brought forth the web browser Vivaldi to take up this challenge. So far, the technical preview is more aimed to attract Opera users than to go full-assault on Chrome. Perhaps the market already has enough browsers to choose from but Vivaldi’s chief executive strongly believes that there is room for one more. Chief-executive and co-founder von Tetzchner thinks that he might be on to something and he might be right. It’s true he did manage to make a business out of browsers back in the 90’s when all you had to choose from was either Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
Von Tetzchner held belief that he must truly bring a fully functional web browser which is not as limited as the competition’s. Mainly directed at power users and tech-oriented people who might want their browser to do more, Vivaldi is Opera’s response to the former’s mistakes. Good things seem to happen though, for Vivaldi has a good start with the technical preview that reached 400,000 downloads already and it’s not even in beta version. So, what’s the fuss about this browser? Well, according to its creator is meant for the people who don’t like the current browsers or are just not happy anymore about the current browser choices and want something fresh. Since Opera transformed more or less into a Chrome clone, Internet Explorer has many shortcomings, and Safari just vanished from Windows all that remains for most is either Mozilla or Chrome and Vivaldi hopes to change that
Vivaldi is the new kid on the browser block
Vivaldi is similar to Google Chrome because it uses the Blink search engine (which in fact is a modified version of notorious WebKit), but apart from this it couldn’t be more different. A clean interface that changes colour depending on the page theme, the set-up of a good number of shortcuts dubbed Quick Commands, tab-grouping options, a special mode of taking notes and the all-rounder Speed Dial that Opera users came to know. Although Vivaldi is in its infancy, von Tetzchner aims to offer power users advanced capabilities that made Opera 12 renowned. Word has it that developers are busy working on implementing gesture support, settings and data synchronizing, a mail client, and more. All this is concentrated to make Vivaldi a product that traditional Opera users will enjoy but better suited for the current Web technologies