Vivaldi 8.0 Arrives With 'Most Significant Design Overhaul' In Browser's History (neowin.net)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/05/21/1921205/vivaldi-80-arrives-with-most-significant-design-overhaul-in-browsers-history
- Source link: https://www.neowin.net/news/vivaldi-80-arrives-as-the-most-significant-design-overhaul-in-the-browsers-history/
> After updating to version 8.0, Vivaldi will present you with the ability to select one of the six pre-built styles. You can select a minimal edge-to-edge theme, one with the UI fully hidden for focused work, or a power user variant with everything on the screen. The update comes with a built-in collection theme, and users are free to select one of over 7,000 community themes available on the official website.
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> Vivaldi says that while other browsers were busy adding questionable AI features, it focused on "a foundation that no other browser can match" with flexible tab management, built-in productivity tools, and advanced customization. At the same time, Vivaldi does not force the new design onto its users, so those who prefer the previous user interface can go back to it at any moment in settings.
"With 8.0, we have done something we have been working toward for a long time: we have given the browser itself a visual system worthy of everything it can do," says Vivaldi's CEO and co-founder, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner. "With this update Vivaldi feels like one considered, coherent tool."
You can [3]download Vivaldi 8.0 and view the [4]changelog at their respective links.
[1] https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/
[2] https://www.neowin.net/news/vivaldi-80-arrives-as-the-most-significant-design-overhaul-in-the-browsers-history/
[3] https://vivaldi.com/download
[4] https://vivaldi.com/changelog-vivaldi-browser-8-0
Just Another Chromium Reskin. (Score:4)
I'm sure they are adding a bunch of other stuff, but at it's heart, it's just chromium.
Really wish we had a more healthy market for browser engines.
Chrom* (Score:2)
> "Vivaldi 8.0 is being pitched as the browser's "most significant design overhaul" yet"
No matter what they "design overhaul" or change, in the end, it is still just yet another Chrom*. No thanks.
Long time Opera user - Vivalidi is Cool (Score:2)
Been using Opera since v2.x (whatever x was)...like 97. I've always loved Jon von Tetzchner. The way he took on Microsoft and won, was epic. I've still been stuck on Opera even after they abandoned the code base for chromium. Love what they have done with Vivaldid.
Not that noticable (Score:2)
Vivaldi continues to mostly just work fine on most sites. Sadly, Slashdot is not one of them, here I use the Brave Browser for better experience.
No uBlock Origin, Chromium manifest v3 (Score:5, Interesting)
While they are doing creative things with the UI (but not really to my taste), at the end of the day it's just another Chrome browser, so no manifest v2 support and no uBlock Origin. While Vivaldi puts in their own ad blocker safety system, it's nowhere near as good as uBlock Origin. I don't understand why Vivaldi devs don't patch manifest v2 back in. Would be a huge selling point.
So Firefox remains the only game in town for safe web browsing. I keep Vivaldi around for the odd site that won't work in Firefox, but it's definitely not my daily driver.
Re: (Score:2)
Agree. I use Vivaldi on my work machine but stopped updating just before the move to v3. I won't use a browser without uBlock.