Opera founder Jon von Tetzchner today launches its new browser, Vivaldi. This was turning in beta since last year, but can be seen with the release of version 1.0 as ‘ready to use’. PCM takes a closer look.
Vivaldi is a browser that is built on Chromium. If you want, you can also add Chrome extensions. Furthermore, traps the many possibilities to adapt the interface to taste, and there are, in particular, in the field of built-in tabs, a lot of tricks.
Read more about the original announcement of Vivaldi and the ideas behind .
Dowload Vivaldi here .
Quirky interface
The browser lets you reposition different elements. For example, you can use the tab bar is not only attach to the top, but also at the bottom or the side. The address bar and move a panel with shortcuts to key functions.
There are also set verscheide color themes and determines whether the backgrounds of tabs meekleuren with the websites you visit – for example, red for PCM, blue for Facebook. Incidentally, is the setting screen more hidden away. The radartje you find at the bottom of the gray side panel, or press Alt + P
Vivaldi with the tab toolbar to the side and the address at the bottom.
Navigate with keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures
as far as the creators of Vivaldi, use as little as possible mouse. There are built around the 100 shortcuts to different functions, you can create or change also itself. Tip: Press the browser Ctrl + F1 spiekfbrief to see with an overview of all options
Navigate you just the mouse, you can use mouse gestures . You do this by holding down the right and to “draw” with certain movements. For example, you open a new tab by pulling the mouse down. Or are you going back by swiping left a page.
Tabs to manage and group
If a lot of work done in the browser knows how quickly the tab bar fills up with websites and what a hellish chore it can be to find the site you want. There are handy extensions to alleviate the suffering, but Vivaldi has already built several options to bring order to the chaos.
For instance, you can bring together different tabs in a group by dragging them together. The group similar tabs Vivaldi does this automatically. A group takes the form of a folder full of sites where you can switch between, inter alia, with the keyboard shortcut Alt + Tab .
Do you choose the tab toolbar on the side of keeping your browser window, tabs can be placed horizontally
Furthermore, you can quickly view the different tabs at once by giving them stack . The stack button at the bottom of the browser (right) Here you determine the layout.
Four ‘stacked’ tabs next to each other.
make a List
Vivaldi has built Scraps standard, similar to Microsoft’s Edge. You can find the option in the gray panel. With the plus icon you make new notes to. You can also save portions of text on sites by selecting the word and choosing select Paste new note
Notes are to provide further screenshots and attachments. The link to the website where the text comes from, will be saved. The notes you made, are also divided into folders.
Finally: Manage Speed Dial and panels
Open Vivaldi or a new tab, you will come standard with the Speed Dial (Speed Dial) off. You can save websites you visit often, so you can quickly. You can also post them into subcategories that you can decide, like ‘news’, ‘social’ or ‘tech’. Tip: You can adjust among other things, the quick dialer background under Settings & gt; quick dialer page .
one final trick: Vivaldi lets you open websites called webpanelen . Open your site as a panel, it remains always active in addition to the websites you visit beyond. A convenient application for this is that your example, your Twitter feed can keep open while you’re out there just to access other sites
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