
The fairly bare-bones Edge is a good example of this, as was the Windows 8 “Metro-style” mode of Internet Explorer. Lately, browsers have been focusing on minimalism. Vivaldi’s main draw is its bucking of trends that have been influencing browsers for some time now. von Tetzchner | Image used by general permission, obtained from Vivaldi is built on Google’s Chromium, and can run extensions developed for the Chrome browser. So, enter Vivaldi, a new web browser developed by Oslo-based Vivaldi Technologies, a company started by Opera co-founder Jon von Tetzchner.


Overall, Edge didn’t make any great impression on browser nerds. (It still doesn’t even have a full screen mode). But Edge was just a part of a whole new OS, and, at least at first, didn’t do much. There actually has been Microsoft released Edge with Windows 10 about a year ago. There hasn’t been a big new desktop browser in some time, it seems like.

From the co-founder of Opera: a solid user experience, with robust features rarer and rarer in the big names.Īvailable Platforms: Windows (7+,32 bit or 64 bit), MacOS (10.9+), Linux (DEB or RPM, 32 bit or 64 bit)
