OPERA VS VIVALDI SERIES
Unlike more minimalist mobile browsers, Vivaldi adds a menu bar to the bottom of the page and gives you quick thumb access to a series of options along the bottom of the screen. But of course, Vivaldi's take on mobile isn't limited to syncing. If you, like me, make heavy use of Vivaldi's bookmarks, notes, and history search, having this synced to your phone is enough to make Vivaldi Mobile more powerful than other mobile browsers. Notes and bookmarks from my phone appear whenever a sync happens, too. The sync happens both ways of course, so I can click the cloud icon at the top of the browser on my laptop and get quick access to any open tabs on my phone. For this reason, Vivaldi is often called a "power user's browser" (as opposed to, I guess, the powerless user's browser).įurther Reading Vivaldi 2.0 review: The modern Web browser does not have to be so bland Its preferences may be overwhelming at first glance, but if you dig in, you can make Vivaldi do just about whatever you want it to do. You can customize Vivaldi the way you like. von Tetzchner, co-founder and former CEO of Opera, Vivaldi's primary goal is to build a useful browser, a tool you can bend to your will rather than the other way around. On the desktop, of course, there has long been an exception to the uniformly dumbed-down offerings of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari-Vivaldi. And since most other browsers copy whatever Google Chrome does, most mobile Web browsers end up as minimalistic pieces of software. If Chrome is minimalist, it's safe to assume it's that way because Google has determined that's what its users want. Google, maker of the most widely used mobile browser, rarely does anything without extensive user testing. Most people probably like their browser this way. You can also access the recently closed tabs by clicking on the trash button at the top of the screen.Further Reading Hands-on with Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users You can also just drag the tabs onto each other to stack them. Right click on the tab and choose the ‘Stack Tabs by Host’ options. They do not even call it Tab Groups! Instead, they call it ‘Stacking Tabs’. This is because Vivaldi had introduced this feature before Chrome so they did not use the same framework Chrome did. However, they have a different look as compared to Chrome. As I had mentioned under Google Chrome, Vivaldi also has tab groups. When multiple tabs are open, click on the rectangle icon next to the camera icon at the bottom of the screen and choose how you want to tile the tabs. You can choose what way you want to tile your tabs! Sidekick also has this page tiling feature, but like I said, Vivaldi gives you options. This is a very useful feature that is unique to Vivaldi. Vivaldi also features a Page Tiling feature which you can use to view multiple tabs at the same time, on the same window. What is really interesting is that Vivaldi is extremely similar to Opera, except for the fact that Opera has a built-in VPN. Like Opera, Vivaldi also has a built-in snapshot feature which you can use by clicking the camera icon at the bottom of the screen. Click on the arrow on the sidebar and you should see an image like this: As opposed to other browsers, you can sync your information across multiple devices by using this My Flow feature.
OPERA VS VIVALDI WINDOWS
This feature is similar to the Windows multiple desktop feature, but is restricted to the browser only.īoth browsers also feature something known as My Flow. You can keep a workspace for school, for home, for friends, etc.
Opera also has this feature called workspaces - you can separate the browser into different workspaces for different functions. You can use this feature by clicking on the camera button at the right of the address bar. Both browsers also have an in-built snapshot feature which you can use to capture the browser screen. On the sidebar, you can pin apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Instagram, Twitter and more! On Opera GX, these apps are also supported in addition to some popular gaming apps like Discord and Twitch. As you can see in the images above, both Opera browsers feature the sidebar, which is one of the most captivating features of the browsers.