Vivaldi is an intuitive and very appealing piece of software whose main purpose resides in offering you a new way of browsing the Internet. Despite being based on the Chromium engine, it offers a series of additional tools and components to serve your every need when visiting your favorite webpages.
Feature-packed yet unobtrusive GUI
The program displays a compact and intuitive user interface, allowing you to open multiple tabs and organize them with the help of the ‘Tabs Stacks’ feature, so you can switch between them with ease, either via mouse actions or keyboard shortcuts. However, it cannot run in multiple instances or several simultaneous windows.
In a retractable side-panel, Vivaldi offers you various handy tools to enhance your browsing experiences, while also providing you with one-click access to its ‘Settings’ window, enabling you to customize its usage to suit your particular needs. These are also accessible by clicking on the utility’s icon in the upper left corner, which reveals a series of menus and submenus.
Visit websites, create bookmarks or write down notes in just a few moves
Vivaldi allows you to surf the Internet just like any other browser, offering you basic functions as such ‘Forward’, ‘Back’, ‘Home’ or ‘Refresh’, as well as a search box that can perform Google lookups.
It also offers a more advanced feature, ‘Site Info’, which provides you with details about the cookies and site data, letting you manage ‘Permissions’ (images, JavaScript, plugins, popups, notifications, mouse lock or others) and view ‘Connection’ information; this can prove useful, particularly if you are concerned about your online safety.
From the side-panel, you can access and manage your ‘Bookmarks’, being able to group them into categories, open them in other tabs or remove them altogether. You can also manage your contacts’ information (email address, phone number, postal address) or you can write down notes and grab screenshots of the current webpage.
Moreover, Vivaldi offers extensive support for keyboard shortcuts, allowing you to perform almost any action you need through a few keystrokes. These can be customized from the ‘Settings’ section, along with other ‘Appearance’ related aspects and ‘Privacy’ preferences.
Changelog:
- Today we launched Vivaldi 1.2, with custom mouse gestures. Simply draw the shape, add some other touches, and – presto! – you have your very own mouse gesture.
- Zoom is also one of our most popular features, particularly for accessibility. Now you can set the zoom level for each tab, and we expanded the zoom range. It now runs from 20% to 500%. Happy browsing.
- We also added a new Tabs Page setting, which lets users select any web page at the starting point of a new tab. And, new shortcuts also let users close multiple tabs at once, or apply any command to a selected group of tabs.
- Catalan is our new language for this update, so Vivaldi now speaks 52 languages total.
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32-bit Download
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Vivaldi.1.2.490.39.exe
64-bit Download (Experimental)
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Vivaldi.1.2.490.39.x64.exe
32/64-bit PAF Portable
Language not set by installer
No menu to choose 32- and/or 64-bit in combined installer (sorry)
VivaldiPortable_1.2.490.39_32bit_Multilingual.paf
Vivaldi64Portable_1.2.490.39_64bit_Multilingual.paf
VivaldiPortable_1.2.490.39_32-64bit_Multilingual.paf