It isn't sending any data to third-party servers at all everything is in-house. Vivaldi stores, but has no way to read, your data. Because of its focus on data privacy, Vivaldi opted to build its own sync tools, and the company did so in such a way that your data is encrypted end-to-end (provided you set a password, which you should). Syncing data is no small undertaking since it requires a server-side component as well as the in-browser UI. Vivaldi 2.0 can synchronize your bookmarks, passwords, autofill data, typed URLs, notes, remote sessions, and some, though not all, of your settings between installs. Vivaldi 2.0 has several headline-grabbing new features, but the most welcome is undoubtedly the new syncing feature. As with everything else in Vivaldi, you can change this in the settings panel. This could be the cure for the common browser.Įnlarge / The default Vivaldi theme matches the top bar color to the color of the site you're on. And by the time its 1.0 came around the following spring, Vivaldi appeared to be on the right track. von Tetzchner, co-founder and former CEO of Opera, the primary goal seemed to be rebuilding the browser that Opera once was-the power user's browser. And given that uniformity mentioned above, it stood out quickly.
Vivaldi first came upon the Ars radar in early 2015.
Or, maybe more specifically in the case of browsers, neither seen nor heard.įortunately for those of us who would like something different, something we can bend to our will rather than the other way around, there is an alternative. The prevailing wisdom of the moment is that Web browsers should be like children of the Victorian Age: seen and not heard.
Modern browsers like Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera are largely indistinguishable both in appearance and features-why bother with one over the other?īut this uniformity is its own choice, the result of a particular approach to software development. Most people seem to get by with whatever was installed by default, and no wonder. In fact, whenever a new bit of hardware arrives that somehow lacks a way to browse the Web, invariably one of the first things enthusiasts will do is figure out a way to run a browser on it.ĭespite their ubiquity, though, there remains very little difference between common Web browsers. The Web browser is likely the most important piece of software on your hardware, whatever that hardware may be.
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