

But right now, as someone who does still miss the old Opera, the current state of Vivaldi doesn’t impress me much. I’ll be watching to see how it develops and keeping my fingers crossed that it eventually does compare with Opera <=12.

Opera was almost certainly the first browser to implement a powerful tab management feature like that (back in 2003, before Firefox 1.0 was even released), and Vivaldi’s simplistic tab grouping doesn’t compare.ĭon’t get me wrong, I’m happy to see Vivaldi and I hope it’s successful.
#Vivaldi browser windows
One of my favourite Opera features was its windows panel, which provided a filterable tree of tabs that could be selected and manipulated in groups. Opera also had “follower tabs” – a useful feature that display links clicked in one tab in another tiled next to it. In Vivaldi it isn’t even possible to resize tiled Windows, while Opera let you tile tabs how you wanted from the very first version. For example, being able to split two tabs within a window vs. Most of the features that I really loved in Opera are still either missing or comparatively limited and inflexible. Unlike in Vivaldi, there was no need to edit CSS to get the layout you wanted. It almost completely lacks the easy UI customisation of Opera – where adding/moving buttons and toolbars, or even changing the content of menus, was trivial to do. It’s certainly funny seeing them talk about its “innovative new features” when most of them are watered down versions of feature Opera had years ago. It says something about the stripped down state of most browsers that Vivaldi is being hyped for customisation craving “power users”, when really it’s still pretty limited. …but right now it isn’t even comparable to Opera from a decade earlier.
