Vivaldi Beta is now available

[Av Gurus]

Content source

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/03/finally-vivaldi-beta-is-now-available/

Vivaldi unveiled the official beta version of the company's web browser a couple of minutes ago marking the next step in the company's plan to win over disgruntled Opera users and Internet users who want control over how their browser looks and behaves.

It feels like Vivaldi has been around for a long time when in fact it has been less than a year.
First unveiled in January 2015, it is been pushed out in the open with weekly snapshot releases that, for the most part, worked fine and without larger issues.

Based on Chromium/Blink, it is one of the few browsers based on the Google browser that does not just make marginal interface changes to the browser and keeps everything else as is.

In fact, one of the main goals of the project is to implement popular features that classic Opera supported but modern Opera does not.

Homepage – https://vivaldi.com

Download Vivaldi Beta for Windows 32-bit (Size: 34.5 MB)

Download Vivaldi Beta for Windows 64-bit (Size: 39.5 MB)

 

[frogboy]

It is starting to be looking like being a very good browser.

 

[Enju]

It is starting to be looking like being a very good browser.

I am currently using it instead of my trusted Seamonkey and it's feeling incredibly smooth and good looking! As soon as they integrate their mail client I'll move to Vivaldi.

 

[Deleted member 2913]

I too was running portable Vivaldi TP..now portable Beta.
Yes looking good & smooth.

All Chrome clones look Chrome.. Vivaldi looks different.. GUI, settings, features placement, etc...
On stable release will be my main browser replacing Chrome.

Full extension support is there now in the new beta?

 

[Av Gurus]

How did you make it portable?

EDIT:
I installed uBlock Origin and it works.

 

[Enju]

I too was running portable Vivaldi TP..now portable Beta.
Yes looking good & smooth.

All Chrome clones look Chrome.. Vivaldi looks different.. GUI, settings, features placement, etc...
On stable release will be my main browser replacing Chrome.

Full extension support is there now in the new beta?

Installed uBlock from the Chrome Store without any problems!

 

[jackuars]

How did you make it portable?

EDIT:
I installed uBlock Origin and it works.

Run the installer, click Advanced, Installation type-> Install stand-alone

The only reason why I'm not still using Vivaldi is because it doesn't show extensions beside the address bar like Chromium browsers and Opera. I wonder why they haven't still implemented this, because it's important to control uBlock, EagleGet because they provide options to control ad-blocking and downloading videos' respectively.

Is there any work-around to this?

 

[Enju]

Run the installer, click Advanced, Installation type-> Install stand-alone

The only reason why I'm not still using Vivaldi is because it doesn't show extensions beside the address bar. I wonder why they haven't still implemented this, because it's important to control uBlock, EagleGet because they provide options to control ad-blocking and downloading videos' respectively.

Is there any work-around to this?

Works just fine for me.

 

[jackuars]

Works just fine for me.

I can confirm that it works now.

 

[Av Gurus]

Run the installer, click Advanced, Installation type-> Install stand-alone

I installed like this (this is portable?):

 

[jackuars]

I installed like this (this is portable?):

View attachment 75854

Yes.

By the way, after installing Vivaldi, running the desktop shortcut gives me a Windows message, "You'll need a new app to open this .exe file". Anyone faced it? Running the shortcut as Administrater started Vivaldi without any trouble.

Edit: Solved this by installing Vivaldi for "All Users" instead of "This User".

 

[Sven]

Yay! LastPass is working nicely on this Beta of Vivaldi! There are still lots of bugs, but I have high hopes. The feature-set Vivaldi offers are a lot better than Chrome/Opera and other Chromium based ones. Can not wait for the Sync feature!

 

[Av Gurus]

...and is faster than others...

 

[woomera]

i hope it will end up becoming the opera i used to love back in the days, for now im gonna stick with the stable chrome.

 

[kev216]

It is a promising browser and it indeed has some features the old Opera has, but the main reason it will never be the same is that the interface is just miles away from the old opera interface. The chromium Opera maybe still lacks some features, but it looks like the old Opera, when you just look at it.
I tried Vivaldi many times, and yes it is not bad, but I always return to the Chromium Opera, since it is, at least for me, working better and I like it more.

 

[OokamiCreed]

Addons shows beside search/address bar. Check.
Lastpass works. Check.
uBlock Origin works (it always did, just couldn't access it without using URL). Check.
Xmarks works. Unfortunately no. So many Blink engine browsers that aren't directly based on Chromium never seem to work with Xmarks. Come on now.

I also await Vivaldi mail. Once at least Xmarks works with it, I'll tell Chrome to take a hike.