Vivaldi - the new web browser for power users

While most companies are simplifying their browsers for the mass market, Vivaldi is going in the opposite direction. After spending five months on the beta test, Jack Schofield reports on the launch of version 1.0

Vivaldi has launched a new web browser that is different enough to have a chance of success. Rather than targeting the mass market with a simplified browser, Vivaldi is trying to deliver more power to the people who live and work on the web, whether they use Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.

These people, the developers believe, are those who want to take notes and screen grabs while browsing, or view three or four different web pages in the same tab. People who want to be able to save and reload all their favourite sites as sessions. People who want to do everything via configurable keyboard commands, or use mouse-gestures instead.