Vivaldi, the popular Chromium-based web browser, has released version 7.0 with a focus on enhancing the built-in mail client and other productivity features.
About Vivaldi
Vivaldi was created by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner and his team. It is designed as a powerful and customizable browser for power users, offering a range of features beyond just web browsing.
One of Vivaldi’s key selling points is its extensive built-in tools, including a note-taking app, calendar, RSS reader, and email client. This makes Vivaldi a compelling choice for users who want to consolidate their productivity tools within a single browser.
New Release and Features
The latest Vivaldi 7.0 release brings several improvements to the browser, with the most notable changes being a revamped UI with floating tabs, a new theme, and customizable icons.
The standout addition is the new Dashboard feature, which centralizes your Mail, Calendar, Notes, Tasks, and Feed Reader for easier multitasking.
Other improvements include a new UI density setting, enhanced e-mail and sync functionality, and feed reader support for folders.
This update continues Vivaldi’s focus on offering extensive customization options and features for its users.
Installation of Vivaldi Browser in Linux
Vivaldi 7.0 is available for download on the Vivaldi website. Users can choose from various Linux distributions, including DEB and RPM packages for 64-bit and ARM architectures.
To install Vivaldi on a Linux system, download the appropriate Vivaldi package for your Linux distribution from the Vivaldi website and install the package using your system’s package manager.
For example, on Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, you can use the following command:
sudo apt install ./vivaldi-stable_*.deb
Once the installation is complete, you can launch Vivaldi from your system’s application menu or by typing vivaldi in the terminal.
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Conclusion
Vivaldi 6.8 is a significant update that focuses on enhancing the browser’s productivity features, particularly the Vivaldi Mail client.
With the new quick reply, undo actions, and prefetching capabilities, Vivaldi continues to position itself as a powerful and versatile browser for power users.
The other improvements, such as real-time tab memory usage and the enhanced tracker and ad blocker, further solidify Vivaldi’s position as a feature-rich and customizable browsing experience.
Nice write-up but not one word about Vivaldi’s security performance.
@Dragonmouth,
Thank you for the feedback! You’re right, I didn’t cover Vivaldi’s security performance. I appreciate the suggestion and will make sure to include details about Vivaldi’s security features in future write-ups.
Mr. Saive in Debian/Ubuntu/Mint On 64-Bit System architeture you provide a “.rpm” file rather than an actual .deb.
Please fix it I’m really excited about Vivaldi (cause it’s developed by an Opera programmer and I really find Opera so cool) and want to make a testdrive with it.
@Phillipe,
Thanks for notifying us, corrected in the writeup and included correct DEB package for the Debian/Ubuntu and Mint.
Ravi, Thanks for this article. I tried to install Vivaldi on my Linux Mint 13, but it is running into a problem right from the beginning.
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$ wget https://download.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable-1.0.435.40-1.i386.rpm
–2016-07-01 19:09:32– https://download.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable-1.0.435.40-1.i386.rpm
Resolving download.vivaldi.com (download.vivaldi.com)… 92.242.132.27
Connecting to download.vivaldi.com (download.vivaldi.com)|92.242.132.27|:443… failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
–2016-07-01 19:10:37– (try: 2) https://download.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable-1.0.435.40-1.i386.rpm
Connecting to download.vivaldi.com (download.vivaldi.com)|92.242.132.27|:443… failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
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this goes on and on
@Olympian,
Sorry for the trouble, it’s due to missing links, I’ve just updated the links with most recent version, hope it will work for you..
Thank you for updating. I am able to download, but ran into problem with the next step (dkpg). Could you please see if it is similar to the problem that I ran into installing Chrome on Linux Mint 13 (ie Mint 13 is too old)? Thanks
$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-stable_1.2.490.43-1_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for olympian:
Selecting previously unselected package vivaldi-stable.
(Reading database … 176526 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vivaldi-stable (from vivaldi-stable_1.2.490.43-1_amd64.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vivaldi-stable:
vivaldi-stable depends on libnss3 (>= 3.17.2); however:
Version of libnss3 on system is 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1ubuntu6.
dpkg: error processing vivaldi-stable (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for menu …
Processing triggers for gnome-menus …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils …
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon …
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index…
Errors were encountered while processing:
vivaldi-stable
@Olympian,
As I said latest version of Vivaldi browser requires more recent version of libnss3 (>= 3.17.2) libraries to function properly, the only way to install latest Vivaldi you should do a system upgrade….
Thank you for your time.
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WIth great power comes great responsibilities…
Does it have the necessary web security (inbuilt or apps) for a safer experience? (Like Trafficlight, AdBlockPlus, etc.)
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@Ray,
Yes, there are tons of plugins and extensions available for Vivaldi, all of them you can find at: vivaldi://chrome/extensions
It’s about time a good successor to Opera 12.17 came along. However, I found that the RAM consumption is greater than Google Chrome with having its own technologies running on top of the Chromium back end. I hope this would improve overtime, but for now I’m sticking to Polarity for Windows and Midori for Linux.
How about any plugins or extensions? Also how much memory does it eat compared to Chrome?
@Marin,
Yes, you can install all your favorite plugins or extensions by going to Vivaldi://extensions on the browser and about memory it uses much less than Chrome and FF…