The release of the proprietary browser Vivaldi 7.8 has taken place, developed based on the Chromium engine by former developers of the Opera Presto engine. Vivaldi builds prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Changes made to the Chromium codebase are distributed by the project under an open license. The browser interface is written in JavaScript using the React library, the Node.js platform, Browserify, and various ready-made NPM modules. The implementation of the interface is available in the source code, but under a proprietary license.
The project aims to create a customizable and functional browser that preserves the privacy of user data. The main features include a tracking and advertising blocker, note, history, and bookmark managers, private browsing mode, synchronization protected by end-to-end encryption, tab grouping mode, sidebar, configurator with a large number of settings, horizontal tab display mode, and also in test mode, a built-in email client, RSS reader, and calendar.
In the new version presented the following improvements:
- Added the ability to mosaic tabs by dragging and dropping, allowing you to simultaneously view an arbitrary number of tabs in one window.
- An option has been added to the context menu to open a link immediately in a new mosaic tab on the
