Vivaldi (web browser)
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Vivaldi 1.0 on GNOME
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| Slogan | A browser for our friends |
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| Developer(s) | Vivaldi Technologies |
| Initial release | April 6, 2016 |
| Stable release | 1.8.770.50 (March 29, 2017) |
| Preview release | 1.8.755.3 (February 14, 2017) |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++ |
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| Engine | Blink |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
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| Available in | 47 languages |
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List of languages
Arabic, Armenian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lojban, Macedonian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Sardinian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
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| Type | Web browser |
| License | Proprietary freeware |
| Website | vivaldi |
Vivaldi is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Opera Software co-founder and former CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita. The browser was officially launched on April 12, 2016. The browser is aimed at staunch technologists, heavy Internet users, and previous Opera web browser users disgruntled by Opera's transition from the Presto layout engine to the Blink layout engine, which removed many popular features. Vivaldi aims to revive the old, popular features of Opera 12. The browser has gained popularity since the launch of its first technical preview. The browser has 1 million users as of January 2017.
Vivaldi began as a virtual community website that replaced My Opera, which was shut down by Opera Software in March 2014.Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner was angered by this decision because he believed that this community helped make the Opera web browser what it was. Tetzchner then launched the Vivaldi Community—a virtual community focused on providing registered users with a discussion forum, blogging service, and numerous other practical web services—to make up for My Opera's closure. Later, on January 27, 2015, Vivaldi Technologies launched—with the community in mind—the first technical preview of the Vivaldi web browser. Its name comes from the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, which according to one of its creators, is an easy name to be remembered and understood worldwide.
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