14 DAY TRIAL // Vivaldi, a new web browser built by one of the Opera founders and his team, has brought a number of new features including a web panel and lots of other improvements.
The Vivaldi developers are still working very hard to turn this new web browser into a force, and each new release from them is full of interesting stuff. However, as you can clearly see, they still have a huge amount of work left to do.
The browser feels fast, and it seems to work very well already, but please keep in mind that it's still a technical preview, which means it's not even in the Beta stages.
In this stage, the developers are still deciding on what features to keep and what to discard, so at this point it's not the best solution to use. Nonetheless, the progress made by Vivaldi in such a short time is really impressive, and it looks like a lot of other features will arrive soon as well.
What's new in Vivaldi
"We have been hard at work over the last couple of weeks, resulting in a snapshot with many nice improvements and bug fixes. We have an initial web panel implementation, we added support for more extensions, our progress animation gets an overhaul, and we have a couple of nice performance improvements. Today's snapshot includes our initial web panel work. Web panels are websites loaded in the panel area. They are great for keeping an eye on news sites or social media, while you 'work'" reads the official announcement.
The developers also explain that the support for extensions has been improved, the details about the loading progress of a webpage are much more detailed, the overall speed of the browser has been improved as well, and numerous other fixes have been added.
There is still no time frame for Vivaldi, and it's difficult to anticipate when a stable version will be ready, but it's probably going to take a few months to see anything in this regard. You can download Vivaldi from Softpedia.