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Let me tell you about the web browser that I've been using for the longest time in my life (in different incarnations basically since the late 90s). I'm talking about Vivaldi<\/a>, the<\/strong> browser for power users and - in my opinion - web developers.<\/p>\n

A bit of history<\/h2>\n

Vivaldi is in a sense the legacy of the Opera browser. It has the same founder and in large parts the same team. A team that was a big contributor to the open web standards we all use today (most notably CSS). A team that popularized features like tabbed browsing, mouse gestures and spatial navigation.<\/p>\n

When Opera abandoned its own engine in 2013 and switched to the Blink, all the greatness that was the Opera browser, was abandoned. Fortunately this lead to the founding of Vivaldi, which is also based on Chromium, but with the dedication to be a powerhouse browser with all the features you could ever need (hiding those, you don't).<\/p>\n

Features for Web Developers<\/h2>\n

As web developers, we spend a lot of time in the browser and it fullfils multiple roles for us. It is a research tool that enables us to search the web for the answers we need to do our job. On the other hand it is what we use to view our finished products. It is what we test our webapps with, what we need for debugging and for optimizing performance.<\/p>\n

For the latter, Vivaldi offers everthing you know from Chrome. It includes the Chrome Dev Tools<\/strong> and allows you to install everything from the Chrome Web Store. Just as Microsoft Edge<\/a>, it removed or replaced lots of Google services in Chrome, that generally make Vivaldi less of a resource hog and feel a bit faster. In contrast to Edge, you can opt back into many of these services, if you want.<\/p>\n

In this article, I want to concentrate on how Vivaldi helps you as a research tool.<\/p>\n

Two Level Tab Stacks<\/h3>\n

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When you research a certain topic, like "What do I need to authenticate an app with AzureAD OIDC?"<\/em>, you tend to pile up lots of open tabs. Vivaldi has tab-stacking<\/a> to help you organize your tabs. A tab stack is just a tab that has multiple sub-tabs. In Vivaldi this is displayed as a second line of tabs (hence two-level).<\/p>\n

You can automatically stack open tabs by host (e.g. all Stackoverflow questions in in one tab). You can also manually drag tabs to stack them or you can opt to open related tabs in a stack.<\/p>\n

Extremely powerful search<\/h3>\n
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