Vivaldi is still in its very early stages but has come a long way. Like many other browsers Vivaldi uses the chromium engine but is very different than all the others. Vivaldi aims to be feature rich and eliminate the need for extensions. Vivaldi is still in the tech preview stage and gets a new snapshot once a week (Mondays). From the short amount of time Vivaldi has existed (few months) they already have more options than the new opera. I have been using vivaldi for a couple months and love it. There are so many customizations and options. For now extensions are not supported but they are coming.
They are supported, but there is no icon in or next to the address-bar.
I think Vivaldi is very ugly. Its bright and flat Windows 8-theme looks quite out of place on Ubuntu, and the window-buttons to the right feels like Windows (so, definitely out of place).
It was added without any problem, straight from the Store. However, I guess it’s useless if you can’t see (and interact with) it. Only extensions you don’t have to interact with are useful, it seems.
Perhaps they will in the future? They’re still implementing features so it wouldn’t surprise me if it comes in the future… Or perhaps they need to be specifically made for Vivaldi? I mean, I’m guessing themes designed for Chrome would only work well if the browser itself has the UI layout and such, I mean, Chrome themes doesn’t have buttons for fast forward and such right?
Personally I prefer a default theme that differentiates itself from Chrome, and I like the Vivaldi default, but themes would indeed be nice however I would assume they need to be made specifically for Vivaldi?
What would be cool is if the whole UI changed color according to the dominant colors of the website you’re on… That would be cool, if they could make the whole UI feel like an extension of the website… Iunno, perhaps that wouldn’t work, I just think it’d be a cool idea.
Edit: And more seamless, for example instead of a solid color it would take the top colors of the site and take them up into the tab but a little diffused or something, so lets say the top of the site is rainbow colors, then the UI is rainbow colorish but diffused… Don’t know if I’m using that word correctly though.
Checking it through, I think that extensions UI is literally the only thing stopping me from switching to Vivaldi as my main browser. It would be nice with an option to close the browser when you close the last tab though, since I use that a lot…
If I want to get to the speed dial then I open a new tab and close the “last” tab… I’ve gotten so used to it that I don’t even think about it anymore, indeed it should be an option, probably off by default.
Its bright and flat Windows 8-theme looks quite out of place on Ubuntu, and the window-buttons to the right feels like Windows (so, definitely out of place).