Slant community chat on DiscoursePro Allows searching through settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks in one place
A feature called Quick Commands (accessed via Ctrl + Q) allows quickly getting to settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks with incremental search.
Pro Lots of power-user functionality that's often omitted from other browsers
Vivaldi includes lots of niche functionality such as the ability to move tabs to any side of the screen, turn images on and off, or render pages with monospace fonts.
Pro Can be completely keyboard-driven
All actions required to interact with the browser like navigating webpages and changing settings can be performed using only keyboard, no mouse required.
Con No sync between devices
Vivaldi does not provide any sync. software or method to sync with other devices such as iOS, Android or your other PC's.
Con Slow performance
Starting up and page loads are way slower than competitive browsers. As the page loads Vivaldi tries to find the color code for the top bar to sync with page, thus making it load pages slower.
Con Proprietary
Vivaldi is not open-source, but it's also not closed. Kind of a source-available software. C++ code is under a BSD license and can be downloaded on https://vivaldi.com/source/ And the Web code can be un-minified from the installed files.
Pro Completely open source
Unlike Google Chrome that uses Chromium as it's base, Chromium is completely open source.
Pro Actively supported by Google
Chromium was first released as a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project by Google in september 2008. The idea was to encourage developers to review the underlying code and to contribute in making Chrome cross platform and port it to Mac and Linux as well. Nowadays Chro...
Con High RAM usage
Just like Chrome, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM, which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM.
Pro Can be used to sync data using a Google account
Chrome will sync bookmarks, passwords, history, open tabs and settings for both the browser itself as well as extensions and apps across instances of Chrome both on mobile and desktop.
Pro Powerful developer console
Allows JavaScript and CSS debugging and code formatting out of the box with support for source maps when viewing minified code.
Con RAM usage
The high performance and speed come at a cost of an abnormally large RAM usage when it comes to Chrome. This isn't a problem with machines with lots of RAM (4GB+) but it's very noticeable with computers that have less RAM than that and can slow it down a lot depending on the number of open...
Con Heavily tied to Google's ecosystem
While it's possible to forego logging into Chrome via a Google account, the browser is designed to be used with a Google account in mind. A Google account is required to sync bookmarks, passwords, history, open tabs and settings for both the browser itself as well as extensions and apps across...
Pro Lots of builtin features that need to be installed as plugins in other browsers
Opera has a lot of builtin features by default which are found only as plugins in other browsers. Some of these features include: email, BitTorrent, RSS and IRC clients.
Pro Compatible with Chrome extensions
Since Opera is built on WebKit, the same engine Chrome (among other browsers) is built on, it was possible for Opera developers to allow Chrome extensions to run in their browser.
Con Just a Chromium clone
The beauty that was opera on desktop ceased after version 12, now being a windows-only, chromium clone with a focus on not being different or unique in any way. Opera 12 is still available, but should be considered obsolete as it doesn't support standard web security measures anymore.
Pro Minimalistic and beautiful
Yandex seems to get their inspiration from Chrome and Safari making this an undoubtedly beautiful browser with its unique and good looks.
Pro good compatiblility
runs more apps and extensions than Vivaldi or Opera, and like those two browsers, runs on Windows, Linux, and (technically - DMG installers are still in beta) OS X.
Pro verbose resource management
allows for unloading tabs after a certain tab number threshold has been reached.
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