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Vivaldi

Andris Pelcbergs
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Lots of power-user functionality that's often omitted from other browsers 

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Allows searching through settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks in one place 

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A feature called Quick Commands (accessed via Ctrl + Q) allows quickly getting to settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks with incremental search.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Can be completely keyboard-driven 

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All actions required to interact with the browser like navigating webpages and changing settings can be performed using only keyboard, no mouse required.
Chloe Montanez
jonmccull
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Compatible with most Chrome extensions

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Vivaldi is built on Chromium, so most major Chrome Extensions work just fine. If they don't, the team is very responsive and will look into issues where they can.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Rapid development

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New snapshots are released weekly.
An_dz
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Tab stacks

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Tabs can be grouped under a single tab to easily group similar tabs.
An_dz
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Mouse gestures

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Integrated customisable mouse gestures. Allows for navigating the web, switching tabs, closing windows, opening settings and other actions with a flick of the mouse.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Allows navigating links via arrow keys

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Pressing the shift key along with direction keys will allow you to navigate between links in an intuitive way.
Andris Pelcbergs
Endi Sukaj
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Allows annotating web pages  

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A notes panel allows leaving notes on webpages and can include screenshots for reference and have tags and organized in folders to help manage them.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Allows navigating to the next page without searching for the link

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A feature called fast forward puts a dedicated button before the address bar that is designed to help you navigate to the next page of a multi-page article, forum thread or search results without having to hunt for the link.
An_dz
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Built-in page capture

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Vivaldi can grab a picture of the whole webpage or part of it and saves it automatically inside a note or as a file in your disk.
An_dz
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Tab tiling

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Tabs can be put in a side-by-side or grid view to make comparisons or read and keep track of multiple pages at the same time. The feature can be toggled on Tab Stacks or by selecting the tabs with Ctrl+clicking.
An_dz
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Tab behaviour can be customised

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The order you toggle, open, close or clone tabs can be modified to match a workflow that best works for you. For example you can choose tabs to toggle in recent order so you can go back and forth between the last most useful tabs without needing to change their position on the tab bar.
An_dz
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Non-closable fixed tabs

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A setting lets you prevent closing fixed tabs so you don't close anything important by accident.
An_dz
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Add websites as web panels for easy access

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You can add sites as panels for easy access them. It allows reading two websites side by side with a simple click on the panel button. Useful for social networks, like WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook & Twitter. Panels can be hidden when not in use.
An_dz
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WebRTC IP leaking can be disabled

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A built-in setting called "Broadcast IP" will stop the IP leaking with WebRTC when disabled.
Benoit Jadinon
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Customizable UI

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Vivaldi can change the colors across the browser and has the option to change the color automatically depending on the page. Also, page loading animations are available in the address bar.
Benoit Jadinon
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Tab bar position can be changed

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Users can change tab bar position to top, bottom left or right
Benoit Jadinon
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Manage bookmarks very well

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Vivaldi has an excellent bookmarks system. Bookmarks can be easily accessible via Speed Dial, side-bar, bookmarks bar, quick commands. No more messy bookmarks bar is needed and location bar suggestion is improved thus!
Benoit Jadinon
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Cross-platform

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Vivaldi is available on Windows, Linux and OSX.
Benoit Jadinon
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Full of customizable keyboard shortcuts (can be completely keyboard-driven)

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It's possible to change and add keyboard shortcuts for basically all commands. It also has single key shortcuts to execute actions with one click.
Benoit Jadinon
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Built for power users

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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.
Benoit Jadinon
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Tab can be stacked

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Tabs can be grouped under a single tab to easily keep track of all open webpages.
Benoit Jadinon
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Cross browser extensions with Opera and Chrome, Firefox web-ext's too

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All Vivaldi, Opera and Chrome users can get extensions from all extension/addon sites, especially from Opera Addons and Chrome Store.
An_dz
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Custom keyboard shortcuts

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You can change and add keyboard shortcuts for basically all commands. It also has single key shortcuts to execute actions with one click.
Emre Akça
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No sync between devices

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Vivaldi does not provide any sync. software or method to sync with other devices such as iOS, Android or your other PC's.
An_dz
Andris Pelcbergs
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Proprietary

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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.
Emre Akça
Top Con

Slow performance

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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.
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Chrome

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Can be used to sync data using a Google account 

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Powerful developer console 

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Allows JavaScript and CSS debugging and code formatting out of the box with support for source maps when viewing minified code.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Good HTML5 feature support

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Chrome scores highly on HTML5 feature support. It commonly shares the top place with Opera.
Endi Sukaj
Andris Pelcbergs
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Highly performant

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Chrome is one of the fastest browsers around. It consistently tops browser benchmarks when it comes to speed, consistency and loading times.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Clean layout

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Chrome attempts to be as clutter-free as possible. By default the UI displays tabs, address bar, couple of navigation buttons and a button for settings.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Heavily tied to Google's ecosystem

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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...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Proprietary

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Users are unable to view the source code, meaning malicious functionality could be implemented without users having any way to find out or combat it. Moreover, users cannot fork it to create derivative versions, or fix vulnerabilities in the code.
Endi Sukaj
Top Con

RAM usage

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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...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Has become bloated over the years

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Opera

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Andris Pelcbergs
Endi Sukaj
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Lots of builtin features that need to be installed as plugins in other browsers 

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Strong HTML5 feature support 

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Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support. It usually shares the top place with Google's Chrome.
Andris Pelcbergs
Endi Sukaj
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Can increase speed by compressing data found on web pages 

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Opera has a functionality called Turbo which increases browsers speed and reduces data consumption considerably by compressing the data that's found in a web page.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Compatible with Chrome extensions  

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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.
GraciousJulunggul
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Free, unlimited, integrated VPN

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A free virtual private network VPN is right integrated into the browser, keeping your browsing private.
Kristaps
Thinker Pal
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Adblocker built in

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Adblocker helps sites to load a little faster as lesser items are loaded (e.g. ads).
Andris Pelcbergs
Endi Sukaj
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Highly customizable 

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Opera is full of user controlled settings. Everything can be imported and exported even RSS feeds or emails. It can be skinned in a variety of different themes or it can be extended through the use of a large number of plugins available.
Endi Sukaj
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Just a Chromium clone

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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.
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Chromium

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Endi Sukaj
Andris Pelcbergs
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Completely open source 

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Unlike Google Chrome that uses Chromium as it's base, Chromium is completely open source.
Andris Pelcbergs
Endi Sukaj
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Actively supported by Google

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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...
Endi Sukaj
Andris Pelcbergs
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Supports all of Google Chrome features 

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As Chrome is based on Chromium they overlap in supported features. Chromium syncs between devices, automatically updates, has great built-in developer tools, installs extensions without a restart, includes a combined text bar for entering URLs and searching and has excellent HTML5 compatibility ju...
ThoroughMontu
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Backed by Google

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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...
ThoroughMontu
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Sandboxing

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Every tab and plugin runs in its own subprocess so they will never affect the whole browser ,however that consumes more memory than other browsers
ThoroughMontu
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Access to Chrome's extensions

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Chromium can access the Chrome Web Store and all the extensions hosted there can be installed and used on Chromium.
ThoroughMontu
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Cross-platform

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Chrome and Chromium are available on almost every device nowadays
Endi Sukaj
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Included as default in many distributions

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Chromium is included as the default browser for many Linux distributions, and for those that isn't it's available through official repositories for easy downloading.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Clean layout

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Lacks support for certain common media formats

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As Chromium avoids bundling any proprietary software, media that requires proprietary codecs or formats such as AAC, H.264, MP3 and Flash will not play by default on Chromium.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Does not provide complete independence of Google services

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Endi Sukaj
Andris Pelcbergs
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High RAM usage

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Just like Chrome, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM, which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Sandbox depends on the distribution

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Testing depends on distribution

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Code may be modified by distributions

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Can't auto-update

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Slimjet

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extremely lighweight

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smaller memory footprint and less CPU usage than vanilla chromium; snappier responsiveness
Rick Gionfriddo
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good compatiblility

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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.
Rick Gionfriddo
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verbose resource management

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allows for unloading tabs after a certain tab number threshold has been reached.
Rick Gionfriddo
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Advanced privacy and security features

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advanced do-not-track functions, separation from Google servers, like chromium
Rick Gionfriddo
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Built in Adblock

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no need to add ABP or uBlock Origin extension. Compatible with lists in AdBlock, ABP, and PeerBlock/PeerGuardian formats.
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Yandex

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Rapid development

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rein
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Minimalistic and beautiful

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Yandex seems to get their inspiration from Chrome and Safari making this an undoubtedly beautiful browser with its unique and good looks.
rein
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Turbo mode

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They cooperate with Opera browser having turbo mode embedded in the browser. This makes the browser a lot faster to use when the internet is slow.
rein
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Very lightweight and fast

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rein
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Linux version still in beta

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