What’s Good: Excellent improvement over the plain “new tab” page. If you click through, you can get to the photographer’s Flickr photostream and view other photos they’ve taken. I really like the way this looks, though I wish that you could select categories of photos to use: This would make it a bit less random and tailored to what you’d like to see. It’s similar to the way that the Apple TV Flickr slideshows work, but it’s more passive. Erstwhile photographer paradise Flickr has put its extensive catalog to work toward fixing Google’s aesthetic shortcomings by replacing your new tab page with a random picture from Flickr’s gallery. One thing that has always bugged me, however, is that the “new tab” page is basically the Google start page. I do use it at work a lot, though, and it’s still has the best ecosystem of plugins across all the browsers, hands down. I am not a full-time Chrome user these days, I mostly use it for watching videos with Flash. Download the preview from the Vivaldi site. Nice tab organization.īuy it? If you’re bored with the current state of browsers-and can bear some pre-release bugs-check out Vivaldi. The browser wars could always use another front, and Vivaldi has enough going for it to capture our attention. The final release will also include a built-in mail client-a bit of a throwback to the days of Netscape Communicator. This browser is still in early beta, so you’ll have to wait a bit for a feature-complete release-the beta’s lack of extension support is really the stickler. An integrated notepad sweetens the deal even further. You can make tab stacks, so if you’re hoarding sites, you can keep them organized. I really like that the active tab takes the color of the site it’s on, and the browser looks great on Yosemite. It has highly customizable tabs, which you can run along either along the side or at the top of the window. Vivaldi, like Opera, comes packed with a ton of features. But Opera‘s founders have a new offering for you to look at: a new browser named Vivaldi. Though never as popular as Firefox or Chrome, Opera was always where you saw features like tabs and speed dial before they ended up in the mainstream browsers. Long before Opera became the browser that ended up on everything with a plug on it, it was the Web nerd’s browser of choice.
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