It seems like Vivaldi’s revolutionary version 4.0 only came out yesterday, yet the brand is here with another update to its user-focused browser software.
Introducing Vivaldi 4.1
Vivaldi 4.1 is here and with it comes a bunch of updates that improve the functionality of the awesome privacy-focused browser.
This follows up Vivaldi’s 4.0 update, which was released in June 2021. So, this update arrives only a couple of months later.
You can download the latest Vivaldi browser now. Just head to Vivaldi.com and you can grab it for Windows or Android devices.
So what do we get with the latest update? Let’s see…
What Features Does Vivaldi 4.1 Introduce?
Vivaldi’s giant-killing feature set just grew even bigger with the browser’s 4.1 update.
First off, we have tab stacking. So, rather than having 8 million browser tabs cluttering your screen, you can now stack them all into one neat little tab and open that up when you need it.
Vivaldi already had two options for tab-stacking. These are compact tabs and two-level tabs. Now there is a third; accordion stacking.
Accordion tabs allow you to expand the tab stack with a single click of the parent tab. The accordion will expand to the right of the parent tab, rather than downwards like two-level tabs.
This allows you to group tabs with similar content together. Say you’re researching a new piece of technology. You can store all the tabs for that research under one accordion, which you can then expand as you need. If you want to check your emails, the accordion will collapse while you do so, ready to return to when you are.
Second, Vivaldi gets what the brand is calling Command Chains. What is this? Well, it is a method of stitching together several of Vivaldi’s 200+ browser commands, which allows you to perform complex operations with the click of a shortcut.
You can assign your own shortcuts or mouse gestures to Vivaldi’s command chain feature, meaning you can add excellent custom functionality to your workflow.
Also within the new updates, you’ll find silent updates for Windows, meaning that any future updates will download and install automatically. The browser’s reader view also gets an additional feature; a minute counter. So now you’ll know how long it will take you to read an article.
Vivaldi Is an Excellent Alternative to the Big Boy Browsers
Vivaldi might not be the biggest name in browsers, but it is certainly one of the best. Especially so because it puts its users at the center of everything it does, rather than sponsored advertising or other semi-nefarious practices.
There’s a reason we chose it as the best Chrome alternative out there.