We just lately invited nurse and freelance photographer Magnus Straume (24) to attempt Vivaldi Browser, so he may try the options and customization that may enhance his shopping expertise.

Mac and Vivaldi is a match made in heaven. Magnus was desirous to attempt what Vivaldi needed to supply. ?

What’s his browser background?

With regards to his relationship with browsers, Magnus has been on the net since getting broadband at his childhood house. He began out with Web Explorer on the household pc, however when he obtained his personal pc, he rapidly converted to Firefox.

Then, after a few years, he obtained his first Macbook. He’s been utilizing Safari ever since.

What are his browser “necessities”?

Magnus makes use of Safari for private {and professional} work, and the next qualities in a browser  are essential to him:

• Quick
• Protected
• Management over what data he passes to web sites (cookies, trackers, and so forth.)
• Password Supervisor
• Sync to different gadgets

We’ll see how Vivaldi stacks as much as his necessities, as we observe his preliminary tour by way of the browser.

First impressions?

When requested if he had ever heard of Vivaldi, Magnus revealed this was truly the primary time he’d heard of the browser. And he didn’t attempt it out previous to taking part within the video, so his reactions can be recent.

He begins his check drive of Vivaldi by first opening Safari to point out us how he often browses with it. Then he fires up Vivaldi. Scanning the What’s New web page, what catches his eye is that Vivaldi for Mac has already been optimized for M1. He likes that Vivaldi is on prime of the sport.

Certainly, these of you fortunate sufficient to have M1 Mac Mini, Macbook Air, or Macbook Professional methods will discover Vivaldi twice as quick as earlier than attributable to this optimization.

Searching by way of the Settings, he’s visibly impressed by the massive record of languages (49 and counting!), which incorporates his personal most popular language, Norwegian (Bokmål).

He additionally checks out the Privateness part and finds how easy it’s to set preferences.  He likes how tremendous straightforward it’s to set issues up – whether or not you wish to block trackers, block advertisements, don’t have any blocking, block every part, block every part however cookies, and so forth. This undoubtedly meets his standards above of wanting to have the ability to configure this a part of the shopping expertise.  

Since we didn’t wish to interrupt or affect his tour, it’s value sharing extra about our Privateness choices right here. 

Vivaldi browser’s built-in Advert Blocker blocks intrusive advertisements, helps net pages load sooner, and protects your gadgets from malicious advertisements and trackers. With Vivaldi browser, you possibly can surf sooner and safer – with out extensions.

Vivaldi additionally affords an possibility within the Advert Blocker to  conceal annoying cookie banners and dialogs on most web sites.

Again to Magnus, as he explores the varied privateness setting choices, he notes that some websites don’t work as effectively when every part is blocked.  However he likes that Vivaldi provides you the selection. And he actually likes that you just don’t want a plug-in – it’s all constructed into the browser so you possibly can set issues and go. ?

What’s his typical routine?

Say Magnus wants to purchase a brand new lens or digicam. He’ll most likely have 5-10 tabs open, watching critiques, checking costs and availability in numerous shops. For individuals in related conditions, tab tiling makes it simpler to check merchandise facet by facet – once more, all with out extensions.He’s additionally renting out his automotive in a group rental program. So he usually wants to watch and observe up on these queues and test on any associated toll highway charges – so this implies extra tabs to handle. Additionally, as a part of his images enterprise, he has to ship out payments to prospects and observe up on jobs, so he can have tabs open for that. Exploring our in depth vary of  tab administration choices, may streamline his workflow, so he can keep on prime of every part extra simply.

And, in fact, whereas doing all of the above, he may also have a YouTube tab open, so he can click on over for a fast hit of leisure. Our pop-out video function may come in useful right here, to inject enjoyable into your multitasking. ?

Any closing ideas?

After taking his maiden voyage with Vivaldi, Magnus may see himself utilizing it. As there are such a lot of methods to customise the browser, he imagines he’d have to spend a while up entrance to get his settings the way in which he desires and to get to know the browser in additional element.

It’s true that Vivaldi is full of options. So, we’ve just lately made it simpler for brand new customers to get on the trail to their excellent browser by providing three default layouts: Necessities, Traditional, or Totally Loaded. 

They every give you completely different ranges of entry to options immediately from the interface. All Vivaldi performance stays obtainable for you any time, regardless of which format you select. 

When requested if there are different options he’d wish to see in Vivaldi, Magnus replied with a chuckle, “Add one other function to this loopy, feature-rich browser?”  His fast wants appear served, however he’d wish to spend extra time with the browser to expertise what all it affords, earlier than even beginning to think about asking for any new ones. 

That stated, he’d actually wish to see an iOS app, so he may make use of Sync. 

Whereas Magnus is impressed by what he has seen of Vivaldi to date, he isn’t able to make the swap immediately. However as soon as there’s an iOS app obtainable, he would undoubtedly take into account making the leap to Vivaldi, as a result of it appears so promising. 

We’re grateful to Magnus for taking the time to come back in and take a look at a brand new expertise – and letting us movie it!

For a deeper dive on how Vivaldi stacks up towards Safari, click on right here. Or try our video evaluating Vivaldi to Safari right here.

Working Vivaldi on Mac? What received you over? Persuade any Mac browser fence-sitters within the feedback under – or simply share what you want greatest about Vivaldi for desktop on Mac. ?