Vivaldi 3.7 with native M1 support and many improvements

Vivaldi updated the final version of its browser to 3.7 (3.7.2218.45) today. MacOS users with the ARM M1 chip can now use the browser natively. But there were other improvements too.

The Norwegian company Vivaldi Technologies has made its customizable Chromium browser even faster with Vivaldi 3.7 and now supports Apple's M1 processor natively on the ARM basis from Apple Silicon. In addition to tabs that open even faster, the browser should have an even larger set of features.

According to Vivaldi, the tabs now open twice as fast and a new browser window opens 26% faster than before. In the Windows version, the update process is now carried out "quietly". This function has now started. The other improvements:

Vivaldi 3.7 opens tabs twice as fast as before (Image: Vivaldi Technologies)

Vivaldi is becoming even more customizable and faster

With the recently released version 3.7, the Vivaldi browser based on Chromium has new, customizable “built-in features” such as more configurable menus, web panels, and quick commands, which make working and surfing in the browser more efficient and faster should do. The so-called two-level tab stacks as well as optimizations to the Vivaldi code should allow the tabs to open twice as quickly as before in Vivaldi 3.6.

Windows open faster

New windows opened directly from the browser also open around 26 percent faster with Vivaldi 3.7 than with its predecessor, which the manufacturer evaluated on a system with a Core i3, 4 GB of RAM, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Vivaldi 3.7 now starts 26 percent faster (Image: Vivaldi Technologies)

Twice as fast with Apple M1

Especially for users of the current MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13 inch and Mac mini with macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple's M1 processor, Vivaldi 3.7, which natively supports Apple ARM for the first time, should represent a big leap and run twice as fast as the over the x86-64 binary translation Rosetta 2 emulated version 3.6.

Vivaldi 3.7 is twice as fast on Apple M1 as Vivaldi 3.6 (Image: Vivaldi Technologies)

The official release notes for Vivaldi 3.7 also list other performance-enhancing measures. In the future, the browser will also support "silent updates" in the background for the first time.

• Periodic reloading in web panels: Based on one of our most popular features, Periodic Tab Reload, the websites added as web panels are now reloaded at regular intervals. This works especially well when a webpage with news has been added as a web panel showing up-to-date information worth keeping an eye on.
• Clear out a crowded tab bar with two clicks: Tab hoarders can easily create multiple tab stacks at once using "Tab Stack by Hosts". The new "tab stack by hosts" goes through all tabs and stacks the tabs from the same domain. We had already introduced you to the tab group function here.
• Configurable Website Menu: Menus - unconventionally customizable - a new option that allows you to edit the context menus that open when you right-click anywhere on a website. Now you can fine-tune your large menus and move items that aren't used often.
• Quick Commands, More Dynamic: The keyword you're looking for in the Quick Commands is now bold, similar to the way search terms are highlighted in the address bar - this suggests search terms to help you find what you're looking for more quickly.
• You can also periodically reload websites using Quick Commands. Just type in "Periodic Reload 2", hit Enter and the tab will reload every 2 minutes.

You can read the full list of bug fixes here and download the browser that suits your device.

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