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+Vivaldi, makers of the most powerful little browser of the web, have finally released a mobile version.Vivaldi for Android (sorry iOS users, for now it's Android-only) brings what's great about Vivaldi to your phone, and syncs all your data to your mobile device.
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+Web browsers are perhaps the most important piece of software we use. Our devices are often little more than small windows onto the web. The browser is what we use to see and explore what's in that window. 
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+For all their importance though, the modern web browser, especially the mobile web browser, offers precious little control to the user. It used to be the web browser was a tool, but these days most browsers feel like stripped down minimalist affairs. Nowhere is this more true than the mobile web browser, which for the most part barely exists. The UI is hidden away, most features from the desktop version are tucked away deep in menus. Just using finding the forward button in Firefox Mobile takes three taps. 
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+Complain about it, perhaps even file a bug report, and the legions of self-appointed UI experts will jump in to tell you how wrongity wrong wrong you are. The philosophy of mobile web browsers is something along of the lines of: take what you get and been happy we gave it to you.
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+Probably most people like it this way. Google rarely does anything without testing, so if Chrome in minimalist it's because that was Google has determined that's what its users want. And since most other browsers just copy whatever Chrome does, all mobile web browsers end up as very minimal pieces of software. 
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+On the desktop there has long been an exception to the uniformly dumbed down offerings of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari -- Vivaldi. Vivaldi first came upon the Ars radar in early 2015. 
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+Led by CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner, co-founder and former CEO of Opera, Vivaldi's primary goal is to build a useful browser, a tool. Vivaldi is often called a "power user's browser". As opposed, I suppose, to the powerless user's browser. 
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+By the time Vivaldi 2.0 rolled around last year, it was clearly on to something. I even called it the cure for the common browser.
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+For all that there was one problem with Vivaldi: it was desktop only. The company said it was working on a mobile version from the beginning, and von Tetzchner told me several times he was already using it, but there was nothing for the rest of us. 
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+Now that's changed, Vivaldi Mobile is here. Technically it's a beta release and all the common cautions regarding beta software apply, but I've been using it for over a month now and have had no problems. Or I should say, I have had problems, but updates prior to the public release eliminated all of them. And even if there were still bugs, Vivaldi would still be more useful than any other browser on my phone -- and yes, I've tried nearly all of them, even the small, cottage efforts.
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+### Vivaldi on a Phone
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+If you like Vivaldi on the desktop you're going to like it on a phone as well.
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+### Notes
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+functionality, syncing 
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+easier to do complex things. like what: you can't take notes, you're not using it as a tool.  screen capture. private tabs, cloud tabs, etc, not hidden, easy to access. 
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+compile the browser ourselves, not using the rendering on phone.
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+add-ons: mobile chromium code has a lot of code disabled, including extensions. Changing that code might make vivaldi lag on updates, making it less secure, so we didn't want to do that. We have to weight the benefits against the costs.
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+Beta release