Vivaldi 3.7 Released with Major Performance Improvements, Apple Silicon Support

Vivaldi has received a new major update, and this time, the most notable change happens under the hood where the browser has received some pretty big speed improvements.

Starting with Vivaldi 3.7, the browser opens new tabs 100 percent faster, which is without a doubt a pretty big achievement.

“While we let you handle your tab chaos with the recently introduced Two-Level Tab Stacks (confession: we are still gushing over the response to this innovation), we also want the opening and closing of tabs to be more swift, helping you save time. Opening of tabs is faster now — facilitating a better user experience and increasing speed up to 2x as fast as the previous version (based on our internal benchmarks,” the Vivaldi team explained.

At the same time, Vivaldi also notes that new windows open some 26 percent than on the previous versions, according to tests conducted on an Ubuntu 18.04 system with an i3 chip.

Native support for Apple Silicon

Vivaldi now runs natively on Apple M1 processors, and just as expected, the browser is faster here too.

Announced with much fanfare last fall, Apple Silicon allows for substantial performance improvements, and Vivaldi says the M1 version too benefits from a faster experience overall.

“Those of you lucky enough to have M1 Mac Mini, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro systems will enjoy browsing with Vivaldi’s flexible features even more now. Browsing with Vivaldi is 2x faster when we tested internally on a Mac machine using M1 processors upping the overall performance,” the team says.

The latest update also brings a series of other improvements, including period reload in web panels, a configurable web page menu, Quick Commands refinements, and the first steps to make updates silent on Windows.

The new version of Vivaldi is now available for download on Windows, Linux, and macOS.