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Almost two years have passed since the day when a small revolution took place in Opera, and instead of a browser on the Presto engine, a web browser of the same name was introduced on Chromium. At first, there were those who still hoped that over time Opera would become the same and receive all the mass of functions that made the browser on Presto unique. However, it soon became clear that the browser developers had no such intention. It seemed that Opera Software had a different goal: not to retain the old geek user base, but to attract a completely different category of users - those who take the list of recommended sites seriously and discuss which theme is best to choose for the browser window.

Adherents of the old Opera have scattered in all directions: some still use Opera 12, which is already creaking at all the seams and does not want to correctly display some modern sites. Others moved to the modern, but too minimalistic Google Chrome, trying to “shape” it with the help of extensions (see the material “Point of no return, or Moving from Opera 12 to Chrome for permanent residence”). But perhaps very soon both will be able to gather around one browser again. No, there is no hope for the restoration of Opera, but the browser beloved by millions will be reborn in the near future under a new name - Vivaldi.

The first preview version of Vivaldi was presented at the beginning of the year, so it is quite possible that you have already heard about the new brainchild of Opera Software founder John Stephenson von Tetzchner. Jon left his position executive director company back in early 2010. For another year and a half after that, he continued to work at Opera Software as an advisor, but left the company in June 2011. The main reason is disagreements with management regarding the development of the browser. In an interview, the creator of the Norwegian browser noted that Opera Software has become an investment company and is not interested in developing the main product.

Fortunately, Jon did not retire and did not start doing something like growing cabbage, but decided to do what he had already done very well - launch an alternative browser.

“A browser for our friends” - this is exactly the greeting that everyone who visits the official Vivaldi website sees to download preview version browser. And even before meeting the new program in person, it becomes clear that something special awaits us. Despite the fact that Vivaldi, like most modern web browsers, is created on the Chromium engine, it’s somehow hard to call it “another clone”. The creator himself presents his new brainchild as a browser with a large number of functions, very flexible in configuration and created primarily for users, that is, for us.

⇡ Interface features

Despite the fact that all browsers these days are similar to each other in their minimalism, Vivaldi definitely has its own personality. The new browser greets users with an interface very similar to Opera 12.

A sidebar is displayed on the right side of the window, which can be easily hidden by clicking on the button on the status bar. The status bar at the bottom of the window is purely Opera. It takes up very little space on the screen, but is very functional. For example, in current build Vivaldi has a slider for changing the scale, a button for managing page content, and a button for controlling the display of images. Yes, just like in the good old Opera, in the new browser you can disable loading images or allow displaying only images from the cache. This most useful function for some reason forgotten by the developers of modern browsers, but a slow 3G connection or leisurely public wifi- a completely modern phenomenon.

The top of the Vivaldi window also looks like Opera. The developers decided not to abandon a separate search bar located next to the address bar (looking ahead, we’ll say that, like many other things, the search window can be configured or deleted).

The button for bookmarking the page is discreetly located exactly where you would expect to find it - on the right side address bar. If you click it, a pop-up menu appears in which you can specify a description, short name page and the folder in which it will be saved.

To the left of the address bar, as expected, there are navigation buttons, but among them there are some that are not quite familiar. In addition to the standard “Forward”, “Back”, “Home” and “Refresh”, there are also the slightly forgotten “Return” and “Go”. The first allows you to return to the entry point of the current site with one click. The second is a kind of analogue of the “I’m feeling lucky” function when searching on Google - it automatically finds on the current page the link that you would most likely go to and opens it. It is clear that this button works well only in certain cases: when viewing web galleries, to move to the next page in search results, in general, where user behavior is easy to predict.

Next to the tab bar you can see a button in the form of a trash can - as you might expect, closed tabs are stored in it. By the way, you can restore a just-closed tab using the usual Opera combination CTRL+Z, although Chrome's CTRL+Shift+T also works.

Among the interface features, I would also like to note the button with the Vivaldi logo in the upper left corner. This button, as in Opera 12, opens the application menu.

However, those who believe that the abandonment of the menu bar in modern browsers has not led to anything good can replace the V button with that same line. The interface is configured through the “View” menu. You can hide the status bar, the menu button, the sidebar, and also display the bookmarks bar, which is hidden by default. The latter in Vivaldi is not yet the same as in the old Opera; it simply duplicates elements of the express panel or another folder from Bookmarks. However, the developers promise to work on this interface element and expand its customization options.

When working with a new browser, you may notice that the application window does not have a constant color. The window's color scheme changes to match the base color of the active web page. Don't like this innovation? Uncheck the corresponding settings checkbox and browse websites as usual.

⇡ Express panel: all the best from Opera

In the new tab window, Vivaldi displays the express panel, invented by Norwegian developers and later borrowed in one form or another by all browsers.

It doesn’t have a search window like in Opera, but it does have large icons to go to your favorite sites, as well as links for quick opening bookmarks and browsing history.

When viewing bookmarks, a checkbox is offered next to the folders for adding a site to the express panel.

On the panel itself, thumbnails can be easily rearranged or deleted, and when adding new elements, the browser suggests sites from the list of recently visited ones.

⇡ Sidebar

The sidebar in Vivaldi consists of five sections. There is no transition to the history of visited pages, as in Opera 12, but there is the ability to work with bookmarks, downloads and notes.

Works with bookmarks quick search, you can delete, add and edit all elements.

In the downloads section there is a search for saved files, buttons for clearing the list of files, re-downloading and pausing downloading.

Uploading files is implemented almost like in old Opera. When you click on the link, a window appears allowing you to specify the folder in which the file should be saved. This window also contains information about the file size and which server the download will be from.

At the same time, in the settings you can set a folder where all files will be saved without any questions asked. Once downloaded, the file appears in the sidebar and can be opened directly from there. By default, the sidebar with downloads is displayed automatically when you save a file, but if necessary, adjust the settings and the browser will silently download everything you need without showing the panel every time.

The notes panel is made similar to Opera's, but at the same time more functional. A list of notes is displayed at the top, and if you click on any of them, at the bottom you can see its text, the date it was saved, and a link to the page from where it was saved.

New notes are added in the same way as in Opera - you need to select the text on the page and select the appropriate command in the context menu.

Notes can be grouped into folders, and their contents can be edited directly from the panel. In addition to text, notes can contain images and files. If you go into editing mode, you can add a note to a non-screenshot of the current web page or attach any file from your computer.

In addition to the three active sections, there are two more that are not yet working and were probably put on the panel so that users of the first builds of Vivaldi knew what to expect in the near future. The new browser, like earlier versions of Opera, will have built-in mail client(they say it will be called M3), and there will also be a special section for managing contacts.

⇡ Working with tabs

As for working with tabs, Vivaldi has absorbed all the best of two browsers: Opera and Chrome. Just like in the Google browser, Vivaldi's tab bar context menu has a command to add all open tabs to bookmarks. In addition, you can close all tabs except the active one, pin the current one, or duplicate it.

When you open a link in a new tab, the web page appears after all open tabs (like in Opera). The position of the tab bar can be controlled as you please. Do you want to place it not at the top, but at the bottom? No questions. What if you try, say, on the right or on the left? No problem! Fans of minimalism can disable the tab bar altogether, since the usual switching using CTRL+TAB works fine. In Vivaldi, you can even choose the order of switching tabs: in the order of location or use.

For easy navigation between tabs in the new browser, a preliminary visualization of a web page thumbnail is implemented when hovering the cursor (like in Opera). Thumbnails are also very useful when working with the tab grouping feature.

Grouping is one of those competitive advantages of Vivaldi that was talked about even before the release of the first public test version. Since Vivaldi is positioned as a browser for geeks, convenient work with a large number of tabs is simply necessary. And it is implemented brilliantly in the new browser. By default, open pages are not grouped, but if there are too many tabs, the user just needs to select “Group similar tabs” in the context menu of the tab bar. In this case, the browser will group all pages from one site, and the number of tabs on the panel will decrease. When you hover your cursor over a group, you can see thumbnails of the pages placed in it and go to the desired one.

As mentioned above, switching between tabs is carried out using the usual Ctrl+Tab key combination, but it does not work quite the same as in Opera. When you press this key combination, a window with a list of open tabs does not appear, but immediately switches to another tab. However, the favorite window for switching between pages is also there in Vivaldi, it’s just redesigned and improved. It's called a window quick commands and is called from the main menu or (which is much more logical, since it’s faster) by pressing the F2 key.

At the top of it you can see a list of open tabs and go to the one you need. At the bottom of the list are all the frequently used commands - from searching to going to the address bar, from opening the settings window to viewing the code of a web page. You can select the one you need by scrolling the mouse wheel or by entering a couple of letters from the command name. Writing about it longer than getting used to using it is actually very convenient. You can also use the quick command window to search among your bookmarks and browsing history - just press F2 and start typing keywords.

⇡ Settings: many and different

Despite the fact that the browser is still at a very early stage of development, its settings window can take a very long time to study. You can open it using the convenient button at the bottom of the sidebar or through the main menu. The Vivaldi interface has been almost completely translated into Russian, and translated very efficiently (the developers initially focused on the Russian-speaking audience as the main one), so traveling through the settings becomes even more enjoyable.

By the way, support large number languages ​​is one of the signature features of the new browser. Vivaldi already supports about forty languages, including even those for which there is no support in other browsers (in particular, Belarusian and Armenian). To translate the browser into new languages, the developers actively involve the public, and the translation team already employs about a hundred people. In the foreseeable future, it is planned to translate the browser into 100 languages.

So, the settings window contains six main sections; there is also the option to display all parameters at once. In addition, the search works: just start typing keyword in a special window - and the appropriate settings will appear on their own. It is worth paying attention to the “Management” settings section. It allows you to customize all the keyboard shortcuts used when working with the browser. For each operation, you can add and remove combinations, and you can quickly return to the original values. Here you can configure the used search engines, you can also turn off the search window. In this case, the address bar stretches to fill the entire screen, and the Vivaldi window looks more modern.

Vivaldi pays a lot of attention to security. In the corresponding section of the settings you can find the already familiar Do Not Track function, which, we recall, was initiated by Mozilla as a method of protecting users from the collection of data about them when visiting sites. Technically, it is implemented by sending a separate header in response to each HTTP request to give remote server know that the user does not want to be followed. Like Google Chrome, Vivaldi has this feature disabled by default. But protection against fraud and malware is enabled and does its job well.

Vivaldi allows you to flexibly customize your work with cookies. For example, you can block third party cookies sites, enable the deletion of such files upon exit, prohibit or allow their reception, and configure exceptions. All saved cookies are displayed in the settings and can be deleted either individually or all at once. The same goes for saved passwords. In the settings you can see site names and logins and, if necessary, delete saved passwords.

⇡ Import settings: feel at home

Probably the biggest problem when changing browsers is the need to re-save passwords, as well as the loss of bookmarks. Surely Opera fans have not yet forgotten how, when changing the engine, they were deprived of not only convenient browser, but also all data. Fortunately, now all passwords, notes, bookmarks can be transferred to Vivaldi with a few clicks.

It seems that no one has been forgotten: if Opera 12 is not already installed on your computer, but a bookmarks file was saved before demolition, you can import it into the new browser. For those who work with Chrome, it is possible to import passwords, bookmarks and history (you can choose the desired user), followers Mozilla Firefox And Internet Explorer can import bookmarks, passwords, browsing history and search services. Transferred bookmarks can be found in separate folders type Imported from Opera and, as mentioned above, quickly add the necessary sites to the express panel.

⇡ Additional tools

Some of the tools available in Vivaldi are familiar to Google Chrome users. Thus, the browser has a built-in “Task Manager” and “Developer Tools”. But there are also unique functions. Let's say Page actions is one of the Vivaldi functions that has not yet been translated into Russian in the interface. With its help, you can apply various filters to the page, highlighting the desired content. For example, you can invert colors on a page, make images tilted, highlight individual blocks of text, and so on.

It is also worth mentioning the ability to view add-ons used by the web browser. No, Vivaldi is on at this stage does not support loading extensions (the developers do not yet plan to enable this feature and want the browser to be fully functional right out of the box), we are talking about those add-ons that make comfortable work with websites. On the Plugins page, you can view all pre-installed add-ons, disable some of them, or select the “Always Allow” checkbox.

⇡ Conclusion

I remember when the first Opera was released on Chromium, they tried to explain to us that moving to a new engine was difficult, and therefore everything that we loved in the old Opera would be added over time. And they added, but not at all what they asked for. And when you launch Vivaldi for the first time, you simply rejoice. This is exactly the program that everyone was waiting for when everyone found out about Opera's transition to a new engine. In Vivaldi, you find everything exactly where you expect it - here's the sidebar, here's the button to quickly restore closed tabs, here's the file save window that appears before loading. And with a deeper immersion in the program, the joy only intensifies. Everything is in place here: grouping of tabs, updated notes, a super convenient quick jump window. And it remains to ask: how does it happen that the engine is the same, but the program is completely different? It turns out that if you want to do it the way it needs to be done, you don’t need years to do it. Vivat, Vivaldi! This is the browser we've been missing for the last few years. And which very soon will be able to be installed as the default browser without a twinge of conscience.

Why soon and not right now? Current version- this is not even a beta yet, this is a Tech Preview. Unfortunately, there are necessary things that Vivaldi does not yet have. In particular, data synchronization between computers has not been added. But Jon von Tetzchner and his team of developers value their users and listen to them, so there is no doubt that this and dozens of other useful features will appear in the browser in the very near future.

Have you noticed that Vivaldi is localized into several dozen languages? Do you know who is behind our translations? Wanna join this amazing team of volunteer translators?

Today, technology companies like to involve users in the process of creating content. Vivaldi is a modern company and we’re trying to be at the forefront of technological development. Naturally, we actively try to create the browser together with our users. Have you ever wondered how we do localization of the Vivaldi browser?

As you may have noticed, Vivaldi is localized into several dozen languages. At the same time, we don’t have a localization department. At all. In addition, we don’t use the services of translation agencies. Absolutely all translations are performed by volunteer translators from among our community of users. At Vivaldi, we have just one manager responsible for interacting with this international team – numbering more than 200 translators! – for updating translations in Vivaldi products, and for taking care of the technical part, correcting various bugs in the browser code associated with localization.

Actually, the technical side is solved in a simple way: we installed a Weblate translation system on our servers and invited everyone to participate in the browser translation. And today we have more than 200 translators from 50 countries.

Almost all Vivaldi translators have come into our volunteer team in a similar way.

“I was using old Opera 12 in the past, but then it became too outdated, so I tried to migrate to Chrome, Firefox, Lunascape, Sleipnir, CoolNovo and a few other browsers until I ended up with Maxthon browser, which I was using for two years. Then I noticed an article on some Czech tech website mentioning Vivaldi, a browser from the good old Opera devs. Yeah! Since then I’ve been a Vivaldi user.”

R3gi , Czech translator

But this way was not always straightforward:

“My friend told me about the browser. He said that the new browser was being developed by a team, which left Opera Software. I downloaded and installed the browser (it was one of the first TP builds) aaand … I didn’t like it! But some time later, those sides that pushed me away, began to attract – a customizable interface, a lot of settings, dissimilarity with its brothers.”

Kurai , Ukrainian translator

And the motivation of those who decided to help us with the translation of the browser into different languages ​​was similar:

“As I was one of the first in my country to use the Vivaldi browser, the translations were not good at all. Most of the text was unfinished and not localized. I felt like the Vivaldi browser will grow only if people can understand it and feel comfortable.”

Drahomir Dubina , Czech translator

“From the very beginning, I knew that this is the browser for me and I want to take part in the project. Being a translator gives me a lot of joy, satisfaction and allows me to have some impact on the way Vivaldi looks, at least in my language.”

Bartłomiej Trzewiczek Polish translator

I should note that all translators understand the importance of the software localization – in fact, it is also what motivates them the most:

“Not all users speak English and therefore tend to avoid using a program that is not in their native language, so I think we need as many translations as possible. I consider this very important for the dissemination of Vivaldi.”

Andrea Gramegna , Italian translators

“On my home PC, I really like to use software that displays labels in my own language.

I also use localized OS. So I totally understand people who have a similar attitude.”

P. Polish translator

“If you want to use a product or better control it, you need to understand it. If you do not understand, many features will be unknown to you or you will not use their potential. Therefore, it is important to me that people understand and know how to use the browser.”

Matúš Baňas , Slovak translator

And, finally, people just like to do what they do – it gives them pleasure and the opportunity to make the world a little better:

“I’ve been doing this for a long time now, as a hobby, in my free time. I just want to build something.”

Tom Evin , Hungarian translator

There is one more important side in the Vivaldi localization process – we try to support as many languages ​​as technically possible. And even if the actual Chromium core does not support any languages ​​or dialects, we try to give people the opportunity to use the Vivaldi browser in their usual communication language.

“I would not call it ‘important’, but more like a step towards keeping local dialects alive. So we should not only translate into our main language and remove as many English words as possible but also think a step further and translate software into local dialects.”

Matthieu Gissler , translator to Swiss High German

Well, what are the results of our work with the volunteer translators? To date, we have the Vivaldi browser completely translated into 38 languages. In addition, we have 72 languages ​​on the Weblate server which are not yet complete but work is in progress. It should be noted that 29 of them are not supported in Chromium.

But this, of course, is not the limit. With help from our users, we can do much more. If you’d like to take part in the translation of the browser into your language post in the comments below and we’ll get in touch with you through the forum. Together we can create a truly unique browser, the best in the world!

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A plugin is a kind of module that is installed in the main application. Its role in working online is difficult to overestimate.

Thanks to it, the application acquires additional options and capabilities that make work easier, make it safer or expand its capabilities.

Even if you don't understand what the word "plugin" means when working with computer devices, you still have at least one add-on in use. But usually there are much more of them in devices.

Plugins can be both useful and unnecessary. Among them there are even those that can become a potential threat not only to your Vivaldi browser, but also to the computer as a whole. These are viral add-ons.

Is it necessary and how to load plugins into Vivaldi?

To make it easier for their users to work with the browser, the developers have built in several plugins themselves that will make your work faster and expand your capabilities.

If you wish, it is also possible self installation plugins. To do this, you need to go to “Settings”, find the “Add-ons” or “Extensions” section, after which a list of plugins that need to be downloaded to work will appear.

One of the most useful plugins for Vivaldi is Edblock - a program for getting rid of advertisements and spam. You can also download other similar extensions that can work in browsers with the Chromium engine.

Why do we need browser plugins at all?

Vivaldi is one of the most modern browsers. Despite his youth, the quality of his work never ceases to amaze.

This is justified by the developers. After all, the developers of the famous Opera are involved in the creation and development of the application.

The latest features, convenient settings, parameters and capabilities for working on the network, fast loading pages, adding bookmarks, importing all data from one browser to another - all this and much more is possible with Vivaldi. However, only these qualities and settings are not enough for convenient use application. It's not just Vivaldi himself, all browsers need the help of additional programs and plugins.

The browser itself cannot immediately contain everything that is needed for comfortable, fast work, which users would like to have in their application. This is not required of him.

Why don’t Vivaldi and other browsers release products with all the necessary options already, so that users do not need to install additional plugins:

• Cost of creation and further development such an application will be too expensive, so purchasing for ordinary customers will not be affordable.
• The larger the program, the more bugs it will contain. Conduct full check and testing such a product would take too long or fail at all. So running the browser would reveal a lot of errors.
• If the program has too many icons and settings, then it will be extremely difficult to understand how the application works. Finding the right function or setting will take a lot of time.

These points necessitated the emergence of plugins and extensions.

What program is the main working tool for a translator? Perhaps, after all, it’s not a “cat”, but a browser. Professional translations can be done without the CAT environment (although this is inconvenient), but it is difficult to work without a browser. Today I want to talk about a new browser that is gaining popularity.

Someone might ask why change the browser at all, since Chrome/Firefox/Internet Explorer already work well. Alas, all browsers sooner or later “grow fat” and become slow and inconvenient: this was the case with Firefox and Opera. In 2015, Jon von Tetzner, one of the founders of Opera, left the company along with some of the developers and founded Vivaldi Technologies. A year later they released Vivaldi, promoted as Browser for our friends: as opposed to mainstream browsers, Vivaldi is designed to give users the most ample opportunities settings.

The developers are not reinventing the whole wheel from scratch: Vivaldi is based on the Chromium (Blink) engine used in Google Chrome, Yandex Browser and other compatible browsers. This makes perfect sense: Blink is probably the best engine right now, and a small team of developers will be able to concentrate on the interface without worrying about page rendering. Additionally, this makes Vivaldi compatible with most Chrome extensions.

Since the interface is declared as main feature Vivaldi, let's take a closer look at it. Many “chrome-friendly” browsers have a similar interface, but Vivaldi has a completely different one, written from scratch in HTML: the Blink engine is used not only for web pages, but also for displaying the browser itself. This means that the user can apply his own CSS style or JavaScript to any interface element. Want to make your address bar purple? Want to show panels only when you hover over them? Do you want the window close button to look like a zero instead of a cross? All this is possible.

The most noticeable (and very important for me personally) feature is a separate search bar to the right of the address bar. It is very convenient to separate address entry and search: not a single “chrome-friendly” browser that I know of has this.

Some elements are borrowed from the old Opera, including the sidebar and status bar. The sidebar is worthy of a detailed description: by default, it contains a bookmark and download manager, and the user can attach any site to it (the width of the panel is adjusted for each site separately). You can, for example, watch Youtube with peripheral vision, and it is extremely convenient to keep open dictionaries in the sidebar:

Vivaldi has built-in support for notes. On any page you can select text and click on it right click mouse and select Add selection as new note. You can also create notes manually in the Note Manager, and subsequently the text of any note can be inserted into any field that supports text insertion.

I like to open many tabs so that the page names on them are no longer visible. To show all tabs in a list, you will need to install an extension in Chrome, and in Vivaldi there is a separate menu item and a convenient F2 key for this. There's also built-in session management: you can save your list of open tabs as a session, and then quickly restore one of your previous sessions - again, other browsers require extensions for this.

Finally, one more little thing - not critical for work, but showing the attitude of developers towards users. The Blink engine supports unloading tabs from memory. In Vivaldi, to do this, click on the tab and select in the context menu Hibernate Background Tabs: the browser will free up a little (or a lot) random access memory. For comparison, try to find this function in Chrome, because the engine is the same.

Of course, I have not listed all the functions and not all that distinguish Vivaldi from its competitors. These are just examples showing the philosophy of the developers: not to “simplify” and “modernize” the program, but to leave its customization to the users.

Summary: promising browser for those who care what to use. Try it too!

The Vivaldi browser is the latest development of IT specialists who created an extension based on Chromium. Despite the fact that the browser appeared relatively recently, many users have already learned about the functions of this software.

Now, millions of users are watching the further development of the browser with great interest and are waiting for additional features. Due to the fact that the browser is in the testing process, errors often occur when launching the extension.

Some people think that the system crash is due to problems with the computer. However, we hasten to please you that this problem is a system failure, which will be resolved in a short period of time. So, say the developers of the new software. And before professionals improve the new version of the extension, we suggest you familiarize yourself with the features of Vivaldi.

It is worth noting that Vivaldi's options and interface are quite similar to Chromium. It’s not for nothing that experts developed a browser using Chromium engine technologies. Version 1.0.249.12 will allow you to use the extension. It should be taken into account that Vivaldi is downloaded from the official web portal. It is recommended to download the new version from the Chome Web Store. Thanks to a special extension panel, buttons will appear in front of you.

A panel opens on the left side, which is also called a sidebar. This option now includes bookmarks, notepads, downloads, and new web portals are opening. To use additional options, you must add new page and at the same time enter the address. When the panel appears, you should use the side panel, which contains various web services. This feature is designed for user comfort.

Those interested can use the mobile version. A convenient and secure browser will not harm your computer, as it has a security server. In the near future, users will be able to use Vivaldi extensions, as the developers are still testing the new browser. In order to ensure the browser works, you need to install AdBlock. It should be noted that this extension is supported by all browsers.

If you use the left button, you can go to the mail section. The download manager is installed exactly the same as on the Opera browser. Using the settings, you can customize the interface, change the design and background, and set the font.

Convenient grouping of tabs allows you to manage cookies, a list of closed tabs, image displays, and search engine support.

Anyone can download the Technical Preview, which allows you to manage mail, browser extensions, navigation, etc.

To create an innovative browser, we used innovative technologies. Software supports extensions such as React and javascript. The user interface is supported by Node.js.

To add new panel, you must click on “+” and enter the URL. By adding a web panel, you will see a side panel, which, in turn, is built into the browser panels. By clicking on the web portal, the corresponding page will open, which will provide access to programs such as Skype, Twitter, Facebook, TollSjekk, Techmeme, Hackernews.

Vivaldi can be downloaded from the official portal. The extension is available for Linux, Windows, Mac. Soon the developers will open access for other devices. In order to improve the new browser, you must follow the instructions. By contacting the Chromium developers, you can ask about questions of interest.