If you’re within the temper to fill your browser with dumb references to The Office, Star Wars, One Piece or the satan’s lettuce on 4/20 — and get one thing extra helpful out of it — the newly introduced Vivaldi 6.0 could have what you’re in search of.

Add one other reason to switch from Chrome to Vivaldi: the power so as to add customized icons and backgrounds to the browser, both ones you make or that others have put collectively. Vivaldi additionally debuted Workspaces, simply one other technique to set up tabs into numerous teams that can assist you set up your life.

Designing customized icons and backgrounds isn’t all that new. The earliest variations of Windows provided completely different takes on cursors, icons, and so forth. But Vivaldi 6.0 means that you can personalize your browser in a lot the identical method you’d personalize your PC: by including your individual takes on icons like the house icon, and the “forward” and “back” arrows. It’s the form of dumb stuff that you simply and solely you’d care about, nevertheless it’s your browser, you realize? Think of it like a sticker on your laptop computer.

Unfortunately, Vivaldi collects quite a lot of themes inside its browser, however typically leaves the customized icons so that you can add by downloading photographs and so forth. (It’s in all probability not definitely worth the threat of attracting the wrath of Disney’s attorneys, for instance.) Vivaldi does accumulate a few of the much less problematic themes so that you can get pleasure from, although, comparable to a Windows 95 theme (above) for a retro really feel. (While that theme is stay, you’ll want Vivaldi 6.0 to incorporate the icons.)

The new Workspaces function is a little more prosaic. Vivaldi has provided the power so as to add a second row of tabs for some time now, and Workspaces is principally like a bookmarked row of themed tabs that you would be able to accumulate in both the first or secondary row. (In this manner, it’s a bit just like the Collections function in Microsoft Edge.) All you have to do is choose a brand new Workspace, then add tabs to it and save them in a bunch. You can then open all of them up — together with stacking them, one other function Vivaldi has provided. (Vivaldi’s macros and “accordion tabs” are much more.)

Of course, it’s as much as you ways you reap the benefits of the brand new tabs and what themes you apply to them. The solely function that Vivaldi is leaving out might be making use of customized themes to customized Collections. Maybe we’ll have to attend for Vivaldi 7.0 for that!