The new built-in calendar, too, supports most of the standard calendar providers, including Google Calendar and iCloud, for example. Image Credits: VivaldiĪs expected, you can use virtually any email provider here that supports the IMAP and POP protocols, but there's also built-in support for Gmail as well. And now at Vivaldi, we are doing those things, but also a lot more. And, I mean, we obviously did a lot of those things at Opera - some of them we didn't - and we are filling a gap with what Opera used to be doing. "So having a good client for that, that's kind of where we're coming from. ![]() Most all of us use email - at varying levels, some of use it a lot, some less, but everyone basically has at least one email account," he said. We rather focus on what the users want.' And I think there's a significant value. "We've chosen to say, 'okay, we don't want to have the business model decide what we do. Von Tetzchner argues that for a lot of browser vendors, doing away with those features was about steering users into certain directions (including their own webmail clients). But building an offline email client into the browser - as well as a calendar client - almost feels like a return to the early days of browsers, like Netscape Navigator and Opera, when having these additional built-in features was almost standard. The company has long offered a webmail service, for example. ![]() Today, the Vivaldi team is launching version 4.0 of its browser and with that, it's introducing a slew of new features that, among many other things, include the beta of new built-in mail, calendar and RSS clients, as well as the launch of Vivaldi Translate, a privacy-friendly translation service hosted on the company's own servers and powered by Lingvanex. Vivaldi has always been one of the more interesting of the Chromium-based browsers, in no small part thanks to its emphasis on building tools for power users in a privacy-centric package, but also because of its pedigree, with Opera's outspoken former CEO Jon von Tetzchner as its co-founder and CEO.
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