Vivaldi 7’s new Dashboard makes your browser more personal, sans AI [Video]

Vivaldi is launching Vivaldi 7.0 today, an updated version of its free Windows browser that adds a new interface on top of a new Dashboard, which is a centralized interface for managing your digital life. And it purposes avoids using AI to do so.

Vivaldi has been one of the browsers I’ve used for several years, in part because of the exceptional flexibility the browser offers. Vivaldi is especially information-dense, placing visible access to a number of bookmarks, feeds, and emails all within a tight space. My colleague Michael Crider has his own reasons for switching from Chrome to Vivaldi, but both of us are sticking with the browser.

In one sense, the new Dashboard feels like some of the efforts at “new tab” pages that browsers have added, where you can take what is essentially a blank page and add customized information to it. The Dashboard, or Start page, allows you to place some of the information Vivaldi typically reserves for its sidebars — …