Viola – A Calmer Web Browser

(violabrowser.com)

3 points | by allenc 11 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • jethronethro 6 hours ago ago

    For a moment, I thought that this was a revival of ViolaWWW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW).

    Seriously, though, there's no information about whether it's FLOSS or proprietary, what telemetry it collects or not, or anything like that.

  • dotfrag 11 hours ago ago

    Looked it over, as well as Charlie but having a hard time realizing the benefit of using this over Chrome or Edge. It makes me think of Opera which promised to be a lightweight browser that ended up turning into a resource-heavy browser. I'll have to play around with it and see if it does better than Edge or Chrome but so far it seems similar to them.

    • allenc 8 hours ago ago

      Well, it's trying to emulate the now-deprecated Arc Browser, with a bunch of built-in functionality that's hard to get natively in Chrome. Arc's been degrading slowly over time, though, as the Browser Company moved on to their new AI-enabled browser Dia.