Why it matters: Chrome might dominate the browser market, simply there are plenty of compelling alternatives available. I of these is Vivaldi, which has just received several interesting new features in its latest four.0 release, including a built-in email client, RSS feed reader, and calendar.

Years after the developers promised information technology would come to the browser, the Mail beta has arrived in Vivaldi iv.0, offering a more private option than web apps made by "Big Tech" companies, plain.

Pretty much whatsoever email provider that supports IMAP and Pop protocols will work with Vivaldi'south client, and at that place's congenital-in back up for Gmail. You lot tin also search a local database of retained messages when you're offline.

The RSS feed comes with nigh of the features found in similar tools, though y'all still can't import or export lists of feeds. In improver to showing the latest news from websites and podcasts, information technology includes new videos from your favorite YouTube channels. The browser highlights any feeds information technology finds as yous're surfing the spider web to brand discovering and subscribing to them easier.

Elsewhere, Vivaldi iv.0 offers a built-in translator that tin can translate entire web pages into 50 different languages, with support for 109 languages coming soon. There's also a agenda that, like the email client, connects to other calendar services and works offline.

One might worry that all these features will ho-hum down Vivaldi'southward basic functionality as a web browser, but company CEO Jon von Tetzchner insists this isn't the case. "A modern estimator can handle whatever you throw at it," he said (via Forbes). "I have 600,000 emails on my computer, as an case. We are making sure that information technology works with 600,000, emails - I'chiliad sure it will work for most people that have typically a bit less than that!"

Users can too choose from iii layouts—Essential, Classic, and Fully Loaded—which offering different interfaces based on how much space y'all want the features to take upwards in the browser.