Vivaldi is a advanced Chromium-based web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies. It is company founded by the former Opera Software cofounder and CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner. The browser is aimed at staunch technologists, heavy Internet users, and previous Opera web browser users disgruntled by Opera’s transition from the Presto layout engine to the Blink layout engine, which removed many popular features in the process.
It has an interface similar to Google Chrome. By default, you have forward, back, refresh and home keys next to the address bar. New tabs open with the simple + tab and close with the X tab. It has a little sidebar that has quick links to bookmarks, mail (not available yet), downloads, contacts, and notes. Towards the bottom left, just above the status bar, there is the options gear icon which would make more sense if brought up to the top right or even the sidebar where people would look for it first. Vivaldi supports browsing with mouse gestures, and the ever-familiar 'speed dial' interface, which shows your favourite tabs on the new tab page is also a great, albeit old, feature that is present in this new web browser.
Vivaldi browser also allows users to customize the appearance of UI elements such as background color, overall theme, address bar and tab positioning, and start pages. Overall, Vivaldi has a crisp, sharp-edged interface, which uses simple but effective fonts and icons. It is clearly aimed at power users as the different features and tools show. It is relatively small (for a browser) and is not that hard on system resources. If you feel like a change from Chrome, Safari, Opera or Firefox then why not check it out?
Changelog from 1.11 to 1.12
New Features
- [Downloads] Add support for “Sort by Type” (VB-32009)
- [Downloads] Add Download Info to the Download Panel (VB-6942)
- Image Properties (VB-3075)
- New setting to limit accent color saturation (VB-32249)
Fixes
Platform
- [Mac] Allow selection of background window tabs (VB-30684)
- [Mac] Window buttons color scheme (VB-32587)
Address Field
- Automatic URL decoding of the address bar strips encoded whitespace characters (VB-30764)
- Inconsistent search – depends on keywords order (VB-29626)
- Selection is reset on tab updates (VB-30603)
Bookmarks
- Bookmark opens on single click even when being renamed (VB-29730)
- Create bookmark dialog focus (VB-32132)
- Updated some default bookmark links
- Vivaldi does not start with many bookmarks (VB-30865)
Media
- Page crash with dead bird icon when sound media is loading (VB-28609)
- Platform media broken on macOS 10.13 (beta) (VB-32098)
Reader View
- Pass text direction to page in Reader View (VB-31914)
- Reader View ranges (VB-29192)
Search engines
- Change the default search engine for Ukraine (VB-32217)
- Custom search engines might be lost after upgrade (VB-32752)
- Editing doesn’t check required fields (VB-21284)
- Old search engines are not removed on upgrade (VB-32702)
- Restoring default search always deletes custom ones (VB-30888)
- User defined default search engine is restored to Yahoo after update (VB-32089)
Settings
- Highlight keyword for search results, search in child components (VB-30887)
- Search looks in checkbox and radio button values (VB-30531)
- Better structure for Webpages’ settings (VB-32346)
Spatial navigation
- Selected element prevents scrolling down (VB-30751)
Tab bar
- Background tabs don’t unmute correctly when active tab gets closed (VB-30368)
- Full-screen gap in bottom-positioned tabs (VB-30852)
- Moving selected group of tabs results in blank tabs (VB-28377)
- Tab minimize interferes with stack renaming (VB-23794)
- Tab stack indicator drag freeze (VB-30646)
View source
- View-source: does not show the source code (VB-13899)
- View page source shortcut (Ctrl+U) should work just once (VB-11886)
- View-source omits colon from URL (VB-20833)
Other fixes
- Cast is now a component extension (VB-25092)
- Clicking in the search box while still having focus in it selects all text (VB-32082)
- Context menu after RMB+scroll tab switch (VB-30497)
- Corrected height for Speed Dial thumbnails
- Inline rename should save content when edit field loose focus (VB-30744)
- Minimize button becomes disabled on macOS (10.11.6) (VB-27574)
- Moving a tab stack between windows with context menu breaks (VB-24095)
- Most user agent spoof rules have false positives (VB-30645)
- [Notes] Folder tree collapses after search (VB-25441)
- Overriding window.i in vendor-bundle.js,inject spatnav using strict (VB-31020)
- Prevent zoom range input scrolling (VB-30675)
- Replace the current Bing search feed with a new one (VB-32416)
- Reload image does not work (VB-31976)
- Tab casting only sends updates when mouse gets moved (VB-30557)
- Typo in StartPage name in Search settings (VB-32295)
- When using tabs on left/right/bottom side, Vivaldi icon isn’t vertically centered (VB-30844)
- Updated translations
- Updated Chromium to 61.0.3163.91
What's New in Vivaldi 1.12.955.36
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