Vivaldi 1.4.589

Vivaldi is a new, feature rich web browser that combines an Opera-like interface with a Chromium open-source platform.

Vivaldi is very similar to the Opera browser in many ways. There are some pretty cool features which are nice, such as the interface, which fades colours to match the dominant colour on the page as you navigate between sites.

Aside from the snazzy effects, the browser has clearly been designed with power users in mind, as the Quick Commands tool shows. This helps the user to search or run commands in much the similar manner to OS X’s Spotlight feature.

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.

Key Features include:

• Quick Commands.
• Tab Stacks.
• Notes.
• Adaptive Interface.
• Spatial Navigation.

The layout of Vivaldi looks great too. Inside the left toolbar is the bookmarks menu is the Bookmarks and Downloads menus and a Notes tool as well. There is a lot housed here, however the interface manages not to feel at all cluttered. Items are placed in logical places and are all kept small and out the way giving you a fresh, clean feel.

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?

- [New feature] [Themes] Theme change scheduling
- [New feature][Trash] Let middle-click on Trash icon restore recently closed tab
- [Regression] [Mac] Escaping fullscreen crashes vivaldi
- [Regression] History entry in URL dropdown cannot be deleted
- [Regression] Can't delete history on search box if the entry is too long
- [Regression] Vivaldi crashes when denying web notifications after leaving the website
- [Regression] Tab not displayed on tab Trash list if closed on Speed Dial
- [Fixed] Bookmark bar folder is not removed from toolbar when deleted
- [Fixed] Bookmark added twice after confirming with Enter
- [Fixed] Add Scots Gaelic to installer and settings
- [Fixed] Resizing panels pushes right-placed tabs
- [Fixed] Search in notes does not look into URL field
- [Fixed] Drop URLs on Tab Bar or individual tabs
- [Fixed] Auto-update fails with non-ASCII character in user name
- [Mac] Gestures don't work in Settings in a tab
- [Mac] Tab stack indicator not visible if native window is used
- [Mac] Top bar lost in full screen state when switching tabs
- [Bookmarks] Panel - no collapse after pressing left arrow key on subitem?
- [Bookmarks] Import of Bookmarks from Firefox fails
- [Bookmarks] Add bookmark pop-up looks wrong
- [Bookmarks][URL] Matching bookmarks do not show up in URL field drop down
- [Notes] Adding an attachment to a Note is impractical
- [Notes] Panel not keyboard accessible
- [Panels] Add configurable buttons to Web panels and separate resize to all panels
- [Panels] Let web panels delay loading until activated the first time
- [Spatnav] Can't select Righmost "Login" button and leftmost "Vivaldi blog team" is not reachable
- [Search] After pressing enter in search field, dropdown flickers
- [Search] Can't delete search field typed history
- [URL] Autocomplete on Vivaldi URLs in URL field
- [URL] Do not add invalid URLs to typed history
- [Zoom] Create setting to disable zooming with CTRL/CMD + scrolling
- [Zoom] Maximum Zoom with Scrollwheel is 300%
- Differentiate visually Stable vs Snapshot version
- Can not reopen tab from menu
- Cloned tab appears after active tab not cloned tab
- Closing a Fullscreen Video with CTRL+W should also exit from fullscreen mode
- Context menus do not show up in settings page
- Creating a new bookmark/notes folder does not set focus in the name field
- Default webpage zoom is not respected in private mode
- Find in page quick command does not focus search field
- Keyboard shortcut for clearing browsing data does not work
- Loosing chars if quickly typing into find in page
- Center images
- Middle-click does not open link in background in History
- "Open in new window" on bookmark folder creates multiple windows
- Option to open session in new window
- Page accent color always gray in private tabs
- Panel opening movement improvement
- Panels stuck at minimum width, no more dragging possible
- Prioritize meta-theme-color and dominant colors for UI colorization
- Related tabs are sometimes placed at the end
- Releasing the mouse button over Speed Dial folders opens them (despite not clicking on them)
- Saved passwords are not reflected in privacy settings
- Search engine order is incorrect in search dropdown field
- Search suggest for yandex not working
- Simplify color picking algorithm for tabs
- Tab UI is still overlapping the panels in certain themes
- Theme color not applied in private mode
- URL scheme is inherited from previous URL
- Wrong shortcut action if Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDwn is defined
- Zooming and tab switcher activate on too many shortcuts
- Upgraded to Chromium 53