Vivaldi 1.5.658

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] Philips Hue integration.
- [New Feature][Windows] Support for delta updates.
- [New Feature][Notes] Fetch screenshot automatically when adding a new note.
- [New Feature] Reader mode button in the URL field and a mapable keyboard shortcut.
- [New Feature] Built in Chromecast support.
- [Windows][Win10] Better contrast for hover state on window controls.
- [Windows][Installer] Clean up default associations for file types and protocols.
- [Windows] Cannot set Vivaldi standalone as default browser on Windows 7.
- [Windows] Installer type cannot be changed without changing directory first.
- [Windows] Minimize button not vertically centered on Windows 10.
- [Windows] UAC dialog appears backgrounded sometimes during upgrade.
- [Bookmarks] Bookmark bar folder must be correct when updating store.
- [Bookmarks] bookmark can be accepted as a bookmark bar folder.
- [Bookmarks] Context menu missing in empty area of bookmark manager.
- [Bookmarks][Notes] It is possible to drop (move) a folder onto its children.
- [Bookmarks][Notes] Do not consume F2 in panels and lists where inline editing is not in use.
- [Bookmarks][Notes] F2 shortcut is taken by a panel even if no note or bookmark is focused.
- [Extensions] New tabs created from extension-hosts does not work.
- [Extensions] Toolbar icons from extensions are blurry on HIDPI Displays.
- [Extensions] LastPass login takes long time.
- [Notes] Cannot attach the file the same as directly the last one attached.
- [Notes] Dragging can fail.
- [Notes] Make buttons for adding URLs and images easier to understand.
- [Notes] Newly added note lost after Esc during search.
- [Notes] Not possible to lookup notes from a specific URL in panel.
- [Notes] Panel is missing a context menu in empty tree area.
- [Notes] Renamed Titles should show on Insert Note Context Menu.
- [Notes] Wrong drop indicator in panel.
- [Reader] Reader view button lost on 'back', 'forward'.
- [Reader] Some sites visited without Reader View redirect their url when Reader View becomes enabled.
- [Search field] Improve results update in drop down.
- [Search field] Search suggest shows wrong suggest after search engine switch.
- [Search field][URL] Add support for Yandex search suggest (tr, ru, be, uk).
- [Search field] When pressing Alt+Enter the dropdown keeps open.
- [Spatnav] scrolling page when focusing on a link leading to an anchor.
- [Spatnav] Can skip links that should be focussed.
- [Speed Dial] Add support for "text/uri-list" drops in Speed Dial folders and Speed Dial '+' button.
- [Speed Dial] Crash while adding pinterest.com.
- [Themes] Deleting a theme requires switching to it first.
- [Themes] Performance can be improved further.
- [Themes] Scheduling timeline: Entry on list not visible and scheduled times cannot be deleted.
- [Themes] Themes performance can be improved by 400%.
- [URL field] Auto complete not consistent.
- [URL field] Auto complete not disappearing upon Paste.
- [URL field] Auto complete too slow when suggest is enabled.
- [URL field] Auto complete sometimes not working on new single key chars.
- [URL field] Dragging scroll bars closed the drop down.
- [URL field] Add a setting to turn on/off page loading progress on address field.
- [URL Field] Auto complete triggered on pressing backspace at the end of URL of the current tab.
- [URL field] Auto complete improvements.
- [URL field] Blocked content icon is shown for blocked cookies, plugins, images etc.
- [URL field] Content blocker icon improvement.
- [URL field] Copying URL containing Japanese character does not always work.
- [URL field] Do not select everything while focusing address bar: Added an option to turn off selecting the whole URL.
- [URL field] It's possible to press Enter before completion is finished.
- [URL field] selection sometimes changes on right-click.
- [URL field] To select a word in the URL, you must quintuple-click it.
- [URL field] Progress bar showing more loaded elements than total elements.
- [URL field] Result from one tab can surface in another tab.
- [URL field] Right click on the address bar doesn't select the whole URL.
- [URL field] Use "?" in to explicitly specify a search.
- [URL Field] Fixing a few issues leading to unreliable autocompletion.
- [URL Field]Wrong text selection behavior after pressing Shift+End.
- Add basic "Search with..." context menu.
- Add context menu entry "Save stack as bookmark folder" for tab stacks.
- Add HTML content type for bookmark clipboard.
- Add inline editing to bookmarks and notes.
- Add setting to control open in new tab shortcuts.
- Add status bar notification when hovering Notes, Downloads and History.
- Add support for 'text/uri-list' and 'text/plain' in url bar text field.
- Add the new black icon to the menu.
- A dragged URL is not opened in a new tab when dropped on the tab bar.
- Always shown 'Show panel' tool tip even if panel is shown.
- A new search can be added with a duplicate nickname.
- A URL can not be dragged into a folder on the bookmark bar.
- Autocomplete on Vivaldi URLs in URL field.
- Back, Forward, Reload buttons not active after moving a tab to another window.
- Blank page on Google maps shown within search results.
- Cancelled "Save as" downloads remain in the downloads list.
- Can not add search engine from context menu.
- Cannot import O12 data without having a operaprefs.ini file in the same directory.
- Cannot search with Chinese and 'site:' keyword in address field.
- Chromium browser is not detected for Data Import.
- "Clear finished downloads" button in Downloads panel is active when there's no finished download.
- Content of active note is not erased when last note is removed.
- Contrast too low for Zoom slider.
- Custom search engines missing favicons.
- Displaying date time of saving each session on the list of sessions.
- Do not show trash folder on bookmarks bar.
- Download progress doesn't span full panel width.
- Dropping a link in the bookmark tree will not give the new item a title.
- Entering numbers in text field performs single key keyboard shortcut.
- ESC and Enter not working correctly in Notes and on Bookmark folders.
- ESC button works wrong in full screen mode.
- Freeze after middle clicking bookmarks.
- Gesture editing touch support, limit to left mouse button.
- Horizontal Main Menu still has a red Vivaldi icon for snapshots.
- I cannot delete my theme with certain names.
- Keycode 173 was wrongly mapped to minus.
- Let it be possible to add a web panel by dropping a URL on the '+' button.
- Loading bar on the address animate right to left.
- Make "Bookmark All Open Pages" save into newly created folder.
- Make setting "Enable Search in Address Field" easier to find.
- Mapable shortcut to toggle tab bar preview on and off: "Tab Thumbnail".
- More robust error checking and importing of Opera 12 data.
- "New Contact" appears as context menu item in notes: corrected to "New Note" .
- No autocomplete if prefixed with scheme e.g. http://.
- Onclick events on input elements selected by spatial navigation only trigger on second press.
- Open image in new tab should open in a foreground tab.
- "Open in New Background Window" missing in bookmark tree.
- Open session dialog bad sorting and cut text.
- Order and location is wrong after Copy/Paste or drag and drop in Notes.
- Page is not loaded after dropping text into address field.
- Panel width doesn't follow a mouse cursor precisely.
- Partial Paste & Go not working without selection.
- Pressing "Save As" for some file types doesn't always prompt for path.
- Progress bar is not displayed immediately after pressing Reload (F5).
- Provide a way to allow insecure content to load at the users request: work in progress, needs a new icon.
- Rephrasing theme schedule description.
- Replace "Enable" & "Disable" in setting labels with checkbox state.
- Right click option to "close other" can be zero.
- Search from context menu does not always work.
- Search Tab opens on all Open windows.
- Selected file in the Downloads list loses it's focus (selection) after pressing restart.
- Separator line in Quick Commands getting curved.
- Settings don't work properly with an invalid bookmarks bar folder.
- Settings search field looses focus.
- Shift-Delete should remove the current autocomplete history.
- Speed Dial reflows when switching from tab after resizing window.