Vivaldi 2.5.1525.48 Web Browser for PC Windows

[Search] Update the logo and name for Startpage search engine VB-46108
Upgraded Chromium to 70.0.3538.113

A minor update to 2.1 to address some known regressions and Chromium security fixes.

New Features:
[Quick Commands] Create new Note.
[Quick Commands] Notes search.
[Quick Commands] UI Zoom and support for command line parameters.
[Quick Commands] Open items in a new tab via modifier keys.
[Media] Enable support for AV1.

Fixes:
Platforms
[Linux] Tab dragging causes flicker and dropping is difficult.
[Mac] Facebook voice messages don’t play.
[Mac] Overlapped navigation buttons in full-screen mode.
[Mac] Tab spacing setting should not apply to maximized window.
[Mac] Gray out main menu items when no windows are open.
[Mac] Site info popup location sometimes is wrong when the address bar is located at the bottom.

Notes:
Allow creating a note from dragged text into closed Notes Panel.
Double-clicking a note without a URL goes to the start page in the current tab.
Add notes search option to Quick Commands settings.
Focus lost when deleting more than one note.
Focus lost when deleting empty note.

Sync:
Enforce Sync encryption password length (12 symbols).
Impossible to login via proxy.

Tabs:
Casting of background tabs.
Flickering and missing active state in tab stack container.
The indicator on the individual grouped tabs is not visible in some themes.
Tab added to the stack as first, not last.

Quick Commands:
Increase visibility of titles.

Extension:
Wrong about page from extension tray menu.

Search:
Add keyboard action for searching with selected text in page.

Theme:
Pages without favicon should fall back to accent color.

User Interface:
Unify default document icons.

Web Panel:
Title update enables badges on panel button icons.

Window Panel:
Reopen doesn’t work for selected window.

Other Fixes:
[Accessibility] Access Keys don’t work.
[Accessibility] Search engine context menu doesn’t work when using the keyboard.
Crash when deleting bookmarks on the panel.
Extension toggle gets hidden by extension icon when the address bar is at the bottom.
Incorrect internal pages favicons when hibernated.
Settings in the tab can overflow container.
Tiling 3 tabs to grid is broken.
Cannot close side menu on Gmail.
Crash in the ‘Scroll To Top Button’ extension settings.
Settings does not always show the correct section when opened in an external window.
Triple-clicking a folder in the bookmarks panel activates edit and expands the folder.
Make `vivaldi://restart` and `vivaldi://quit` work.
Updated translations.
Upgraded Chromium to 70.0.3538.77

[Windows][Linux] Vivaldi crashes if a Chromium DICE fallback login dialog is presented by an extension on startup.

[Regression] Corrupted animated favicons: thanks to Khushal Sagar from the Chromium team.
[Regression] Google sign-in cookies are being set in Vivaldi and cannot be cleared—This change breaks the Google Keep extension due to unavoidable Chrome specific dependencies.
Updated translations.

[Regression] “mouseup” event not firing for right mouse button.
[Regression] Moving a tab with stacked tiles to an existing second window triggers crash.
[Regression] Crash when deleting bookmarks from the panel.
[Regression] Google sign-in cookies are being set in Vivaldi and cannot be cleared.
[Regression] [Mac] Minor visual glitches with the .dmg
[Mac] Interface text hard to read after upgrade to 10.14 Mojave.
Updated translations.

Implement Syncing of Bookmarks, settings, etc. VB-27
Add options to support for floating/overlay panels VB-18296
Make tiled tabs resizable VB-5064
List layout for Visual tab cycler VB-19167
Add predefined shortcuts for moving tabs left and right: Windows/Linux = “Ctrl+Shift+PgUp/PgDn”; macOS = “?+?+?/?” VB-41415
Tile new tabs in a tab stack VB-40851
Holding Command/Control opens new tab on history buttons VB-42075
Web panel suggestions with faviconsVB-42007
More Speed dial suggestions by using favicons VB-42244
New 2.0 Welcome Page VB-39395
Updated Default Themes for 2.0: Added “Vivaldi” as our new default theme, replaced “Redmond” with “Beach” VB-23107
Minimum active tab width setting VB-42587

Backported applicable Chromium 68 security patches.
Fixed an issue which could be used to confuse the download dialog and unknowingly run an executable.

Added Qwant (a search engine that respects your privacy) as one of the pre-installed search engines.

Resolves a multi-window crash problem.

Backported applicable Chromium 67 security patches.

[Regression] Grey Screen with Vivaldi Icon.
[Regression] Mouse exit (onmouseleave) events being ignored in Vivaldi UI.
[Regression] Search engine dropdown list blocked IME text selection.
[Windows 10] Alt gestures do not work on web pages.
[Windows 10][Media] Reddit Videos Freeze Vivaldi.
Backported applicable Chromium 66 security patches.
Updated translations.

New features:
[New] Possibility of having an image as window background.
[New] “Bookmarks” in the main menu.
[New] Access individual panels and toolbars in full screen mode via keyboard shortcuts or quick commands.
Fixes:
Platform -
[Windows] Session lost when restarting Vivaldi before the existing process has fully exited: added “Vivaldi is exiting” dialog.
Media -
[Media] Broken sound from online radio and mp3 files.
[Media] Slow AAC audio.
Bookmarks -
[Bookmarks] Add Bookmark dialog cut off in popup windows.
[Bookmarks] Add option to Delete separator from the context menu.
[Bookmarks] Add possibility to add Separator from blank space.
[Bookmarks] Bookmark indicator does not always update.
[Bookmarks] Cannot create a new bookmark from the context menu.
[Bookmarks] Description may disappear when refreshing thumbnail.
[Bookmarks] Folder menu cover the bookmarks bar item when the bar is on the bottom.
[Bookmarks] It takes a long time to open V-menu with a big set of bookmarks.
[Bookmarks] Main folders from Speed dials are not highlighted.
Downloads:
[Downloads] Download panel uses incorrect date format.
[Downloads] Focus lost when deleting download item.
Notes -
[Notes] Add Markdown code highlighting and style improvements.
[Notes] Creating an invalid Markdown Task List causes the notes panel to break.
[Notes] Support display of To-do in notes Markdown: without saved state.
[Notes] Wrong focus styling on buttons and avoid jumping text.
Quick Commands:
[Quick Commands] Certain keys do not work on Quick command with US layout keyboard.
[Quick Commands] Make Alt + up / down jump to next / previous section.
[Quick Commands] Make tab cycle through quick commands.
[Quick Commands] Rounded corners on Quick Commands.
[Quick commands] Always open pages in new tab.
Search Engines:
[Search Engines] Prevent removal of default search engine.
[Search Engines] Restore buttons overflow.
[Search Engines] Search engine list scroll on keyboard navigation.
[Search Engines] Unchecking private search engine does nothing.
Settings -
[Settings] Keep UI zoom control in view.
[Settings] Mouse Gestures don’t paint after settings search.
[Settings] Use both columns in Search Settings.
[Settings] Various issues with closing of a settings window.
[Settings] https:// in the welcome page can’t be removed.
Speed Dials -
[Speed Dials] Ghost processes after SD reload.
[Speed Dials] Pending thumbnail updates displayed incorrectly in status bar.
[Speed Dials] Tiled SD links open in wrong tile.
[Speed Dials] Update causes timeout.
Themes -
[Themes] Improved transparent tabs with background image.
[Themes] Minimum light contrast.
[Themes] Set scheduled theme on window open.
[Themes] When schedule is changed, set theme to schedule.
[Themes] With rounded corners cut part of characters typed in the search field.
Address bar -
[Address bar] Context menu covers the address bar item when the bar on the bottom.
[Address bar] Make tab cycle through address bar results.
[Address bar] Update Refresh and Home icons.
Other fixes:
Capture setting in Status Bar menu should persist after browser restart.
Crash dialog isn’t localized.
Google Chat is not supported in Vivaldi.
Handle before unloading events on tab close in the UI.
Handle duplicate keyboard shortcuts more gracefully.
Keyboard selection of saved sessions is impossible.
Lower default mouse gesture sensitivity.
Mark active page in cycler.
New window sizing is incorrect.
No UI with some <code>–user-agent</code> command line switches.
Pinned tabs are lost on multi-windows/monitors scenarios.
Popup windows with long titles overlap window controls.
Rapid clicks to close tabs resize window.
Should use page title when creating desktop shortcut via drag to desktop.
Show tab stacks in window menu.
Tab count is wrong in the Window Panel.
Text for search results on Keyboard Cheat Sheet is misaligned.
Visual tab switcher cycling improvement.
History: Date range in header of List view not updated to current range.
F8 should show the address field when in chrome less or fullscreen modes.
Upgraded translations (and added Slovenian).
Selected (applicable) security Chromium patches from v66.
Upgraded Chromium to 65.0.3325.183.

Private Search with DuckDuckGo:
With this update, Vivaldi becomes the first browser to enable a default Private Search, and allows you to set a default search engine exclusively for Private Window browsing.