Vivaldi Browser Updates

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Check out the list below for a full overview of Vivaldi's features:



Tab Management

• Tab Stacks
  
• Tab Tiling
  
• Window Panel
  
• Session Management
  
• Trash Can
  
• Tab Cycling
  
• Tab Preview
  
• Tab Hibernation
  
• Lazy Loading
  
• Tab Muting
  
• Tab Stack Renaming
  
• Multi-Tab Selection
  
• Pinned Tabs
  

Navigation

• Bookmark Manager
  
• Bookmark Nicknames
  
• Speed Dials
  
• Fast Forward / Rewind
  
• Custom Search Engine
  
• Start Page
  
• Search Engine Nicknames
  
• Search Field
  
• Spatial Navigation
  

User Interface

• Themes
  
• Theme Scheduler
  
• User Interface Zoom
  
• Web Page Zoom
  
• Adaptive Interface Color
  
• One-click Color Change
  
• Web Panels
  
• Reader View
  
• Page Actions
  
• Toolbar Position
  
• Full-Screen Mode
  
• Vertical Reader Mode
  
• Extensions Visibility Toggle
  
• Bookmarks Bar
  

Tools

• Sync
  
• Notes
  
• Screenshot Capture
  
• Developer Tools
  
• Image Properties
  
• Philips Hue Integration
  
• History
  
• Downloads
  

Mouse & Keyboard

• Keyboard Shortcuts
  
• Mouse Gestures
  
• Quick Commands
  
• Rocker Gestures
  
• Adjustable Mouse Gesture Sensitivity
  
• Single Key Shortcuts
  

Privacy & Security

• Private Window
  
• Private Search
  
• Encrypted Sync
  
• WebRTC IP Privacy Settings
  
• Cookie Manager
  

Customization

• Window Background Image
  
• Extensions
  
• Start Page Background
  
• Speed Dial Thumbnails
  
• Image/Animation Loading Controls
  
• Movable Extension Buttons
  

Homepage: https://vivaldi.com/

Download: https://vivaldi.com/download/#pk_campaig...pk_kwd=2.0

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Vivaldi Browser Stable 2.0.1309.37 https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-for-vivaldi-2-0/

The following improvements were made since the initial 2.0 stable release:

• [Regression] “mouseup” event not firing for right mouse button (VB-4350)
  
• [Regression] Moving a tab with stacked tiles to an existing second window triggers crash (VB-43831)
  
• [Regression] Crash when deleting bookmarks from the panel (VB-42284)
  
• [Regression] Google sign-in cookies are being set in Vivaldi and cannot be cleared (VB-44108)
  
• [Regression] [Mac] Minor visual glitches with the .dmg
  
• [Mac] Interface text hard to read after upgrade to 10.14 Mojave (VB-43839)
  
• Updated translations
  

Download: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...309.37.exe

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Vivaldi Browser Stable 2.0.1309.42 https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-3-...valdi-2-0/

The following improvements were made since the second 2.0 minor update:

• [Windows][Linux] Vivaldi crashes if a Chromium DICE fallback login dialog is presented by an extension on startup (VB-44992)
  

Download: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...309.42.exe

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Vivaldi Browser Stable 2.1.1337.36

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New Features:

• [New][Quick Commands] Create new Note ((VB-44612)
  
• [New][Quick Commands] Notes search (VB-36441)
  
• [New][Quick Commands] UI Zoom and support for command line parameters (VB-43080)
  
• [New][Quick Commands] Open items in a new tab via modifier keys (VB-43647
  
• [New][Media] Enable support for AV1 (VB-44942)
  

Fixes:
Platforms

• [Linux] Tab dragging causes flicker and dropping is difficult (VB-44433)
  
• [Mac] Facebook voice messages don’t play (VB-43812)
  
• [Mac] Overlapped navigation buttons in full-screen mode (VB-3629)
  
• [Mac] Tab spacing setting should not apply to maximized window (VB-44300)
  
• [Mac] Gray out main menu items when no windows are open (VB-41245)
  
• [Mac] Site info popup location sometimes is wrong when the address bar is located at the bottom (VB-44784)
  

Notes:

• [Notes] Allow creating a note from dragged text into closed Notes Panel (VB-25864)
  
• [Notes] Double-clicking a note without a URL goes to the start page in the current tab(VB-44645
  
• [Notes] Add notes search option to Quick Commands settings (VB-44619)
  
• [Notes] Focus lost when deleting more than one note (VB-44512)
  
• [Notes] Focus lost when deleting empty note (VB-44781)
  

Sync:

• [Sync] Enforce Sync encryption password length (12 symbols) (VB-44791)
  
• [Sync] Impossible to login via proxy (VB-36006)
  

Tabs:

• [Tabs] Casting of background tabs (VB-43642)
  
• [Tabs] Flickering and missing active state in tab stack container (VB-44289)
  
• [Tabs] The indicator on the individual grouped tabs is not visible in some themes (VB-44334)
  
• [Tabs] Tab added to the stack as first, not last (VB-23311 )
  

Quick Commands

• [Quick Commands] Increase visibility of titles (VB-44616)
  

Extension:

• [Extension] Wrong about page from extension tray menu (VB-43698)
  

Search

• [Search] Add keyboard action for searching with selected text in page (VB-26053)
  

Theme

• [Themes] Pages without favicon should fall back to accent color (VB-44490)
  

User Interface

• [UI] Unify default document icons (VB-44683)
  

Web Panel

• [Web Panel] Title update enables badges on panel button icons (VB-24130)
  

Window Panel

• [Window Panel] Reopen doesn’t work for selected window (VB-40745)
  

Other Fixes:

• [Accessibility] Access Keys don’t work (VB-7157)
  
• [Accessibility] Search engine context menu doesn’t work when using the keyboard(VB-36814)
  
• Crash when deleting bookmarks on the panel (VB-42284)
  
• Extension toggle gets hidden by extension icon when the address bar is at the bottom (VB-43809)
  
• Incorrect internal pages favicons when hibernated (VB-43313)
  
• Settings in the tab can overflow container (VB-43649)
  
• Tiling 3 tabs to grid is broken (VB-43198)
  
• Cannot close side menu on Gmail (VB-42474)
  
• Crash in the ‚Scroll To Top Button‘ extension settings (VB-42128)
  
• Settings does not always show the correct section when opened in an external window (VB-43662)
  
• Triple-clicking a folder in the bookmarks panel activates edit and expands the folder(VB-38179)
  
• Make `vivaldi://restart` and `vivaldi://quit` work (VB-36299)
  
• Updated translations
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 70.0.3538.77
  

Download 32-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...337.36.exe

Download 64-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...36.x64.exe

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Vivaldi Stable 2.1.1337.47 https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-for-vivaldi-2-1/

The following improvements were made since the initial 2.1 stable release:

• [Regression] Progress bar is not visible VB-44482
  
• [Regression] Quick Command type ahead hint garbled VB-45363
  
• [Regression] Right clicking a link from a popup window causes Vivaldi to crash VB-45571
  
• [Quick Commands] Localized keywords VB-45491
  
• Updated translations
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 70.0.3538.103
  

Download 32-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...337.47.exe

Download 64-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...47.x64.exe

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Vivaldi Stable 2.1.1337.51 https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-2-...valdi-2-1/

The following improvements were made since the first 2.1 minor update:

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

Download 32-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...337.51.exe

Download 64-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...51.x64.exe

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Vivaldi Browser Stable 2.2.1388.34
https://vivaldi.com/de/blog/vivaldi-upda...n-details/

Changelog from 2.1 to 2.2

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New Features

• [New] Add a „Save selected tabs as a session“ feature (VB-27448)
  
• [New] Add numbered accelerators to elements in main Window menu (VB-45894)
  
• [New] Closed tabs now can be reached by Quick Commands and a keyboard shortcut (VB-43189)
  
• [New] Configurable Address toolbar (VB-45486)
  
• [New] Configurable Status toolbar (VB-46258)
  
• [New] Mute all other tabs via the tab context menu (VB-11239)
  
• [New] Search box on Speed Dial (VB-23505)
  
• [New] Show webpage access key shortcuts (VB-44852)
  
• [New] Enable Pop Out Video (Picture-in-Picture)
  
• [New] Middle clicking in Back/Forward history drop-down should open the page in new tab (VB-9086)
  
• [New] [Linux] Automatically fetch Widevine (EME) to enable Netflix, Prime Video, etc. (VB-25847)
  

Address Bar

• [Address Bar] Caret in address bar jumps to the start when arrow key up is  pressed (VB-45498)
  
• [Address Bar] Search without nickname adds space in front of search (VB-5762)
  
• [Address bar] Ability to toggle only selected extensions (VB-35195)
  
• [Address bar] Arrow up behaviour when the dropdown menu is not open(VB 45754)
  
• [Address bar] Esc in URL field closes dropdown and losses focus (VB-46092)
  
• [Address bar] URL field focused twice, blinks (VB-44799)
  
• [Address bar] URL field does not check for protocol handlers when pasting links (VB-44833)
  

Bookmarks

• [Bookmarks] Bookmark in folder can open in multiple tabs (VB-40580)
  
• [Bookmarks] Import does not support descriptions transfer (VB-43246)
  
• [Bookmarks] Loading pages when you have a lot of bookmarks is slow (VB-46339)
  
• [Bookmarks bar] Ampersand (&) does not display in folder items (VB-45213)
  
• [Bookmarks bar] Icon Drag and Drop space (VB-28113)
  

Navigation

• [Navigation] Fast Forward gets activated on inappropriate pages (VB-46796)
  
• [Navigation] Smarter detection of page navigation for fast forward (VB-44446)
  

Notes

• [Notes] Added notification when a new note is created and the notes panel is closed (VB-23642)
  
• [Notes] Notification firing from background windows (VB-46074)
  
• [Notes] Pasting a note with screenshot adds another screenshot (VB-46073)
  

Panels

• [Page Interaction] Webview gets focus when showing internal page (VB-45272)
  
• [Panels] „Save All as Bookmarks“ in Window Panel don’t work for closed tabs (VB-42598)
  
• [Panels] Alphabetical sorting for accented letters in bookmarks panel (VB-36262)
  
• [Panels] Favicon missing when using a panel, works on within tab (VB-12180)
  
• [Panels] Panels are hard to resize (VB-39870)
  
• [Panels] Vertical main menu shows incorrect accelerator keys initially when panel is hidden (VB-42330)
  
• [Panels] Allow middle click to close tab or stack in the Window panel (VB-4686)
  

Quick Commands

• [Quick Commands] Add ‚Remove From Tabstack‘ (VB-46239)  
  
• [Quick Commands] Add ‚Show Closed Tabs‘ (VB-43188)  
  
• [Quick Commands] Add ‚Ungroup Tab Stack‘ command to Quick Commands (VB-44506)
  
• [Quick Commands] Caret jumps in the text field when using arrow up (VB-45494)
  
• [Quick Commands] Foreground and Background Overriding (VB-45473)
  
• [Quick Commands] Search instead of going to entered IP address (VB-35328)  
  
• [Quick Commands] Search result tuning (VB-45938)
  

Search

• [Search] Arrow up in search bar suggestion causes caret to jump (VB-45886)
  
• [Search] Update the logo and name for Startpage search engine (VB-46108)
  

Settings

• [Settings] „Confirm Opening Bookmarks over Maximum of“ – edit field constraints (VB-40350)
  
• [Settings] Keyboard friendly categories (VB-6879)
  
• [Settings] Move to submenu should contain New Window (VB-45264)
  
• [Settings] Obsolete „Zoom“ shortcut and mouse gesture actions (VB-45152)
  
• [Settings] Possible to assign the same keyboard shortcut to two commands  (VB-44390)
  
• [Settings] Tab Muting doesn’t match search for „mute“ (VB-40354)
  
• [Settings] Tooltips not visible over text (VB-42440)
  
• [Settings] Wrong behaviour with Keyboard shortcut editing (VB-46010)
  
• [Settings] Add description for „Minimize Active Tab“ (VB-42972)
  
• [Settings] Add option to disable Google DNS (used to help resolve navigation errors) (VB-47091)
  

Speed Dial

• [Speed Dial] No rocker gestures on Speed Dial (VB-10512)
  
• [Speed Dial] Tabs inaccessible with New Tab Page other than Start Page (VB-39875)
  

Sync

• [Sync] Converting more settings to syncable types (VB-45835)
  

Tabs

• [Tabs] Minimum tab width can interfere with positioning (VB-43274)
  
• [Tabs] Switch tabs by scroll fails between tabs (VB-45220)   
  
• [Tabs] Untiling tabs does not drop selection (VB-45471)
  
• [Tabs] Wrong tabs alignment after closing a tab (VB-44574)
  

Themes

• [Themes] Correct grouping of Hue lights (VB-36293)
  

User Interface

• [UI] Add page / all pages as bookmark should add under selected element (VB-45451)
  
• [UI] Allow identical underscored letters in menus as last resort (VB-45887)
  
• [UI] Artifacts on the buttons when system scale bigger than 100% (VB-45319)
  
• [UI] Blank page before a website loads now follows the theme background color (VB-46504)
  
• [UI] Mouse cursor hides in full screen video (VB-23964)
  
• [UI] Only the visible area of the tab group popup should be clickable (VB-45036)
  
• [UI] Scrolling with PgUp/PgDn should work when find-in-page is open (VB-45412)
  
• [UI] Toolbar buttons can remain highlighted (VB-46229)
  
• [UI] Top Domains in History should be links (VB-46523)
  

Others

• [Windows] Logo lacking gap in header (VB-45831)
  
• [Linux] Cache known good versions of libffmpeg (VB-44716)
  
• [Mac] “⌘⇧C” to copy text to note changed to “⌘⌥C” (VB-36702)
  
• [Mac] Ampersand (&) does not display in folder items (VB-45644)
  
• [Mac] Fullscreen UI drops down when it shouldn’t (VB-45008)
  
• [Mac] Problem with Show/Hide Window Panel state on Menu Bar (VB-32080)
  
• [Capture] Allow capture selection to extend outside the Vivaldi window (VB- 46656)
  
• [Focus] Cursor switches place based on mouse click up location (VB-45820) 
  
• [Menus] Add bookmark context menu item for history items (VB-27010)
  
• Updated Translations
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 71.0.3578.85
  

Download 32-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...388.34.exe

Download 64-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...34.x64.exe

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Vivaldi Stable 2.2.1388.37.exe
https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-for-vivaldi-2-2/

The following improvements were made since the initial 2.2 stable release:

• [Regression] Broken start page navigation VB-47141
  
• [Regression] Crash and bookmarks lost after Copy&Paste of bookmark folder VB-47352
  
• [Regression][Mac] Fullscreen video paint issue VB-45908
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 71.0.3578.98
  
• Updated Translations
  

Download 32-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...388.37.exe

Download 64-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...37.x64.exe

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Vivaldi Stable 2.3.1440.41

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Changelog from 2.2 to 2.3


New Features

• [New] Option to automatically create a tab stack: ‘Settings → New Tab
  Position → As Tab Stack with Related Tab’ (VB-15514)
  
• [New] Add an option to show frequently visited pages in the URL Drop-Down:
  “Settings → Address bar → Address Field Drop-Down Menu → Include Frequently Visited Pages” (VB-3533)
  
• [New] Custom screenshot file name (VB-31991)
  
• [New] Save webpage as MHTML is enabled (VB-2101)
  

Community Requests  

• [New] Spinner favicon when a tab is loading (VB-46130)
  
• [New] Passwords should be viewable in Settings (VB-14045)
  
• [New][Windows][Linux] Add confirmation dialog on exit (VB-6951)
  

Linux

• [Linux] Middle-click on tab Trash pastes buffered text into History search field (VB-46281)
  

Mac

• [Mac] Clicking certain extension icons makes Vivaldi crash (VB-44298)
  
• [Mac] Impossible to do live video on Facebook (VB-45131)
  
• [Mac] Show the context menu on mouse down if mouse gestures are disabled (VB-48159)
  
• [Mac] Swipe between pages with three fingers not working when using native window (VB-44729)
  

Windows

• [Windows] All-users install does not use installed language/locale (VB-47569)
  
• [Windows] Twitch.tv process crashes after a little while with HWA disabled (VB-30760)
  

Developer Tools

• [Developer Tools] Opening links from inspector opens them twice (VB-11330
  
• [Developer Tools] Saving an image doesn’t work (VB-47836)
  

Extensions

• [Extensions] Evernote extension will not accept keystrokes (VB-42683)
  
• [Extensions] Official Chrome API chrome extension get Views popup doesn’t work (VB-46910)
  

Mouse Gestures

• [Gestures] Allow right-button and Alt-key mouse gestures to be independent (VB-46727)
  

Page Interactions

• [Page Interaction] Focus page upon pressing Homepage button (VB-36693)
  
• [Page Interaction] Reader settings visible on all tiled pages (VB-47161)
  

Panels

• [Panels] Web panels cannot be reloaded via the context menu (VB-47118)
  
• [Panels] Download Panel does not respect ordering on initialization (VB-47985)
  

Quick Commands

• [Quick Commands] Highlight search instead of note after paste (VB-47641)
  

Search

• [Search] ‘Always Search in New Tab’ affects Speed Dial (VB-46484)
  

Settings

• [Settings] Add ability to search for search engines (VB-35583)
  
• [Settings] Add option to keep last selected search engine (VB-45455)
  
• [Settings] Delete only focused shortcut with Remove Shortcut button (VB-46950)
  
• [Settings] Homepage input scheme resets to HTTP (VB-35520)
  

Speed Dial

• [Speed Dial] Cannot add file:// URL to Speed Dial (VB-19722)
  
• [Speed Dial] Paste does not work in the search field (VB-48416)
  

Tabs

• [Tabs] Custom internal page favicons (VB-26354)
  
• [Tabs] Tabs dragged out of the stack to another re-joins first stack (VB-45713)
  

User Interface

• [UI] Aspect Ratio of Bookmark Thumbnails (VB-44261)
  
• [UI] Key icon and address field icons not visible in Incognito mode and Dark themes (VB-47256)
  
• [UI] No close window warning if the browser is closed by other means (VB-47549)
  
• [UI] Scrollbar gap on Windows and Linux (VB-47350)
  
• [UI] Reader view button moves the address field dropdown button (VB-47968)
  

Others

• PageUp/PageDown and arrow up/down does not work after opening in a new  tab (VB-48133)
  
• Re-ordering a tiled tab with internal PDF reader reloads example PDF (VB-48266)
  
• Tab in background window closed with mouse gesture over a visible tab in another window (VB-47721)
  
• Unable to scroll PDF up/down with keyboard after clicking “Fit to page” (VB-44083)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 72.0.3626.82
  

SOURCE: https://vivaldi.com/blog/auto-stacking-tabs/

Download 32-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...440.41.exe

Download 64-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...41.x64.exe

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Vivaldi Stable 2.3.1440.45

Today’s minor update to Vivaldi 2.3 contains fixes for old Mac graphics cards and/or older versions of macOS.

The following improvements were made since the initial 2.3 stable release:

• [Mac][Media] AVC does not work with MSE on Mac if HWA is disabled (VB-40546)
  
• [Mac] Certain Vivaldi UI elements don’t react to clicks (VB-48160)
  
• [Regression] Speed Dial title drag and drop selects wrong dial after drop (VB-48929)
  
• [Regression] Vivaldi hangs by find-in-page under certain conditions (VB-49066)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 72.0.3626.110
  

SOURCE: https://vivaldi.com/de/blog/minor-update...valdi-2-3/

Download 32-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...440.45.exe

Download 64-bit: https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Viv...45.x64.exe