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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Vivaldi Browser Technical Preview 3 Adds Native Window Decorations For Linux, More

Vivaldi, a new Chromium/Blink based web browser aimed at power users, has reached Technical Preview 3, receiving numerous improvements such as data import from all major browser, on-demand image and plugin controls, optional native window decorations for Linux and more.

Vivaldi (which is built using open source technologies, but is not open source software) is a web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, whose chief executive and founder is John von Tetzchner, former Opera CEO and co-founder.

The app is available as a technical preview for now (so it's not considered stable yet and some features are missing) and includes various features which for power users, such as tab stacks, mouse gestures, a note-taking feature, Quick Commands to easily search through settings, history, open tabs and bookmarks and more.

Changes in Vivaldi Technical Preview 3:

added optional Native window support for better integration with Linux;
added Tab stack and tab selection tiling in vertical, horizontal and grid organization;
improved Notes feature both visually and functionally. Now you can add more attachments and screenshots (in my test, adding screenshots doesn't work on Linux);
added support for more mouse gestures, including link gestures;
added more keyboard shortcuts and improved keyboard shortcut editing;
added Unread tab indicator to both tabs and tab stacks;
added data import from all major browsers;
added on-demand image and plugin controls so that you can load only what you need;
added Background tab progress indicator;
improved both Fast Forward and Rewind functionality;
significantly improved Spatial navigation;
added more options to the download dialog. It now has both “Save” and “Save As” in addition to “Open”;
improved Page actions;
added a new option to the bookmarks bar, so that you can have a very compact bookmarks bar with icons only;
added full screen reminder option;
increased the number of supported languages to 40;
various performance optimizations and bug fixes.

Since it's pretty difficult to move the Vivaldi browser window without native Linux window decorations, I highly recommend enabling this new option (Tools > Settings > Appearance > "Use Native Window"). Enabling it should also fix the missing app window shadows under GNOME (Shell).

This should be the last technical preview release and the next major milestone will be Beta. There are still some key features that need to be implemented, like a built-in email client, sync and extensions support and hopefully at least some of these will make it in the first beta.

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Download Vivaldi (available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux: 32bit/64bit deb and rpm)

Note that by installing any Vivaldi version (tech preview, snapshot, etc.), the package automatically adds the Vivaldi stable repository (at least in Ubuntu/Debian) and if you install multiple Vivaldi versions, it may result in duplicate repositories - this can be fixed by deleting the extra vivaldi-*.list repository file from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.

If you encounter bugs, report them HERE.

Vivaldi Is A New Chromium-Based Web Browser For Power Users

Vivaldi is a new web browser based on Chromium / Blink, especially created for users who "have problems fitting all their open tabs on one screen". The browser is developed by Vivaldi Technologies, whose chief executive and founder is John von Tetzchner, former Opera CEO and co-founder.

Vivaldi (which is built using open source technologies, but is not open source software) is currently available as a technical preview, for Linux - 64bit deb and rpm only for now, Windows and Mac and the current build is intended to show the direction of the product, so it's not complete for now.

"It is not perfect, far from it. Some of the key features we integrate are yet to be implemented, optimization needs to be done. But we hope that you get a glimpse of our product and what you can expect from us".

The new web browser, which is aimed at power users, includes tab stacks, Opera-like Speed Dial which supports multiple folders, as well as a note-taking feature which allows including a screenshot of the current page. Furthermore, Vivaldi features a tool called Quick Commands, that can be used to search through settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks and more with a single keyboard shortcut.

Vivaldi is also pretty customizable - for instance you can disable tab stacking, change the tab cycling order and place the tab bar at the top, left or right side or bottom and even disable it completely and rely on keyboard navigation only.

Here are a few Vivaldi screenshots:

Quick Commands

Vivaldi settings

Tab stacks

Speed Dial

Notes

While the browser is pretty limited for now, it should include quite a few extra features in the future, like a built-in email client, notes/bookmarks/history/session sync, spatial navigation and of course, extensions support. Also, "a mobile phone and a table version are in the pipeline", said John von Tetzchner in a Reuters interview.

In my quick test, I must say that I was pretty impressed by Vivaldi or, to be more specific, by its built-in tab management features (why did Opera remove tab stacking again?). So I can't wait for its first stable release.

I should also mention that I tested Vivaldi in Ubuntu 14.10 (64bit) and the only issue I encountered was that context menus were not positioned correctly (the menus were sometimes displayed not only in the wrong location, but even on the wrong monitor).

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Note that for now, you'll have to update Vivaldi manually however, the deb includes some code which indicates that in the future, you'll be able to update Vivaldi via its own Debian/Ubuntu repository.

Download Vivaldi (available for Linux - 64bit deb and rpm, Windows and Mac)

Arch Linux users can install Vivaldi via AUR.

Update: if you encounter issues, report them HERE.

Have you tried the new Vivaldi web browser? What do you think?

via Reuters

Vivaldi Browser Devs Add 32bit Linux Builds [Quick Update]

Vivaldi is a new Chromium/Blink based web browser aimed at power users. I won't get into details here, since we already covered Vivaldi a few weeks ago, so check out our previous article for more information.

[Quick update] The Vivaldi Dev team announced a new Vivaldi snapshot today and with it, they've decided to provide 32bit Linux binaries (deb and rpm) for download.

The official Vivaldi website offers the latest Tech Preview so it doesn't include 32bit Linux downloads. To download the latest Vivaldi snapshot which includes 32bit deb and rpm binaries, visit THIS Vivaldi Blog article.

Vivaldi is not stable yet and you'll find missing features and bugs. Report any issues you may encounter HERE.

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