Vivaldi Snapshot 1.0.201.2 received a new, gray user interface.
As you may know, Vivaldi is a Chromium-based open-source internet browser, built by the Opera founder. It did not reach a stable version yet, but it is already usable.
The first Vivaldi version was very fast, but it lacked a lot of features, while the second version brought many new features and kept the speed. Recently, Vivaldi Snapshot 1.0.201.2 has been released, bringing a new, gray user interface, received support for customizable mouse gestures, and improve the search engine management component and spatial navigation functionality for the web browser.
The full changelog:
- Paste as plaintext grayed out
- Paste and Go menu item missing on main Mac menu
- Improve usability of adding URLs to “startup with specific pages”
- Spatial navigation results in slow scroll
- Spatial nav does not go into article with teasers at Heise
- Fixes around V menu regressions
- V-menu button overlaps panel when you have native view and tabs and address bar at bottom
- Vivaldi not asking for admin rights during update when installed as “all users”
- “Restore settings” button have wrong position when Settings maximized
- Keyboard settings titles splitted
- CTRL + U opens tab in HTML code instead of underline text in textfield
- Importing bookmarks from Opera 15+ only imports “Bookmarks Bar” folder
- spatial nav shortcuts for open link in new/background tab don’t work
- Shortcuts for selecting to beginning/end of line overwritten on Mac
- View menu string not seperated for Mac
- Settings page category sidebar layout is defective
- Prevent closing a pinned tab with either the middle mouse button or a double click
- Spatial navigation should support menu key
- Focus in address bar lost when switching tabs/text selection is not removed
- Search dropdown/urldropdown does not go away when clicking on a tab
- Increase list of spatial navigation targets to all interactive elements
- Address is not loaded back to the address field if it is erased
- Add elements with tabindex >=0 as spatial navigation targets
- Auto-update on mac should check on startup, like the win version
- Speed dial doesn’t animate correctly between groups/tabs
- Spatial Navigation can’t focus textarea
- Search engine url field too small in existing search engine settings
- Need better management of search engines
Installation instructions:
The Vivaldi website provides both deb and rpm packages of the latest versions of Vivaldi, so installing the browser should not be difficult. Just download the deb/rpm package matching your system’s architecture (i386/i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64/x86_64 for 64 bit systems) and install the package via the default package manager (dpkg or rpm):
How to install Vivaldi Snapshot on 32 bit systems using deb packages:
$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/download.php?f=vivaldi-snapshot_1.0.201.2-1_i386.deb -O vivaldi-snapshot_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-snapshot_i386.deb
How to install Vivaldi Snapshot on 64 bit systems using deb packages:
$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/download.php?f=vivaldi-snapshot_1.0.201.2-1_amd64.deb -O vivaldi-snapshot_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-snapshot_amd64.deb
How to install Vivaldi Snapshot on 32 bit systems using rpm packages:
$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/download.php?f=vivaldi-snapshot-1.0.201.2-1.i386.rpm -O vivaldi-snapshot.i386.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i vivaldi-snapshot.i386.rpm
How to install Vivaldi Snapshot on 64 bit systems using rpm packages:
$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/download.php?f=vivaldi-snapshot-1.0.201.2-1.x86_64.rpm -O vivaldi-snapshot.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i vivaldi-snapshot.x86_64.rpm
The installation instructions should work on all the Linux systems using deb packages: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, SparkyLinux, Robolinux and systems using rpm packages: , CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenSUSE and ROSA Desktop.