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Snapshot 1.0.141.2 with more Tiling options and advanced notes, improved spatial navigation and fast forward

 

Changelog

  • Improved spatial navigation, also added live indexing
  • VB-4656  Using active tab color for progressbar
  • VB-78  Added vertical tiling and tiling of selection.
  • VB-4672  Going to fullscreen with bookmark bar visible takes long time
  • VB-4576  Content lost in address field after switch to another tab.
  • VB-4637 Autoupdate needs to pass install directory to installer.
  • VB-4468 notes deletion via context menu
  • VB-2171 notes URL http injection fixed
  • VB-4104 Add multiple attachments to Notes
  • VB-70 updating tiled view on closed page
  • VB-1376 Move addressbar out of webpage stack
  • VB-1605 Disk URLs do not work
  • VB-2894 When closed the last active tab, browser is closing
  • VB-4525 Default keyboard shortcut update mess

Post - https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/teamblog/item/18-snapshot-1-0-141-2-with-more-tiling-options-and-better-spatnav

Yes, I know its a preview, but if their starting point is Opera in terms of UI design, well I don't know how much they will change. I will be keeping the preview installed until the final version.

 

Too ugly and flat

 

Until Skuemorphic 3d buttons are back I will avoid. Why does everything have to look like it has been run over by a steamroller?

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...

New Weekly Snapshot Out - https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/teamblog/item/28-snapshot-1-0-167-2-better-keyboard-shortcut-editing-and-user-statistics

 

Highlights

 

- polished keyboard shortcut settings

- more than one shortcuts per action

 

Also Data Collection for *improvement* purpose:

 

So, on first run Vivaldi generates a unique ID for your installation.
 
Then, every 24 hours, your browser, if running, will send via https, the following info:  
 
- The unique user ID
- Browser user agent
- CPU architecture
- Screen Resolution
- Accept Language 

 

 

Changelog

 

VB-5438 - Spatnav does not update focus indicator when window gets resized
VB-5388 - Vivaldi name missed under vivaldi menu
VB-5185 - Fixing typo in Import
VB-5012 - Cannot edit keyboard shortcuts
VB-4733 - Warn when adding already used shortcut
VB-3935 - Can't set more than one keyboard shortcut pper item
VB-3019 - Setting windows is black and show nothing in it
VB-1256 - Url-drop-down should not go away when history item has been deleted
VB-478 - Add unique constraint to keyboard shortcuts
VB-5505 - Clean up tab thumbnail
VB-5319 - Windows installer starts Vivaldi as Admin
VB-5192 - Spatnav cursor and form submit
VB-4880 - Esc and F8 hotkeys don't leave address bar

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Highlights

 

- Startup Settings

- Tabs UI and performance improvement

 

Changelog
 
VB-4122 - Speed dial zoom stuck on 80%
VB-5422 - Shortcuts activated in PDF
VB-5300 - Editing notes crashes Vivaldi and leaves ghosts
VB-4167 - Missing translation string for 

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Highlights
 
- Startup Settings (more refined)
- Option to disable *single key* shortcuts
- Paste & Go (Ctrl + Shift + V) now works on document field
- Little faster settings
 
Changelog
 
VB-5668 - 
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Highlights

 

- Startup Page Customization (Basically New Tab Page - with backgrounds including animated, solid colors and different shades)

- UI Scaling aka Zooming

- Auto Update on Mac

 

 

Changelog

VB-5717 - Select in searchfield dropdown should invoke search
VB-5716 - Not whole urlstring selected when focusing addressfield
VB-5666 - Fast-forward does not always activate when supposed to
VB-5593 - Settings page navigation menu doesn't work
VB-5043 - View-source urls doesn't work in Vivaldi
VB-4992 - Inline search doesn't globally register esc
VB-4284 - Disable url prediction service break keyword search in url bar
VB-3878 - Vivaldi can't be installed without admin privileges
VB-1489 - Autocomplete on URL instead of nickname
VB-5709 - Can no longer set new single-key shortcuts while they are disabled
VB-5559 - Use tab 
  • 2 weeks later...

ummm...

 

 

It is built on Chrome's engine, actually. :p

 

Yes,

I gathered it WAS built on Chrome's engine, which is why I said I'd prefer it to NOT be built on it and why I'm NOT using it as of yet! ;)

 

Didn't think I worded that quite right for some of you to comprehend that! :)

Is this thing supposed to work on Windows 10 because it sure didn't on mine? Don't know if that was due to all the bloat looking crap in it or Windows itself, but gads, what a piece of crap looking thing!

 

Then, what's up with that Windows 10 uninstall process? Went to control panel and removed it, but it left the icon in taskbar and when I clicked that it still opened! I then went to where I had it installed and just flat out deleted it. Icon in taskbar didn't work after that and then I finally got the option to unpin it from taskbar, which I could not do while it was installed!

 

Don't know which is worse, this browser or Windows 10?

 

Yes, I do know both are beta's!

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