14 DAY TRIAL // Vivaldi, a web browser based on Chromium built by Opera founder that's aimed mostly at power users, has been updated once more and is now available for download.
Vivaldi is pretty far away from a stable release, but it's slowly getting there. The first version that was made available for regular users seriously lacked in features, but it was really fast. The second one in the series brought a ton of new features and kept the speed. Now the developers push updates for Vivaldi on a regular basis, and they managed to keep the apps fast.
Some of the previous updates for Vivaldi have been very consistent, but this latest one feels like it's more about small changes. To be fair, many of the important features have already landed in the Internet browser, so the developers now have to concentrate on the smaller stuff.
Vivaldi gets some new options
Even if Vivaldi might feel like a very minimalist Internet browser, the truth is that it's actually just as complex as any of its competition, Google Chrome and Opera.
"Following up on the new startup options dialogue, we’ve added more options this week. You can now define a list of pages to start with. We have also added an option to disable single-key shortcuts. Paste and go (Ctrl+Shift+V) now also works when you have focus on the document, not just when address field is focused. The settings window should now also start faster after a small tweak," reads the official announcement.
According to the changelog, the "close other tabs" function no longer closes active tab as well, the wrong tab no longer gets closed when closing an entire tab stack, F5 now refreshes the page while the page is loading, and a setting to disable single key shortcuts has been added.
As usual, you can download Vivaldi for Linux from Softpedia. Only RPM and DEB files are provided. Also, the Windows and Mac OS X versions are also available.