Vivaldi 1.10 Released (vivaldi.com)

Reader x_t0ken_407 writes: Vivaldi, the successor to Opera 12.16 (Presto) in spirit, admittedly has a long way to go but continues to steadily mature with the release of version 1.10:

Releasing Vivaldi 1.10, we give you the power for making the Start Page more personal than ever before. You're the one who gets to decide how your Start Page looks, feels and performs. We've also added the much-requested ability to dock the Developer Tools.

Other new features and improvements include:
-Sorting of Downloads in the Side Panel by name, size, date added and date finished, as well as manually.
-Toggle image visibility from the View menu or via configurable keyboard shortcut.
-Quick Commands improvements for users that like to control everything in their browser from their keyboard. The Quick Commands menu lets users navigate to tabs, find search terms, filter lists of available commands and much more.
-Address Bar dropdown list can now exclude bookmarks and typed history.
-Controlling new tabs via third-party extensions with additional functionality, such as productivity tools or reminders.

Comments

"making the Start Page more personal..."

[Anonymous Coward]

Making the start page more personal? Is that what I need my web browser to improve upon? My start page is about:blank and it loads very, very fast. I really don't need any improvements there.

Vivaldi is not what Opera used to be

[Hentes]

First, Vivaldi is just a skin on top of Chrome's engine, not a browser of its own right. They did manage to replicate some of Opera's unique features, just not the ones that count. I don't use Opera because I like to write notes on webpages or use sidepanels, I use Opera because it allowes me to set script/plugin/cookie/ad blocking on a per-site basis without the need of a dozen bloated extensions written in shitty JS.
Vivaldi, on the other hand, is an entire browser written in shitty JS, and it shows. It's buggy and unresponsive, and while some of it may be due to being "early access" software (they did fix the close button for example), I suspect most of the problems are architectural.
Now there are some nice features like keybindings, the costumiseable UI and they even managed to get tab stacking sort of working now.
But at the end of the day Vivaldi is not what Opera used to be.
(written on Opera 12.17)

Re:Vivaldi is not what Opera used to be

[fnj]

costumiseable

BWAHAHAHAHA!