Vivaldi 1.8.770.50 Released!

[Mem]

Changelog from 1.7 to 1.8
New features

• Create a new and more advanced history (VB-627)
• History panel (VB-25525)
• Auto-muting options for tabs (VB-25474)
• Add option to set home page to startpage (VB-25082)
• Add “Open Link” (in current tab) to document context menu (VB-25175)
• Make option for graying/shading hibernated tabs (VB-25337)
• More visible highlight to use drop-down (VB-5827)
• Allow creating a note from dragged text (VB-25402)
• Add “Copy Selection to New Note” menu entry in Notes menu (VB-25379)
• Add “Open Image” to image context menu (VB-25883)
• Add new tab introducing to new features on update (VB-26270)
• Context menu for image searching is needed (VB-13533)
• Uninstall should open an uninstall page to help find out how Vivaldi can be improved (VB-26219)
• [Windows] Allow notifications of new versions even if Vivaldi is not running

Fixes
Platform

• [New feature][Windows][Settings] Add a preference to enable or disable auto-update (VB-25880)
• [Mac] Crash using drop-down list in the options of extension ImprovedTube (VB-25511)
• [Linux] Increase the reliability of working proprietary media (H.264/AAC/MP3) on Ubuntu (VB-26379)

Address field

• Copy and cut encoded option in address bar setting is not respected (VB-26057)
• Display help text/placeholder in URL bar (VB-26149)
• First suggestion looks selected by default in the search field (VB-26096)
• URL auto-complete does not consider typed history (VB-20375)

Bookmarks

• Different behaviors in Bookmarks Bar after right/left click (VB-25806)
• Search results are removed (VB-26034)
• Editor in panel does not open when creating new item (VB-26596)
• Always show details in the panel (VB-23752)

Notes

• Convert character correctly using Korean IME (VB-25920)
• Disable attachment buttons when no Note is focused (VB-25885)
• Enter text to search for a note. Close panel and open => Search text is present but results are forgotten (VB-26052)
• Folder name is not updated when switching between folders (VB-26084)
• Folder name not working with Korean (VB-26060)
• Screenshots open in active tab (VB-23244)

Settings

• Allow disabling of Widevine (VB-26423)
• Allow disabling of Flash (VB-24611)
• Allow disabling of the internal PDF viewer (VB-24617)
• Prevent focus from jumping when changing homepage setting (VB-26088)

Other changes

• [A11y] Keyboard inaccessible Address Bar buttons (VB-25818)
• [Reader] View button in address field fails when translated (VB-25861)
• [Search field] Down key to open search engines list (VB-26098)
• [Search field] Dragging text from address bar to search bar works (VB-26134
• [Speed Dial] “Add Bookmark to Speed Dial” action always pre-fills last URL (VB-25860)
• [Themes] Audio icon appears white with tabs on left/right side when in dark theme (VB-20846)
• The new download confirmation dialog appears in all windows but disappears only in one (VB-23250)
• Tabs should be marked as hibernated on cloning and optionally on startup (VB-24360)
• Allow defining many TLDs for Ctrl+Enter expansion and cycling through them (VB-25031)
• Reader mode grabs focus while navigating UI with Tab (VB-25179)
• Populate Find in Page dialog with current page text selection (VB-25302)
• Scroll to top/bottom gesture not working after reopen closed tab (VB-25306)
• URL auto-complete does not consider Typed history with Prefer Bookmarks on (VB-25477)
• [New feature] Allow for easier text selection within a link: bundle Select-Like-A-Boss (VB-9048)
• Keyboard settings labels overflow (VB-25640)
• Let Clear Private Data dialog remember state (VB-25581)
• Confirm opening bookmarks over maximum did not work when hitting return button (VB-25798)
• Drop-downs should handle modifier/middle click (VB-25826)
• Find in page text overlap (VB-4941)
• Find in page gets focused on some pages (VB-26160)
• Let free area of panel bar accept drags to create web panel (VB-26076)
• Put imported notes from Opera 12 in the main notes node, not the root node (VB-25809)
• Remove full-screen entry from panel context menu (VB-26104)
• Search Suggest URLs get copied between search engines in some cases (VB-25587)
• Vivaldi crashes when deleting an app from Web Panel (VB-25867)
• Auto-update window flickering (VB-25887)
• Changing tabs by scrolling doesn’t work with vertical tabs in overflow (VB-19062)
• POST does not send data to new tab (VB-25688)
• Audio icon is black when small (VB-26436)
• “Open” action in document context menu is the first menu item (VB-26563)
• vivaldi://newtab shows Google page (VB-3112)
• “Clear download list” button inactive after restart of Vivaldi (VB-26083)
• Remove document context menu entries that do not work in web panels (VB-26196)
• Remember scroll position in bookmarks, history, etc. (VB-26724)
• Can’t write articles on Medium.com: lie to Medium and pretend to be Chrome (VB-25010)
• Unable to unpin tabs by keyboard shortcut (VB-24177)
• Bookmark properties cleared when preview is updated (VB-24725)
• Crash in notification pop-up; when selecting allow/deny (VB-26626)
• Updated Chromium to 57.0.2987.111

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[nemesismk2]

just installed vivaldi 1.8 and it's working great with windows 10.

 

[Mem]

Another very minor update,(1.8.770.56).

We have a fixed an issue where private browsing data could be retained.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/minor-update-to-vivaldi-1-8-privacy-fix/