14 DAY TRIAL // As a Christmas gift to all of you out there using the Chromium-based Vivaldi web browser, Vivaldi's Ruarí Ødegaard informed us today, December 22, 2016, about the availability of the first development snapshot of Vivaldi 1.7.
That's right, only two weeks after the launch of Vivaldi 1.6 as the world's first web browser to display notifications in tabs, the next major release, Vivaldi 1.7, is open for development. The first snapshot, Vivaldi 1.7.704.3, already introduces a cool new feature, namely support for taking screenshots of web pages or even the main window of Vivaldi.
"On the status bar you will find a new camera icon. From here you can take screenshots of an entire page (even outside of the currently visible area) or a selection of your choosing, which can even include the browser UI itself. The perfect way to record your adventures on the web to share with others or for your own personal archive," said Ruarí Ødegaard, Linux QA & Testing at Vivaldi.
Native notifications enabled by default for macOS
There are many other improvements and bug fixes implemented in Vivaldi Snapshot 1.7.704.3, and among the most exciting ones we can mention enablement of native notifications for macOS platforms by default, the ability to open downloaded images in the web browser itself, and new notifications for completed transfers.
We recommend studying the full changelog attached below if you're curious to know what exactly was changed or improved in this first development release of Vivaldi 1.7. If you want to test drive it on your PC or Mac right now, we invite you to download Vivaldi Snapshot 1.7.704.3 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows systems. Please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, not suitable for production use.
