14 DAY TRIAL // After a two-week pause, today we see the release of a new snapshot of the upcoming Chromium-based Vivaldi 1.7 web browser, which appears to add a multitude of improvements and bug fixes.
If you're one of those computer users who think nothing is more annoying than an advert or video playing in a background tab, causing you to not fully concentrate on your tasks, the answer might come from today's Vivaldi Snapshot 1.7.735.11, which introduces a new set of powerful commands for controlling those noisy tabs.
"We have now made the tab muting feature more accessible to those of you who work primarily with the keyboard. We also decided to provide even more options to precisely control the behavior of sound in tabs," said Ruarí Ødegaard, Linux QA and Testing at Vivaldi, in the release notes.
That's right, the existing tab muting feature is gaining muscles, implementing the "Mute/Unmute Tab," "Mute All Tabs," "Unmute All Tabs," "Mute Other Tabs," and "Unmute Other Tabs" commands, available at your fingerprints from Quick Commands, so that you can quickly control what plays in the background and what doesn't.
Vivaldi is now based on Chromium 56.0.2924.68
Vivaldi is known as the web browser for power users, so to give them even more control over every single aspect of the application, these new commands can be enabled even faster by defining keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures for any or all of them via the Keyboard Shortcuts/Gesture Mapping settings.
A total of 30 changes are included in Vivaldi Snapshot 1.7.735.11, which is based on Chromium 56.0.2924.68. Check out the changelog attached below to see them all, and in the meantime, you can test drive the new features yourself by downloading the binary packages for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems from our website.
