Vivaldi Snapshot 1.8.755.3 now available for public testing

Feb 14, 2017 23:29 GMT  ·  By

While some of you are enjoying their new Vivaldi 1.7 web browser with its built-in screenshot tool, it looks like the Vivaldi developers have started working on the next major update, Vivaldi 1.8.

Vivaldi's Pål Andreas Franksson had the pleasure of announcing the availability of Vivaldi Snapshot 1.8.755.3, the first development release in the new series, which implements a bunch of new features and improvements that some of you have requested lately.

For example, Vivaldi 1.8 will allow users to set the Vivaldi Start Page as default homepage, which can be enabled in the Startup settings. Moreover, a new "Open Link" option was added to the right-click context menu so you can open a link in the current tab more easily.

New History panel, create Notes using drag and drop

And now for the goodies that Vivaldi 1.8 web browser will bring, as the new History panel that should have been included in Vivaldi 1.7 is implemented by default in this snapshot to help you sort your browsing history easily. Furthermore, it is now possible to create new Notes by using drag and drop of text from anywhere.

"Create a new Note by simply dragging and dropping text from anywhere on your computer to your notes in the Vivaldi browser or easily paste your copied texts anywhere in the Notes menu," said Pål Andreas Franksson, Windows QA and Testing at Vivaldi. Check out the screenshot below to see the new feature in action.

Create a new Note by simply dragging and dropping text

Today's Vivaldi Snapshot 1.8.755.3 also brings various improvements to the Tab Muting feature introduced in Vivaldi 1.7, such as the ability to only allow the active tab to play sound or let a background tab play sound, but only as long as the active tab doesn't make any noise.

A bunch of regressions from Vivaldi 1.7 and other small enhancements also made their way into this first snapshot of Vivaldi 1.8, which you can download right now for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems from our website. Please note that this is a pre-release version that you shouldn't use as your daily driver.

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