14 DAY TRIAL // Vivaldi's Ruarí Ødegaard reports on the availability of the first minor maintenance update to the Vivaldi 1.8 web browser, versioned 1.8.770.54, which includes a few important bug fixes and rebases the project on the latest Chromium release.
Vivaldi 1.8 launched a week ago, at the end of March, and brought with it a brand-new and revolutionary History feature, as well as numerous other improvements, such as advanced tab muting options, the ability to create notes using drag and drop, and a new option for displaying hibernated tabs in grayscale.
Support for setting your homepage to the Start page,the ability to enable or disable automatic updates on Microsoft Windows systems, new right-click context menu entries for opening links in the current tab and searching images, as well as support for highlighting matched URLs in the address bar drop-down menu, also landed in Vivaldi 1.8.
A couple of days ago, Vivaldi updated the web browser to version 1.8.770.54 from 1.8.770.50, fixing incorrect encoding for the .desktop file on GNU/Linux systems, as well as wrong credit translation in the About page when using Vivaldi in some languages, and translating more strings in Norwegian.
Another important change implemented in the Vivaldi 1.8.770.54 stable update is that the web browser has been rebased on the Chromium 57.0.2987.138 release. If you're using Vivaldi 1.8.770.50, we recommend updating to this new version as soon as possible. You can download it for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows right now from our website.