Vivaldi snapshot 1.8.770.44 is now ready for public testing

Mar 24, 2017 15:33 GMT  ·  By

Vivaldi's Ruarí Ødegaard announced today, March 24, 2017, the release and immediate availability of the first Release Candidate of the forthcoming Vivaldi 1.8 web browser for all supported platforms.

Dubbed as Vivaldi Snapshot 1.8.770.44, the Release Candidate of Vivaldi 1.8 is here to fix some last-minute bugs for the new History feature, which is the star of the new upcoming web browser release based on the latest Chromium 57 open-source project, as well as to improve the user interface zoom functionality.

Specifically, Vivaldi 1.8 RC1 makes chrome://newtab to no longer flash when the user accesses it from the start page, correctly aligns the page information when setting the interface zoom, makes deleting of history entries faster, preventing the collapsed days from expanding and the deleted items from being displayed in the address field drop-down.

If you want to help with the testing, you can download the binaries of Vivaldi 1.8 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website. Don't forget to report bugs if you encounter any while using the web browser, and keep in mind that this is still a pre-release version, not ready for production use yet.

The full changelog is attached below for those interested in the technical details, and while Vivaldi did not confirm the release date of Vivaldi 1.8, we have all the reasons to believe that it will hit the streets first thing next week, and we'll be the first to report its new features. Stay tuned!

Vivaldi 1.8.770.44 Changelog