Vivaldi features history
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Hi all!
Since the very first technical preview we’ve added a lot of great features. Below is a ever-expanding list of features that have been implemented in Vivaldi. Here you can track what has been added and when it was implemented. Did we miss any features? Let us know and we’ll add it to the list.
Technical Preview 1
January 27, 2015- Tab stacking
- Tabbar placement
- Notes
- Speed Dial
- Bookmarks manager
- Downloads manager
- Quick commands
- Mouse gestures
- Page actions
- Sidebar
- Colored tabs
- Visual tabs
- Recently closed tabs
- Shortcuts
Technical Preview 2
March 5, 2015- Bookmarks bar
- On-demand image loading
- Fast/Forward
- Spatial navigation
Technical Preview 3
April 28, 2015- Tab Stack Tiling
- Unseen page marker
- Native window
- Autoupdate
- Personal data importing
- Plug-ins on demand
- Background tabs loading indicator
Technical Preview 4
July 16, 2015- Startup options
- Color schemes
- UI zoom
- HiDPI support
- Pinned tabs
- Task manager
Beta 1
November 03, 2015- Web-panels
- Chromeless UI
- Tabs visual navigation
- Private window
- Page loading progress indicator
- Typed history list
- Smooth scrolling
- Geolocation support
- HTML5 h264, AAC and mp3 support
- Extensions support
Beta 2
Decemder 17, 2015- Fast tab closing
- Bookmarks and Notes trash
- Panel hiding
- STFU (Silent Tabs For Users)
- HTML5 Notifications
- Global font settings
- Default character encoding settings
- Moving tabs between windows
Beta 3
March 04, 2016- Bookmarks export
- Interface zoom
- Web-pages global/individual zoom
- Double-click for tab closing
- Color tabs settings
- Tabs closing/opening management
- Sessions
- Tabs hibernation
- CSS Debugger
Final 1.0
April 08, 2016- Search suggestions
- Welcome page
- Minimize tab by click (Click Active Tab to Switch to Previous Tab)
Final 1.1
April 26, 2016- Closing all other tabs by Alt+Click on close button
- Open Links in Current Tab Stack
- Keyboard shortcut that toggles all the others on or off
- Tab closing activation options
- Importing Speed Dial from Opera 12
- Tab Stack hibernation
Final 1.2
June 02, 2016- Editable mouse gestures
- New tab start page specifying
- Closing multiple selected tabs
- Keyboard shortcuts for opening edited URL in address field
Final 1.3
August 11, 2016- Customisable UI themes
- Color picker for themes
- WebRTC IP handling settings
Final 1.4
September 08, 2016- Individual width of web-panels
- Themes scheduling
- Retrieve closed tab by middle-click on trash
Final 1.5
November 22, 2016- Philips Hue support
- Tabs and tab stacks dragging between browser windows
- Reader mode
- Delta updating (Windows)
- Automatic screenshots in Notes
Final 1.6
December 15, 2016- Tab notifications
- Tab stack renaming
- Tabs selection by domain
Final 1.7
February 08, 2017- Built-in screenshots
- Mute/unmute multiple tabs
- Configurable top-level domain expansion
- Extensions visibility toggle
- Extra warnings for HTTP websites that request passwords
Final 1.8
March 29, 2017- History redefined: Structured and Visual
- Notes creating with drag'n'drop
- Autoupdate control (Windows)
- Image search from the context menu
Final 1.9
April 27, 2017- Removed web-panels restoring
- Ecosia green search integration
- Extensions buttons rearranging
- Area capturing button
- Notes sorting
Final 1.10
June 15, 2017- Custom Speed Dial thumbnails
- Docked DevTools
- Extension controlled new tabs
- Sorting of Downloads
- Desktop wallpaper as Speed Dial background (Windows 8+ only)
Final 1.11
August 10, 2017- Reader mode configuration
- Configurable gesture sensitivity
- Disable GIF animations by setting
- Optional Speed Dial buttons
- Update Vivaldi application icon and Windows installer backgrounds
Final 1.12
September 20, 2017- Built-in Image Properties
- Download Info
- Control website accent color saturation
Final 1.13
November 22, 2017- Window Panel
- Warning dialog when closing the browser before a download is complete
- Ability to pause and resume downloads
Final 1.14
January 31, 2018- Vertical reader mode
- Markdown support to Notes
- Rearrangeable Web Panels
- Search engines reordering
Final 1.15
April 25, 2018- Possibility of having an image as window background
- “Bookmarks” in the main menu
- Access individual panels and toolbars in full screen mode via keyboard shortcuts or quick commands
Final 2.0
September 26, 2018- Implement Syncing of Bookmarks, settings, etc.
- Add options to support for floating/overlay panels
- Make tiled tabs resizable
- List layout for Visual tab cycler
- Add predefined shortcuts for moving tabs left and right: Windows/Linux = “Ctrl+Shift+PgUp/PgDn”; macOS = “⌘+⇧+↑/↓”
- Tile new tabs in a tab stack
- Holding Command/Control opens new tab on history buttons
- Web panel suggestions with favicons
- More Speed dial suggestions by using favicons
- New 2.0 Welcome Page
- Updated Default Themes for 2.0: Added “Vivaldi” as our new default theme, replaced “Redmond” with “Beach”
- Minimum active tab width setting
Final 2.1
October 25, 2018- New Notes creating from Quick Commands
- Notes search from Quick Commands
- UI Zoom and support for command line parameters in Quick Commands
- Open items in a new tab via modifier keys from Quick Commands
- AV1 support
Final 2.2
December 13, 2018- “Save selected tabs as a session” feature
- Numbered accelerators to elements in main Window menu
- Closed tabs access from Quick Commands and with keyboard shortcut
- Configurable Address toolbar
- Configurable Status toolbar
- Mute all other tabs via the tab context menu
- Search box on Speed Dial
- Option to show a webpage access key shortcuts
- Pop Out Video (Picture-in-Picture)
- Middle clicking in Back/Forward history drop-down open the page in new background tab
- Automatically fetch Widevine (EME) to enable Netflix, Prime Video, etc. (Linux)
Final 2.3
February 6, 2019- Option to automatically create a tab stack
- Option to show frequently visited pages in the URL Drop-Down
- Custom screenshot file name
- Save webpage as MHTML is enabled
Final 2.4
March 27, 2019- Buttons moving between panels
- Context menu inside folders on the bookmarks bar
- Bookmarking selected tabs
- User profiles
- Built-in calculator
Final 2.5
May 8, 2019- Razer Chroma support
- New select/unselect tab options
- Resizable SD thumbnails
- Contextual menu inside folders on bookmarks bar (macOS only)
Final 2.6
June 20, 2019- Built-In Abusive Ads Blocker
- Unread tab counter in Window Panel
- Filtering saved passwords
- Display search engine icon in Search Field
- Razer Chroma headset support
Final 2.7
August 21, 2019- Allow to mute website that is currently silent
- Global setting for Flash player
- Add info to the status bar when a page is loading
- Desktop shortcut for user profile
Final 2.8
September 19, 2019- Keyboard navigation at the bookmark menu bar
- Resizable columns in the Bookmakrs and History managers
- Support for hovering across horizontal menu or the bookmarks bar
- Toggle images via keyboard
Final 2.9
October 31, 2019- Page prevented from using cookies dialogue
- Web panels in the View menu
- Tab bar in the View menu
- Global site permissions in the Settings
- Columns reordering support in the Bookmarks manager
Final 2.10
December 19, 2019- Hiding Vivaldi from User Agent
- Integration with the system theme scheduling
- Focusing the bookmark bar
- Horizontal extension-popup
- Keep Last Entered Value option
Final 2.11
February 12, 2020- Picture-in-picture button
- F6/Shift+F6 focus handling
- Follow OS Dark/Light mode by default
- Translated installer
To be continued...
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