Chromium 67 update – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.16.1221.3
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Today’s snapshot includes a jump from Chromium 65 to 67. So now you can enjoy the latest rendering engine, with all our signature features!
Click here to see the full blog post
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Seems to be a small changelog for those big changes ! It's weird
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Installation fails. Tried both through the auto updater and by manually downloading and running the executable.
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When will we be able to install stable and snapshot on same PC, as we can with the Opera?
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Congrats on the update. I just want to mention some things I noticed about extensions.
- The extension site has changed to the chromium equivalent – the Vivaldi version/old chromium version is gone.
- If you hide an extension's button, the extension toggle can't be hidden anymore. When pressing the extension toggle the hidden button appears as a dropdown.
While I understand this is an added measure of security favoured by Chrome, I don't like this kind of babysitting. If I want an extension hidden, it should just be gone from the address bar. Likewise the extension toggle. What are your thoughts or plans for this?
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@cqoicebordel: Yeah you know a little more
For anyone else reading this, it is worth mentioning that the public changelogs are filtered for all issues that are regressions that you could have never seen.
Say a public snapshot goes out and between that time and the next one the changes we make internally cause 10 bugs, which we then fix before the next snapshot, then those 10 issues will be filtered from the changelog.
In this specific case the fixes filtered from the changelog were far, far more than the entries that ended up being listed! The real, raw changelog between these builds had over 160 entries!
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@mtaki14: Which install? What OS are you on?
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@ruario:
Windows 10 64bit
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@senja We already can. I have done it. I installed the Final as a regular version and the Snapshot (my default) as a standalone installation. See Advanced Options in the install dialogue.
Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit •Snapshot 1.16.1221.3 (64-bit)
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@ruario: I know, but what I wanted to point out was that the work you all did was huge, and that, sadly, it wasn't reflected in the changelog.
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@ruario: Restarting windows resolved the issue
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@luetage A little follow-up on this:
When the extension toggle is enabled, we can't hide extension buttons at all – they are kept visible. When the extension toggle is disabled we can hide buttons, but then the extension toggle appears and when you click it the hidden button is there as a dropdown, but you can't toggle the extensions anymore. I think this approach is a little messy ^^ -
@luetage: The problem are multiple : The changing webpage of extensions is from Chromium, not Vivaldi. The problem being that on that new page, there is no way to bring back an extension you have hidden, like it was on the previous page. So, to avoid having an extension disappear forever, they have put the hidden icons in the dropdown menu you mentioned, with the possibility to right click one of its icons, to bring it back, because, for now, it's the only solution to bring back an icon.
Maybe in the futur the extension webpage will evolve and have that possibility again, and then that hack will disappear. -
Is anyone else experiencing an inability to focus a page when it is in tiled view? Or rather, that the UI doesn't display the focus change until you click on a tab?
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@ruario Testing
Seems We can't drop .crx on extensions page anymore.
Unpacked works.For hidden matter, an idea could be
- Minimize extension (move to the toggle)
- Hide extension (but it needs patching vivaldi://extension)
Well, I'll unhide any extension before update. Thanks for pointing that out.
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@lonm: Yes, me too.
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When I move a tab to a new window, it is set to "Use Native Window," although that is not my setting in the current window.
If I enter preferences to uncheck the option, close the window, then reopen it, the Window title bar is gone.
Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit •Snapshot 1.16.1221.3 (64-bit)
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For anyone, like me, who likes to keep an eye on vivaldi://flags, I've got a list of changes:
Removals:
Manual Password Saving
experimental canvas features
Permission Action Reporting
Permissions Blacklist
Distance field text
Requiring user gesture for the Vibration API
Feature Policy
Show the Google Pay logo in the Autofill credit card dropdown
Speculative Prefetch
Several chrome-specific omnibox flags
Keep a renderer alive for keepalive fetch requests
Enable Voice Search on the local NTPThese may have been removed because they're discontinued experiments or they were stabilised and enabled by default.
Additions:
WebRTC new encode cpu load estimator
Disable pushState throttling
Enable native notifications.
Site isolation trial opt-out
Previews Allowed
Desktop PWAs Link Capturing
Connect to Cast devices on all IP addresses
WebXR Gamepad Support
Experimental keyboard lock API.
WebRTC H.264 software video encoder/decoder
Enable Web Payments single app UI skip
Enable N-up printing
Native memory sampling profiler
Sample memlog allocations
Allow regional locales as display UI
Enable pixel canvas recording
Web Authentication Testing API
Viz Display Compositor (OOP-D)
Unified Consent
Simplify HTTPS indicator UI
Array.prototype.values ES6 method
Enable GPU AppContainer Lockdown.
Bundled Connection Help
Signed HTTP Exchange
Viz Hit-test Draw-quad version
PDF Isolation
Use PDF compositor service for printing
Autofill Dynamic Forms
Restrict formless form extraction
Views Cast dialog
Enable Supervised User Committed Interstitials
Increase input audio buffer sizeI'm quite interested in Enable Native Notifications, but that doesn't seem to work quite yet.
Another one worth watching may be the Simplify HTTPS indicator UI which does away with the padlock on HTTPS pages, though vivaldi's UI doesn't seem to follow that yet.
Strict Site Isolation, previously available, is still broken, so I would recommend keeping turned off.
Enable Picture-in-Picture Still doesn't work, and just adds a disabled menu item to media controls
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@luetage: You can get the extensions page back to the old one by visiting the flag
vivaldi://flags/#enable-md-extensions
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@cqoicebordel Yeah, it's a problem with the chromium update, I'm aware. The current implementation is a workaround, but also buggy, as described below. Imo this needs a fix for stable, because the extension toggle loses its main functionality (toggling extensions) under certain circumstances. Chromium won't fix this for Vivaldi I'm afraid.