Install Vivaldi web browser in Ubuntu. Vivaldi 1.11 has been released with improved accessibility features – advanced Reader Mode, an ability to easily turn off GIF animations and more control over Mouse Gestures. We have also rolled out a new application icon to freshen up the browser’s look.
Prominent new features:
- Advanced Reader Mode – Vivaldi’s Reader Mode lets you have a clutter-free reading environment, undisturbed by unwanted advertisements, videos and other distractions. You can now adjust the settings right at the top of the page you’re currently viewing in the Reader Mode.
- Turn off animated GIFs – You can now easily deactivate animated GIFs right from the Status Bar. Click on the Toggle Images icon and you’ll see three options for loading animations to choose from – always, once or never.
Other New Features
- Reader mode configuration (VB-29002)
- Configurable gesture sensitivity (VB-30408)
- Disable GIF animations by setting (VB-16320)
- Optional Speed Dial buttons (VB-13687)
- Update Vivaldi application icon and Windows installer backgrounds (VB-29965)
Fixes
Platform
- [Mac] Add “Show|Hide” to View menu items (VB-28941)
- [Mac] Gestures don’t work in Settings in a tab (VB-20258)
- [Mac] Media crash (VB-29267)
- [Windows] Context menu after gesture on SD page (VB-20743)
- [Windows] “Open file with… ” message on start-up (VB-28604)
Address Field
- Ctrl+Z does not reverse cutting content (VB-29135)
- Improve search in URL field for drop-down filtering (VB-18556)
- Paste and go does not work if the address bar is hidden (VB-29759)
- Sometimes deleted characters get autocompleted (VB-29692)
- Text selection cursor position is wrong (VB-29755)
Media
- [Windows] Audio stops playing after a while (VB-29546)
- [Windows] Audio takes ages to start up (VB-29699)
- [Windows] Support video/mpeg4 (VB-27459)
- Proprietary media served with wrong unsupported mime type fails to play (VB-29504)
- Permission dialogs for media and notification fails to open (VB-29799)
Themes
- Allow more fine-grained Themes color control (VB-29456)
- Color changes does not auto-save when edited by keyboard (VB-29581)
Developer Tools
- Restore the title of the undocked developer tools due to external tools (VB-29386)
- Undocked developer tools do not work for internal pages (VB-29360)
- Developer tools shortcuts are conflicting with Vivaldi ones (VB-27893)
Installer
- Selecting standalone install mode does not always work (VB-30397)
- Completed standalone install can open all user install (VB-30001)
Spatial navigation
- Spatial navigation does not remember last position (VB-28965)
- Spatial navigation cursor ↓ moves focus (VB-30263)
Tab bar
- Tab bar disappears in fullscreen video (VB-29418)
- Tab bar resize performance (VB-29510)
Other fixes
- [Notes] Content does not display and can be lost (VB-29658)
- [Bookmarks] Search in bookmarks does not find extra characters like brackets (VB-29588)
- [Search Engines] Update moves modified engines towards end of list (VB-29828)
- [Settings] Going from Display All to Keyboard doesn’t change the settings content (VB-29771)
- Settings search is not working for Toolbar (VB-29332)
- Search nicknames should be lowercase (VB-30642)
- [Speed Dials] If custom thumbnail has been used and cleared, it does not revert back to the generated thumbnail (VB-29384)
- Accept text/plain as drag type for web panels (VB-29303)
- Back button drop-down does not appear on Speed Dial (VB-30052)
- Changing extension icon problem (VB-22413)
- Find in Page covers scrollbar (VB-29921)
- Have Popup in Tab off by default (VB-29742)
- Hidden control has focus in App Updater (VB-29273)
- Missing Windows 8 icons and tiles (VB-29965)
- Permissions are not asked for when a permission is used (VB-29930)
- Provide a way to unfocus a select field by keyboard (VB-28140)
- Sort typed history based on time, not length (VB-28939)
- Suppress autocompletion if typed matches domain or ends with a slash (VB-27956)
- The update notifier should check for updates when it’s launched (VB-29339)
- Unread tab indicator contrast adjustments (VB-12813)
- Vivaldi does not update search engines nor does it add new ones on previous installations (VB-28151)
- Vivaldi installed on a virtual drive cannot be updated correctly (VB-29793)
- Web panel context menu (VB-23465)
- Wrong extension behaviour between private and non-private window (VB-28010)
- % becomes %25 when searched from address bar or field (VB-30266)
- Updated translations
- Updated Chromium to 60.0.3112.91
Download & Install Vivaldi
Ubuntu users can download the DEB / RPM file and easily install the latest version of Vivaldi web browser. Users can download the Vivaldi DEB / RPM file from: