Download Vivaldi 2.7.1628.30

Version 2.7 of the web browser Vivaldi has been released. Vivaldi is a web browser developed by former Opera employees. He mainly focuses on power users and users of Opera before the switch to Chromium, although this browser is also based on it. Vivaldi has extensive capabilities such as mouse gestures, tab stacking, extended keyboard shortcuts, and annotation on web pages. The browser is free and is being developed for Windows, Linux and macOS. The changelog for this release is up this page can be found, these are the release notes:

Cut the noise with Mute Tab

In this upgrade, Vivaldi ups its ante to tackle the incredibly annoying auto-playing audio and video. One of the most requested features from users, this new option allows them to mute a website which is currently silent.

Now users don’t have to worry that websites will interrupt their general browsing experience. Simply right click on a tab and select “Mute Tab” to prevent the website from playing the audio in advance.

This new option is an addition to Vivaldi’s solid settings that control sound behavior.

Find these under audio settings in Settings → Tabs → Tab Features → Tab Muting.

The default option – “Play All Audio” – allows audio to play from all tabs at all times. Users can disable it if they want to avoid unwanted noise.

Choosing “Play Only In Active Tab” ensures that, even if the active tab has no audio, background tabs with audio will stay muted.

“Prioritize Active Tab” is for situations where background tabs with audio should play even if the active tab has no audio.

Additionally, users can “Mute other Tabs” which means that by right clicking any background tab in the Tabs Bar or Window Panelall other tabs will be muted but the current tab.

Another way to manage sound is through Quick Commands (F2 / ⌘ E and type “mute”, then select the preferred option via the arrow keys) or assign custom keyboard shortcuts.

Access User Profiles quicker

Working faster can give users a competitive edge and being able to access their profile quickly helps with that. So, Vivaldi has improved one of its much-loved features – User Profiles.

Users can now create a desktop shortcut to a specific User Profile. Available on Windows, this shortcut will give users a quick access to their profile and ensure that they are always in the right account. Users can find a new context menu entry in the user profile menu under the “Add Person/Edit Person button”.

A Flash for Flash

Even though Flash technology is being phased out, there are many sites that still use Flash and many users that still love it! Vivaldi adds a new option for the Flash player plugin. This way many users can access these sites – another addition in the plethora of options that Vivaldi gives its users to browse with complete ease.

Enable this plugin under Settings → Webpages → Plugins

Informative Status Bar

Heavy pages can take time to load resulting in a long wait. Now Vivaldi keeps users informed while they wait, with helpful information about the loading page in the Status Bar at the bottom of the window.

Users will be notified of the current status, for example: “Processing request”, “Waiting for”, “Connecting”, “Establishing secure connection”.

Improved Stability for macOS

If users have experienced crashes on macOS, they’ll be glad to know that they are in for a smoother ride with improved stability. This long-standing issue has been fixed in the new version.