One Step Closer to Stable: Vivaldi Beta 3 released
Vivaldi Beta 3 has been released on March 4, 2016. The, hopefully last beta of the up and coming web browser Vivaldi introduces new features such as a session manager or tab specific zooming and hibernation options.
Vivaldi, hinted at in 2014 and revealed to the public in January 2015 for the first time, is in my opinion the most promising new browser in regards to user control, interface modification support, customization options and features.
The team released two beta versions already, beta 1 back in November 2015 and beta 2 in December 2015, and now beta 3 which may be the last beta before a release candidate is pushed out.
Vivaldi Beta 3
We have talked about the major features that found their way into the third beta of Vivaldi already in February, and don't want to rehash everything we mentioned back then already.
Here is a short overview of the main new features introduced in Vivaldi Beta 3
- Options to save tab sessions. This allows you to save a batch of sites open in the browser to re-open the same set of sites in the future again. The feature acts independently from the browser's session restore feature.
- Tab Hibernation to free up resources by hibernating all sites but the one in the active tab.
- Tab-specific zoom to change the zoom level for sites individually. The feature needs to be enabled in the options first before it can be used.
- New Tab opening and closing options. Vivaldi opens sites that originate from actions performed to sites in open tabs next to those, and the same goes for closing tabs only that the closest relative tab is focused. The old options are still provided as options in the settings so that you can go back to the way Vivaldi handles these things previously.
Download and upgrade
You can download the latest beta version of Vivaldi from the official website. If you use Vivaldi already on your system, select Vivaldi menu > Help > Check for Updates to download and install the new beta version over the existing version.
Vivaldi Stable?
When will a stable version of Vivaldi be released by the company? That's a question that I hear regularly when I talk about Vivaldi.
Vivaldi has not mentioned a release date officially, but it is very likely that Vivaldi Stable will be released in the coming months. If Beta 3 is the latest beta, we will see at least one release candidate before the stable release, maybe more depending on how it is received and how much work needs to be done after it is released.
I'd expect the stable version to hit the public in late Spring / early Summer.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.