14 DAY TRIAL // Vivaldi's Ruarí Ødegaard is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of what appears to be one of the last snapshots towards the Vivaldi 1.8 stable release of the Chromium-based web browser.
"We are very close to the 1.8 final now. Please continue to inform us of any nasty regressions since 1.7," said Ruarí Ødegaard, Linux QA and Testing, in the release announcement for Vivaldi Snapshot 1.8.770.38, which looks like it rebases the web browser on Chromium 57.0.2987.111.
If you take a quick peek at the changelog attached at the end of the article, you'll notice that Vivaldi Snapshot 1.8.770.38 is not a major milestone, but it adds some improvements to the new History feature, such as the fact that the "Search All History" button will be disabled when viewing full data range and list number of filtered entries.
Additionally, the update reduces and groups the items displayed in the "Delete Private Data" dialog. The Video Call feature was also updated to no longer crash Google Hangouts, and it looks like the scroll position is now remembered in history, bookmarks, and other areas of the Vivaldi web browser.
Vivaldi 1.8 is coming soon
Among other changes, we can mention that Vivaldi Snapshot 1.8.770.38, which you can download for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website, addresses two regressions related to pinned tabs and the homepage features, correctly places pop-up windows, and updates various language translations.
Today's Vivaldi snapshot also makes it possible for users to write articles on the Medium.com website by pretending to be Google Chrome. The final release of the Vivaldi 1.8 web browser is coming soon, but how soon we don't know because it depends on how many bugs need to be squashed, but rest assured that you'll be the first to know when it's out.