Vivaldi team has released Vivaldi 2.0 snapshot by bumping the snapshot version number from 1.16.1279.3 to 2.0.1295.3, why they did that? We don’t know, what we know from their blog post they’ve fixed a lot of issues and regressions from the last snapshot. You can update to the latest snapshot by checking for updates from the Help menu. If you’ve Vivaldi Update Notifier enabled, it notifies about Vivaldi update. As you know Vivaldi uses delta updates mechanism (which means small updates will be downloaded and installed), but this update is big and has size about 53 MB, you can also manually download and install Vivaldi snapshot 2.0 from Vivaldi site.
Vivaldi 2.0 snapshot
Anything new?
Active Tab Minimum Width Setting
Yes! Seems they’ve introduced new minimum width setting for active tab, which you can notice by visiting Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Active Tab Minimum Width. You can move the slider to change active tab width from a minimum of 30 pixels to a maximum of 180 pixels.
What’ the use of this?
By increasing the active tab width, you can make the active tab standout and easy to spot if you’ve many tabs and windows open. For instance, when I set the maximum width to 180 pixels, this is how an active tab looks in the tab bar.
New Vivaldi welcome page
The welcome page which appears in the first run after installing Vivaldi, informs about setting the basics and importing bookmarks from browsers, has been redesigned from scratch, looks good. You can see the page at any time by visiting vivaldi://welcome in the address bar.
The snapshot uses Chromium browser engine 69 and you should expect Vivaldi Sync to be available when Vivaldi 2.0 goes stable.
Download Vivaldi 2.0.1295.3 snapshot.
