Vivaldi is now based on Chromium 49, new Snapshot brings Search Suggestions feature

After releasing Beta 3 for Vivaldi, Opera co-founder launched browser team is looking to fix bugs, today, they’ve released a new snapshot, which has upgraded browser to Chromium 49. This snapshot also lets you enable search suggestions in the address bar.

Enabling Search Suggestions in Vivaldi address bar

Though currently this is a work-in-progress feature, suggestions for search engines seems to be displayed for Bing and duckduckgo only, provided you need to visit Vivaldi Search settings and restore default Settings, after that, you need to uncheck the  ‘Disable Search Suggestions in the address field’ setting in the ‘Privacy’ section of Settings.

search suggestions

This snapshot has updated the Vivaldi to 1.0.420.4. FYI, Company has already announced Vivaldi browser’s version 1.0 is getting closer, it may be a few snapshots away.

For the list of bugs fixed and for complete change log, visit this page.

Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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