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Vivaldi version 1.3 debuts with custom themes, enhanced privacy and much more...
August 2016 by Marc Jacob
Vivaldi released version 1.3. Version 1.3
introduces Custom Themes to add a new dimension to personalization, protection
for WebRTC IP leakage to improve privacy, and more mouse gestures to name just a
few. Download Vivaldi 1.3 from vivaldi.com.
According to Wired, “Vivaldi is to power users what 500-pound squats are to
power lifters.” We’re too busy coding to spend much time in a squat rack, but
we know that many users switch from Chrome to Vivaldi because of our
personalization options. You can truly make Vivaldi yours.
Enhancing our personalization options, Vivaldi 1.3 introduces custom themes, so
you can customize every UI element to your taste, or pick from additional themes
from our designers. This makes Vivaldi the most colorful browser available. You
can see it in action here:
Custom Themes also bring an accessibility improvement, because we added
programmatic support to enforce minimal contrast. This makes Vivaldi more
comfortable to use for people with visual impairments, or who work in dimly lit
environments.
Improving privacy is also a paramount concern for Vivaldi. WebRTC brings voice,
video chat and file sharing applications to the web browser natively in HTML, but
it can also broadcast your IP address, which websites can use to track you. In
Vivaldi 1.3 we added a setting to turn this off. Hurray for more privacy.
Mouse gestures get a major improvement in version 1.3. We’ve added more default
mouse gestures and you can even customize more than 90 different browser actions.
For Linux users, we made some platform-specific improvements with this release.
First, we made tab hibernation better for you. Tab hibernation puts tabs to
sleep, so they don’t hog system resources. To hibernate a tab, simply right
click on it. We also improved our support for proprietary media in HTML5.
