Hands-On with All the New Features in Vivaldi 2.3

[The AchieVer]

Hands-On with All the New Features in Vivaldi 2.3 

I said it before, and I’m going to say it again: Vivaldi is one of the best, if not the best, browser out there, and every single update just pushes things even further.

With version 2.3 going live today, Vivaldi is significantly improving the user experience, and one of the new features that really come in handy to me, and potentially to millions of others, is called tab auto-stacking.

First of all, some basic info which should be helpful especially if you’re not a Vivaldi user.

The browser includes a feature called Tab Stack and whose purpose is to make browsing multiple pages at the same time a more seamless process.

Basically, what this feature does is group several pages under the same tab, which is particularly useful for several links belonging to the same website. This makes tab management much more intuitive and you can always know where to look for a specific page.

In Vivaldi 2.3, this concept of tab stacking is improved with an automatic mode that further keeps things organized. The way it works is pretty simple: auto tab stacking takes care of links that you open from an active tab and automatically adds them to a tab stack. This means you won’t have any pages lying around for no reason, as all pages are added to the group where they belong.
 

 

 

Vivaldi 2.3 doesn’t ship with automatic tab stacking, but you can enable this feature from the settings screen by heading over to the following location:

Tabs > New Tab Position > As Tab Stack with Related Tab
As a heavy user that spends most of the time online in a browser, I use the Vivaldi screenshot capture tool a lot, and beginning with this version, this little feature becomes even more useful.

Vivaldi is now offering a more advanced screenshot management system, as the application uses a new default naming pattern and lets you customize it even further with your own parameters.

For example, if you want to use a naming pattern that relies on the date and time when you took a screenshot, just head over to the following location and drag and drop the data you want to use in the name in the Capture File Name Template:

Settings > Webpages > Image Capture > Capture File Name Template

 

 

Another major improvement in this new release concerns the address bar. In Vivaldi, the address field serves as the main hub for pretty much anything, and the way you interact with it is up to you.

The address bar lets you quickly access almost everything, and when I say everything, I really mean it. It’s not just for websites, but also for bookmarks and history, and this includes both your previous types (keep an eye on this if you’re searching for… kinky stuff) and browsing.

Vivaldi 2.3 updates the address bar with frequently visited pages, so you can easily load a website that you regularly visit in the browser with just a couple of clicks. This feature needs to be enabled manually, and this is the correct approach, as some users might not want their pages to be exposed here. To do this, open settings and go to:

Address bar > Address Field Drop-Down Menu > Frequently Visited Pages

I tried out all of the above, and I must admit that my favorite is the new auto tab stacking feature. Right now when I am writing this article, I have no less than 22 active tabs, and I just checked and 14 of them are from the same website. And yet, here I am with just a few tabs open in my browser, all because tab management is really powerful thanks to this feature.

If you haven’t tried Vivaldi already, you really should. This is one of the best browsers out there, and despite so many people going for Google Chrome, Vivaldi is at least worth a shot.

 

 

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