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Vivaldi 1.15 is out, here’s everything you need to know

Here is the great news for all Vivaldi users. The most innovative of all modern browsers today reached another milestone in the stable branch. The team behind the browser released Vivaldi 1.15. Let's see what has changed.

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Search Engine For Private Mode

The browser now allows using different search engines for regular and private browser sessions. For example, you could set Google as your regular search engine, but for private mode you might want to use DuckDuckGo, which is famous for respecting the user privacy.

The appropriate option can be enabled in Settings - Search.

Vivaldi Search For Private Windows

Set a background image for browser's window

Vivaldi 1.15 introduces a new feature – the ability to apply a background image to the browser's window. The new option can be found in Settings. Under Themes, you can enable the check box "Show background image". When enabled, the selected image will be applied to the window frame of the browser. It can be tiled or scaled to fit.

Vivaldi Window Background Image Options

Also, there is an extra option that allows blending the accent color with the window background image.

When enabled, it looks as follows.

Vivaldi Window Background Image Applied

The Bookmarks menu

The new Bookmarks menu can be found in the main menu of the app. To see it, press Ctrl + M in the browser or click on the Vivaldi icon in the top left corner of the window and select View - Horizontal Main Menu.

Vivaldi Enable Main MenuVivaldi Bookmarks In Main Menu

When you click on the item, it will contain all the commands related to bookmark management along with the list of your bookmarks.

Fullscreen mode improvements

If you are using fullscreen mode often in Vivaldi, you will like the next change. You can now toggle the appearance of all hidden UI elements while in fullscreen (F11).  The next screenshot demonstrates the left pane enabled in fullscreen mode.

Vivaldi Fullscreen

Download Vivaldi

You can download Vivaldi 1.15 from its web site.

The complete change log can be found in the official announcement.

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube.

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