The team behind the most innovative Vivaldi browser released a new snapshot of the upcoming version of the app. Vivaldi 2.2.1388.23 is the first release candidate for 2.2. It comes with a new option that allows disabling the built-in Google DNS service that is used as the last resort when a web page is not accessible.
Vivaldi was started with the promise of giving you a highly customizable, full-featured, innovative browser. It looks like its developers kept their promise - there is no other browser on the market which offers the same amount of options and features. While Vivaldi is built on Chrome's engine, power users are the target user base, like the classic Opera 12 browser. Vivaldi was created by former Opera co-founder and developed keeping in mind Opera's usability and power.
As you may already know, Google's public DNS servers are hardcoded into Chromium, and Vivaldi is using Chromium as its rendering engine. When you are trying to open a web site, Vivaldi (Chromium) tries to access it using DNS servers configured for your network connection. If the connection fails, it tries to resolve it using Google's DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, leaking browser's request to Google.
Finally, Vivaldi 2.2 includes a new option to turn off this behavior.
To disable the Google DNS service in Vivaldi, do the following.
- Open Vivaldi.
- Click on the V menu button and select Tools - Settings from the main menu (You can use a keyboard shortcut instead, Alt + P).
- On the left, select Privacy.
- On the right, turn off (uncheck) the option Use a Google DNS Service to Help Resolve Navigation Errors.
You are done.
Other changes & downloads
Other changes in this release:
- [Regression] Cannot edit default download location (VB-46963)
- [Regression] Middle click on Speed Dial folder (VB-47004)
- [Regression] Newly created note is not focused (VB-47005)
- Add option to disable Google DNS (used to help resolve navigation errors) (VB-47091)
- Updated translations
Download Vivaldi
- Windows: 64-bit for Win7+ | 32-bit for Win7+
- macOS: 10.10+
- Linux: DEB 64-bit (Recommended) | DEB 32-bit
- Linux: RPM 64-bit (Recommended) | RPM 32-bit
- Linux: DEB ARM32-bit (Unsupported) | DEB ARM64-bit (Unsupported)
- Linux: non-DEB/RPM
Source: Vivaldi
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