A few days ago the developers behind the Vivaldi web browser project, announced the release of the new version 2.5 in which one of its main features is the integration of the Razer Chroma function.
For those who are still unfamiliar with the Vivaldi browser, you should know that this is a freeware web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by the co-founder and former CEO of Opera, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner.
Like Opera, Vivaldi has things like Speed Dial, Rewind / Fast Forward and other functions of the Opera browser.
Also, it has a lot of new things to look like as well, like Adaptive Color Interface: something that allows the browser to change colors based on the browser page, and so on.
Vivaldi started with the promise to bring you a highly customizable, comprehensive and innovative browser. It seems that its developers have kept their promise: there is no other browser on the market that offers the same amount of options and features.
The browser is based on Google's open source version of Chrome and it doesn't pretend to be faster than Chrome, just very different.
Like Chrome, you can get the power of extensions. However, its goal is to offer so many features that no extensions are needed.
About Vivaldi 2.5
This new version of the browser It is a stable version and in terms of news there are few added, de among them comes with more customization options where users can adjust the size of speed dials and select tabs more easily.
Have been added a series of new options in «Preferences → Home page → Speed dial» that allow you to change the size of the speed dial.
Now it is possible to make it bigger, smaller or bigger to fit the number of columns.
Another novelty of this version is that added a new quick command to deselect all selected tabs.
This can be started from the F2 dialog, or assign a gesture and keyboard shortcut for quick execution.
Tab selection can be used to perform actions against a group of tabs, such as stacking, closing, moving, reloading, tiling, marking bookmarks, and more.
Previously it was only possible using the mouse in combination with the keys. Vivaldi 2.5 comes with several new commands, to select the previous, next and related tabs (same domain).
Finally Another of the main novelties of Vivaldi 2.5 as mentioned at the beginning, offers integration with Razer Chroma, the world's largest lighting ecosystem for gaming devices.
The browser can change the background lighting or ambient lighting of Chroma-enabled devices, such as keyboards or mice.
Also, Vivaldi 2.5 comes with many minor bug fixes and improvements.
How to install Vivaldi 2.5 on Linux?
Si want to install this web browser on their systemsThey must follow the instructions that we share below according to their Linux distribution that they are using.
In the case of those who are Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint users or any distribution derived from these.
You can get the latest stable version right now with the following command.
For those who they are 64-bit users They must open a terminal and execute the following command in it:
wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_2.5.1525.41-1_amd64.deb
While for those who are users of 32-bit systems download with:
wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_2.5.1525.41-1_i386.deb
Now for the special case of those who are Raspbian users or some debian-based distribution for the Raspberry pi, they can get the package from the browser with the following command:
wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_2.5.1525.41-1_armhf.deb
And finally they install with:
sudo dpkg -i vivaldi*.deb
If they are users of Fedora, Centos, RHEL, openSUSE or any distribution with support for RPM packages you can download the following packages.
For those who are 64-bit system users, must download with:
wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable-2.5.1525.41-1.x86_64.rpm
Or for those who are 32-bit system users download:
wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable-2.5.1525.41-1.i386.rpm
Y finally can install with:
sudo rpm -i vivaldi*.rpm
For those who are Arch Linux users and derivatives, install from AUR with:
yay -S vivaldi