The Vivaldi browser improves Pop-out video

Watch videos independently of the page where you found them, match OS themes better, navigate quicker – all this and more in Vivaldi 2.11.

Illustration showing Picture in Picture feature of Vivaldi Browser

OSLO – February 12th, 2020: The Vivaldi browser releases Vivaldi 2.11 – its first desktop update of the year. The latest version gives its users a new and improved Pop-out (Picture-in-picture) mode so that they can watch videos outside of the page they found them.

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Pop-out video easily 

When Vivaldi first launched the Pop-out video, the response was fantastic. For this release, Vivaldi decided to roll up their sleeves and revisit this feature to make it even better.

For the uninitiated, Pop-out video allows users to watch a video in a separate, floating window. The always-on-top window can be moved wherever the users like while they carry on browsing in other tabs.

There was room for improvement in this feature, though. Earlier, launching the window was hidden behind menus and extra clicks. Not anymore.

Now, enabling picture-in-picture is much more straightforward. A single click on a small video box icon displayed in the center of the video will launch it in the same movable, resizable, floating window.

The perfect solution when users want to catch a match while also get on with their work.

Screenshot showing icon to help you easily enable Picture in Picture

Watching videos in Vivaldi should be intuitive and useful. If you’re watching a video that’s part of a playlist you’ll also see forward and back buttons in the new pop-out, letting you skip tracks or go back to something that caught your fancy”, says Petter Nilsen, Vivaldi developer who has worked on refining this feature.

Theme updates

Vivaldi has worked further on its Theme-Scheduling in this version. Earlier Vivaldi did not follow the operating system’s Dark/Light mode by default.

From now on Vivaldi will change its default theme to match the user’s operating system’s light/dark settings. For example, if a user has set MacOS to dark mode, Vivaldi will be launched in dark mode by default.

 Screenshot showing how to switch your Vivaldi settings to use your operating system theme

 

Focus shifting via the keyboard

One of Vivaldi’s strengths is the host of keyboard shortcuts it provides so that users can browse a lot faster.

This update introduces a unique accessibility feature that allows users to focus between different areas of the User Interface and active pages using F6 (and Shift+F6).

Users can use F6 to cycle (or Shift+F6 to reverse) keyboard focus between the webpage, bookmarks bar, tab bar, and address bar. From there, users can move between other sub-elements.

 More in Vivaldi 2.11

  • Improved full-screen tab casting that adjusts to fit in the current window.
  • Upgraded developer tools.

At Vivaldi, we are constantly reimagining the way our users interact with the Web. And with much more on the anvil this year, we’ll continue to improve every part of the browser and add more useful functionality to it,” says Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner.

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About Vivaldi Technologies

Vivaldi Technologies is an employee-owned company that creates products and services for discerning web users. In everything it does, it believes in putting its users first.

Vivaldi is a powerful, personal, and private browser that adapts to you, not the other way around.

With its flexible, and fully customizable interface, the browser strives to offer the best Internet experience on any device and currently covers platforms such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, iOS, Android, and Android Automotive.

Vivaldi has two ground rules: privacy is a default, and everything’s an option. In practice, this means building software that protects users’ privacy but also does not track how they use it. It believes private and secure software should be the rule, not the exception.

Vivaldi is headquartered in Oslo, with offices in Reykjavik, Boston, and Palo Alto. Learn more about it at vivaldi.com.

For more information, please contact:

Varsha Chowdhury
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Haakon Rølmann
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Kaori Kotobuki
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