No time to rest. Vivaldi 1.1 is here with enhanced tab handling, better hibernation and more!

It’s hard to imagine that a little less than three weeks ago we launched Vivaldi 1.0. It seemed to strike a chord. Hundreds of articles and millions of downloads followed all over the world.

It is a great feeling to see the work we have done together with you has gathered so much attention. But we are not resting. Today we’re launching Vivaldi 1.1. This is a result of the feedback we’ve received over the last 3 weeks, to make Vivaldi even better. Read on to find out more about some of the interesting changes.

 

Download Vivaldi 1.1

 

We know tab handling is important for many of you, so we now have even more options. You can select opening behavior on cloned and stacked tabs. You can close all other tabs by holding Alt and clicking on the tab close button or via Quick Commands.

Close all other tabs

You can further adjust tab activation options upon closing a tab. For instance, you can choose whether to automatically activate the tab to the right or left.

Tab activation on closing options

We also made tab hibernation even better. You can now choose to hibernate an entire Tab Stack. You can also select to hibernate tabs by Ctrl or Shift clicking on the tab.

Speed Dials are imported from Opera 12. Hopefully, this will convince some hold-outs to try Vivaldi 😉

We also updated to Chromium 50, which brings in the latest standards support. This means we no longer run on Windows XP, Vista and Mac OSX below 10.9 nor use older (less secure) plugin formats.

If you want to know more, the full Vivaldi 1.1 changelog is here or download the Vivaldi browser from vivaldi.com.

Thanks for your continuing support.

Monday morning T’ai chi

Most Vivaldiers are here in Magnolia for working on our new project during the month of June. 
Normally, we start a day with a quick sync up meeting but today we tried something new, Tai chi. Great way to start a day 🙂

Site maintenance tomorrow at 20:00 GMT

Hello everyone,

 

We are updating Vivaldi.net tomorrow during 19:30 – 20:30 GMT.

During this time, we would be taking the site down for little while so Vivaldi.net will become temporarily inaccessible. 

Thanks for your understanding.

 

Vivaldi team

 

Groups is here!

Hi everyone,

As announced previously, we updated Vivaldi.net today.

With the latest updates, we added a new Groups feature.

You can now create your own Groups, open to public or private depending on preference.

As always, send us your feedbacks. And help us reporting bugs in the Forums.

Cheers!

Vivaldi.net updates

Hi everyone,

 

In the last two days, we pushed a few important changes to Vivaldi.net.

Vivaldi.net is now available in 5 languages, English, German, French, Turkish and Russian 🙂

 

Language switcher is located at the bottom of the page. Just click on the flag of your preferred language. Special thanks to  QuHno, viva, zahek, ra-mon, Shpankov for translation. 

We will be adding more languages as soon as we have them ready. Please let me know if you can help us on translation to your own language.

 

Here are some other notable changes;

  • “Remember me”(keep me logged in) now works!
  • Random logout bug is fixed
  • Styling of forum email notification works now
  • Notification on blog comments now arrives on your notification inbox on the site
  • Caching is enabled again
  • Security fixes
  • Blog import from My Opera and other WordPress export XML. 

As always, if you have any issues or feedbacks, please let us know.

 

Thanks,

Vivaldi Team

How to migrate your My Opera Blog to Vivaldi

Hi everyone,

 

UPDATE : This article was updated on 2/11, due to some issues reported regarding My Opera blog export. 

 

I know many people have been waiting for this. We are happy to finally provide a way to import your My Opera blog to Vivaldi blog. Please follow the following steps to successfully migrate your My Opera blog to your new home at Vivaldi.

If you want to migrate your blog from WordPress, we can also import it for you on Vivaldi.

 

Step 1: Log in to my.opera.com

 

Step 2: Hover your mouse over the wrench icon on the top right corner and click “Account”.

 b2ap3_thumbnail_myoperablogexport.png

 

Step 3: Click the Blog settings link

b2ap3_thumbnail_My_Opera_-_Account.png

 

Step 4: Click the big blue “Export your blog”button

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Step 5: Wait for an email from My Opera. The email contains the link to where you can download your xml file

  

Step 6: Send the file using your Vivaldi.net Mail account to [email protected] 

This is very important as we use your Vivaldi.net email account to correctly identify which Vivaldi account to import your xml file

 

Step 7: Wait patiently for your blog to appear on your Vivaldi account. It may take some time depending on the number of requests we get. 

That’s it!

Please let me know if you have any questions or issues.

How to migrate your data from My Opera to Vivaldi

Hello!

 

We’ve written a few blog posts about migration of your various data from My Opera here.

To make the process easier for those of you starting now, I’ve collected all the links below (Migration for Mail, Blogs, Photos)

Please note that My Opera is closing down on March 1st 2014 so you need to export your data before end of Feb. My Opera export process is not instant and could take some time. So it’s better to start the process as soon as possible.

 

1. How to migrate your My Opera email to Vivaldi Mail

https://vivaldi.net/blogs/entry/how-to-move-your-email-from-my-opera-to-vivaldi-mail 

 

2. How to import your My Opera blog post to Vivaldi Blog

https://vivaldi.net/blogs/entry/how-to-migrate-your-my-opera-blog-to-vivaldi

 

3. How to migrate your My Opera photo album to Vivaldi photo album

https://vivaldi.net/blogs/entry/migrating-images-to-vivaldi-net 

 

As always, let me know if there is any issues or questions.

 

Happy migration, everyone!

Cheers,

How to move your email from My Opera to Vivaldi Mail

 

I know many people want to move their email from My Opera Mail to Vivaldi Mail.

Since we still haven’t set up direct import from external Mail service through the web interface, I thought I would write up a post to explain how to do this step by step.

I know it’s not the best way but at least it offers possibility if you want to do this now, rather than waiting for our release.

Basically, the process requires you to set up two different IMAP email accounts with your mail client, one for My Opera and the other is for Vivaldi Mail. You can then copy and move from My Opera Mail to Vivaldi Mail.

Anyway, here is how you can do it

Step 1: Set up your OperaMail account using your email client of your choice

If you are using Opera’s Mail client, it should automatically configure itself with right server settings once you type your My Opera mail address.

If you are using other mail clients such as Thunderbird, here is the server setup you need for My Opera
    •   
    •    IMAP server: imap.myopera.com port 993 (SSL only)
    •    SMTP server: smtp.myopera.com port 587 (STARTTLS only) or 465 (SSL only)

For user name, you have to use your [email protected] and your My Opera password for both Incoming and Outgoing.

Here is the screenshot of the Servers setting in Opera’s integrated Mail client.

b2ap3_thumbnail_myopera_serversetting.png

Step 2: Set up your Vivaldi Mail account using the same email client used in Step 1

For Vivaldi Mail, configure your server setting like the following.

IMAP Settings
Server Name: mail.vivaldi.net
Port 993
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Your Vivaldi user name and password

SMTP Settings
Server Name: mail.vivaldi.net
Port: 465
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Username/Password (same as IMAP settings)

b2ap3_thumbnail_vivaldi_server_setting.png

Step 3:  Once you set up those 2 mail account in Step 1 and 2, you then move emails you want to move from My Opera Mail to Vivaldi Mail

Open your My Opera Mail account and select all the emails you want to move and drag all the selected emails to INBOX on your Vivaldi Mail account.

In Thunderbird, you can select emails and right click. It lists all the email accounts you set up and allows you to move or copy messages between those accounts.

Step 4: Final test!

Go to  https://mail.vivaldi.net to check all the emails you just imported.

And, that’s it. If you have any issues or need additional help, please let me know.

Happy migration!

 

UPDATE:  Each Vivaldi Mail account can store up to 5GB of mail data. You can also store up to 5GB for other files such as photos, document etc with the same Vivaldi.net account.

This should hopefully be sufficient for most people.

Little bit about Iceland

So, whats the deal with Iceland you may wonder. Well, the main reason is pretty simple. Many of the people behind this project are from Iceland. (Disclosure: I’m not from there. I come from a far away island 🙂 In addition, our servers are hosted in Iceland, which we think is very cool.

Many of you probably know that Iceland has an amazing array of national treasures, there are volcanoes, geysers, hot springs. The volcanos are not only awesome to look at but they also power Iceland. Almost all electricity in Iceland comes from either geothermal or hydro energy. So our servers are running with 100% clean and renewable energy!

But there is more. You all know that powerful computers get very very hot so they need lots of cooling right? Well the fact that Iceland is up there in the Arctic sea and has cool temperatures is a natural aid. Still the guys in Iceland figured out yet another natural source, which is wind, to cool the data center! Pretty awesome, isn’t it?

For the people of Iceland, the rights to freedom of speech and strong consumer protection laws are most important. They are a proud people with due right. In Reykjavik and surrounding areas you can within a few hours drive, experience mountain scenery taken straight out of the Games of thrones (in fact they film it there).

You have beautiful vast areas covered in lava but with beautiful purple flowers growing out of it. There are geysers casting mist into the air in many areas. You have the blue lagoon, the best restaurants, a wonderful Opera, the coolest nightlife and of course the the most amazing phenomena ever, the northern lights. We think that there were many good reasons to choose Iceland for us to run this service.

Before I finish up, here are some cool Icelandic photos taken by Birkir Jónsson to give you a taste. If you have any awesome photos from Iceland, please share with us!

Light play by Birkir Jónsson, on Flickr

One of more than 100 volcanoes in Iceland

Smoking hot power plant by Birkir Jónsson, on Flickr

Thanks to the volcanoes and geothermal energy, almost all hot water used in Icelandic household are heated naturally, and swimming pools are heated year-around so you can swim outside even in Icelandic winter. If you are a beach goer, there is also a heated beach 🙂

Sand and clouds by Birkir Jónsson, on Flickr

Feels a bit like you just landed on the moon

Northern Lights (aurora borealis) by Birkir Jónsson, on Flickr

Nothing beats seeing Aurora. It’s on 7 natural wonders of the world.

This is it for now. I hope that we can share more things about Iceland along the way.