Vivaldi 5.3 It is a new version of the web browser for those who love personalization, and as such comes with new features according to its eccentricity and highly anticipated by many of those who trust it in their daily internet adventures. Even though it was a matter of time: almost two months have passed since the release of the previous version, which is not very common nowadays.

And it is so that, like Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave or Opera, Vivaldi is a derivative of Chromia, which shares many of its qualities, but goes at its own pace and this is incompatible with the monthly editions that are controlled by almost every major web browser today. , including Firefox. Be that as it may, Vivaldi 5.3 jumps on Chromium 102 and does so with constant and resonant news.

Vivaldi 5.3, news

One of the most important new features of Vivaldi 5.3 is the new feature toolbar customization, including the top but also the status bar. And it couldn’t be done anymore? Yes, but with the limitations that are disappearing now, and although this may seem like an insignificant detail, this is not the case. At least for lovers of adaptation is worth repeating.

So now you can move any button on the top and bottom toolbars or remove them if you don’t need it, all through a new Firefox-style configuration dialog. And whoever says the buttons says the address or search box. In addition, simple and adjustable partitions have been included to accommodate the millimeter.

With this change, a new type of button is introduced, also customizable and based on command strings released by the browser last year. What they consist of is better explained in the link, but let’s say you want to read this article in read mode and full screen, or that you want to open all the links it contains in mosaic mode. You program a chain of commands and you’re done with keystrokes, instead of performing several actions in a row.

The news now is that you can encapsulate the command string instead of the keyboard shortcut in a button that you can add to the toolbar. It may be a feature that only appeals to some users, but it has potential.

The second big novelty of Vivaldi 5.3, the third, if we count the customizable buttons as separate and in terms of functionality it could easily be, is search engine synchronizationsomething that many people can do without problems, but which has been missing for a long time, among other things because Chromium and Chrome already have this capacity.

The same is not true for other Chromia derivatives, including Vivaldi, and for those who manage different search engines, especially those that customize their search engines, it was quite difficult to manually configure them each time you reinstalled or changed devices. Well, the suffering is over. There is still something to add to the sync system, but this is not one of them.

In short, Vivaldi 5.3 offers several but interesting new features that expand the browser customization capacity, which is already at an important level: appearance, themes, homepage, tabs, panels, address bar, bookmarks, quick commands, keyboard, mouse, search, privacy and security, downloads, synchronization … There are many aspects in Vivaldi that can be customized and have more and more options?

So what happens when you mess with your settings so much that your browser becomes unusable? That you must use another of the new Vivaldi 5.3: restore default settings, another new button that completes each of these sections, which will abort all changes and leave it ready to start again. Best of all, it doesn’t return all the customizations you’ve made, but is limited to the specific section in which you run it.

And that’s the main part of what Vivaldi 5.3 brings … for the PC (Linux, Mac, Windows), because there are also updates for Android and it has its own new features, already known in the world of desktops, but no less interesting for that: customizations and rename tab groups, new gesture display options, compiler bar improvements, and search engine synchronization!