Challenger web browser Vivaldi 1.8 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux. The browser, which has made great strides in its relatively short lifespan, unveils another game-changing feature with this new release. Challenger web browser Vivaldi 1.8 has been released for…
Challenger web browser Vivaldi 1.8 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux. The browser, which has made great strides in its relatively short lifespan, unveils another game-changing feature with this new release.
The headline new feature is a revamped History view — accessed via the Speed Dial or by pressing [Ctrl] + [H]. The feature gives users a more visual overview of their browsing behaviour, making it easier to find — and return to — previously visited pages and sites.
The new History provides users with additional ways of sifting through their past browsing experience. The traditional list view favored by other browsers has been joined by additional daily, weekly and monthly views, giving the History a calendar-like look and feel.
The screen also gains three tools for giving users visual aids — a Browsing Activity graph reveals spikes in activity, while a Link Transition Type pie chart lets users see how they’ve browsed from one page to another. Finally, a list of the top domains visited during the selected period is provided.
Daily and List views are almost identical, while Week provides a summary list for each day in the selected seven-day period. Selecting Month produces a monthly calendar on the left, with each day filled with a color-coded summary of pages and sites visited. Users then select a day to reveal a list of time-stamped entries for the day alongside the calendar.
The design of the History feature serves several purposes. First, it helps users track down elusive web pages they’ve previously visited with the help of the Search tool. It also provides insights into user online behavior by revealing the kind of information third parties like to track.
Fortunately, Vivaldi emphasizes that none of this data is shared outside of the program. Users can continue to easily remove browsing data, either by clicking the brush button to delete data over a specified period, or by selecting individual pages and pressing the [Delete] key.
And there’s more
Other new features include adding a new History option to the Side Panel, providing a list of recently visited sites that users can review without having to navigate away from the current page.
The Notes feature also gains a major improvement — now users can simply drag and drop selected text from other pages and even applications into the Notes panel to create a new note. Text can also be added from web pages via the right-click menu (choose ‘Copy to Note’).
Vivaldi also adds host of new customizable options. Users now gain three choices when choosing tab-muting behavior via Settings > Tabs: ‘Play All Audio’, ‘Play Only in Active Tab’, and ‘Prioritize Active Tab’ — this latter allows background tabs to play sound only when the active tab is silent.
The current home page can now be set to the Start page (Settings > Startup), while links can now be forced to open in the current tab via the right-click menu. Hibernated tabs can now be displayed in grayscale via ‘Dim Icon when Hibernated’ (Settings > Tabs) and Windows users can now toggle the automatic-update function on and off via Settings > Autoupdate.
Other tweaks include matching terms being highlighted in the results drop-down window when performing a search via the Address Bar, while a new option for right-clicking an image in a web page and choosing ‘Search Google for image’ has been added.
Vivaldi 1.8 is available now as a free download for Windows, Mac and Linux, along with a 64-bit build. Users can import data from a variety of browsers, including Opera (old and new versions), Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer and — via HTML export — Firefox.

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UK firms need to rethink incentives to attract and retain people with cyber security skills, according to the findings of a recent global study.
UK businesses are currently the least likely to offer incentives to cyber security staff to reward them for their performance and efforts, a global report reveals.
Some 42% of UK organisations – the highest proportion globally – do not have incentives for information security professionals, according to the report by Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
The report, which polled 800 infosec pros, examines the difference between the incentives available to IT professionals who defend against cyber attacks compared with the incentives for attackers.
The report suggests UK businesses can learn more from the incentives on offer to attackers, and can use this knowledge to attract, motivate and retain information security professionals more effectively.
Attracting and retaining people with cyber security skills is challenging for most companies in the face of a worldwide shortage, with 1.8 million infomation security-related roles expected to remain unfilled worldwide by 2022, according to the latest Global Information Security Workforce Study from (ISC) 2 .
“Misaligned incentives between attackers and defenders mean that the decentralised market in which cyber criminals operate makes them adapt and innovate faster and more efficiently than defenders, whose incentives are shaped by bureaucracies and top-down decision making,” said the report.
According to the report’s authors, this means companies and governments will need to rethink how they measure, reward and incentivise those working in cyber defence.
“The cyber crime market is efficient, and the incentives for cybercriminals are clear and compelling,” said the report. “The same is not true for defenders. Criminals flourish in this market, but most defenders work in bureaucracies. In most companies, cyber security is the responsibility of a diverse range of groups and individuals using different (and sometimes conflicting) metrics for success.
“Incentives are not only misaligned between attackers and defenders, but also in companies.” This indicates the need for a cultural shift in the way defenders are recognised and rewarded.

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The Visual Studio 2017 release in early March included F# 4.1 and an update of the Visual F# tools. F# 4.1 brings improvements and interoperation with C# 7 while the tools are the first version supporting the Roslyn workspaces.
The Visual Studio 2017 release in early March included F# 4.1 and an update of the Visual F# tools. F# 4.1 brings improvements and interoperation with C# 7 while the tools are the first version supporting the Roslyn workspaces.
As previously covered, F# 4.1 brings improvements and interoperation with C# 7 :
An updated version of the Visual F# tools also shipped with Visual Studio 2017. A notable addition to the tools is the support of Roslyn Workspace APIs :
IDEs such as Visual Studio use the Roslyn workspace APIs to provide multiple features. While the compiler part of Roslyn is C#/VB specific, some APIs such as the workspaces sit at a higher level and are not tied to a particular language. Thus, implementing the API means an IDE feature can support F# directly instead of needing a distinct implementation for F#. The features refactored to use Roslyn workspaces include :
The official announcement from Microsoft also acknowledges the many contributions of the F# community. Several community members were thanked for their contributions on the F# compiler, Visual F# tools and language design.

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