r/vivaldibrowser

In this snapshot, we have a range of tab and theme fixes.

Known Issues

Those of you who had previously edited a default theme and upgraded through recent snapshots will encounter broken default themes (e.g. empty contents for “Zen” and “Soria Moria”). This will not affect anyone who did not upgrade though those snapshots, so will not affect stable users once we go final.

If you do encounter this issue you can either reset your profile or do the following workaround steps:

• Open vivaldi://inspect/#apps
• Click on “inspect” below “main.html”
• Select the “Console”
• Type: chrome.storage.local.set({ SETTINGS_MIGRATION_VERSION: 181 }) (and press “Enter”)
• Restart the browser

Changelog

• [Autohide] No padding between open panel and webview while auto-hide is enabled (VB-127687)
• [Layouts] Settings update (VB-124366)
• [Onboarding] Add new illustration icons for Account step of Onboarding (VB-127595)
• [Panel Editor] Feature panels not added if enabled after customizing the panel once (VB-127073)
• [Panels][User Agent] Cannot use a mobile user agent (VB-127657)
• [Performance] Hardware rendering pipeline fails when webview is masked (VB-127709)
• [Start page] Cannot paste a copied text into sticky note when “Show Search Field” is unchecked (VB-127387)
• [Tabs] Missing gap on top of tab bar, with two level stack (VB-127705)
• [Tabs] New Tab button overlaps rightmost tab after closing any tab (VB-127708)
• [Tabs] Remove “ears” from tabs in maximized with Unified themes: follow up fix (VB-127602)
• [Tabs] When vertical tabs enabled, make New Tab clickable area bigger (VB-127654)
• [Themes] Colors on bottom bars break with high transparency and auto-hide (VB-127686)
• [Themes] Hidden Extensions menu corner rounding and button color issues (VB-127689)
• [Themes] Prevent initial render of wrong accent color (VB-127614)
• [Windows][Installer] vivaldi protocol association in Windows, causing popup on every launch (VB-127643)
• [Workspaces] Hibernated tabs get moved to main window after relaunch (VB-127571)

New to Vivaldi but like it so far. I've found that one of the reasons I have so many tabs open is because it's faster to just open a new tab to load a page I am looking for than trying to find which window it is in. Is there some way to have a combined view of all tabs open across any window, and then loading the selected tab into the window the active window when switching?

the view i have in mind would be similar to the windows and tabs page of the panel, but the behavior would be different. when i click on one of those tabs, instead of switching to the window that has that tab open, just open that tab in the active window.

In this snapshot we have a minor Chromium bump, a couple of crash fixes, and more work on themes and layouts.

Changelog

• [Address field] Progress indicator visually stuck with certain themes (VB-127707)
• [Chromium] Update to 148.0.7778.172
• [Crash] During User‑Agent String Update in Network Request Pipeline (VB-127616)
• [Crash] When deleting browsing data from Chrome settings page (VB-127704)
• [Layouts] Update Vertical Right layout (VB-127784)
• [Linux] Touch events not reaching web page (VB-127717)
• [Panel Editor] Add web panel input shows URL of extension page (VB-127715)
• [Settings] Tab Stacking Compact text misplaced (VB-127796)
• [Tabs] Horizontal tab scroll has stopped working correctly (VB-127523)
• [Themes] Limit background and mask layers (VB-127709)
• [Themes][Settings] Wrong preview images (VB-127783)
• [UI] Restart notification displays no text until moused over (VB-127721)
• [Web Panel] Panel zoom is broken (VB-127433)

Latest Vivaldi windows

Win11 home insider after latest update

Vivaldi claims its security is compromised

Offers to start only by deleting all user data

Any way to get out with data restored?

Vivaldi seems not to have any real support assistance or bug reporting

It's incredible that the most customizable browser out there, the one I like the most, the one that has everything I'm looking for... can't be used because despite having a feature like vertical tabs before anyone else, it has been left to fate for years.

It can't be used because it's chaotic. Just slightly improving that part would make me happy. Being able to use folders in the pinned tab area, and having pinned tabs with a square design for those not in folders... would make Vivaldi an unbeatable browser. Why is this feature constantly forgotten?

Hey, I assume this may not be the most popular concept but is there a general list or somewhere to look for a step-by-step guide to making vivaldi more in-line with traditional chromium browsers?

I enjoy vivaldi and their mission and wanted to try them out but find the amount of tinkering a little much sometimes.

https://preview.redd.it/7v66abwayxzg1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9fd0a6c8f6aaa38b259e7ff02d432bde17f1753

Hey guys,
Just reinstalled Vivaldi after seeing this and wanted this theme, especially the centred address bar.
TIA!

>!Version: 7.9.3970.64 (Official Build) (64-bit)!<

>!Chromium Version: 146.0.7680.226!<

>!Channel: Official Build!<

>!Platform / OS: Windows 11!<

So I'm setting up a new laptop and of course I wanted to sync my Vivaldi settings, bookmarks etc to the new machine.

Except what once again ended up happening is that I lost all my bookmarks on both machines because somehow Vivaldi bungled something. Thankfully I had a 3rd computer that was turned off at the time, so I could recover my bookmarks from that one by exporting and importing them.

So I have to ask, after all these years, why are these not features of Vivaldi sync?

• Sync versioning! Sometimes goes wrong, you just go back to a previous version. This would solve most problems!
• Some indication of what data is synced right in the Sync menu. E.g numbers of bookmarks and whatnot. Now it's a black box
• Some guard rails like "Hey, it looks like your bookmarks are changing by more than 25%, are you sure?"
• One way sync so you can guarantee a new sync does not mess things up on my other machine.
• One way sync for specific data. I might want to sync e.g history between machines, but not bookmarks or settings.

And he's liking it so far.

After Chrome's 4GB AI privacy scandal, I suggested he try a different web browser. He made the big switch from Internet Explorer to Chrome back in the day and didn't realize there were more than five browsers to choose from nowadays. I use Zen and Vivaldi, his friends at the windowsill use Brave, and the neighbor's cat uses Edge. There were plenty of options, but the final decision came down to Brave vs. Vivaldi. The latter won out because its features suited him better (integrated calendar and mail over a crypto wallet and video chat).

Right now, he's busy customizing it. Mostly by walking across the keyboard and knocking the mouse off the desk. Would you be interested in a report on his final experience?

As a privacy nerd, I'd love for Vivaldi to be open-source and a Firefox fork, but as a productivity enthusiast, I also know its limits.

Anyway, thank you for this fantastic tool! The hiding UI is a really great improvement (he especially appreciates anything that hides, being a cat).

Edit: You know what I couldn't find? A lignt introductory video to Vivaldi listing all its features so he knows where he's gettin into.

I run Safari on Apple Silicon, but when I was on Windows a long time ago I used Vivaldi because it was the only one that could do the visual customization I want. Like seriously. It's insane that Chrome and Edge don't let you hide all the junk at the top. Honestly, I did use Edge for a while ONLY because of its magnificent Azure "Read Aloud" voices. I navigate text enough that for a while it's worth it.

Now that I have good Apple voices again, I'm looking to Vivaldi. In Vivaldi, a lot of the widgets like some stuff in the panel and the in-built email seem like bloat that I wouldn't wanna use. I figure I can just turn a lot of that off, and I don't mind spending time on the setup to de-bloat and it would be nice to have genuine Chrome extensions back.

Now that I'm on Mac I like Safari because it's fast and lightweight. But I'm feeling the pull to Vivaldi.

I need some words of advice from real people, preferably those who actually made the switch from Safari (not bloated Chrome), and any real downsides or performance issues you had. I use my browser for high-stakes enterprise work. But as you can tell, I'm a tech noob as far as the software side of things.

I don't care about the generic big picture stuff. I want to hear your real stories and real, specific downsides or upsides. I don't have a problem staying with Safari if I'm not 100 percent sure about the switch.

Sometimes this happens but I can recover them in the "Recently closed tabs".

Vivaldi version: 7.9.3970.60
Chromium version: 146.0.7680.218
OS: Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.8328)

For those who don't know, Edge has recently decided to remove the sidebar from its browser, and although it's not completely gone yet, the countdown has already begun. However, I haven't seen Vivaldi mention this situation, even though some Edge users are expressing their dissatisfaction and looking to migrate to other browsers for this feature.

This is something I already asked in the forum, but isn't this a good opportunity to promote the panel and the browser?

And she’s liking it so far.

After Chrome's 4GB AI privacy scandal, I suggested she try a different web browser. She made the big switch from IE to Chrome back in the day and didn't realize there were more than five browsers to choose from nowadays. I use Zen and Vivaldi, my friends use Brave, and my father uses Edge. There were plenty of options, but the final decision came down to Brave vs. Vivaldi. The latter won out because its features suited her better (integrated calendar and mail over a crypto wallet and video chat).

Right now, she's busy customizing it. Would you be interested in a report on her final experience?

As a privacy nerd, I’d love for Vivaldi to be open-source and a Firefox fork, but as a productivity enthusiast, I also know its limits.

Anyway, thank you for this fantastic tool! The hiding UI is a really great improvement.

Edit: You know what I couldn't find? A lignt introductory video to Vivaldi listing all its features so she knows where she's gettin into.

Im new to vivaldi, and anytime I go to google something and click a link it creates a new tab, and the original searching tab is still there. But these add up when doing research and such real fast and always gotta go back and delete these "startpage" Search Results. is it possible to remove the making of a new tab and rather just have it like on google where you dont get 2 tabs but just 1?

Version 7.9.3970.50 

About once a month I log in to an Ancestry.co.uk account. This morning when I tried to log in I received a blank white page with Pretty Print and a selection box next to it and 2 brackets {} below.

Vivaldi Version 7.9.3970.60; and iOS 15.6.1

I have tried removing blocking. I can log in to the site with Safari

Can anyone shed light on this issue please.

https://preview.redd.it/r8o7rmyapxzg1.png?width=763&format=png&auto=webp&s=0ce74864a090a23c76f9ada7a537f46ac62a5622

Edit:Of course I'd be dowvoted, I'm criticizing Vivaldi on a Vivaldi's sub, a lot of fanboys will gett butthurt

It never asked me to choose a profile when Vivaldi start, now it asked and that was the only option that appeared after I chose the only profile that existed. Now I was logged out of everthing cause... Why bother with user experience?
I also hate how it is really annoying trying to acess a site you are used to visit typing on the adress bar. ChatGPT never appear on adress bar, and if I want to log to a different GMail other than my main account, it redirect to my main GMail account

Fedora 43
Vivaldi Version7.9.3970.60 (Official Build) (64-bit)

In this snapshot we’ve continue improving things as we get closer to final.

Known Issues

Those of you who had previously edited a default theme and upgraded through recent snapshots will encounter broken default themes (e.g. empty contents for “Zen” and “Soria Moria”). This will not affect anyone who did not upgrade though those snapshots, so will not affect stable users once we go final.

If you do encounter this issue you can either reset your profile or do the following workaround steps:

• Open vivaldi://inspect/#apps
• Click on “inspect” below “main.html”
• Select the “Console”
• Type chrome.storage.local.set({ SETTINGS_MIGRATION_VERSION: 181 }) and press “Enter”
• Restart the browser

Changelog

• [Layouts] Reset toolbar should reset to layout defaults (VB-127634)
• [macOS] Three-fingers-tap/force-click does not work inside quick commands (VB-51141)
• [Menus] Horizontal Menu has two menu-buttons (VB-127681)
• [Onboarding] Return focus after page transition (VB-127684)
• [Settings] Add explanation to Floating Panel when using Auto-hide UI: further tweaks (VB-127620)
• [Themes] Colors on bottom bars break with high transparency and auto-hide (VB-127686)
• [Themes] Do not need to add hints of accent color in the background of the Tab Button (VB-127651)
• [Themes] Update theme migration (VB-127228)

This update includes a Chromium bump with security fixes.

The following is a list of changes since the fifth 7.9 minor update:

• [Chromium] Upgraded to 146.0.7680.226ESR (includes a selection of security fixes backported from 148.0.7778.96/97)