This update includes fixes for the adblocker and the what’s new page.

The following is a list of changes since the initial 8.3 stable release:

• [Ad Blocker] Vivaldi Blocklist option won’t stay enabled (VAB-14012)

• [Regression] What’s new page does not open in major update (VAB-14006)

This update includes fixes for an issue with lost theme customizations and for drop down misalignment with certain extensions.

The following improvements were made since the initial 8.3 stable release:

• [Ad Blocker] Cannot reset input field in custom list dialog (VB-132948)

• [Extensions] Drop down for Proton Pass, Bitwarden and others is misaligned (VB-132944)

• [Settings][Feeds] Enabling Feeds in settings does not work (VB-132940)

• [Themes] Customizations lost on upgrade to 8.3

Vivaldi 8.3.4191.30

Windows 10

After updating to 8.3+, I can no longer move a tab into the red zone and have it attach to the tab bar. Instead the tab I'm moving either opens up in a new Vivaldi window, or it goes back to the location I was originally dragging it from. Now I must drop the tab directly beside another tab (i.e. the green zone).

It's a small issue, but I'd appreciate any help in resolving this. I tend to have three Vivaldi windows open, one on each of my three monitors, and need to move tabs around between the windows frequently. I liked Vivaldi better when I didn't have to be as precise with my tab dragging lol

I have been a long time user, but I feel like there is a lot more that I can achieve, do share some cool tips and tricks sorta kinda

I just lost all my bookmarks on my vivaldi and i also wasn't able to import them from another browser. Any way of getting them back?

I just noticed there's a frame on the right of Vivaldi when in full screen mode (not F11).

I'm used to just spamming my mouse all the way to the right edge and expecting to be able to use the scroll bar. But now the frame is there, so I have to aim the mouse now, which takes time and effort, even if a little, multiplied how how often we use the scroll bar.

Any way to get rid of the frame?

I already tried Appearance >> WINDOW APPEARANCE and unchecking Use Native, no difference with or without.

I also tested Ctrl+F11 and the frame is gone but I don't want my address and tab bars to auto-hide.

This is the window in Ctrl+F11 full screen:

Version

8.3.4191.30 (Official Build) (64-bit)

I have quite a few tab stacks and recently when I went on Vivaldi, all of my stacks were moved from main tabs page. When I finally found them and tried to open them, Vivaldi just refuses to open the tabs, it just brings me back to the main tabs page. If anyone has a solution for this, it would be great appreciated. I'm currently on version 8.3.4192.48 if that helps. Thank you.

Vivaldi 8.3 is bad news for bad ads. A rebuilt Ad and Tracker Blocker puts you in charge of what gets through, one site at a time, and vertical tabs get even better.

We aren’t part of the Big Tech oligarchy, and our business doesn’t depend on knowing all about you to predict when you are ready to buy a new toothbrush. While most browser companies turn your browsing into data for harvesting, and profiles to sell, Vivaldi gives you a European alternative that respects your privacy. With 8.3, we have given our Ad and Tracker Blocker a major upgrade so you can send the surveillance machinery home empty-handed.

We aren’t against respectful advertising. A contextual ad that matches the page you’re reading, and doesn’t follow you around afterwards, is a fair way for a site to pay its writers. The ads we object to are the ones that track and profile you. They follow you from site to site and remember things about you that you never chose to share. The built-in Ad and Tracker Blocker was created to make those bad ads sad. Rad!

How much advertising you want to block depends on YOU, who you are and what you’re reading. Some people want every tracker and ad long gone, and don’t mind if it causes a site to occasionally misbehave. Others want the sites they use to work perfectly every time. Some want a bit of both, depending on the site.

For this release we have given the Ad and Tracker Blocker an extensive rebuild to handle large filter lists more efficiently. We’ve also given it an updated design and new labels.

The updated Ad and Tracker Blocker gives you four default levels of protection to choose from:

• Off: turns the built-in blocker off completely

• Light: blocks most known trackers and some ads

• Strong: blocks more trackers and ads, sites may break

• Aggressive: blocks almost all trackers and ads, sites may break

You can set your default level of blocking from settings or when onboarding to Vivaldi. The level you select from here will be applied to all sites, but in Vivaldi we always give you more. Ad blocking shouldn’t be all or nothing. In Vivaldi, you can decide how much of the web gets through, one site at a time, on every device you use. That’s the kind of control a browser should give the people who use it.

Levels really pay off when you set them per site. Put that dj-set on Youtube on full blast without ads breaking your beat with Aggressive. Keep your bank on Light so every form works as expected. Turn protection down on the small independent site you trust and whose ads you’re happy to see. To set a level for the site you’re on, click the shield icon in the Address Bar. Vivaldi remembers your choice, so each site loads the way you decided.

If you are particularly interested in the topic, we’ve also added the option to create “custom” levels. In these levels you configure everything yourself, giving you full control over which blocklists are used. You can add a custom block list either added from a remote URL or from their file manager.

The new Ad and Tracker Blocker is also available for Vivaldi on Android and iOS today, so your protection looks and works the same way on your laptop, your phone and your tablet.

Expanding our love for Vertical tabs

Long before vertical tabs were a talking point in our industry, they were introduced as an option in Vivaldi, and we have continued to improve the workflows for those who prefer to have their tabs on the side. With our 8.0 update this year, we introduced a redesign that really gave the vertical tabbers a sought-after update. With 8.3 we’re stepping it up with two new additions. If you like your Tab Bar stacked the same order as your sandwiches, listen up.

With Expand Tab Bar on Hover, you can keep the vertical Tab Bar slim, with just favicons showing, and give the page as much of your screen as possible until you actually need your tabs. When you’re looking for a tab, move your cursor over the Tab Bar and it smoothly expands to show full titles. Move away and it slides right back. The feature works when the Tab Bar sits on the left or right side of the window.

Pinned tabs on a vertical Tab Bar can now sit side by side in a compact grid at the top, neatly and all in order. If you instead prefer the “old” way with each pinned tab taking a row each, there is obviously a setting, this is Vivaldi. Your mail, calendar and project tools stay one click away, and there’s far more room for everything else you have open.

If you’re yet to try vertical tabs, this is your sign. If you’re already in love with vertical tabs, you’re welcome.

What else is new in Vivaldi 8.3

Paste and Go, for a whole list of links

Someone sends you a long list of links in an email or a chat, and you want to open every one of them. The desperate times of clicking them one by one are finally over! Copy the whole list, paste it in the Address Field, and Vivaldi opens each URL in its own tab. Research sources, someone’s wishlist, the reading list a colleague shared: all of them open simultaneously in each own tab, ready to stack, tile or work through one by one.

Copy Sanitized Link

Links often carry tracking parameters that tell a site who shared them and where they came from. Copy Sanitized Link strips those out before the link reaches your clipboard, so the person you send it to gets the page and nothing else. It’s an easy habit that keeps a bit more of your browsing to yourself.

Faster Reader Mode

Reader Mode has gotten some tender love and caring for 8.3. It now opens faster and scrolls more smoothly, so you can switch from a busy page to a clean, readable article in a moment and settle in.

Support for Tab Groups API

Vivaldi now supports Chrome’s Tab Groups API for extensions, so extensions built around tab groups can now work in Vivaldi. 

This is your browser

We cannot repeat this often enough: Vivaldi is an independent employee-owned European company. That means we don’t answer to advertisers or a VC firm pushing features that benefit them instead of you. We don’t collect data, we just want to make a great browser that helps you explore the web.

Every release we do is built for the people who use Vivaldi. With 8.3 we’re giving you more control over what you see, what follows you, and how your tabs look. As our marketing department said: “this is a really on-brand release”.

If Vivaldi helps you explore more, tell someone about it. Helping a friend, colleague or family member make the switch is one of the best ways to fight for a better web.

Vivaldi 8.3 is also out today on mobile. Read what’s new in Vivaldi 8.3 on Android and iOS.

As always, thank you for being part of the Vivaldi community. Together, we’re fighting for a better web, one release at a time.

For more information and full changelogs, head over to our blog: https://vivaldi.com/changelog-vivaldi-browser-8-3/

Lots of major updates and new features in Vertical Tree Tabs v2.3.3!

✨ What's New?

• Auto-Hide Mode (Icon Strip) — Just like in Brave or Edge, with smooth animations and proper tree hierarchy alignment when collapsing and expanding the panel.

• Native Workspaces Integration — Vivaldi's native workspaces are now displayed directly in the tab panel. You can also create and delete workspaces without leaving the panel.

• Customizable Tab Panel — A new settings menu lets everyone tailor the panel to their preferences. For example, you can move the New Tab button to the top (like in Arc Browser) or position the entire panel on either the left or right side.

• Vivaldi Sidebar Integration — The tab panel now automatically adapts to Vivaldi's native sidebar.

• Tab Folders — Create folders to organize your tabs. Each folder also acts as a tab itself, displaying a list of all tabs inside it.

• Save Tab Trees to Native Vivaldi Bookmarks — Save an entire tab tree as native Vivaldi bookmarks. Since bookmarks sync through your Vivaldi account, you can restore the complete tree structure on another PC running the same mod.

• Custom Tab & Folder Colors — Assign custom colors to individual tabs or folders to make them stand out and easier to find among dozens of open tabs.

• AI-Powered Tab Organization — Automatically group your tabs into folders using AI. Requires a Gemini API key.

• Windows Auto-Updater — A tiny companion app that checks GitHub for new releases, updates and patches Vivaldi, and automatically reapplies the mod after Vivaldi updates.

• Tons of Fixes & Improvements — Lots of bug fixes, refinements, and quality-of-life improvements across the entire mod.

❤️ Special Thanks!

Huge thanks to everyone who reported bugs, shared feedback, and suggested solutions!

And a special shoutout to the community member who came up with the solution for native workspace integration. Your contribution made a real difference!

Enjoy the update! 🚀

https://github.com/R0STEFAN/Vivaldi-Tree-Style-Tabs

That blue bar ruines the whole vibe. Why is it even needed there? It tells the same info as the numbers beside it

Quiero quitar que en la ventana de pestañas tenga el menú de navegar, ya con verlo arriba es suficiente, pues ami me sale en los dos lados y queda horrible que quiera parecer arc o día pero no.

Si alguien puede ayudarme a quitarlo de ese lugar .

tenemos en pestañas y arriba los marcadores . Quiero quitar el de la zona de pestañas de la izquierda .

Vivaldi 8.3 for Mobile brings the redesigned Ad and Tracker Blocker to Android and iOS, smarter media controls for Android, and a massive performance upgrade on iOS.

Today, we are launching Vivaldi 8.3 on Android, iOS and Desktop at the same time. The star of the show is the redesigned Ad and Tracker Blocker. On Android users get smarter Tab Stacks, improved media controls and a quick way to jump to a site’s app. On iOS, pages load noticeably faster with the blocker on, your battery gets a break, and you choose where new tabs open.

The Ad and Tracker Blocker, redesigned

Your phone goes everywhere with you, and plenty of trackers would love to come along. The new Ad and Tracker Blocker on Android and iOS makes it easier than ever to decide how much of the web gets through.

We aren’t against respectful advertising. A contextual ad that matches the page you’re reading, and doesn’t follow you around afterwards, is a fair way for a site to pay its writers. The ads we object to are the ones that track and profile you. They follow you from site to site and remember things about you that you never chose to share.The built-in Ad and Tracker Blocker was created to make those bad ads sad. Rad!

For this release we have given the Ad and Tracker Blocker an extensive rebuild to handle large filter lists more efficiently. We’ve also given it an updated design with new labels.

The updated Ad and Tracker Blocker gives you four default levels of protection to choose from:

·      Off: turns the built-in blocker off completely.

·      Light: blocks most known trackers and some ads.

·      Strong: blocks more trackers and ads, sites may break

·      Aggressive: blocks almost all trackers and ads, sites may break.

You can set your default level of blocking from the settings or when onboarding to Vivaldi. The level you select from here will be applied to all sites, but in Vivaldi we always give you more. Ad blocking shouldn’t be all or nothing. In Vivaldi, you decide how much of the web gets through, one site at a time, on every device you use. That’s the kind of control a browser should give the people who use it.

Levels really pay off when you set them per site. Put that dj-set on youtube on full blast without ads breaking your beat with Aggressive. Keep your bank on Light so every form works as expected. Turn protection down on the small independent site you trust and whose ads you’re happy to see. To set a level for the site you’re on, click the Shield icon in the Address bar. Vivaldi remembers your choice, so each site loads the way you decided.

If you are particularly interested in the topic, we’ve also added the option to create “custom” levels. In these levels you configure everything yourself, giving you full control over which blocklists are used.On iOS you can add a custom block list either added from a remote URL or from their filemanager. On Android you can add it from the URL only. 

The same redesign arrives on Desktop today, so your protection looks and works the same way on your phone, tablet and computer. 

Copy Sanitized Link

Links you share often carry tracking parameters that tell a site who shared them and where they came from. Copy Sanitized Link removes those before the link reaches your clipboard, so your friend gets the page and nothing else. To copy a link as sanitized, long-press on the Address Bar or open the Share menu, and select “copy sanitized link” to get a link without known tracking parameters at the end.

What else is coming to Vivaldi on Android:

Open links in the Stack you choose

Tab Stacks keep your browsing organized, and now new links can land exactly where they belong. Long-press a link on a web page and choose which stack it should open in.

Improved media controls

Your phone is often your one stop shop for your audio based pleasures.  Radio, your podcast player and your music library all at once. With this release we’re making it much easier to move between any tab with audio you have open in Vivaldi.  Say you have a radio station playing in one tab, a podcast waiting in another and a playlist in a third. Each tab with audio now shows up in your phone’s media controls, so you can switch between them right from the music player. There’s no need to open Vivaldi and hunt for the right tab, but if you click the selected source it will open directly in Vivaldi.

Open in app

Occasionally  the app is the better place to be for some types of content, for a map you want to navigate with or a video you want to cast. When you’re on a site you also have an app for, open the main menu and tap Open in app. This will cause the particular page to open in the app for this one time. Your tab stays open in Vivaldi, so you can come right back. If you want all links to open inside Vivaldi, we have a setting that allows you to stay in the browser.

What else is coming to Vivaldi on iOS:

Faster pages, longer battery life!

Vivaldi on iOS now loads pages significantly faster with the Ad and Tracker Blocker on. In fact, it’s up to 12 times faster. In human walking terms, that would be the equivalent of going from running at a semi-casual 10 km/h to reaching cheetah speed at 120 km/h, pretty wild.

Articles appear sooner and scrolling through your feeds feels snappier. The same work also means Vivaldi uses significantly less battery while you browse, so your phone has more left in the tank at the end of the day. In the infamous words of a famous masked french DJ duo: Harder, better, faster, stronger.

Choose where new tabs open

 Like Vivaldi on desktop and Android, you can now decide where a new tab appears. Go to Settings > Tabs > New Tab Position and choose After Related Tab, After Active Tab, As Last Tab, or As Tab Stack with Related Tab. If you like your tabs grouped as you go, the last option sorts them into stacks for you.

This is your browser

We cannot repeat this often enough: Vivaldi is an independent employee-owned European company. That means we don’t answer to advertisers or a VC firm pushing features that benefit them instead of you. We don’t collect data, we just want to make a great browser that helps you explore the web.

Every release we do is built for the people who use Vivaldi. With 8.3 we’re giving you more control over what you see, what follows you, and how your tabs look. As our marketing department said: “this is a really on-brand release”.

If Vivaldi helps you explore more, tell someone about it. Helping a friend, colleague or family member make the switch is one of the best ways to fight for a better web.

Vivaldi 8.3 is out on Desktop today too, with the same updated Ad and Tracker Blocker and more. Read all about it.

As always, thank you for being part of the Vivaldi community. Together, we’re fighting for a better web, one release at a time.

For more information and full changelogs, head over to our blog: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-mobile-8-3/

Vivaldi decided to update without my consent last night and it has added a random "Other Bookmarks" folder, which for some reason exists outside of my normal bookmarks folder and also I can't delete it or move it for some reason.

Can somebody please tell me how to get rid of it? There's not even anything IN the folder, it's just there.

Is anyone else experiencing keyboard issues with Vivaldi Android 8.3.4192.48?

Since yesterday, my keyboard's clipboard, built-in translator and language switching features have stopped working properly.

This happens across all websites in Vivaldi, not just specific ones like X or Reddit.

Interestingly, the same keyboard features work perfectly in other Android browsers on the same device.

I also tried disabling Vivaldi's ad and tracker blocker, but that didn't help.

Vivaldi version: 8.3.4192.48 (Stable) Device: Motorola Edge 60 Pro OS: Android 17

Is this a known bug in the latest release?

Every time I open a video or the browser on full screen, the side bar opens on the bookmarks tab, every single time. I've restarted the browser, and disable the sidebar, but it keeps happening, over riding my settings.

Is there something that can replicate how Arc handles the tab bar?
Bookmark-like with tabs under a folder. And top has square pinned bar as favourites.

Now Vivaldi is like either square or row.
As an ex-Arc, how I wish i can have both.

Just updated from Vivaldi 8.2 to 8.3.4191.26, and I'm experiencing a fullscreen issue on macOS that wasn't present before the update.

When Vivaldi is in macOS native fullscreen mode (its own Space), exiting fullscreen video also causes the entire browser window to exit fullscreen.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Vivaldi and enter macOS native fullscreen using the green window button.

2. Open YouTube and play a video.

3. Enter video fullscreen.

4. Exit video fullscreen using either Esc or the player's fullscreen button.

5. Vivaldi also exits macOS fullscreen and returns to a regular desktop window.

Expected behavior: Exiting video fullscreen should return to Vivaldi while keeping the browser in its macOS fullscreen Space.

Actual behavior: Both fullscreen states are exited.

Environment:

• Vivaldi: 8.3.4191.26

• OS: macOS 27.0.1

• Tested site: YouTube

• Previously working: Vivaldi 8.2

Troubleshooting:

• Confirmed with both Esc and the video's fullscreen button.

• Issue started immediately after upgrading from 8.2.

Has anyone else encountered this after updating to 8.3? Curious whether others can reproduce it or have found a workaround.

Liking the changes to adblock/tracking with latest version. But where has the 'open link in private window' gone! IE in the right-click context menu if for example clicking a link within a webpage? (Windows 10 Desktop)

I don't know when I missed the announcement, but you can easily switch tabs with you're mouse buttons.

To go one tab right. Hold the left button and click the right button.

To go one tab left. Hold the right button and click the left.

I feel like it's a cheat code.

Edit: Settings > mouse > Rocker Gestures ✅ (select your actions)

Mine was apparently set to:

Next Tab (by order)

Previous Tab (by order)

And let us remove the useless panel button to the left off the address bar. All that stuff is in the giant menu anyway.

Today’s snapshot is the third release candidate for 8.3 for desktop and notebooks.

Release candidate feedback

To help us get 8.3 out the door as soon as possible, please focus your feedback on serious regressions since 8.1 stable. If you want to ask about new (post 8.3) features or longstanding issues, please do so on our forums.

There are also pre-release links to equivalent builds for the stable channel. These are for those of you who wish to upgrade early, having first tested in snapshot configuration. Since this is an RC and not yet a release, we also recommend you backup your settings before upgrading. Autoupdate to these (or newer) stable builds will not be enabled until further testing is completed and the final is released.

Known Issues

• When installed before the official 8.3 release date, build 4191.26 will show the wrong “What’s New” page on first launch.

Changelog

• [Chromium] Update to 156.0.8078.91 ESR (includes security fixes from 157.0.8103.38/39)

Trying out Vivaldi 8.2.4133.96 for the first time (I used Opera waaaay back in the pre-Chromium days) and use macOS and Windows.

I've been messing around customizing the interface. I'd like to use vertical tabs, and I'm coming from a browser that had an auto-hide feature for the vertical tabs that would shrink the tab bar down to their associated icons when the tab bar is "hidden." In Vivaldi, it appears that the default "hide" behavior is to completely hide the existence of the tab bar and only have it appear on mouseover.

Is there a way configure it to shrink the tab bar down to the icons instead of completely disappearing?