Auto‑Hide Tabs & Drag‑and‑Drop Tiling — Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3877.3

In today’s snapshot, we’re introducing two experimental ways to work with your tabs: auto‑hiding the tab bar to maximize screen space, and a more intuitive drag‑and‑drop approach to tab tiling. Alongside these early features, we’ve addressed a range of crashes (including the most common crasher on macOS), refined mail handling, improved bookmarks and search behavior, and fixed several start page quirks.

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Auto‑Hide Tabs

We are excited to share an early version of a new feature: auto‑hiding UI elements, starting with tabs.

When this setting is enabled (either via right click on the tab bar or “Settings → Tabs → Tab Display → Tab Options → Auto-Hide Tabs”), your tabs will appear on mouse hover and disappear when you move the cursor away. It’s designed to give you more screen space, while keeping your tabs accessible when you need them.

This is still very much a work in progress, and we’re releasing it early in the Snapshot so you can get a feel for the functionality and help us identify obvious issues. Please keep in mind that the visual design is not final yet, and we are mainly interested in your feedback on how the feature works in practice.

Drag & Drop Tab Tiling

You also get a second experimental feature in this Snapshot: a new, more intuitive approach to tab tiling.

Instead of selecting multiple tabs first or right‑clicking on a stack, you can now simply drag one tab over the page content of another to tile them side by side. This makes creating tiled layouts faster and more natural, for those of you who rely on tab tiling to view multiple pages at once.

Even after your tabs are tiled, you can continue to drag and rearrange them within the tile layout, giving you more flexibility to organize your overview exactly how you like.

As with auto‑hide tabs, this feature is still work in progress. Your input will help us refine the interaction and address any usability issues before a stable release.

Known Issues

  • [Auto-Hide][Windows] No window controls with tabs auto hidden (VB-122214)
  • [Auto-Hide][Linux] No window controls with tabs auto hidden (VB-122215)
  • [Auto-Hide] Vivaldi Menu offset with tabs on top (VB-122359)
  • [Auto-Hide][macOS] Can’t click tabs if they are placed on bottom (VB-122495)
  • [Auto-Hide] Empty main bar when tabs are on the side or bottom and the Address bar is also hidden (VB-122311)
  • [Tab][Tiling] Drag and drop tiled tab on itself shows incorrect action preview (VB-122357)
  • [UI] Window controls are duplicated (VB-122496)

Changelog

  • [New][Auto-Hide] Allow auto hide/showing parts of the UI: starting with tabs (VB-122213)
  • [New][Tab][Tiling] Allow tab tiling via drag and drop (VB-36736)
  • [Ad blocker] Domain blocked by DDG blocklist causes ERR_FAILED even with domain whitelisted (VB-122270)
  • [Address Field] Don’t fill Address Field when opening item in background tab (VB-121952)
  • [Address Field][Settings][Search] When “Search in Address field” is disabled, do not search (VB-122207)
  • [Bookmarks] Keep selected item visible when clearing filter (VB-122117)
  • [Bookmarks] Search that matches folder name no longer displays folder contents (VB-122152)
  • [Crash] During download with UI in Arabic (VB-122249)
  • [Crash][macOS] When handling cross process frame reattachment: happens with PWAs and hibernated tabs (VB-109565)
  • [Mail] Columns removed are not persisted (VB-122353)
  • [Mail] Cyclic traversal error in the mail list (VB-121879)
  • [Mail] List entry thread not updated correctly when threading data changes (VB-122374)
  • [Mail] Save as filter from “see messages to and from” does not work (VB-121032)
  • [Mail] Some messages not found found in search (VB-122267)
  • [Mail] Strange delete confirmation dialog behaviour (VB-74708)
  • [Mail] There are two Date entries for column selection (VB-122293)
  • [Mail] Update unseen regardless of its current state (VB-121196)
  • [Mail][Welcome] Add proton certificate step to adding new account steps (VB-121742)
  • [Search] Confusing message when trying to delete a search engine (VB-117706)
  • [Search][Crash] Dialog to suggest alternative providers crashes when list is empty (VB-122356)
  • [Start page] Show only the speed dial folder can cause bookmark popup to close on selection (VB-122211)
  • [Start page] Widgets should not appear when you navigate to a sub folder (VB-122323)
  • [Welcome][Start Page] Skipping welcome onboarding adds widgets to the wrong folder (VB-122118)

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Enable Automatic Crash Logging

Vivaldi can automatically send crash reports to help us improve stability. This feature is disabled by default, but your feedback as a Snapshot user is especially valuable.

To enable it, go to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Privacy → Crash Reporting → Allow Vivaldi to Send Automatic Crash Reports

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