Desktop

Information about releases, updates and snapshots of the desktop Vivaldi browser

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Minor update (4) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 7.7

December 3, 2025

This update fixes a couple of crash issues, resolves a commonly reported tab switch problem, improves Dashboard widget handling and includes security fixes from Chromium.

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Smarter tabs, and improved accessibility — Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3882.3

December 2, 2025

In today’s snapshot, we’ve fixed a range of issues, including a crash with the ad blocker, inconsistent mail sorting, and conflicts with tab media controls. Accessibility also improves with caret browsing support, while the address bar height has been reduced for auto-hide.

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Minor update (3) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 7.7

November 28, 2025

This update includes a fix for a very common crash, related to the ad blocker.

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More Auto‑Hide Tab work + Crash fixing — Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3879.3

November 27, 2025

In today’s snapshot, we have more crash fixes and more work on the new Auto-Hide tabs feature.

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Minor update (2) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 7.7

November 26, 2025

This update includes numerous crash fixes, along with several other issues, and a minor upgrade to Chromium 142 from upstream.

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

November 25, 2025

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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Crash Fixes — Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3872.3

November 20, 2025

In today’s snapshot, we polish menus, mail, and start page widgets. Alongside these improvements, we’ve squashed a wide range of crashes and updated Chromium to the latest stable version for enhanced security (including a fix for CVE-2025-10200).

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Minor update for Vivaldi Desktop 7.7

November 17, 2025

This update includes a few important crash fixes and security fixes from Chromium upstream, including for CVE-2025-13223 (Type Confusion in V8), which has a known exploit in the wild.

Vivaldi 7.7: less friction, more control

November 13, 2025

This release brings together features that have been carefully refined based on what you’ve told us matters most: seamless access to your tabs across desktops, a unified Start Page that finally combines Widgets and Speed Dials and granular control over browser performance.

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Vivaldi 7.7 RC 3 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 3851.44/46

November 12, 2025

Today’s snapshot is the third release candidate for 7.7 for desktop and notebooks. (P.S. The cool kids enable crash reporting! ⚰️)

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Vivaldi 7.7 RC 2 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 3851.40/43

November 11, 2025

Today’s snapshot is the second release candidate for 7.7 for desktop and notebooks. (P.S. enable crash reporting! 💣)

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Vivaldi 7.7 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 3851.36/38

November 10, 2025

Today’s snapshot is the first release candidate for 7.7 for desktop and notebooks. Also please enable crash reporting! 💥🚗 📝