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The web is being steered toward one-size-fits-all and AI agents that browse for you. Vivaldi 7.6 is a loud counterpoint. It gives people full control over the space they use every day, with a customizable tab bar and a new Tab Button that unifies finding, switching, and recovering tabs. It keeps the human in the driver’s seat so curiosity can thrive.
Here is what’s new:
Customize everything in Vivaldi
Your browser belongs to you. Hence, it must be able to reflect you. Vivaldi is the most customizable browser available, and with our latest update, 7.6, we’re turning customization all the way up to 11.
When we say fully customizable, we mean FULLY. We’re opening up completely new ways of personalizing Vivaldi. Whether you are a spartan minimalist or a maximalist who likes to have all your favorite tools displayed, the canvas is for you to paint on.
The Tab Bar is where your browsing comes to life, so it’s integral that you’re in full control of it. We’ve made the Tab Bar fully customizable; you pick the tools you want, you decide where to place them. The result is a tab bar that looks and works exactly the way you need it to, making common actions feel obvious. That small sense of comfort adds up over hundreds of tab switches a day.
Here are just a couple of different looks your Vivaldi can don with the new customizable Tab Bar:
The customizable Tab Bar is part of a bigger idea. Vivaldi lets you tune the entire interface so the browser adapts to you. It is customization for the sake of comfort that turns into speed, because when everything is where YOU want it to be, you move faster.
One button to rule them all
This isn’t a “new tab” button. It’s The Tab Button. A single, unified place to find, switch, and recover tabs without hunting through different menus. Click it, and you get a focused panel with a search field at the top. Start typing, and you’ll filter across the things you care about: your open tabs, synced tabs, and your recently closed ones, all in one view. Hit Enter to jump, or click to restore. The gain is flow: fewer detours, less hunting, more doing.
For many, tabs have a tendency to pile up as your browsing session enters its next hour. It happens. Often some of the tabs you open are duplicates of old ones you forgot to close and end up with the same page open twice (or five times). The Tab Button makes tab-housekeeping fun and duplicates easy to fix. You’ll find duplicates grouped together when clicking the tab button, close the extras with a click, or clear them all at once. Fewer clones mean a quieter tab bar. In other words, it’s not another button, it’s THE Tab Button, forged for you to rule all your tabs.
Why this matters
Speed is not only about benchmarks. It is about how few decisions you need to make to keep moving. With Vivaldi 7.6, your setup becomes second nature. The power is there, and the real win is an even better personal fit. Your browser feels tuned to you, ready to help you discover.
When you decide where things live, what is visible, and how actions fire, you keep control. Fewer surprises, and no biased agent between you and the web, frees you to discover new things and places. Personal fit turns into momentum, your attention stays on the page, and ideas stack faster.
Customization is not just decoration. It is how you turn a browser into YOUR browser. Your browser should help you explore more of the web, not explore it for you. So we’re building Vivaldi to keep you in control and to help you explore more.
Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies.
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Vivaldi
What else is new in Vivaldi 7.6
Although the customizable Tab Bar and Tab Button are the headliners, there is plenty more in this release.
Cleaner context menus
We’ve cleaned up and reorganized more context menus, making it faster to get where you want. The fresh menus promote the core actions you want to use, so you spend less time scanning and more time doing.
Search keywords in the Address Field
The Address Field has gotten a smart upgrade. You can now lookup in specific groups, directly from the Address Field. Type @tabs to jump straight to an open tab by name, or @bookmarks and @history when you need to find something fast. It is one field for everything, with instant filtering that keeps your hands on the keyboard.
Built-in Ad Blocker upgrades with popup rule support
We’re giving you more control over potential interruptions. Popup rules complement our existing popup blocker by automatically closing sneakily-opened tabs or windows that try to sell you something. The rules target known advertisements, while keeping legitimate site behavior intact.
Swipe gestures on Windows
With 7.6 you can use trackpad or touch swipes to go back and forward, which pairs nicely with mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts. Your hands pick the most comfortable move.
Snappier switching to hibernated tabs
We’ve made some under the hood tweaks to make your heavy sessions feel lighter. Waking a sleeping tab now takes less time, which means you can park background work without paying a penalty when you return.
Download Vivaldi 7.6 and check out what’s new
Every Vivaldi release builds on the same idea: the browser should work for you, not the other way around. It’s a tool for you to explore the web. We’re here to give you more choice, more control, whilst respecting your privacy. We hope you enjoy it!
Vivaldi 7.6 will be available for download the 18th of September, 2025.