Changelog Vivaldi Browser 8.3

[New][Ad Blocker] Updated Adblocker UI with extensive back end refactoring and updates (VB-125441)

[New][Tabs][Vertical Tabs] Auto expand tabs on hover for vertical tabs (VB-131036)

[New][Commands][Keyboard] Allow Paste and Go to open multiple URLs from the clipboard (VB-131272)

[New][UI] Copy sanitized URL (VB-127942)

[New][Reader Mode] Re-implement reader mode for better performance (VB-104993)

[New][Extensions][Tabs] Chromium group API implementation (VB-131507)

Address Field

[Address Field][AutoHide] Dropdown hides when selecting an element with mouse (VB-132078)

[Address Field] Buggy badge on data URI (VB-132116)

[Address Field][Calculator] Pasting phone number, triggers calculation (VB-131548)

[Address Field] Don’t autocomplete when pasting text (VB-132119)

[Address Field] History item should be separate from the execute URL navigation (VB-132558)

[Address Field] Shortcut is added when entering invalid URL (VB-131168)

[Address Field] URLs can not be opened by keyboard via the drop down (VB-131612)

Bookmarks

[Bookmarks] Change default folder for writing bookmarks to ‘Other Bookmarks’ (VB-131708)

[Bookmarks] Policies and extensions can write outside the root bookmark folder (VB-125831)

[Bookmarks] Rename bookmark bar <-> bookmarks in UI (VB-131586)

Calendar

[Calendar] Any successful URL is accepted as a WebCal subscription (VB-131197)

[Calendar] Current time marker interval updates not working (VB-132060)

[Calendar] Event classified as “whole day” whenever it straddled midnight

[Calendar] Keyboard shortcut for search focuses results not search field (VB-129509)

[Calendar] Make status button show next event (VB-132114)

[Calendar] No buttons to attend or reject invite (VB-115963)

[Calendar] No error for WebCAL subscriptions that stop working (VB-131198)

[Calendar] Spacing around Add Event button

Crash

[Crash] Failure in TH_Model::Add() during observer notification (VB-130454)

[Crash] In Dependency Manager during WebTransport request‑filter initialization (VB-131526)

[Crash] Modal dialog manager had no delegate for unshown tabs (VB-129619)

[Crash][PWA] When info toolbar is triggered from changing a Site Permission while a PWA is open (VB-132371)

[Crash][Reader] When opening reader view on a slow page and closing the tab while loading (VB-131951)

[Crash][Tabs] Tiling two PDF tabs (VB-132077)

[Crash] While processing a virtual desktop change event (VB-129877)

macOS

[macOS][AutoUpdate] Update Sparkle framework to 2.10.x (VB-131585)

[macOS] Clicking link when browser window is closed does not open the link, just reopens the browser window (VB-131362)

[macOS][Keyboard] Cannot use ⌘0 to reset zoom (VB-132003)

[macOS] Maximizing window removes edge padding (VB-132380)

Mail

[Mail] Adding an old Seznam.cz inbox messes up sent/received time (VB-130936)

[Mail] Allow the possibility of marking entire domains as a mailing list (VB-128849)

[Mail] Cannot import an mbox file (VB-124688)

[Mail] Deleted messages don’t disappear from the Unread folder (VB-131559)

[Mail] Gap after marking mail as read (VB-131470)

[Mail] Importing from Opera 12 and Thunderbird is broken (VB-131753)

[Mail] Open draft on shutdown comes up as empty after restart (VB-131201)

[Mail] Optimize message list rendering (VB-128889)

[Mail] Panel compact mode sort selector has wrong borders (VB-131843)

[Mail] Selection update after selected message is removed is slow (VB-132085)

[Mail][Settings] “When replying, use the same format as the original message” has no effect (VB-130968)

[Mail] Status/Logs shows no log entries (VB-129270)

[Mail] Unseen counter higher than unread counter (VB-130837)

[Mail] Use new vivaldi-headers when restoring db from disk (VB-129503)

Panels

[Panels] Can’t move items in “Customize your Sidebar” (VB-130009)

[Panels] History item shifts on click at bottom of list (VB-131027)

[Panels] History panel does not update (VB-131035)

[Panels][Tasks] View constantly jumps to the bottom of the tasks list (VB-129499)

[Panels][Themes] Compact sort selector does not fit with unified panel design (VB-131788)

Settings

[Settings] Calendar provider buttons unreadable on hover (VB-131298)

[Settings] Page zoom also reset UI Zoom (VB-131300)

[Settings][Passwords] Make scroll overflow for declined sites (VB-132545)

[Settings] Support Vivaldi lacks options to refresh: add context menu to refresh, copy source URL, and a tooltip (VB-132786)

[Settings][Tabs] Align Next Close Button not working (VB-131672)

[Settings][Tabs] Update string for “Show pinned tabs at full width” (VB-131570)

[Settings] Theme editor warning gives wrong indication (VB-127395)

Start Page

[Start Page] Click Date widget to open Calendar (VB-130979)

[Start Page] Privacy dashboard poor contrast (VB-132531)

[Start Page][Speed Dial] Sorting per Speed Dial folder (VB-114491)

[Start Page][Speed Dial] Titles not visible on hover with some themes (VB-127828)

[Start Page][Speed Dial] Wrong preferences dialog button position (VB-131258)

[Start Page] Transparent Date widget colors (VB-131616)

Tabs

[Tabs] Accordion tab stack borders in compact mode are broken (VB-131729)

[Tabs][AutoHide] Tabs button not visible in vertical tab bar (VB-131573)

[Tabs] Cut and paste tab appears in the wrong position (VB-130893)

[Tabs] Do not show unread tab indicator on session restart (VB-130441)

[Tabs] Drag-drop link tab appears in the wrong position (VB-130892)

[Tabs] Gap on vertical left with hover to expand (VB-132655)

[Tabs] Not possible to open a new tab outside of stack and tiled view (VB-132456)

[Tabs] Pinned tab image wrong on drag after taking out of stack (VB-130761)

[Tabs] Popup for activate tab does not appear on pinned tabs (VB-130984)

[Tabs] Popup thumbnail obstructs pinned tabs if tab bar is on the bottom (VB-130970)

[Tabs] Recently Closed Tabs are broken with session only (VB-131613)

[Tabs][Tiling] Allow for keyboard manipulation of tiled tabs (VB-122808)

[Tabs] Tiny Tab Thumbnails (VB-131318)

[Tabs] Toolbar Editor breaks Auto-expanding tabs appearance (VB-132562)

[Tabs][Vertical Tabs][Settings] Add setting to show or hide title of pinned tabs (VB-130813)

[Tabs] With compact tab grouping, only the bottom half of the close button works (VB-130522)

Themes

[Themes][Panel] Panel icons and text changes color depending on panel open/closed (VB-132212)

[Themes][Performance] Move favicon color detection logic to C++ (VB-127561)

[Themes] Pinned tabs have invisible background in unified design (VB-130771)

[Themes] Stronger page edge for unified themes (VB-127600)

UI

[UI] Expand arrows in lists are not always updated (VB-132239)

[UI] Extra gap around webview in fullscreen, minimal UI mode (VB-132232)

[UI] Fullscreen mode fails to hide the menu bar when it is set to horizontal (VB-131847)

[UI] Missing gap between panel and webview in normal vs maximized windows (VB-131591)

[UI] Password dialog permanently visible after restart (VB-131378)

Other

[AutoHide][Capture] Area is misaligned (VB-129583)

[AutoHide] Panel button first click only shows thin line when hovering window (VB-131327)

[Break Mode] Inconsistent UI hiding (VB-132297)

[Calculator] Do not calculate pi and e constants unless operator follows (VB-131794)

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

[Extensions] 7tv extension popup fails to open (VB-132534)

[Feeds] Make a separate unread badge setting for the feeds panel (VB-89807)

[Find in Page] Pressing F3 searches the whole page again (VB-126693)

[Gestures] Rocker over link commands do not work (VB-132091)

[Linux][Media] Broken symlinks can be left behind by the update-ffmpeg script (VB-131887)

[Linux][Media] Update Alt FFMpeg to 8.3-156-Z-20261017

[Performance] Optimize UI rendering (VB-108523)

[Permissions] Async Clipboard API does not work (VB-131191)

[Quick Commands] Selecting Command Chains is not being highlighted (VB-132036)

[Tiling] Dropping tab title on itself breaks tiling (VB-124318)

[Tiling] Exit tile ordering mode on click outside (VB-131799)

[Toolbars] Edit space creates duplicates when moved (VB-132607)

[Welcome] Make privacy step less gray (VB-131909)

[Workspaces] Move tab to workspace not working (VB-129901)