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Hi there,
We hope this newsletter finds you well and with your tabs in order. If not, we have the fix!
A great browser should feel like familiar tools in your hands. Not because you learned to work around it, but because it adapts to you. This release gives you full freedom to customize your browser with the editable Tab Bar and The Tab Button, forged for you to rule all your tabs.
Customize everything
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.
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.
Try it: Right click any button in the Tab Bar and select “customize toolbar”, this opens the editor and you are ready to personalize.
The Tab Button, 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.
By default it lives at the end of the tab bar, right where you used to find “synced tabs” and “recently closed tabs” as separate buttons. So your muscle memory still works on day one.
Control and customization matter
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.
Your browser should help you explore more of the web, not explore it for you. 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.
We exist for you to explore the web on your own terms. We refuse to reduce you to a passive spectator. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies.
What else is new in 7.6
Although the 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 look up 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 behaviour 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
Vivaldi 7.6 is available now.
Every Vivaldi release builds on the same idea: the browser should work for you, not the other way around. We’re here to give you more choice, more control, and more respect for your privacy. We hope you enjoy 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.
Best,
Team Vivaldi
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