r/vivaldibrowser

In this snapshot we continue the work on updating our Ad blocker but also bump Chromium, improve Reader view, add support for the extensions Tab group API, plus we have a healthy selection of other fixes.

Changelog

• [Ad Blocker] Blocked pings show up in Site info while blocker is set to Off (VB-131983)
• [Ad Blocker] Custom blocking level icons (VB-132107)
• [Ad Blocker] Custom list view should have empty state (VB-132146)
• [Ad Blocker] Initially loads as off when it is on (VB-132047)
• [Ad Blocker] List enablement not saved and unresponsive on exit with lots of lists enabled (VB-132032)
• [Ad Blocker] Move level options to a popup dialog (VB-132240)
• [Ad Blocker] Optimize PrivacyStatsTable row rendering (VB-132254)
• [Ad Blocker] Resetting Privacy category should reset the document and same-origin blocking (VB-131981)
• [Ad Blocker] Same-origin exception control is wired up wrongly (VB-131980)
• [Ad Blocker] Update design of full page warning (VB-130332)
• [Ad Blocker] Use memory-mapped file when reading large rule lists (VB-132053)
• [Address Field] Buggy badge on data URI (VB-132116)
• [Address Field] Don’t autocomplete when pasting text (VB-132119)
• [Address Field][AutoHide] Dropdown hides when selecting an element with mouse (VB-132078)
• [Calendar] Current time marker interval updates not working (VB-132060)
• [Calendar] Make status button show next event (VB-132114)
• [Chromium] Update to 154.0.8035.0
• [Crash] Modal dialog manager had no delegate for unshown tabs (VB-129619)
• [Crash] When closing the profiles window (VB-132108)
• [Crash] When tapping Ad blocker button in the address field
• [Crash][Reader] When opening reader view on a slow page and closing the tab while loading (VB-131951)
• [Extensions][Tabs] Chromium group API implementation (VB-131507)
• [Feeds] Make a separate unread badge setting for the feeds panel (VB-89807)
• [Gestures] Rocker over link commands do not work (VB-132091)
• [Linux][Themes] Follow the light/dark OS color scheme (VB-132143)
• [macOS][Keyboard] Cannot use ⌘0 to reset zoom (VB-132003)
• [macOS][AutoHide] Panel does not unhide after leaving fullscreen from video (VB-131824)
• [macOS][AutoUpdate] Update Sparkle framework to 2.10.x (VB-131585)
• [Mail] Adding an old Seznam.cz inbox messes up sent/received time (VB-130936)
• [Mail] Open draft on shutdown comes up as empty after restart (VB-131201)
• [Mail] Selection update after selected message is removed is slow (VB-132085)
• [UI] Enable updated copy sanitized URL feature (VB-127942)
• [Panels][Tasks] View constantly jumps to the bottom of the tasks list (VB-129499)
• [Performance] Optimize UI rendering: further changes (VB-108523)
• [Permissions] Async Clipboard API does not work (VB-131191)
• [Quick Commands] Selecting Command Chains is not being highlighted (VB-132036)
• [Profiles] Profile picker icons missing (VB-132139)
• [Reader][Performance] Enable updated reader view (VB-131883)
• [Settings][Tabs] Align Next Close Button not working (VB-131672)
• [Tabs] Improve hover collapse animation (VB-131878)
• [Tabs][AutoHide] Tabs button not visible in vertical tab bar (VB-131573)
• [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)
• [UA] Sec-CH-UA contains full version numbers (VB-132056)
• [UA] Set Chrome spoof version to 155.0.8059.40
• [UI] Extra gap around webview in fullscreen, minimal UI mode (VB-132232)
• [UI] Missing gap between panel and webview in normal vs maximized windows (VB-131591)
• [UI][Panels] Extra gap around panel (VB-132200)

This update includes crash and regression fixes, and a Chromium bump.

The following is a list of changes since the fourth 8.2 minor update:

• [Tab Bar] With video in fullscreen mode, Tab Bar’s second level is still visible (VAB-13793)
• [Crash] Crash when switch out from private tabs group (VAB-13755)
• [Crash] Play Store crash (VAB-13804)
• [Regression][Tablet] Touch/click position becomes vertically offset after scrolling (VAB-13591)
• [Regression][Tabs] Cannot switch tabs (VAB-13686)
• [Chromium] Update to 152.0.7977.160 ESR (includes security fixes from 155.0.8059.39/40)

Hi

I’ve been having an issue with Vivaldi where my screen occasionally flickers, and I’m trying to figure out whether it’s a Vivaldi issue, an NVIDIA driver issue, or something else.

I’m using an NVIDIA graphics card with the latest drivers, and the flickering seems to happen while using Vivaldi. I don’t seem to have the same problem outside of the browser.

Has anyone else been experiencing screen flickering with Vivaldi recently, particularly with an NVIDIA GPU?

If you’ve had this issue and managed to fix it, I’d really appreciate hearing what worked for you. I’m especially interested in whether disabling hardware acceleration, changing any Vivaldi flags/settings, or rolling back/updating the NVIDIA driver helped.

Thanks

I've started to use Proton Pass to have one place for passwords, replacing MacOS and my browsers password managers. Love it so far but!

In Vivaldi, I disabled saving passwords, deleted all saved passwords. I like to use auto-fill for forms though, and if I have an email address saved in my auto-fill entries, it is suggested when I want to login to a website and overlaps with Proton Pass extension entries. And, each email address I type in a field then gets in a list of suggested emails for the next email field...

So I have to turn OFF 'save and fill addresses', but I love the feature to fill forms automatically.

Is there a way to keep the auto-fill feature without being suggested anything when selecting an email/user name input field?