Idk, but the browser became noticeably sluggish for me after this new 8.0 update. Came here wondering if anyone else has the same experience

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>More than thirteen years in, and I am still as excited about building this browser as I was on day one. Maybe more.
That excitement comes from a genuine belief that the people who use Vivaldi deserve a browser that takes them seriously. We respect your time, your privacy, your preferences, your intelligence. Every release we ship is another expression of that belief.

>— Jon von Tetzchner,
Vivaldi's CEO and Co-founder

Vivaldi 8.0 is the biggest expression of that idea we have shipped in years. A new design direction that makes the browser feel more alive and more unified than any version before it.

In other words: there is more control, more capability, more choice. And a brand new look.

A new look for a new era

With 8.0, Vivaldi has a new look. We call it “Unified”.

We have approached the Vivaldi interface less as a collection of components, and more as a layered system. Previously, those layers (tabs, toolbars, panels and content) have had subtle separations. This was useful, but also a bit fragmented. With Unified, those boundaries are removed.

Vivaldi Theme

Soria Moria Theme

Sunset Forest Theme

Zen Theme

All toolbars now live on a single, continuous surface: a Unified frame that wraps the entire browser. Instead of stacked regions, everything is composed within the same visual plane. That shift makes the interface feel more cohesive and easier to read. Alignment becomes more precise, spacing more intentional, and interaction more direct, because elements no longer sit in isolated layers.

When you pick a theme, it flows through everything. A dark theme is dark, all the way through. A warm theme carries that warmth into every corner. All elements of the browser belong together in a way that immediately feels… well … Unified.

It also changes how themes work.

With a single surface, your theme can flow across the entire window. Backgrounds are no longer confined; they can extend from the tab bar through panels and edges without interruption. Wallpapers feel less like decoration and more like part of the environment, especially when combined with translucency and blur. From a system perspective, this reduces complexity. Fewer layers, fewer exceptions and a more consistent foundation to build on. 

This isn’t about making the browser look simpler. It’s about making the structure behind it more coherent. This makes everything you see feel like part of the same system.

You can see the new UI’s possibilities with our new default themes, such as Zen, Soria Moria, Sunset Forest and Kawaii Clouds, and our updated light and dark themes.  If you can’t find something that hits the right spot for default, there are more than 7000 to choose from at themes.vivaldi.net. And if you have built a custom theme you love, you’re free to decide if you want the new look, or keep your own (Settings →Themes → Editor → Coloring mode). Of course; this is Vivaldi.

Start exactly where you need to be

One of the things that makes Vivaldi special is also one of the things that can feel like a lot on day one: the sheer range of settings you can configure. If you have been using Vivaldi for years, you have your setup exactly as you want it and you would not trade it for anything. If you are brand new, figuring out where to start can be a real question.

Vivaldi 8.0 answers it with six preset layouts, available right from onboarding (and from Settings → Appearance → Layout whenever you feel like a change). Each one is a thoughtfully curated starting point.

Choose a UI layout that fits your style

• Simple gives you a clean, focused experience: tabs on top, nothing in the way, everything ready to go. It is Vivaldi in its purest form and it is already more capable than anything the mainstream browsers will offer.

Simple

• Classic is the Vivaldi you know and love. Toolbar, panels, all the controls in their natural places, now wearing the new Unified look. This is home for a lot of you, and it is as good as it has ever been:

Classic

• Vertical Left puts your tabs down the left side of the screen. Once you try this on a wide monitor, it tends to become permanent. It uses your horizontal screen space in ways that a top tab bar simply cannot. With Panels available on hover from the right side of your screen it changes how browsing feels

Vertical Left

• Vertical Right is the same experience, mirrored. Some people prefer to have their tabs on the right. Vivaldi has always been happy to accommodate whatever you want.

Vertical Right

• Auto Hide is built for users who want the web to fill their entire screen. Your toolbar, tab bar, panel, and address bar step aside while you read, watch, or work, and reappear the moment your cursor reaches for any edge of the screen. It is edge to edge content with full Vivaldi capability sitting right behind it, and it is a way of experiencing the web that the other browsers have not figured out.

Auto-hide

• Bottom moves your tab bar and address bar to the bottom of the screen. Your eye travels down naturally as you read, and your navigation is already there waiting. More people work this way than you might expect, and Vivaldi has always been happy to accommodate them.

Bottom

Each of these layouts is a launchpad, not a limit. With all the powerful features and tools in Vivaldi, you have everything you need to make the web work exactly the way you want it to.

Vivaldi has a tab management system unlike any other browser. Tile as many pages as you want, just how you want. Use Follower Tab to explore links from an article without ever losing your place in it. Stack your tabs into named, colour-coded groups. Use the Tab Button to search everything at once: open tabs, synced tabs from your other devices, recently closed tabs. Your mail, your calendar, your notes, your reading list: all of it lives inside Vivaldi, organised on your terms, always within reach.

Vivaldi is truly the browser that adapts to you. We’ve proven this with every release. We even go as far as getting completely out of your way. With UI Auto-hide, even the interface itself knows when to let the content take centre stage. Vivaldi bends to how you work. It always has and always will. 

This is Vivaldi. It always has been.

We do not answer to investors telling us which features to build. We do not track your behaviour or treat your data as inventory. Other browsers are adding AI to decide what you see. Vivaldi adds tools that give you more power when deciding for yourself. That has always been the difference. We build Vivaldi because we believe you deserve a better browser.

Download it today. Take your time with it. Come find us in the Forum if there is anything, we read everything.

Download Vivaldi 8.0 now.

As always, thank you for being part of the Vivaldi community. Together, we’re fighting for a better web, one release at a time.

Changelog

Check the changelog with the full list of changes from Vivaldi 7.9 to 8.0 and read more on our blog.

Although I like the new theme but sharing for people who didn't like it. :)

Today’s snapshot is the fourth release candidate for 8.0 for desktop and notebooks.

Release candidate feedback

To help us get 8.0 out the door as soon as possible, please focus your feedback on serious regressions since 7.9 stable. If you want to ask about new (post 8.0) features or longstanding issues, please do so on our forums.

There are also pre-release links to equivalent builds for the stable channel. These are for those of you who wish to upgrade early, having first tested in snapshot configuration. Since this is an RC and not yet a release, we also recommend you backup your settings before upgrading. Autoupdate to these (or newer) stable builds will not be enabled until further testing is completed and the final is released.

Known Issues

• When installed before the official 8.0 release date, build 4033.26 will show the wrong “What’s New” page on first launch.

Changelog

• [Chromium] Update to 148.0.7778.183
• [Mail] Remove dialog for warning about minor discrepancies in search db (VB-127959)
• [Themes] After first install the ‘Accent Colour’ settings do not reflect the actual state (VB-127961)

I've been using Brave for a while, but switched to Vivaldi for various reasons. My problem is that adblock seems... Inconsistent at best. This is on the latest v7.9 for Android.

I understand that YouTube may be inconsistent, but many websites seem to not have ads blocked at all. For example, I was making a recipe off www.inspiredtaste.net and the site was loaded with ads that did not get blocked by Vivaldi.

I have disabled "allow ads from our partners" but is there anything else I can do to improve the blocking on Android?

Hi, I recently decided to try out Vivaldi (version 7.9.3970.67 in macOS 15.7.5), and I'm running into an odd issue. The only LAN resource I can reach with Vivaldi is the web interface to my router. Everything else results in:

This site can’t be reached
[redacted] is unreachable.
ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE

I can reach those resources (Proxmox, Synology, etc.) with other browsers on the same machine, so this is a problem isolated to Vivaldi. I get this message when I try via IP or DNS. I've looked in Vivaldi's preferences and nothing jumped out at me as a feature that would cause this issue, but maybe I missed something? I don't have any issues getting to any websites outside of my LAN. Hoping someone can shed some light.

Auto-hide is a great feature! I know how to toggle auto-hide completely, but how do I toggle auto-hide for the panel only?
OS: Win 11

Hiya all,

I'm a new user of Vivaldi, and I'm a bit confused as to how sync works between devices. I'm on MacOS/iOS, version 7.9.3970.60.

I tend to like having my browsing stuff compartmentalised. As such, I have three profiles in Vivaldi, and one of them really needs to remain isolated from the two others (work vs. personal).

I'd like to sync some stuff between my MacOS desktop version of Vivaldi and the iOS version, but I'm a bit confused as to how it's supposed to work, since I have to log into my account separately in each profile. So, basically:

- if I turn sync on, will it "normalise" all my profiles to the same settings/bookmarks/open tabs/etc.?

- Would sync between MacOS and iOS retrieve my profiles and their settings and data separately, or would one profile take precedence?

Apologies in advance if my questions aren't very clear!

Today’s snapshot is the third release candidate for 8.0 for desktop and notebooks.

Release candidate feedback

To help us get 8.0 out the door as soon as possible, please focus your feedback on serious regressions since 7.9 stable. If you want to ask about new (post 8.0) features or longstanding issues, please do so on our forums.

There are also pre-release links to equivalent builds for the stable channel. These are for those of you who wish to upgrade early, having first tested in snapshot configuration. Since this is an RC and not yet a release, we also recommend you backup your settings before upgrading. Autoupdate to these (or newer) stable builds will not be enabled until further testing is completed and the final is released.

Known Issues

• When installed before the official 8.0 release date, build 4033.22 will show the wrong “What’s New” page on first launch.

Changelog

• [PDF] Disable PDF viewer’s “Save to Google Drive” icon (VB-127868)
• [Themes][Tabs] Hovered tabs less opaque with transparent background tabs (VB-127856)
• [Performance] Removing CSS filter from webview when unused (VB-127823)
• [Settings] Open Settings window view doesn’t update to a specific section (VB-127854)
• [Crash][Linux][x11] During window resize/bounds change (VB-127324)
• [Panels] Reset toolbar should also clean up removed web panels (VB-127218)
• [Panels] Reset Toolbar to Default restores broken Web Panels (VB-127795)
• [Onboarding] Welcome pages lack cleared background (VB-127858)
• [Onboarding] Account tooltip missing (VB-127610)
• [Themes] Apply transparency to panel toggle (VB-127818)
• [Panel Editor] Extensions and web panels duplicates and corrupts rendering (VB-127078)

I've used Vivaldi plenty and want to use it in an installation of Mageia Linux on my laptop. When I click on the Vivaldi .rpm download to install it, I get a message popped up saying the signature is invalid. NOT OK (no key). Why is this?

I'm seeing:

"The following package has bad signature:

/home/pete/Downloads/vivaldi-stable-7.9.3970.67-1.x86_64.rpm: Invalid signature (NOT OK (no key): /home/pete/Downloads/vivaldi-stable-7.9.3970.67-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA512 Signature, key ID 16bd9233: NOKEY)

Do you want to continue installation? No Yes

I did install Vivaldi in Mageia on another laptop and Vivaldi tries to start but won't.

It makes no sense to make that feature paid, especially when Mozilla offers it for free for Firefox users

...the contextual menus are a total mess. There are three types present throughout the entire browser: Vivaldi native that is used in things like downloads, user account, etc; Chrome native that is used in web page contextual menu; and the god-awful, dinosaur-era plain squared ones used in Vivaldi menu and bookmarks.

This needs to be unified. In fact, it should have been unified years ago. Which, judging from screenshots, was already done on Mac OS, but on Windows it is still schizofrenic.

Can you fix this by the time final version 8.0 will be released, please?

Today’s snapshot is the second release candidate for 8.0 for desktop and notebooks.

Release candidate feedback

To help us get 8.0 out the door as soon as possible, please focus your feedback on serious regressions since 7.9 stable. If you want to ask about new (post 8.0) features or longstanding issues, please do so on our forums.

There are also pre-release links to equivalent builds for the stable channel. These are for those of you who wish to upgrade early, having first tested in snapshot configuration. Since this is an RC and not yet a release, we also recommend you backup your settings before upgrading. Autoupdate to these (or newer) stable builds will not be enabled until further testing is completed and the final is released.

Known Issues

• When installed before the official 8.0 release date, build 4033.16 will show the wrong “What’s New” page on first launch.

Changelog

• [PDF] Disable PDF viewer’s “Save to Google Drive” icon (VB-127868)
• [Themes][Tabs] Hovered tabs less opaque with transparent background tabs (VB-127856)
• [Performance] Removing CSS filter from webview when unused (VB-127823)
• [Settings] Open Settings window view doesn’t update to a specific section (VB-127854)
• [Crash][Linux][x11] During window resize/bounds change (VB-127324)
• [Panels] Reset toolbar should also clean up removed web panels (VB-127218)
• [Panels] Reset Toolbar to Default restores broken Web Panels (VB-127795)
• [Onboarding] Welcome pages lack cleared background (VB-127858)
• [Onboarding] Account tooltip missing (VB-127610)
• [Themes] Apply transparency to panel toggle (VB-127818)
• [Panel Editor] Extensions and web panels duplicates and corrupts rendering (VB-127078)