Post by @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net

It's trifle Thursday! Today we are launching Vivaldi 8.3 on Desktop, iOS and Android, which brings:

🛡️ Rebuilt ad and tracker blocker, with a new UI, new blocking levels and extensive backend refactoring
🔗 Copy sanitized links to remove tracking parameters

Desktop also gets two highly requested updates to vertical tabs:

📊 Expand tab bar on hover
📌 Pinned tabs in grid

...and there's much more in store, including a massive performance boost for our iOS version!

Get it from http://vivaldi.com or you preferred store and let us know what you think!

All the details:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-3
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-mobile-8-3

Drawing of a big red shield with the numbers 8.3 inside, standing on top of a rock in a winter landscape full of snow. There's Northern Lights in the sky.

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Vivaldi 8.3 for Mobile: A faster, cleaner web in your pocket | Vivaldi Browser

Vivaldi 8.3 for Mobile brings the redesigned Ad and Tracker Blocker to Android and iOS, smarter media controls for Android, and a massive performance upgrade on iOS.

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aphantastic

@aphantastic@social.vivaldi.net 18 min. ago

@Vivaldi

Gonna be upgrading in a few hours and comparing with uBOL. 🎉

Es Reicht! :debian_logo:

@esreicht@mastodon.social 27 min. ago

@Vivaldi
Since you bent over for Google and removed V2 addon support, disabling especially uBlock Origin, I returned to Firefox on Linux and Edge on Windows, which still has V2 and uBlock Origin working.

eddie

@dreddie@social.vivaldi.net 45 min. ago

@Vivaldi Please add an option for when copying text from webpages, to copy without formatting (html or otherwise). And since I always want to copy without formatting, please make it an option to have it as default copy.

Distante

@Distante@mastodon.social 59 min. ago

@Vivaldi I haven't seen any tests of Vivaldi's ad blocker, but I'd like to see options like: off, medium (block intrusive ads but leave some so the site can make money), strong (block everything we can), and for the crazy ones (nothing will work)

Distante

@Distante@mastodon.social 56 min. ago

@Vivaldi It's important that the average user be able to choose to support websites without being bombarded with pop-ups and without ads interfering with their experience.

I assume that the first “blocking level” is like that, but I would change the wording and the objectives if I were the one making the decision.

This isn't criticism; it's just me speaking my mind