22 blog posts about the new V 7.5

Pathduck

@ThePfromtheO Just edit your own posts.

Also, moderators are not notified when using @moderators. Only flagging a post notifies moderators.

ThePfromtheO

@Pathduck said in Two blog posts about the new Vivaldi 7.5:

Just edit your own posts.

TY, I thought it won't work. It didn't allow me to do this when I tried it one or two months ago. Maybe after the Forum update, you can?

Pathduck

@ThePfromtheO Users with enough rep have always been able to edit their own posts, including titles.

ThePfromtheO

@Pathduck Ah, OK!

fred8615

A few more 7.5 articles...

https://www.hartware.de/2025/07/03/introducing-vivaldi-7-5-with-color-clarity-and-control/

https://windowsreport.com/vivaldi-7-5-launches-with-colored-tab-stacks-and-sharper-privacy-tools/

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/322902/vivaldi-7-5-arrives-on-desktop

https://www.howtogeek.com/vivaldi-75-is-here-with-colored-tab-stacks/

https://www.neowin.net/news/vivaldi-75-is-out-with-colorful-tab-stacks-improved-tab-menu-and-more/

ThePfromtheO

WOW! Thank you, @fred8615! Because of your post, I had to create a new bookmarks folder called V 7.5. It has 12 bookmarks so far!

Catweazle

Also arrived in Spain

https://www.muylinux.com/2025/07/03/vivaldi-7-5/

ThePfromtheO

@Catweazle
13!

Catweazle

@ThePfromtheO, it's curious that Vivaldi has most good reviews in Linux publications

ThePfromtheO

@Catweazle My theory is that it's because Linux users are usually more advanced (at least a little). A basic user would just feel overwhelmed by V, and wouldn't even stay with it long enough to make it a simple thing. Plus, Vivaldi doesn't yet have the most modern GUI, which is also available for many Linux DEs, not for Win11 or MacOS.

Catweazle

@ThePfromtheO, well, at least Win11 is very moddeable, using third party FOSS apps, like Rainmeter or/and WindHawk. With these you can do almost everything.
Qnyway I think the reason is more the crappy turn of Mozilla in a advertising company.

ThePfromtheO

@Catweazle said in Three blog posts about the new Vivaldi 7.5:

Qnyway I think the reason is more the crappy turn of Mozilla in a advertising company.

Yep… FF was (and still is) the default browser in many distros, and, if users aren't that kind that wants Fully FOSS, then they most probably see V as the most natural alternative: Vivaldi is private, and is also powerful (more than Firefox).

ThePfromtheO

@Catweazle said in Three blog posts about the new Vivaldi 7.5:

well, at least Win11 is very moddeable, using third party FOSS apps, like Rainmeter or/and WindHawk. With these you can do almost everything.

Yep, but yet, Linux is known as a customisable OS rather than Windows

Catweazle

@ThePfromtheO, known as, well it maybe easier in Linux, but for sure not more, Windows is enormeos customizable, at least until W10, but for some reasons way way less in the W11 UI, WindHawk not was needed in W10, but in W11 is mandatory,
In W10 you could change the UI to your like, puting the task bar everywhere adjusting its colors and themes simply in the settings and with the context menu.
In W11, the start menu is horrible and the task bar fixed hight at the bottom resting 1,5 cm of the screen hight, The only setting is tho put the terrible big icons on the left or in the middle and change the color of the bar. in shortm turning the UI in a clumpsy Fisher Price design. With all this it's needed to use WindHawk to return it in something usable and similar customizable as Vivaldi, as before was possible in W7 - W10. Now it's worth to use Vivaldi 7.5 in it.

jane.n

Thank you so much everyone for sharing articles about Vivaldi that you come across online.
Keep 'em coming!

stardepp

Many more reports about Vivaldi 7.5:

https://www.macgadget.de/News/2025/07/03/Web-Browser-Vivaldi-Version-75-mit-mehreren-Neuerungen-erschienen
https://www.itmagazine.ch/artikel/85052/Vivaldi_7_5_Update_bringt_farbige_Tab_Stapel_und_Crash_Fixes.html
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/vivaldi-7-5-browser-update-changes
https://www.hartware.de/2025/07/03/introducing-vivaldi-7-5-with-color-clarity-and-control/
https://tchgdns.de/vivaldi-browser-7-5-veroeffentlicht/
https://www.schmidtisblog.de/frisches-design-und-starke-privatsphaere-vivaldi-7-5-ist-da-1779370/
https://www.howtogeek.com/vivaldi-75-is-here-with-colored-tab-stacks/
https://tweakers.net/downloads/73204/vivaldi-75.html
https://www.neowin.net/news/vivaldi-75-is-out-with-colorful-tab-stacks-improved-tab-menu-and-more/
https://nsaneforums.com/news/software-news/vivaldi-75-is-out-with-colorful-tab-stacks-improved-tab-menu-and-more-r30035/
https://www.linuxadictos.com/vivaldi-7-5-permite-por-fin-los-colores-de-grupos-de-pestanas-y-mejora-la-seguridad-con-dns-personalizado.html
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/vivaldi-7-5-browser-update-changes?v1

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ThePfromtheO

@Catweazle said in Three blog posts about the new Vivaldi 7.5:

With all this it's needed to use WindHawk to return it in something usable and similar customizable as Vivaldi

This is the point. You need a third-party app to achieve this level of customisation, while in other distros/DEs, you can do this from the settings. So, if people don't stumble upon it in the Settings, and aren't that interested in customisation either, they will just consider Windows has lower customisation possibilities, and that's it!

ThePfromtheO

@stardepp Thank you! I added them to the OP.

Catweazle

@ThePfromtheO, respect UI, only true since W11, in other customizions it remains with tons of possibilities and features, for what you need third party apps in Linux. There are over 200 key shortcuts with which you can make Win complete keyboard driven, it has by default a S2T app to permit use Windows with voice commands or write text with it, tons of small tools, like font editor and others, clipboard manager which also has a complete list of emojis and signs and even animated gifs linked from Tenor, to insert in texts everywhere.....
The lack is, that all this is little documented and most user don't know about it, apart of the most obvious tools.
Adding to this, most user forgot that also Windows can use console commands like Linux, what is only mostly known by older users from MS DOS times. MS DOS commands and batch files are still working nowadays.
Windows is a very powerfull and complete OS, but the drawback is the default privacy and also tons of bloatware and trials which needs to be gutted out, that is the advantage in Linux, not so the other.

https://www.pctips.com/hidden-windows-tools/
https://den.dev/blog/windows-secret-tools-tricks/
https://www.pcworld.com/article/702039/10-hidden-windows-features-that-will-blow-your-mind.html

ThePfromtheO

@Catweazle Don't you need PowerToys to edit shortcuts? (sorry, I don't have time to read the articles right now, so if this info was provided in them, I can't know that)