22 blog posts about the new V 7.5

[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

[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)

[Catweazle]

@ThePfromtheO, I think so, but I'm not sure, until now I hadn't changed the shortcuts, using only some of these.

[ThePfromtheO]

@Catweazle said in 20 blog posts about the new V 7.5:

There are over 200 key shortcuts with which you can make Win complete keyboard driven

OK, so you actually spoke here about the default shortcuts.

[ThePfromtheO]

@Catweazle said in 21 blog posts about the new V 7.5:

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.....

You see… A product made by a Big Tech company must be very good in terms of functionality: it has tons of money to use for making something highly advanced if it wants, and plus it needs to attract as many users as possible to feed its greed

[Catweazle]

@ThePfromtheO, yes, but I don't understand that these useful features and tools in Windows are only few documented, most users don't even know that they even exist, and the other, why the W11 UI has turned so crappy, when it was nearly perfect in W10.

[ThePfromtheO]

@Catweazle said in 21 blog posts about the new V 7.5:

yes, but I don't understand that these useful features and tools in Windows are only few documented, most users don't even know that they even exist

I can't answer to this question. If you don't know, how could I?

[ThePfromtheO]

@Catweazle said in 21 blog posts about the new V 7.5:

why the W11 UI has turned so crappy, when it was nearly perfect in W10.

It was nearly perfect when Win11 wasn't yet. Then, it suddenly became outdated.
And who knows? Probably Win11 will also be thrown away when Win12 will be born... ️

[Catweazle]

@ThePfromtheO, that is what I mean, it's not correct to say that Linux offers more customizions possibility as Windows, it don't. The difference is that it is in Windows poor documented and the user has to do researches to find how and what he can do in Windows. It don't make much sense that MS hide this for reasons i don't know.
There are a lot of apps in the system folder with incomprensible names, like eudcedit.exe, the user has to search in the web to know that it is an app which permits to design and create your own fonts, and so with all other.

[ThePfromtheO]

@Catweazle Ah, yeah, you're right.
But… maybe M$ feels better with that? I'm just thinking ️

[CooperDad]

We need a 21-gun salute!

[Catweazle]

Turning back to the thread, Vivaldi 7.5 are also presented in Alternative.to, as always with relevant updates there.

[fred8615]

One more for the list...

https://betanews.com/2025/07/04/vivaldi-7-5-browser-brings-colored-tab-stacks/

[ThePfromtheO]

@Catweazle Yes, I added it to the list when it arrived in the Feeds

[ThePfromtheO]

@CooperDad
22 now, thanks to @fred8615!