Vivaldi 5.0 launches with major tab improvements on Android, translate panel on deskt

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Vivaldi 5.0 for all supported desktop operating systems and Google Android has been released on Thursday 2, 2021. The new version of the Vivaldi web browser marks an important milestone for the company.The new version is already available. Desktop and Android users should receive it automatically through the built-in automatic updating functionality.

Desktop users may select Vivaldi Menu > Help > Check for Updates to display the installed version and run a manual check for updates. The new version should be found and downloaded & installed at that point.

Vivaldi 5.0 for Android

Vivaldi 5.0 for Android improves tab management in the Vivaldi browser significantly. The mobile browser supported a tab bar on Android already, similarly to how tab bars work on desktop browsers.

With Vivaldi 5.0 comes support for two-level tab stacks. The feature adds a second tab bar on the user's request to the selected tab.

Here is how you enable it:

1. Long-tap on the "new tab" icon in the Vivaldi for Android interface. A selection menu is displayed.
   
2. Select "Create new tab stack" from the context menu.
   

The Tab Stack is added to the active tab. All other tabs that are open remain single-level tabs. Another option to open a tab stack in the mobile version of Vivaldi is to do so from the Tab Switcher. Vivaldi explains how that works in the following sentence:
 
While looking at the tab thumbnails, simply drag one tab on top of another to create a new stack.
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