Vivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad

Re:Vivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad by grishka on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:17PM (#50383918)

> Don't know where you got the info about 8.0 being the last to support mv2

I updated to whatever the next version was, and it disabled all my MV2 extensions (mainly uBO). I figured that they kept MV2 support going as long as they could, and there was recently a patch by Google that removed the support for good, so that must be the end of it. So I downgraded back.

Did you have to do anything to reenable MV2 extensions? Or maybe it was a just bug they fixed later?

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Re:Vivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad by rfffffffdyjrtyj on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:13PM (#50386929)

This was true, temporarily with some snapshot builds, for whatever reason. At some point MV2 extensions started to work again. That said, I imagine there will be a point where keeping MV2 working would be untenable. I seem to remember reading something that indicated that that was why they were beefing up the internal ad-blocker.

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Re:Vivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad by grishka on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:49AM (#50391717)

Ok so I updated to 8.3 and indeed uBO still works, so it must've been a bug. Thanks for pointing this out.

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