Vivaldi has put out another Android update, though this is very much a quick patch rather than a fresh round of features.

The new build fixes two things that went wrong after version 8.1. One is the back arrow in landscape mode. Turn your phone sideways and it could stop working, which is a fairly annoying problem for something as basic as going back a page. The other fix is for the status bar at the bottom of the screen, which was not showing up at all.

That is the whole changelog. Vivaldi describes both as “regression” fixes, so these were not old problems it had finally gotten around to. They cropped up with the recent release and needed tidying up.

I loaded up the latest Vivaldi update on my Android device and can confirm that neither of the two issues is present. So it’s safe to assume that the bugs have been taken care of.

Android users only got the main 8.1 update a day ago. That one was a bit more interesting, mostly because it finally lets people change the app icon. There are 20 alternatives now, from plain color options to stranger ones that look like wood or camouflage. We covered those additions, along with the new PDF setting, in our article that you can read here.

The PDF option is probably more useful than the icons. It lets you decide whether a PDF opens inside Vivaldi or gets handed to another app. There is also a reset button for the default search engines.

This latest update does not add to any of that. It is just there to make 8.1 behave properly. If you never browse with your phone in landscape, you may not notice a difference at all. But the missing status bar is the sort of bug that can make an app feel unfinished, even when everything else works.

Vivaldi has had a busy few days on the browser side. It recently said its own ad blocker is due for improvements, although the company still has not said what those changes will be or when they will arrive. That is worth keeping an eye on with the old version of uBlock Origin gradually losing support in Chromium browsers.

And then there was the odd discovery that Vivaldi’s desktop interface is basically a Chromium extension with a lot of Vivaldi-only bits attached. That does not change anything for Android users, but it does put all the browser’s unusual customization in a different light.

For now, this is a small update. Install it if it has reached your Play Store, then get on with your day.

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