diff --git a/admin/src/pages/PadPage.tsx b/admin/src/pages/PadPage.tsx
index c216ffab79f..d1f851a58f0 100644
--- a/admin/src/pages/PadPage.tsx
+++ b/admin/src/pages/PadPage.tsx
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ export const PadPage = () => {
                           </button>
                           <button
                             className="pm-btn pm-btn-primary pm-btn--sm"
-                            onClick={() => window.open(`../../p/${pad.padName}`, '_blank')}
+                            onClick={() => window.open(`../../p/${encodeURIComponent(pad.padName)}`, '_blank', 'noopener,noreferrer')}
                           >
                             <Eye size={13}/> <Trans i18nKey="admin_pads.open"/>
                           </button>
diff --git a/src/static/js/pad_userlist.ts b/src/static/js/pad_userlist.ts
index d3ee825276c..7366348a1f0 100644
--- a/src/static/js/pad_userlist.ts
+++ b/src/static/js/pad_userlist.ts
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ const paduserlist = (() => {
       if (localStorage.getItem('recentPads') != null) {
         const recentPadsList = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('recentPads'));
         const pathSegments = window.location.pathname.split('/');
-        const padName = pathSegments[pathSegments.length - 1];
+        const padName = decodeURIComponent(pathSegments[pathSegments.length - 1]);
         const existingPad = recentPadsList.find((pad) => pad.name === padName);
         if (existingPad) {
           existingPad.members = online;
diff --git a/src/static/skins/colibris/index.js b/src/static/skins/colibris/index.js
index f36edf84180..01591d5d833 100644
--- a/src/static/skins/colibris/index.js
+++ b/src/static/skins/colibris/index.js
@@ -70,12 +70,21 @@ window.customStart = () => {
       li.style.cursor = 'pointer';
 
       li.className = 'recent-pad';
-      const padPath = `${window.location.href}p/${pad.name}`;
+      // Normalize the stored name to its decoded form. Entries saved by older
+      // versions may already be URL-encoded; decoding first avoids
+      // double-encoding (e.g. %2F -> %252F) when we build the href below.
+      let padName = pad.name;
+      try {
+        padName = decodeURIComponent(pad.name);
+      } catch {
+        // pad.name is not valid percent-encoding; use it as-is.
+      }
+      const padPath = `${window.location.href}p/${encodeURIComponent(padName)}`;
       const link = document.createElement('a');
       link.style.textDecoration = 'none';
 
       link.href = padPath;
-      link.innerText = pad.name;
+      link.innerText = padName;
       li.appendChild(link);
 
 
diff --git a/src/static/skins/colibris/pad.js b/src/static/skins/colibris/pad.js
index 1e7a85b3faa..ce509a8892b 100644
--- a/src/static/skins/colibris/pad.js
+++ b/src/static/skins/colibris/pad.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ window.customStart = () => {
   $('.buttonicon').on('mouseup', function () { $(this).parent().removeClass('pressed'); });
 
   const pathSegments = window.location.pathname.split('/');
-  const padName = pathSegments[pathSegments.length - 1];
+  const padName = decodeURIComponent(pathSegments[pathSegments.length - 1]);
   const recentPads = localStorage.getItem('recentPads');
   if (recentPads == null) {
     localStorage.setItem('recentPads', JSON.stringify([]));
diff --git a/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/embed_value.spec.ts b/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/embed_value.spec.ts
index c4abe8201ba..316bed72809 100644
--- a/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/embed_value.spec.ts
+++ b/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/embed_value.spec.ts
@@ -133,4 +133,17 @@ test.describe('embed links', function () {
         await checkiFrameCode(embedCode, true, page);
       });
   })
+
+  test.describe('URL encoding of pad names', function () {
+    test('share link encodes special characters in pad name', async function ({page}) {
+      const padName = 'test%2Fencoding';
+      await page.goto(`http://localhost:9001/p/${padName}`);
+
+      const shareButton = page.locator('.buttonicon-embed');
+      await shareButton.click();
+
+      const shareLink = await page.locator('#linkinput').inputValue();
+      expect(shareLink).toContain(padName);
+    });
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/recent_pads.spec.ts b/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/recent_pads.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5f83d3f6407
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/recent_pads.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
+
+test.describe('Recent Pads', () => {
+  test('should display correctly encoded URLs for recent pads', async ({ page }) => {
+    const padName = 'test pad with spaces & / chars';
+    const recentPads = [
+      {
+        name: padName,
+        timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
+        members: 1,
+      },
+    ];
+
+    await page.addInitScript((data) => {
+      window.localStorage.setItem('recentPads', data);
+    }, JSON.stringify(recentPads));
+
+    await page.goto('http://localhost:9001/');
+
+    const recentPad = page.locator('.recent-pad').first();
+    await expect(recentPad).toBeVisible();
+
+    const link = recentPad.locator('a');
+    await expect(link).toHaveText(padName);
+
+    const expectedEncodedName = encodeURIComponent(padName);
+    const expectedHrefRegex = new RegExp(`p/${expectedEncodedName.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&')}$`);
+    await expect(link).toHaveAttribute('href', expectedHrefRegex);
+  });
+});