Vivaldi
The Vivaldi browser protects you from trackers, blocks unwanted ads, and puts you in control with unique built-in features.
What is Vivaldi?
Vivaldi is extremely customizable, presenting a wide range of settings and built-in features designed to put the user in control.
Its Chromium-based engine makes it fast and compatible with most Chrome extensions, and Vivaldi removes the code that tracks users from it.
It includes fully customizable web browser behaviors, mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts, Quick Commands, the usual unlimited Speed Dial page, notes that can also be synchronized with the browser data, a webpage screenshot tool, a panel for displaying and managing bookmarks, history, etc, where users can also add their own web panels; the ability to edit the browser theme and toolbars by moving or removing buttons from the interface, moving the tab bar to the side or and/or the address bar to bottom of the window; powerful tab management with tab stacking, tiling and the windows panel, etc...
Vivaldi offers a built-in ad-blocker and partners with
DuckDuckGo for the tracker blocker.
There is also a support for blocking cookie banners https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-crumbles-cookie-dialogs-raises-privacy/ with the help of a popular extension named I don't care about cookies and Easylist Cookie List.
A Vivaldi account gives access to the browser data sync, the
Vivaldi Community (blogging platform), support forums and 
Vivaldi Mail.
It's considered the spiritual successor of the original
Opera browser before the complete rewrite that scrapped many of its features and options and the move of the ownership of Opera Software to a consortium of Chinese investors. Vivaldi Technologies was founded by the co-founder and former CEO of Opera, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, and Tatsuki Tomita.
Its Chromium-based engine makes it fast and compatible with most Chrome extensions, and Vivaldi removes the code that tracks users from it.
It includes fully customizable web browser behaviors, mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts, Quick Commands, the usual unlimited Speed Dial page, notes that can also be synchronized with the browser data, a webpage screenshot tool, a panel for displaying and managing bookmarks, history, etc, where users can also add their own web panels; the ability to edit the browser theme and toolbars by moving or removing buttons from the interface, moving the tab bar to the side or and/or the address bar to bottom of the window; powerful tab management with tab stacking, tiling and the windows panel, etc...
Vivaldi offers a built-in ad-blocker and partners with
DuckDuckGo for the tracker blocker.There is also a support for blocking cookie banners https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-crumbles-cookie-dialogs-raises-privacy/ with the help of a popular extension named I don't care about cookies and Easylist Cookie List.
A Vivaldi account gives access to the browser data sync, the
Vivaldi Community (blogging platform), support forums and 
Vivaldi Mail.It's considered the spiritual successor of the original
Opera browser before the complete rewrite that scrapped many of its features and options and the move of the ownership of Opera Software to a consortium of Chinese investors. Vivaldi Technologies was founded by the co-founder and former CEO of Opera, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, and Tatsuki Tomita.
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- Average rating of 4.1
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- hatomusen liked Vivaldi
- felipeqq2 Downvoted a comment on VivaldifeWhoever want to change the description to that again, please read [THIS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)) & the **EULA** (horrible!). It is the same as Chrome, based on open source code then added a bunch of cr@p but those are remain hidden, + you are not allowed to find out (=you will be sued if you try to) what are they. _These kind of browsers won't become popular because of this (Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc)_. **""Thank god!""** - Tracking options - Modified search results (?more money higher relevance? = called **Adware?**) - and who knows what else I can suggest only 2 really good browsers (mozilla side <-> chromium side), try them before you make the biggest mistake in your life with vivaldi or chrome: - [Firefox](https://alternativeto.net/software/firefox/) - [Iridium](https://alternativeto.net/software/iridium/)
- felipeqq2 Upvoted a comment on VivaldifeI love Vivaldi browser features, but because they are laggy and have a lot of bugs, I forced to write the review. Run Vivaldi browser with next flags: > -–flag-switches-begin --debug-packed-apps --silent-debugger-extension-api --flag-switches-end And then right click on any element in the browser, and open it in Developer Tools (inspect element). And you will see the full picture of why Vivaldi is laggy. What is Vivaldi? - It's Chrome App - Which inside Chrome App removing Chrome Aura UI - Than inside Chromium Window draw with Chromium V8 & different engines a site - This site it's their JS + CSS + HTML code to draw Vivaldi Interface - Than Inside rendered site, Vivaldi adds a code block inside already created earlier HTML code your site what you browse. - That why whole Vivaldi browser so laggy and have tons of problems related to the performance. In other words: - Vivaldi renders itself via browser engine which must work on SITE instead of browser UI, and inside their UI than they render again a SITE, which provokes MASSIVE performance problems. So, Vivaldi will NEVER be good and fast browser ever, because it does recursive work on itself, and then on the website what needs to load. How work Google Chrome / Cent Browser / Opera / Firefox? - They render UI (user interface) which is pre-compilated by Operation system instruments instead of javascript / CSS / HTML engine built-in in the browser. They do it ONLY 1 time and display it as a static interface. What Vivaldi do? - They render UI every time when you open any new page, inside this UI they render another site, and only then they display the whole site inside Chrome window, inside this site you will see UI (menus, tabs, etc interface things) and only then you will see the site. This is absolutely GARBAGE and a big problem. Why Vivaldi team did that trick? Because they are website devs, not a professional software dev. It's super easy to write a site interface, and join (include) another site inside already created UI and render it by browser engine. That why whole browser performance NEVER and NEVER will be as fast as any static UI browsers (chromium forks with a native static interface, firefox, Edge, etc).
With the recent upgrade to 2.0 (including the bookmarks synching feature that I liked in Firefox), Vivaldi just got better.
But what made me install it as the main browser on many PCs, instead of Firefox, is that it's much less CPU and RAM-hungry.
Add to that the general impression that lots have been done to please geeky surfers (cool options, cool option panel, compatibility with Chrome plugins, highly customisable interface and shortcuts, automatic dark theme at night...), in such an extent that it became my main browser on my main machine too.
I have all of the "popular" browsers on my laptop. Nothing compares to Vivaldi. Nothing. It's the browser that Opera always wanted to be, and other browsers just can't touch it. Highly recommended.
I love Vivaldi browser features, but because they are laggy and have a lot of bugs, I forced to write the review.
Run Vivaldi browser with next flags:
> -–flag-switches-begin --debug-packed-apps --silent-debugger-extension-api --flag-switches-end
And then right click on any element in the browser, and open it in Developer Tools (inspect element).
And you will see the full picture of why Vivaldi is laggy.
What is Vivaldi?
In other words:
So, Vivaldi will NEVER be good and fast browser ever, because it does recursive work on itself, and then on the website what needs to load.
How work Google Chrome / Cent Browser / Opera / Firefox?
What Vivaldi do?
This is absolutely GARBAGE and a big problem.
Why Vivaldi team did that trick?
Because they are website devs, not a professional software dev. It's super easy to write a site interface, and join (include) another site inside already created UI and render it by browser engine.
That why whole browser performance NEVER and NEVER will be as fast as any static UI browsers (chromium forks with a native static interface, firefox, Edge, etc).
Well, I only understood half of your review, and by reading it you seem much more development-savvy than my, but one thing I can reply for sure is that on my many PCs where Vivaldi is installed, it is neither laggy nor buggy (and faster than Firefox that I had been using for years before).
Reply written almost 3 years ago
@mll, tl;dr: vivaldi it's a browser inside browser who run a site inside website. Absurd, is not it? But this is true. Vivaldi do (x * y)^2 amount of work if compare to chromimum or edge. Always. (or around that).
Why?
Because whole user interface (tabs, address bar, any visual part that you see) it's just SITE interface. Like good interface, like facebook interface, and bla bla bla. Got idea?
That's why Vivaldi can be so customized.
But whats problem with such method of making a browser?
The problem in next:
After that vivaldi just INJECT inside this rendered by chromium engine another site that a visitor trying to open.
And browser again do:
Instead of:
Flags above it's a proof that whole interface of vivaldi browser = it's just an WEB elements, web forms, javascripts, css.
Example:
It's like a building a build, for building a building inside this builded building.
Like russian eggs. You do useless job in several times more than any other browser do.
But pros: you always can customize interface.
Cons: you always slower than any other browser (Chromium based with the same version).
Reply written about 1 year ago
Vivaldi seems to deliver the privacy I wanted, but it's interrupting my workflow too much. I'll explain. I'm writing this review in hopes of helping someone else like me who needs a balance between privacy and convenience. All of my "complaints" are probably good things, but are really slowing me down on a regular basis.
Vivaldi updates OFTEN, which is probably a really good thing, but as a Mac user I'm not used to having to run updates all the time. The popup windows about the updates interrupt my workflow and once I click "not now" or whatever, it shows in the top bar that an update is available... I wish it would just do that to begin with instead of popping up, sometimes several times in a week. I'll get around to updating when it doesn't disrupt my work.
The frequent updates seem to wipe out all the cookies or whatever (I'm not a tech person) so that I have to log back in to each website I use regularly. It's almost like starting with a new browser... which again, is probably great for security. But it's too time-consuming to log in to every single site I need for daily productivity so often. Even clicking "remember this browser" option on login screens only works until the next update which might be as soon as tomorrow. Over the years, this has just been eating up too much extra time. I could probably work around this by installing my password manager extension for faster logins, but I feel that defeats my privacy goals. I want to keep my password manager isolated from any other apps.
To its credit, Vivaldi has been very reliable. It has NEVER crashed, not once. I've been using it for about 2 or 3 years; I don't recall exactly when I found it. Pages load quickly; I've never noticed any lag. I can have a lot of tabs open without noticing any change in speed or quality. Vivaldi has some kind of "snooze background tabs" feature that I haven't ever explored because I never have any issues with the load it can carry. Vivaldi has a lot of cool features, like notes and stacked tabs. (It also offers free email.) It's visually appealing with an intuitive layout. I think it's why I stuck with it this long. Other than frequent interruptions in workflow, it really has been a pleasure to use.
I've finally decided to try a different browser to save time. Maybe it doesn't sound like much to others, but all those updates and extra logins really eat up time over the years.
It beats every other browser on every front.
Highly recommendable
Has incredible features and some others are new for any browser in the market.