Vivaldi
Flexible browser featuring deep customization, integrated ad and tracker blocking, Chromium compatibility, powerful tab management tools, note sync, screenshot utility, custom web panels, theme and toolbar editing, plus support for Android, iOS, desktop, and privacy protections.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Android Auto
- Flathub
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- Debian
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- openSUSE
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- User friendly
- Support for Themes
- Configurable
- Privacy focused
- Distraction-free
- No AI
Features
- Tab Stacking
- Support for Chrome extensions
- Cloud Sync
- Side panel
- Built-in Ad-blocker
- Speed dial
- Sidebar
- Group tabs
- Integrated Email Client
- Synchronization
- Custom themes
- Block Trackers
- Quick Command Panel
- Opera-like
- Feed Reader
- Calendar Integration
- QR Code Generator
- Note Manager
- Built in tracking protection
- Visual system design
Android Sync- Tab preview
- Split tabs
- Chromium-based Browsers
- Website screenshots
- Nickname for bookmarks
- Portable
- Dark Mode
- Picture in Picture
- Website Translation
Sync with Google Calendar- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for Gestures
- Integrated Password Manager
- No registration required
- Pomodoro Timer
- Subtasks
- Ad-free
- Full-Text Search
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- Text to Speech
- Spell Checking
- Calendar View
- Multiple Account support
- Support for MarkDown
- No Coding Required
- Hierarchical Structure
- End-to-End Encryption
- Built-in VPN
- Two-factor Authentication
- Kanban Board
- Web Clipper
- Encrypted Backup
- Web panels
- Capture web pages
- Split-screen view
- Multiple search engines
- Built-in themes
- Reading mode
- Spatial navigation
- Built-in RSS reader
- Custom search
- Built-in Note Taker
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Recent activities
- Tab Control
- Based on Blink engine
- Resume interrupted downloads
- Page actions
- Tabbed browsing
- Tabbed interface
- Set Tabs aside
- Timer
- Calendar Sync
Vivaldi News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 8.1 launches with more customization features and more options for Android usersVivaldi has released version 8.1 of its web browser for both Android and iOS users, following last ...
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 8.1 introduces tab behavior improvements and a more polished auto-hide featureVivaldi has released version 8.1 of its Chromium-based web browser a little over a month after the ...
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 8.0 rolls out to mobile users with accordion tabs, built-in PDF reader, and moreFollowing the recent desktop release, Vivaldi 8.0 is now available for mobile devices on both Andro...
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What is Vivaldi?
Vivaldi is extremely customizable, presenting a wide range of settings and built-in features designed to put the user in control. Vivaldi removes the data harvesting code from Chromium before introducing it into the browser, so the users will enjoy a private experience. The use of the Chromium-based engine makes Vivaldi fast and compatible with most Chrome extensions.
It is available for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS, and Android Automotive OS.
It includes fully customizable web browser behaviours, mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts, Quick Commands, the usual unlimited Speed Dial page, notes that can also be synchronized with other devices, a webpage screenshot tool, a panel for displaying and managing bookmarks, history and many others, 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, and many others…
Vivaldi offers a built-in ad-blocker and partners with 
DuckDuckGo for the tracker blocker.
There is also 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, 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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45 news article related to VivaldiSupported Languages
- English
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan; Valencian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Esperanto
- Finnish
- French
- Western Frisian
- Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sardinian
- Serbian
- Chinese
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Estonian
- Afrikaans
- Azerbaijani
- Icelandic
- Albanian
- Belarusian
- Georgian
- Armenian
- Panjabi, Punjabi
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Comments and Reviews
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.
You just haven't used browsers that don't suck.
So Choomaque wrote this in March '24 and says the browser sucks but in comments below dated July 24 he's apparently still using Vivaldi, or was until he uninstalled it.
I seriously think this guy's just trolling.
Funny you would tell this, Vivaldi is created by the original creators of Opera before being sold. Vivaldi tries to bring back old Opera features missing from the current one.
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:
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).
@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).
I gave it a try due to the hype, I was disappointed. It has way too much bloatware for me, and after taking a closer look it's not as privacy focused as I'd like either. It also appears that the whole Vivaldi app is just a chromium extension with some APIs and permissions. I get that the point of that is to enable all the customization, but it's incredibly slow, not for me.
I've been using this browser for years now, and it is absolutely amazing in almost every way. Just about every feature you could want or need is there. It also manages to be fast and reliable despite the bulk. I have very few complaints about it, just a few bugs here or there, but nothing grave. Plus, of course, the stance on privacy and the browser's country of origin gives me the confidence that it's not going to abuse my data.
I started using Vivaldi after being away for some years. It looks and feels pretty light and stable.
I love this browser. The email client is my favorite of all email clients that i have tried, I love the way you can find RSS fees and follow them with one click, I love the panel, the tabs are a little complicated sometimes but they are improving.
ive been using for years since i dropped opera and its all i can ask for. a clear stance for privacy and anti-slop and endless customization options