Vivaldi

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?

• 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).

Trying to be al alternative to Chrome. Yet the customization is seriously lacking or sub-par (who wants a Find toolbar that is permanently on top of the webpage with no possibility to customize) and with a deficient, almost laughably useless ad-block. And that's just on top of my head,

Love the customizability and functionality of this browser. Will support this browser and company for as long as I can

Vivaldi is a really great browser and the best chromium option at the moment in my opinion.

A browser with a lot of customization & productivity features, that values your privacy.

Stopped posting on Twitter/X because the owner doesn't like Elon. Fortunately, I am adult enough to put aside my hatred for lefties/wokeness/etc. and use standalone installs of Vivaldi for some projects because it adds a ton of conveniences.

The biggest standout feature is that with workspaces your tabs are always saved no matter how many windows you open, close, merge, or whatever else.

It is cross-platform, customizable, includes notes and key shortcuts, it features PWAs, horizontal tabs and tab groups. Unfortunately open tabs keep disappearing randomly and its synchronization feature is unreliable.