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
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Android Auto
- Flathub
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- Samsung Galaxy Store
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- User friendly
- Support for Themes
- Configurable
- Privacy focused
- Distraction-free
Features
- Tab Stacking
- Support for Chrome extensions
- Cloud Sync
- Side panel
- Speed dial
- Built-in Ad-blocker
- Sidebar
- Group tabs
- Quick Command Panel
- Integrated Email Client
- Custom themes
- Block Trackers
- Opera-like
- Synchronization
- Feed Reader
- Calendar Integration
- Note Manager
- QR Code Generator
- Visual system design
- Built in tracking protection
Android Sync- Tab preview
- Split tabs
- Chromium-based Browsers
- Nickname for bookmarks
- Website screenshots
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- Picture in Picture
- Website Translation
Sync with Google Calendar- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for Gestures
- Integrated Password Manager
- No registration required
- 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
- Pomodoro Timer
- Two-factor Authentication
- Kanban Board
- Web Clipper
- Encrypted Backup
- Capture web pages
- Split-screen view
- Web panels
- Multiple search engines
- Built-in themes
- Reading mode
- Custom search
- Spatial navigation
- Built-in RSS reader
- Built-in Note Taker
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Recent activities
- Tab Control
- Based on Blink engine
- Page actions
- Tabbed browsing
- Tabbed interface
- Resume interrupted downloads
- Set Tabs aside
- Timer
- Calendar Sync
Tags
- Note Synchronization
- Google Chrome Extension
- No AI
- RSS
- web-notes
- no-ai-training
- pomodoro-clock
- hibernate
- News
- website-screenshot
- User interface
- timer-utility
- rss-feeds
- floating-player
- notes-manager
- full-webpage-screenshots
- Tabs
- History viewer
- Alarm
Vivaldi News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 7.7 for mobile brings custom search engines, bookmark import, and better dark modeVivaldi for iOS and Android users now receive the 7.7 update, following last week's desktop release...
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 7.7 brings cross-device tab access, unified start page, and performance controlsVivaldi 7.7 brings major improvements for users who rely on multiple devices. Now, tabs from other ...
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 7.6 brings reader view, custom search engines, and link previews on iOS & AndroidThree weeks after Vivaldi 7.6 was released for desktop users, it's now available for iOS and Androi...
Recent activities
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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 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, 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.
Vivaldi Videos
Vivaldi information
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- 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).
As a web browser enthusiast who tested EVERY single web browser for an extended time, Vivaldi is the best. Very low ram usage and countless customization options.
I love this browser because its Norwegian (my country which i am in now!) and its E2EE if you opt in to creating a vivaldi account. Seriously good features and ultimate customization.
I've been using Vivaldi for probably about 3.5-4 years, and Vivaldi was the first browser that became my favorite.
Vivaldi offers quite a lot of customization options, and this was important to me because I wanted to remove all the visual clutter from my browser - all those icons and stuff that were taking up attention in other browsers, and I had to “wade through” them every time I wanted to get to what I really needed. With Vivaldi's customization features, I could remove everything I didn't need and leave only what I did need. One of my favorite features was the ability to customize the context menu, including individually for different types of subjects. If you right-click in any browser, the context menu that appears will probably contain a lot of unnecessary stuff that not every user needs. Vivaldi gave me the opportunity to remove all the unnecessary things from these context menus and leave only the necessary ones, which allowed me, for example, to save images more comfortably, and spend less time on it - I didn't have to “wade through" the top items of the context menu to get to the desired function.
While I was still using Vivaldi, I saw a lot of negative reviews about it - people didn't like the redundancy of its features. But you don't have to use all of these features, and many of them can be disabled or hidden - as I did - and you won't even remember them.
I like this focus on customization-personalization in Vivaldi.
But unfortunately, when Google started restricting extensions in Chrome-based browsers, I found that some of the extensions in Vivaldi just stopped working, and I didn't like it one bit. I ended up switching to LibreWolf (https://alternativeto.net/software/librewolf/about/), and I'm quite glad I did. The minimalist and no-frills look that I had customized in Vivaldi is somewhat present in LibreWolf as well. And... I didn't even have to customize anything - it works pretty well by default.
But I am grateful to the Vivaldi development team for their work - I really liked Vivaldi back in the day.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but if you like Vivaldi for its extensive customization options and want to avoid Google/Chrome, you might want to take a look at Floorp (https://alternativeto.net/software/floorp/about/). Overall it has pretty extensive customization options, but Vivaldi still has better ones. I didn't see any context menu customization options in Floorp, at least not when I tested it (about a year ago).
Very, very powerful, maybe even more powerful than the old Opera, and also more private than the new one. You can use extensive mouse gestures for everything, you can create command chains, customize the browser in any way and even use CSS mods to change it completely, if you wanna. Someone even made it like Arc, others like other browsers. I also love the fact that they accept many kinds of contributors, and that they are also community-focused. Also, if you gain enough reputation, so you would show you are not actually a spammer or hacker, you will have access to their Vivaldi Webmail service. Very helpful browser!
I've been enjoying Vivaldi. It feels like a breath of fresh air that isn't trying to upsell me on anything unlike Brave. It's snappy and it has some pretty great privacy features that I would've never even thought about before.