Vivaldi attracts many users for its high-level customization and productivity features. In spite of this, it remains free. Vivaldi, being a Chromium-based browser, extensions from Chrome Web Store can be installed.
Vivaldi looks like Opera at first glance but you’ll see the difference once you start exploring and customizing the browser settings.
Tab management is one of Vivaldi’s greatest assets. There’s a lot that you can do with tabs, you’ll be able to: change tab position, stack tabs, or even hibernate tabs. The Tab Stacks feature allows tab grouping to improve tab visibility and to have less clutter in your browser workspace. Moreover, in Vivaldi’s side panel, you can put your favorite websites there and these sites will appear as pinned.
If you do research, take advantage of the Notes Panel where you can add notes (of course) and take screenshots.
Like Opera GX browser, Vivaldi’s Razer Chroma integration provides a thrilling and immersive browsing experience with lighting effects.
Vivaldi also offers themes and includes a theme scheduler where themes can be automatically changed at specific hours.
Like Opera and Brave browser, Vivaldi has a built-in Adblocker too. It blocks annoying ads, protects you from malicious ads and trackers, and websites you visit load faster.
Feature Highlights
- Chromium-based
- Fast and lightweight
- Minimalistic and adaptive interface
- High-level customization
- Aimed at productivity
- Built-in adblocker
- Dedicated search bar
- Reduces Tab clutter with Stack Tabs, Two-Level Tab Stacks, Tab Stacks by Hosts, and Hibernate tabs
- Better history viewer
- Side panel
- Built-in note-taking with Notes Panel
- Web Panel for easier access to favorite sites
- Powerful status bar – access to Page Tiling, Break Mode, Capture Page, Toggle images, zoom slider, etc
- Spatial navigation using arrow keys
- Browser Themes and ability to schedule Themes
- Supports mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and quick commands
- Web developer friendly
Full Specifications
Product Information | |
Version | 3.7.2218.49 |
Date released | March 25, 2021 |
Developer | Vivaldi Technologies AS. |
Website | https://vivaldi.com/ |
Download Information | |
File size (MB) | 60+ MB (Windows 64-bit/32-bit), 170+ MB (macOS 64-bit), 70+ MB (Linux 64-bit/32-bit) |
License model | Free (part open-source, part closed-source) |
Multilingual | Yes |
Category | |
Main category | Internet |
Subcategory | Web Browser |
System Requirements | |
Operating Systems | Windows, MacOS, Linux |
Social Media Links | |
https://www.facebook.com/vivaldi.browser | |
https://twitter.com/VivaldiBrowser/ | |
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHG0CNxmtdl7cXhAV7AZKkQ |
Vivaldi Changelog / Version History / Release Notes
Changelog – Vivaldi Browser 3.6 to 3.7 on desktop
New
- [New][Languages] Add support for Kabyle (VB-77579)
- [New][Menus] Add support for configurable document menus (VB-76801)
- [New][Panel][Reload] Support Periodic Reload in web panels (VB-72220)
- [New][Quick Commands] Parse the periodic reload values: single quote for minutes and double for seconds (VB-72281)
- [New][Quick Commands][Settings] Search highlight priority options (VB-54530)
- [New][Windows] Silent update support, stage 1, silent download of updates: this cannot be tested until the first update after this build
- [New][macOS][Performance] Universal Binaries for native support on Apple M1 machine
Address Bar
- [Address bar] Cannot edit URL on foxnews.com (VB-77016)
- [Address bar] Focus isn’t in the address field when creating a new window (VB-77049)
- [Address bar] Nickname searching shows incorrect search string (VB-60002)
- [Address bar] Not clear on Alt + Enter (VB-77490)
- [Address bar] Unexpected auto-complete (VB-76610)
- [Address bar][Tabs] Full address field shown when switching between tabs (VB-77053)
- [Bookmarks] Import for Chromium Edge (VB-71694)
Linux
- [Linux] Dragging a toolbar button creates a huge white rectangle (VB-76129)
- [Linux] Setting the Window controls to the left, causes the Vivaldi menu to overlap the trash (VB-76438)
Menu
- [Menus] Add a context menu entry to Hide/Show Start Page Navigation (VB-77309)
- [Menus] “Add as search engine” is visible on all page input fields (VB-76982)
- [Menus][Tabs] Add item to stack similar tabs, “Stack tabs by Hosts” via the context menu (VB-73465)
- [Menus][Zoom] Context menu is offset when interface zoom is greater/less than 100% (VB-77095)
Quick Commands
- [Quick Commands] Highlight matched keywords (VB-7449)
- [Quick Commands] Internal favicons look rather slim (VB-74475)
- [Quick Commands] Opening bookmark folder with a nickname (VB-75834)
- [Quick Commands] Search with the nickname and default search engine includes nickname in the search string (VB-74655)
- [Quick Commands] Various minor issues (VB-76009)
- [Quick Commands][Calculator] Simple float point calculations are displayed wrongly (VB-75553)
Tabs
- [Tabs] Auto-Created tab stacks ungroup in incorrect order (VB-54403)
- [Tabs] Can’t display tab bar in full screen (VB-76386)
- [Tabs] Double-clicking to resize tab stack doesn’t resize tab when tabs are on the sides (VB-76224)
- [Tabs] Improve drag and drop between tab bars (VB-74588)
- [Tabs] Let the keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab open inside a stack is open (VB-76433)
- [Tabs] Lock button in the two-level bar does not change color (VB-75157)
- [Tabs] Middle clicking in tab previews can close the wrong tab (VB-77270)
- [Tabs] New tab button is not centered in the second level with tabs on the sides (VB-76440)[
- Tabs] New tab from full-screen video leaves Vivaldi in a full-screen state (VB-76651)
- [Tabs] New tab isn’t created as active when inside tab stack (VB-77071)
- [Tabs] New tab page is slow to select/focus within the second row of tabs (VB-75748)
- [Tabs] Not all cloned tabs from a tab-stack join it (VB-75048)
- [Tabs] Popup thumbnails often disappear when the second level is open (VB-76828)
- [Tabs] Tab muting can be overridden by site-settings (VB-76083)
- [Tabs] “Remove tab spacing in maximized windows” no longer works for the bottom tab bar position (VB-76231)
- [Tabs][Crash] When clicking the new tab icon repeatedly on the second level of a stack (VB-76552)
- [Tabs][Extensions] Tab close doesn’t work after doing chrome.tabs.remove() by extension (VB-77135)
- [Tabs][Menus] Don’t show the close tab context menu for Pinned tab (VB-76217)
- [Tabs][Notes] Manager misbehaves with tiled tabs (VB-76326)
- [Tabs][Performance] Various Performance issues (VB-76185)
- [Tabs][Sounds] Mute/unmute on a tab without sound does not change (VB-77062)
macOS
- [macOS] Exiting fullscreen video exit the fullscreen (VB-76734)
- [macOS] Music does not play on slam.nl (VB-73896)
- [macOS] Windows not resized/repositioned when disconnecting an external monitor (VB-49692)
Others
- [Extensions] Toolbar partly transparent (VB-76605)
- [Keyboard][Settings] Setting Alt+F4 or Shift+Alt+F4 as a hotkey works but it still acts as exit (VB-60364)
- [Passwords][Windows][macOS] Import from Chrome is not possible: further work needed for Linux (VB-62410)
- [Periodic reload] Rewrite to avoid various issues (VB-77142)
- [Themes] Inconsistency with rounded corners (VB-76670)
- [Trash] Restoring closed window with several tabs restores last closed tab instead (VB-74091)
- [UI] Status info overlay is appearing on top of fullscreen videos (VB-12219)
- [Windows] Desktop shortcut gets the wrong name after dragging from address field (VB-47827)
- [Settings][Search] Add some context and info to the POST option (VB-77267)
- [Settings][Search] Make it easier to set/understand the Default Search engine (VB-77105)
- [Chromium] Upgraded to 89.0.4389.91
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