Vivaldi

Vivaldi is a fast, ultra customizable browser that prioritizes your privacy (not our own profit). An Internet browser that adapts to you, not the other way around. Vivaldi browser comes packed with smart features. From a focused, minimalist experience to building a command center for life online - we've got you covered.

Why try Vivaldi?

Vivaldi is popular among users who value deep customization and integrated features. Unlike many mainstream browsers, it lets you tailor nearly every aspect of the interface – from tab placement and keyboard shortcuts to visual themes.

Vivaldi's advanced tab management includes tab stacking and tiling. Users can group tabs, view them side by side, and hibernate inactive tabs to save resources. These features are particularly appreciated by power users who manage numerous tabs simultaneously.

What are the differences between Vivaldi and Google Chrome?

Vivaldi and Google Chrome are both based on the Chromium project. Vivaldi offers a more feature-rich, customizable experience out of the box. While Chrome aims for simplicity with a minimal interface, Vivaldi focuses on giving users control, with advanced tab management, side panels, integrated tools, and powerful browser settings.

Does Vivaldi support extensions like Chrome?

Because Vivaldi is built on Chromium it does support most Chrome extensions. You can install extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store.

Who owns Vivaldi?

Vivaldi was launched in 2015 as a Chromium-based browser aimed at power users, developed by the creators of Opera. Vivaldi continues to be employee-owned with headquarters located in Oslo, Norway.

Is Vivaldi a safe browser?

Yes, Vivaldi is a safe and trusted browser. It features built-in ad tracking protection and a dedicated privacy menu. Additionally, Vivaldi lets you enable/disable Google services, hide your typed history, and tweak default website permissions. Starting with version 7.3, Vivaldi partnered with Proton to integrate Proton VPN directly into the browser.

What are key features of Vivaldi?

• Full-on user customization of how the browser looks and works
• A pause button in the status bar for pausing all media and site activity, saving system resources.
• Take screenshots of full web pages or a selection of the screen and save it as either PNG or JPEG.
• Built-in ad blocker and tracking protection.
• Lets you disable website images entirely, or only show the ones already cached on your computer when using slow connections.
• Compatible with RGB effects from Razer Chroma and Philips Hue.
• Chromium-based so it is compatible with all Chrome extensions, if you need them.

Features

Tab Tiling

View multiple web pages side by side, split-screen style, in the same window. There's no set limit to the number of tabs you can open side by side (though there is a limit to what can be useful to you).

Tab Stacking

Two-level Tab Stacks are a great way to keep things tidy when you have a lot of open tabs. Once tabs are stacked you can: give the stack a name, create splitscreens, move them or hibernate them. Go nuts!

Web Panels

Add any website to keep your favorite sites easily accessible in Vivaldi's sidebar. You can easily add a page and decide to view it in mobile or desktop mode.

Workspaces

Workspaces is a great way to organize your tabs and your workflow in a way that makes sense to you. If it's a project at work, shopping, or social media, you can easily group them all in one workspace.

Control Everything with Quick Commands

Quick Commands is Vivaldi's universal search and control center. Instantly search tabs, bookmarks, history, or the web, and quickly execute browser commands, all in one place.

Mail

With the powerful email client built into the browser you get a focused email experience of all your accounts in one user-friendly inbox.

Feed-Reader

Vivaldi Feed-Reader lets you build a private news feed based on your interests. Add your favorite news site, YouTube channel, or podcast to get the latest update neatly presented directly in your browser.

Calendar

Vivaldi Calendar is a flexible way to manage all your events directly in your browser. With the Calendar Panel you have quick access to your events and stay on schedule throughout the day.

Speed Dials

Access your favorite websites quickly from the Start Page. You can customize the included Bookmarks or add custom Speed Dials and folders.

Notes

Take notes in the side bar as you browse and sync them securely to other devices.

Sync

Securely synchronize your Vivaldi browser data across multiple devices.

Translate

Translate any webpage with a single click with a built-in, private translation tool.

Capture

Take screenshots of full web pages or a selection of the screen.

Pop-out Video

Display videos in a floating window, so you can continue watching, while you work or play.

History

Get a detailed overview of your browsing history, with statistics presented in a fresh, visual way.

Mouse Gestures

Do just about anything in Vivaldi - open, close and switch Tabs, create Notes, and much more - all with movements of the mouse.

Command Chains

Save time and boost productivity by building your own shortcuts, workflows and browser modes. Trigger a custom sequence of commands with a single keystroke or gesture.

Proton VPN for Vivaldi

With one-click activation, you get enhanced privacy protections and all the VPN functionality you need. Because privacy should always be simple.

Custom themes

Add your touch to Vivaldi with custom colors, wallpapers, tab edge rounding, and other settings. There are thousands, if not millions, of ways to put your personal touch on Vivaldi.

Customizable UI

Virtually everything in the Vivaldi can be personalized to adapt to you. From button placement to panel layout, you have full control to create your perfect browsing experience.

Extension Support

If what you need somehow isn't already built into Vivaldi, you can bring your favorite Chrome extensions with you. They work great in Vivaldi too.

We Respect your Privacy

We don't profile your behavior, or sell your data. The sites you visit, what you type in the browser, your downloads, we have no access to that data. It either stays on your local machine or gets encrypted.

Block Trackers and Ads

Privacy matters. Vivaldi comes with a built-in tracker and ad blocker to protect your browsing. You're in control of how much or how little you want to block.

Private Browsing

Private browsing mode is intended to protect your privacy from other users of your computer. Vivaldi will minimize what is stored locally on your computer so that very few traces are left of what you were browsing once you close all private browsing windows.

Password Manager

Store your account login credentials in the browser, to access sites quickly and easily.

Encrypted Sync

We use end-to-end encryption to protect your data from being accessed by third parties. And as an added bonus, we host your browsing data on-premises in Iceland, where it's covered by strict privacy laws.

Vivaldi Takes a Stance

We have called for a ban on surveillance-based advertising. It's time to free ourselves from constant surveillance and highly personalized targeting of users on the internet. Vivaldi is fightning for a better web.

What's New

Vivaldi 7.9: Immerse yourself in the web with every pixel

Vivaldi launches 7.9 with a genuinely new way to reclaim your screen and a new tab feature that will become part of your daily browsing.

Your browser is supposed to help you explore the web. But it's also kind of always … there. The Tab Bar, the Address Bar, the toolbars, they're essential, but sometimes they're taking up space you want for the content. When you're knee deep in reading about the Roman empire*, the last thing on your mind is opening a new tab.

Vivaldi 7.9 solves this in a way that, once you've tried it, will feel completely obvious.

(* Other empires are available)

Make room for the content

Imagine the web filling your entire window. Edge to edge. Or, rather Vivaldi to Vivaldi. Nothing between you and the page, and yet every part of Vivaldi is still there the moment you reach for it.

That's UI Auto-hide, and it is something else.

To toggle UI Auto-hide, use the keyboard shortcut ⌘ F10/Ctrl F11 or click the arrow icon in the Status Bar.

When enabled, your interface (Tab Bar, Address Bar, Panel and Status Bar) steps aside while you're reading, watching, or working. The content gets the full stage. Then the moment your cursor moves to any edge of the screen, everything is right there waiting: your tabs, your tools, your panel. Use them, move away, and the page takes over again. It happens fluidly, naturally, like it was always supposed to work this way.

And because this is Vivaldi, you get to decide exactly how it behaves. Hide just the Tab Bar. Or the Address Bar and Bookmarks Bar. Or go all in Tab Bar, Panel, Address Bar, Status Bar, Bookmarks Bar and give yourself a view of the web you genuinely haven't experienced in a desktop browser before. You'll find all options under Settings → Appearance → UI Auto-hide.

We've also added a setting for users who want easy access to the interface in Fullscreen mode. When you enable "Always use Auto-hide in Fullscreen" in Settings, you'll be able to access your panel and toolbars while the entire screen is taken by the website you're viewing.

We've been building up to this one for a while. We think it shows.

Make your tabs work for you

You know that feeling where you're reading something good, there's an interesting link, you click it, and twenty minutes later you've lost the original thread entirely and have eleven tabs open?

Follower Tab is the cure.

Right-click any link and choose Open Link as Tiled Follower Tab. The page opens in a tiled view right alongside what you're already reading. Side by side, immediately. And here's where the magic happens: any further links you click in your original tab will keep loading in the follower tab. Your original page stays exactly where it was. You keep your place and you keep your peace.

Think about how often this actually comes up. You're working through a long article with a table of contents. You open each section in a Follower Tab and navigate the whole thing without losing your place in the index. You're shopping around, scanning a list of options, click a link you find interesting and open in the Follower Tab, scan the info on the page, compare, go back to the list on the left side, click the next. Complete quick preview of everything you want and need to know. You're researching a topic and the Wikipedia rabbit hole beckons. Now you can easily follow it in the follower tab, while your original source stays right where it was. What all of these have in common is that your main tab becomes an anchor. Just like a home base, you can explore freely because you always know exactly where you are.

It's beyond satisfying to have this much control and to master your tabs. You stay in control of your reading, but you never have to ignore a link again. Send it to the follower tab, glance over, carry on.

Mail gets some serious love

If you use Vivaldi Mail, this release has been worth the wait. And if you don't use Vivaldi Mail, now is the time to start.

The biggest addition: the mail composer can now be opened in its own window. Write your emails however you want side by side with your inbox, on a different monitor, or fullscreen if you're drafting something long. Your mail, your layout.

Inside the composer itself, switching between rich text and plain text is now a single toggle. Whether you want full formatting or a clean, no-frills message, flipping between the two is effortless. And behind the scenes, memory usage in the mail list has been reduced so everything feels snappier, especially if you're managing a large inbox.

Writing to a mailing list? Vivaldi now handles them much more gracefully, so replies go where they should without you having to think about it.

We've also added the option to save selected messages to your disk, allowing you to save copies of the message files you deem necessary to another location.

This is your browser, we build it

Every update, big or small, reinforces what makes Vivaldi different. We don't have investors demanding features that benefit them instead of you. We don't harvest your data or track your behavior. We're simply building a browser that serves you. Your choices, your workflow, your privacy.

If you're enjoying Vivaldi, tell someone about it. Help your friend, your colleague or family member to make the switch, they will thank you.

Vivaldi 7.9 is ready today!

Changelog Vivaldi Browser 7.9

• [New][AutoHide] Allow auto hide/showing parts of the UI (VB-122213)
• [New][Follower Tab] Allow creation of Follower Tab via the context menu (VB-4785)
• [New][Mail] Floating composer window option (VB-74374)
• [New][Onboarding] Ask if user wants to use assistive tech/ keyboard only (VB-115238)
• [New][Onboarding] New UI for "Default/Import/Pin to dock" onboarding step (VB-106755)
• [New][Ad Blocker] Support for entities and regexes in the domain options and content injection rules: better support for ublock rule format (VB-124084)

Ad Blocker

• [Ad Blocker] Allow adblocker to handle popups with data URLs (VB-125510)
• [Ad Blocker] CSS style rules cause element hiding to fail (VB-124488)
• [Ad Blocker] URL matching for activation retrieval during content injection (VB-121505)

Calendar

• [Calendar] Add explanation text on function of View buttons (VB-112126)
• [Calendar] Error syncing when attendees have been removed (VB-125428)
• [Calendar] Instead of saving event changes, Enter opens a dialog to add a Mail account (VB-122643)
• [Calendar] Task status not saved in event's template (VB-121345)

Linux

• [Linux] Hyprland Wayland compositor does not detect the dropped window (VB-125199)
• [Linux] Improve OOM survival instincts (VB-124992)
• [Linux][Boomarks] Can not not middle click paste in bookmark tree (VB-124863)
• [Linux][Tabs] Can not not middle click paste on tab (VB-124868)

Mail

• [Mail] Add clear outline flag for "Clear flag" option (VB-124731)
• [Mail] Add context menu entry for "Sender is not a mailing list" (for message-id) (VB-124729)
• [Mail] Add "Rich / Plain Text" toggle in Mail Composer (VB-125250)
• [Mail] Deleting trash permanently makes them appear again in the trash, after each restart (VB-125505)
• [Mail] Duplicate e-mails being created in IMAP Sent folder if Subject is changed during compose (VB-125723)
• [Mail] Fetch subject and preview from DB on demand: reduce memory (VB-124289)
• [Mail] Improve database upgrades from previous versions to avoid issues (VB-125986)
• [Mail] Last item in mail list has extra border (VB-124334)
• [Mail] Mailing list handling within message (VB-124287)
• [Mail] Message header no 'Not a Mailing List' option when 'Treat Sender as a Mailing List' (VB-124408)
• [Mail] Message toolbar buttons like Reply/Forward/etc disabled when enabling plain text view or raw message view (VB-125407)
• [Mail] Proton Bridge with custom ports doesn't ask for certificate (VB-125708)
• [Mail] Queue Move operations (VB-124163)
• [Mail] Search with NOT from-field broken when adding email address followed by keyword (or nested parentheses) (VB-124676)
• [Mail] Show password button should not be available when editing accounts (VB-124527)
• [Mail] Two sent messages in Sent folder (VB-124862)
• [Mail] Unable to reorder mail labels after deleting one (VB-118667)
• [Mail] When moving emails to a different webmail account, emails are lost (VB-123358)
• [Mail] When replying to email, cursor is placed at end of mail instead of at top (VB-125746)
• [Mail][Settings] Allow to show password in Mail setup input fields (VB-124196)
• [Mail][Widgets] Layout is broken (VB-125462)

Panels

• [Panels] Toggle button in vertical tab bar does nothing (VB-123939)
• [Panels][Web Panel] Icon does not update and notification setting does not work (VB-123959)
• [Panels][Windows Panel] Add support for cut/paste (VB-124378)
• [Panels][Windows Panel] Paste visible on Sync Items (VB-124352)

Performance

• [Performance] Improve quick command performance (VB-124985)
• [Performance] Reduce network priority for tasks that should run in the background (VB-124956)
• [Performance] Searchable drop-downs are slow: this change decreases memory usage (VB-124286)

Spatial Navigation

• [Spatial Navigation] :hover not triggered (VB-4059)
• [Spatial Navigation] Hangs in page if zoom is large (VB-100032)
• [Spatial Navigation] Skips radio buttons with only labels (VB-109257)

Start Page

• [Start Page][Daily Image] Background is blank when dev tools is open (VB-124096)
• [Start Page][Widgets] Allow to show more days in small weather widget (VB-124028)
• [Start Page][Widgets] Incorrect font color for weather widget (VB-124145)
• [Start page] Redundant tab stops in navigation with full keyboard access (VB-125801)
• [Start page][Keyboard] Cannot focus navigation buttons (VB-104363)

Tabs

• [Tabs] Add support for cut and paste to the tab bar (VB-124503)
• [Tabs] Closing stacked tab in a tile closes tile (VB-124281)
• [Tabs] Disable restrict pinned tabs for stacks (VB-124511)
• [Tabs] Don't detach tab on cancelled drag operation (VB-120960)
• [Tabs] Dragging tab from a stack is not always possible (VB-124439)
• [Tabs] Empty parts of the tab does not accept tab drop (VB-124398)
• [Tabs] Keyboard-traversing tabs in tab bar fails (VB-125606)
• [Tabs] Tab bar flickers like crazy on startup (VB-124404)
• [Tabs][Drag and drop] Focus on tab shifts when dragging tab to bookmark panel (VB-124354)
• [Tabs][Drag and drop][Tiling] Center drop to create new window area looks like drop into to replace area (VB-124023)
• [Tabs][Drag and drop][Tiling] Does not work if two windows have different workspaces (VB-124123)
• [Tabs][Drag and drop][Tiling] Dragging tile can break tab bar (VB-124317)
• [Tabs][Drag and drop][Tiling] Tab dragged into a tiled tab stack should be added to the stack (VB-124333)
• [Tabs][Settings] Remove maximized spacing broken (VB-124823)

Other

• [Bookmarks] Missing "Creation date" column on the bookmarks page (VB-125044)
• [Chromium] Update to 146.0.7680.153
• [Command Chains] Editor no longer shows all available commands (VB-124423)
• [Commands][Tiling] Tile command only works when the tab bar is enabled (VB-124405)
• [Dashboard] Clicking Widget dialog button activates link in the background (VB-124841)
• [Downloads] Clean up downloads button popup: remove the button info (VB-125432)
• [Find in Page] Does not respect UI density setting (VB-125605)
• [Media] PiP sets video volume to max (VB-124950)
• [Menus] Add "Hide statusbar" context-menu item (VB-125430)
• [Networking][Performance] Reduce IPv6 to IPv4 fallback time (VB-125694)
• [Permissions] Support loop-back network (VB-125641)
• [Permissions] Wake Lock API unknown (VB-110458)
• [Privacy Dashboard] Seconds formatted as minutes for display (VB-125705)
• [Reader Mode] Does not work on certain sites where it should (VB-125589)
• [Settings] Theme editor, selecting colour does nothing (VB-124327)
• [Settings][Themes][Daily Image] Can't get original theme image back after setting daily image (VB-122849)
• [UI] Various translation updates in a range of languages (VB-125962)
• [Widgets] Console error when dragging widgets around (VB-125547)
• [Windows] "Pin to Taskbar" Toast notification is missing after installing the application (VB-105468)
• [Windows][Updates] Checking for update text in vivaldi about doesnt update (VB-125549)
• [Workspaces] Do not add page to tile if it matches workspace rule (VB-124274)

Previous Release Notes:

Vivaldi 7.7: less friction, more control

This release brings together features that have been carefully refined based on what you've told us matters most: seamless access to your tabs across desktops, a unified Start Page that finally combines Widgets and Speed Dials and granular control over browser performance.

Your browser should adapt to you, not the other way around. That's the design principle behind every decision we make.

Vivaldi 7.7 takes that principle further with updates that fundamentally improve how you organize, access, and control your browsing experience. It is a release built around solving real problems that power users face every day. Let's dive in!

All your tabs, structured, anywhere you need them

You're working on your home desktop and you need that one article you had open on your work machine this morning. Or you remember seeing something interesting in a tab yesterday, but you were on a different computer. These small moments of friction add up, and they shouldn't be hard to solve.

Your Start Page, your way

We've reimagined how you interact with your Start Page. Widgets and Speed Dials now coexist beautifully in a unified Start Page experience. Your favorite sites sit alongside real-time information from widgets, creating a personal dashboard that's uniquely yours. Weather forecasts, RSS feeds, mail previews, and your most-visited sites all share the same space, accessible with a single glance.

The flexibility extends to how you organize your spaces. You are free to personalize as many Speed Dial groups as YOU deem necessary. Add widgets, drag them around, resize them, mix them with Speed Dial folders, the Start Page becomes whatever you need it to be.

Privacy you can see

We've refreshed the Privacy Dashboard with a new, cleaner design that makes it easier to understand exactly what Vivaldi is doing to protect you. The updated Privacy Dashboard gives you clear visibility into blocked trackers, ads, and the time you've saved by not loading intrusive content. This gives you a better understanding of the impact of browsing with protection enabled.

The new Dashboard also provides better insight into per-site blocking status, making it easier to manage exceptions when a site needs certain content to function properly. Privacy with transparency, because your data and your time both matter.

Take control of performance

Your system resources are valuable, and Vivaldi 7.7 gives you more control over how the browser uses them.

We've added a new Performance section to Settings, complete with Memory Saver options. Now you can decide how aggressively Vivaldi manages memory for inactive tabs. Whether you're someone who keeps dozens of tabs open or you prefer a lighter footprint, these settings let you balance performance with your browsing habits.

Memory Saver helps free up resources by putting inactive tabs into a low-power state. The tabs stay exactly where you left them, but they consume less memory until you need them again. You can configure which tabs are exempt; pinned tabs, for instance, or tabs you want to keep actively loaded, giving you fine-grained control over your browser's resource usage.

Mail panel refinements

The Mail Panel has also received some UI polish. We've made visual refinements to improve readability and usability, making it easier to work with your email directly in the browser. Small improvements that make daily use just a bit smoother.

Geir, our lead mail developer puts it this way: "It is a lot nicer, a lot clearer and looks much more organized". Can't argue with that!