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I don't want to say that we are open source, but I just want to say that we are not completely closed source and give some information.

The modifications we do to chromium are dumped here https://vivaldi.com/source/

It doesn't include the JavaScript code. But you have easy access to bundle.js. CSS rules for modifications are also possible and you can use chromium developer tools to analyze the application, a tool all web developers knows to some extent.

It has happened more than once, well to be honest, two times, that an user has sent me patches directly on the behaviour they want changed and they clearly had advanced knowledge about how the source code was written. Both times I have added the code like the user requested.

Vivaldi is definitely not free software but source code isnt completely inaccessible.

Of course there was a changelog every time

Changelog 1 https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-desktop-4-1/

[Chromium] Upgraded to 92.0.4515.134

[Linux] Chromium browsers fail to start with systemd-resolved version 249 (VB-81641)

Revert: [Capture] Rewrite UI: it caused problems for some users (VB-59680)

Changelog 2 https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-2-for-desktop-browser-4-1/

[Translate][Crash] When translating certain websites (VB-81187)

[Media][Windows] No sound on some media after installing the AV1 video extension codec (VB-81392)

Vivaldi is source-available. In fact, all the changes we do to Chromium is available. The only thing you can't just "download and play with" is the UI, our JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and so forth. But just because of that exact reason, you can activate a few flags and still read the code.

Furthermore, Google doesn't pay us 400 million dollars per year for their searches. In fact, they don't pay us at all. We don't have a deal with them. :)
And just to prove a point, you can even switch away from Bing as your default search engine in V. You can, in fact, take it so far that you can remove our ID from the searches, so we don't get paid at all if you search with Bing. I wouldn't recommend that, of course, but AFAIK, Firefox doesn't permit their users to manipulate the search URL for Google. So how privacy-focused is it really, when the "trusted buddy of yours", provides you to drink from one of his glasses in his house, but allow the DNA company to come in and grab the glass when you leave?

Vivaldi is made up of two parts, Chromium (largely c++) and our unique UI (written in HTML/CSS/JS). For any changes we make to Chromium, we match the license of whatever we modify. Or anything new will have that license you linked above.

However, it is only our Chromium work that is found on https://vivaldi.com/source/. If you were to build it and run it, nothing will display as the HTML/CSS/JS UI is missing. This UI is only available as part of our end user packages, which is covered by the EULA (in which we also bundle with a compiled version of our modified Chromium).

To answer your question

> [...] I allowed or not to redistribute modified versions?

You are free to take our modifications to Chromium and use them as you will since the open source license let's you do that. However, the EULA prevents you from putting out a modified Vivaldi, since it covers the installation packages and these are the only source of our UI.

So if you wanted to make your own Vivaldi derivative, then no I'm sorry you cannot without first contacting us. Explain what you want to achieve and why and we can consider your request and perhaps offer alternative terms.

That said, we have always let Linux distributions repackage Vivaldi to ease installation on distros that don't use RPM or Debian packaging (the only official Linux packages we offer). That is why you will find distros such as Arch (well the AUR), Gentoo, Slackware (via SBo), Solus, etc. who offer repackaged copies of Vivaldi. As long as they are just altering the external packaging to ease installation we are generally happy to let that slide but they should not be altering Vivaldi itself. If any other distro wants to do this and feel prevented by the EULA and need a more formal agreement, they can again contact us directly, so we can arrange something more official.

I use bitwarden to sync passwords between web browsers. It has extension support for chromium browsers and safari on iOS, as well as just about every platform you can think of.

>Vivaldi is popular enough that if you keep it up to date, you will have the same UA string as a lot of other users (since Vivaldi 2.10, the user-agent string is shared with other Chromium-based browsers, making it even less identifiable).

https://vivaldi.com/blog/shared-networks-tracking-fingerprinting/

You probably need to read up a little on how to do basic stuff in Linux. Pop OS is a variant of Linux.

Also, there's /r/pop_os/

But for Vivaldi specifically, go to https://vivaldi.com/download/ and get the version 2.6 64-bit Linux deb file. Once you have that downloaded it should be easy enough to install.

(user opinion) Vivaldi earn their money with partner deals, who in turn earn their money with ads on their websites. I assume a partner could deem defaulting to ad or tracker blocking a violation of their deal. So instead, at first launch Vivaldi very prominently asks the users to choose, and to make it very easy to change the setting as needed. I think that is an elegant way to solve the "don't bite the hand that feeds you" problem in both directions - users and deal partners.

Here's an official statement from when they introduced the ad and tracker blocker. https://vivaldi.com/blog/ad-blocker-vivaldi-browser/

You can download the wallpaper from vivaldi press site.

vivaldi-stars

More pictures

Very helpful description. I especially like the part where the version and all the extensions are listed. Also, doesn't it seem pretty logical that reinstalling might fix the issue?

1. Backup your data.

2. Completely remove Vivaldi using Revo Uninstaller Free. Run it, double click Vivaldi, choose the Advanced mode. Wait for it to finish.

3. Reboot your PC.

4. Install the latest Vivaldi x64 snapshot from here: https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/address-field-speed-dial-fixes-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1609-4/

Honestly though, if you're the kind of person to make a ridiculous post like this, you're probably not the kind of person that Vivaldi is designed for. There's no real reason to use it besides its awesome customization features - if you can't even make an attempt to reinstall a piece of software, I doubt you'll be editing the CSS and javascript in which Vivaldi is written. Perhaps you should look into regular Chromium or Firefox.

Built-in translation is coming. It didn’t make it into 3.8 final so 3.9 is the next target

I've noticed in general that YouTube sometimes switches resolution on its own, even though I have a fast internet connection.

I'm using this extension to change that and also change a few other things (like disabling Autoplay on Channels, enabling HD thumbnails):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/improve-youtube-open-sour/bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd

It might not be the solution you're looking for, but it's what's working best for me at least, no matter what browser I use.

But regarding your issue: Did you try deleting your Browsing Data?

https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/profile-management-abuse-ad-blocking-whatsapp-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1546-4/

Here it is from a primary source instead of a re-post spam site. This link was already posted on the sub a few days ago.

>Why a Chinese company is bad for Opera now?
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>Why this browser should get more attention/or is underappreciated?
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>Are the devs passionate about their product?
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>Will I/We get new and innovative features?

1. Because a Chinese company cannot be trusted to keep your private info actually private. Would you trust a Russian company with your private info?
2. Because Vivaldi takes the open source Chromium and makes it extremely customizable, something that is the complete opposite of the uncustomizable, locked-down, dumbed-down Chrome.
3. Well, it's not very easy to gauge, but I have seen a lot of markers for that would indicate that. Devs responding to not only direct posts but also random comments on this subreddit with detailed info. The very active Blog section on their homepage.
4. Depends on what you mean by that.

> I use Opera since 2003, and I kinda have "feelings" attached to it, my heart will probably broke when I leave the browser, but if Opera is now owned by a cold, empty and greedy Chinese company I would like to know.

My understanding is that the origins of Vivaldi lie in the original developers of Opera getting fed up with the direction Opera was going. They left the company and made Vivaldi instead.

There was an option to opt-out but no more. Most of Vivaldi's users are power users so I think an important percent of them disabled that option and Vivaldi realized it and removed it.

Yes, as stated in their privacy policy they collect those datas.

For the Windows taskbar

Used icons (.ico files) found here: https://www.iconsdb.com/

To make the taskbar transparent I use TranslucentTB, can be found here: https://github.com/TranslucentTB/TranslucentTB/releases

For Protonmail you'll need the Proton Bridge (https://protonmail.com/bridge/) which ensures end-to-end encryption and is only available to paid users. If you install it, you can follow the thunderbird instructions which are pretty similar to vivaldi: https://protonmail.com/bridge/thunderbird#3

If you look at the graph displaying the cpu process, it is exactly the same on both graphs pretty much, the only difference is that the brave screenshot is approx 1 minute earlier than the vivaldi screenshot. If you follow the graphs, you see the 3 spikes, followed by an increase roughly after in the Vivaldi screenshot, the brave screenshot has yet to reach it, and so is lower. you can also see that the fan speed is only 2 rpm's faster in Vivaldi then brave. If you have any clearer example, you can make a bug at https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/ and add as much info as possible, so that we can look further into it. Because as of now this doesn't look like an issue at all, atleast based on these two screenshots. Thanks!

These are interesting rankings, but I think it all falls apart at the beginning with your concept. The weight you give circumstances of chance - like which country a company is based in, or if a browser has a desktop/mobile client or not - while undervaluing the reputation in comparison makes the end result not entirely credible.

Take Hotspot Shield for example, which has received a formal FTC complaint on practices that should at the very least deserve a "bad" reputation classification. Yet it shares the same "good" reputation score as many other VPNs, some of which I know that don't have publicly embarrassing situations like that.

Without having gone over everything in detail, I found at least one inaccuracy with the Chrome browser for example. It's not Open Source, but a proprietary browser. What you meant was Chromium, which is almost identical but for some details, yet it is a separate browser. I guess with your weight adjustments the end result would be the same; the browser is less user-friendly because it has no official release.

Nice. My wife uses ZorinOS so she themed Vivaldi to blend in, dark with light blue so it has that Tron feel.

Ah nice, this is the first time I've seen FBPurity. If you like uBlock Origin and are a web developer you might want to try uMatrix as well, it keeps track of any scripts and XHRs that goes on inside a page, with the option to block them (e.g. for ads or nosy Javascript).

Aside from the uBlock Origin and uMatrix, I also use HTTPSEverywhere, LastPass, TamperMonkey, DotVPN, and ChromeiQL (for dev).

It's a recent bug. I received this email upon reporting the issue:

> We discovered an issue with Sync in the Snapshot version of Vivaldi and had to disable it until we have a fix. The bug is almost fixed, but needs some double-checking and testing, before we can release in the Snapshot.

> When an update is available, please also check the accompanying blog post on Vivaldi.com (https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/snapshots/) in case there's any additional information for you to bare in mind when trying to use Sync again.

So it's just a matter of waiting.

vivaldi:about shows you the user agent, right now, on Windows, it is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.107 Safari/537.36.

In other words: yes.

Reason: https://vivaldi.com/blog/user-agent-changes/

I would prefer it as an overlay, personally, but it is a personal preference and the current implementation doesn't bother me at all. The find bar is a part of the interface, and the interface needs room to be displayed, so other content is moved out of the way. The same thing happens when you toggle the bookmarks bar, the address bar, the horizontal menu, the panel, and the status bar.

The find bar works the same way in ~~Firefox and~~ Opera.
Edit: Actually for Firefox it seems to vary. For example content on https://manjaro.org/ gets shifted up when the find bar is toggled in Firefox, but content on https://duckduckgo.com/ does not. I suspect this is due to elements on Manjaro's home page using vh values for adaptive height. But Opera's find bar does seem to behave the same way as Vivaldi's, albeit with a smooth transition. Another Olde-Opera-like browser that does this is Otter. And of course so did Olde-Opera itself, which probably explain's Vivaldi's current implementation. Various other much smaller browsers behave this way too, but notably Chrome and most Chromium-based browsers do not.

Shifting the web page content down ~30px to make room for a new interface element when the user toggles it doesn't break anything and makes complete sense.

Edit: phrasing, typos, and last sentence.

If you use another ad blocker (such as: Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin).
You can add this filters to remove cookie dialog.
https://fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt (This filters can be enabled as EasyList Cookie under Annoyance in uBlock Origin)
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/

Can't help you with the freezing issue, but I think I can with the updating. The problem is when you initially installed Vivaldi, you had it install for only the current user, and not for "all users." Evidently this only affects a certain lucky few. (Yay us!)

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Download the installer from the Vivaldi site:

https://vivaldi.com/download/

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Close out of all running instances of Vivaldi, then run the installer. When you are asked, install for "all users."

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Done.

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This drove me nuts for months.

From the article:

Build the Vivaldi Android app with us

We’re hard at work on our first mobile app. We’re currently collecting feature requests for it. Tell us what you want to see in it in this forum thread. You can also sign up to get notified when we have news about Vivaldi for Android. We count on your feedback!

Getting involved with Vivaldi is simple! Enjoy your browsing, spread the word, and stay in touch. We’re always looking for ways to thank you but most of all we try to make Vivaldi better so that you have even more reasons to enjoy it!

It really is a great way for formatting longer posts, and I use it regularly. For shorter posts RES is good with its markdown formatting tools and live preview, but that's only for reddit. RES is great for dozens of other reasons too though.

Get a PiHole and never worry about this again ;)

As an added benefit, all the devices on your network will be covered at once, irrespective of what brower you use. It's super cheap if you use a Raspberry Pi and takes only a few minutes to set up.

There is quite a difference here, I have used both and honestly find the 64-bit slower and eats more memory. The advantage I can think of is that 64-bit is more secure, I guess. This article is quite old, but it proves my point http://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/03/32-bit-vs-64-bit-browsers-which-version-has-the-edge/

I don't have any issues with Plex. So it's probably something on your end. Have you tried to enable/disable the web player setting "Prefer the HTML5 video player over the Flash player" ?

If you can't find a fix, a workaround would be Plex Home Theater.

Quote from the release blog post https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-gets-more-private-delivers-an-all-new-capture-pwa-support/

"The Mail and Calendar OAuth login has been changed to be specific to Mail and Calendar and is no longer shared with the main browser. So, when you choose to use the built-in Vivaldi mail client to access Gmail, you are no longer logged into all Google services, such as YouTube. This means you can use a service like Gmail, but it makes it harder for Google to track you across the internet."

Hence I assume that you have a calendar or mail setup that requires a google auth. Since mail and calendar authentication has been separated from the browser related authentication, mail and calendar are "logged of" after the update, making the popup appear.

I believe this issue has been fixed in the 4.2 snapshots that should make it into the official build soon. https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/new-commands-fullscreen-fixes-and-a-chromium-bump-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2406-4/ has a few fullscreen fixes and I believe at least of them fixes what you're having a problem with.

Vivaldi has an inbuilt RSS feed reader which is the best way to catch up on new updates and changelogs. Visit vivaldi://settings/rss/, click on the + sign and paste this into the address field https://vivaldi.com/feed/ to receive Vivaldi blog posts.

I ran into the same issue going to version 4.0. I had to manually add the screen capture icon back to the address by dragging it from the status bar.

Here is the article on how to add icons to address bar.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-2-4-next-level-toolbar-customisation/

Hope that helps

>All tabs in a stack appear on the first row, but the left / right arrow icon can be used to expand or collapse the stack.

>When an expanded stack is not active, it collapses automatically.

Accord(ion)ing to: https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/accordion-tab-stacks-and-silent-updates-for-windows-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2328-3/#post-492304

1. Go here: https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/user-agent-switcher/?display=en
2. Click add to opera
3. Click get it anyway
4. Download this to a folder
5. Unzip it [you may need to change the extension to .zip, or use a program like 7-zip to do this]
6. Go to vivaldi://chrome/extensions
7. Enable developer mode
8. Load unpacked extension > the folder you just unzipped

Hopefully this helps.

It's also worth nothing that Vivaldi only releases source code when the Chromium license mandates it. If you look at the available source dumps, there are gaps (it jumps from 2.1 to 2.5!) where source code wasn't made available.

A recent update added another customization feature that allows users with Razer peripherals which have LEDs to sync their LEDs with Vivaldi's ability to change its colors based on the current site. So that their LEDs are the same colour as the interface.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-enables-razer-chroma/

The point of this post wasn't to highlight Vivaldi's features specifically. It was meant to highlight the different things to consider when using any browser; more or less a continuation of this series we did earlier on "The Basics of Web Browser Security": https://vivaldi.com/the-basics-of-web-browser-security/

You can check for updates through the menu, of you can just download and install the latest Vivaldi from their site. You keep your settings either way.

You should also see if you have "Notify About Updates" checked in the settings, so you get notified when new versions become available.

Great to hear you're (mostly) enjoying it so far!

Whenever you run into weirdness feel free to reach out. The best way is generally via the forum (vivaldi.net), where a lot of users hang out and mods are at-the-ready to help work through things. Otherwise you can report bugs here: vivaldi.com/bugreport/

Re: Download panel - head to Settings > Downloads Settings, untick the box for 'Open Download Panel Automatically'. That will stop it from popping up/out all the time.

My understanding is that code isn't in Chromium, only Chrome.

Vivaldi is based on Chromium, and the privacy policy explicitly states they do not provide any data to third parties (except the little search engine widgets obviously): https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/

If you go to vivaldi://terms in the browser, you'll see the EULA, where you'll find this item:

> 9. By accepting this EULA your also accept our privacy policy (available at https://vivaldi.com/privacy). Here at Vivaldi we take privacy matters very seriously and we always strive to be compliant with applicable laws and regulations.

So, the privacy policy appears to cover all products and services.

The vivaldi.rocks URLs are probably maintained by ClientConnect and so they're the ones responsible for the shoddy templated website. They probably never intended anyone to see it since they're just using the URL to redirect to the actual search results.

You'll find the vivaldi.rocks URLs on the default Bing and Yahoo! search in the product. Possibly others, depending on your region and the searches they have - but that would be speculation.

The android version is in beta, and for what I read from the devs, probably we will get more UI customization soon.

Also, about the UI in the bottom, there's Firefox preview, the future Firefox on Android.

Meh. LastPass is pretty damn secure, and all the encryption/decryption/hashing happens locally on your machine. LastPass has no access to any of that process.

https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq&id=6926

You're misinformed. This blog post explains Vivaldi's code publishing. TL;dr -- only 5 % is closed, and that part is the UI stuff that makes Vivaldi Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

You can examine the other 95% of the source code any time you like.

Open source is great. But for a small company like Vivaldi competing with giants and nonprofits, it's no way to run a business.

I have never heard of that issue before. It sounds almost like the installation itself is bad, but that seems less likely on a Mac (due to the package-style installs).

Can you try doing a complete reset? It should not be necessary since you just installed it, but that is the only thing I can think of, short of uninstalling then reinstalling.

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>Reset Vivaldi Settings

1. Type chrome://settings/search#a in the Vivaldi address bar and press enter

2. As you scroll down, you can notice the Reset button under ‘Reset Settings’, click on that button and further click on ‘Reset’

Or, evidently, you can get to it here too: chrome://settings/resetProfileSettings

A few other questions:

1. Is your Mac new to you, or have you had it a while?
2. Is it a newer M1 Mac, or the older Intel processor?
3. Which version of macOS are you running? Is it at least OS X El Capitan/version 10.11?
4. Did you download Vivaldi directly from https://vivaldi.com/download or from somewhere else?

Thanks, and I hope the issue can get resolved quickly so you can use Vivaldi on your Mac.

You'll have to provide more information if you really want help:

What phone are you using? What Android version is running on it? Is your phone modded or rooted in any way? From where did you install Vivaldi? What Vivaldi version are you using Does the same thing happen to other Apps as well? Is your phone causing any other problems? Did you try Vivaldi Snapshot to see if that problem also exists there?

Anyway, you can file a bug report from your phone using this link:

https://vivaldi.com/de/bugreport/

Sadly, Vivaldi doesn't sync all settings. It's been like that for years, unfortunately. They even mention it on the Sync page.

As for your bug: The best way to report them is this page: https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/

If you are familiar/comfortable with sideloading apps using the APK, you can try using the current .APK from the vivaldi web site.

Here's the link to the current snapshot for android: https://vivaldi.com/blog/mobile/android-4-0-2313-5/

I'm mostly used Firefox since there was such a thing (migrated from Netscape) and have switched over basically full-time to Vivaldi over the past year or so. (Firefox would be my backup if some site were broken in Vivaldi.)

Honestly, I've seen fewer performance issues in Vivaldi than I was seeing on Firefox, in terms of RAM and CPU. (And I've since upgraded hardware to the point that I can probably use either without worrying about it.)

In the early days Vivaldi felt slower and more crash-prone, but that hasn't been my experience in a long time now. They both seem to perform well.

(And yes, I'm on Linux.)

Sorry your experience hasn't been as good so far.

As for the open source issue, while in a perfect world I would wish Vivaldi was fully open source, I find the explanation they've given thoughtful and understandable enough.

I find it interesting that there are plenty of posts about this recently, but almost not a single one actually gives numbers (like "page xyz takes 15 seconds to load").

So yeah, don't take it personally, but it's hard to comment usefully or help if you don't give details. If you really want Vivaldi (the company) to know about it, give more specs. Which CPU, RAM, OS? Which exact version of Vivaldi? Any plugins? etc. etc. Also, Vivaldi actually does have a bug reporting system which conveniently turns up if you google "vivaldi bug report". https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/

For the record, I am using Vivaldi (the newest non-snapshot versoin) on Win10 (both a good gaming PC as well as a medium-well endowed work laptop), MacOS (MacBook pro, my main work device), Android and several old Linux laptops around the house. I have zero performance problems, and never had even an inkling of one. On my main machines, I have a various amount of pinned tab stacks - like 50'ish or so. It feels just fine. I use multiple ad blockers, and Privoxy as proxy, and even this does not noticeably impact me. This is on a fast internet connection though.

Then again I've beein using it since the first publicly available version, so it may just be that I'm used to it, and just don't know how "blazingly fast" other browsers are these days. Except I fire up IE, Edge, Firefox, Safari and others for work occasionally, and they feel just exactly the same as Vivaldi. Somewhat like the difference between 60Hz and 144Hz. Yes, obviously it is measurable, but ...

So I don't want to tell you that *you* don't have a problem, just that it may be useful to give Vivaldi more information about your problems as certainly not everybody has your problem, and that there may be hope.

Hi, I am not able to reproduce this on my end, all the sites you mention work for me on the latest Vivaldi (3.5.2115.87) on macOS 11.1. Could you please report a bug with more info from your system?

Go to https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/ to file a report.

The following information would be helpful:

From vivaldi://media-internals:
Try playing a video that fails for you and then open vivaldi://media-internals in another tab.

There is a button to copy the info to clipboard, though you need select the player in question first. If you restart vivaldi before opening the video there should only be 1-2 players in the media-internals page after starting the video.

The info on vivaldi://gpu can also be helpful so please include that.

Also go to vivaldi://components and check if your widevine module is up to date
I have: "Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 4.10.1610.0"

That's a bug.

Search in the forums to see if anyone has reported it already, and if they don't, you can submit it here.

I tend to always use the snapshot versions, which don't display as updates if you are using the current stable release version. https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/snapshots/

I'm not sure when this feature was added, not sure if it's new to 3.6.x or not.

Could you use something like Process Monitor (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx) and check if there is any special file activity going on while this happens? If you enable packaged app debugging in vivaldi://flags and inspect the UI (right click any UI element, select Inspect), and grab a profile session from the Timeline, it could help to see if the problem is on the web UI side of things. Very technical, I know, sorry.

Ah. Since I love Google Chrome but cannot in good conscious support Google anymore, I've replaced Chrome with Vivaldi & Epic.

...actually, since you're definitely privacy-oriented, I'd suggest trying out Epic here: https://www.epicbrowser.com/

Here's some more on the differences in the privacy search engines:

• Startpage.com = mainly Google search results in privacy + it offers Anonymous View

• DuckDuckGo & Qwant = mainly Yahoo /Bing search results in privacy. They also offer news feeds

We are lucky to have multiple privacy options. Hope this helps!

I guess it is time to start using a system level adblocker such as privoxy. It can be used on a PC, but is probably best on a router.

http://www.privoxy.org/

I do not want to give up Vivaldi, and Firefox's bookmark handling is in the stone age comparatively.

This also works for AdBlock, just visit the site: https://getadblock.com

I think any chrome extension direct link of the form: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom will work to install extenstions, there just is not a a link to manage the settings for them, for that you have to manually put in chrome://extensions/ in the address bar.

The source code is available for audit even though you can’t fork the project or contribute to it. In other words, yes, you can verify Vivaldi’s claims in their privacy policy because you can look at the code yourself. https://vivaldi.com/source/

Is there a word for this? It isn’t open source but the code is still open lolol

One of my favourite features is gestures. You can hold right-click and drag your mouse downward to open a new tab, do the same over a link to open the link in a new tab. Those are two of my favourites. Next is search engines. I’ve added YouTube as a search engine, so I can search YouTube straight from the address bar by typing “y Vivaldi” and it’ll search for Vivaldi on YouTube. Here’s an article for how to add search engines: https://vivaldi.com/blog/search-favorite-websites-quickly/

Why do you assume that? Updates have been steady. It's clear they're simply working on the new feature for 2.12 which is the adblocker and they're not done yet as they added a new tweak mere hours before this guy's post. Check the blog. https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/desktop/

>The Vivaldi team is no stranger to remote work – apart from Oslo, Reykjavik, and Magnolia, we have devs in several other locations in Europe and the US. 

From https://vivaldi.com/blog/working-remotely-best-browser/

BTW, the next version will come with a built-in adblock, and that needs lot of polishing before going into stable.

So, until that major update, you can use either the snapshot version or another browser.

That pip button also bothers me, but since I know they will fix it in the next update, I kinda ignore it for now

I am using the keyboard shortcut for closing the tab: Look in the settings->keyboard->tab if you have bound it to any key. I think default if ctrl/cmd+ w. If you can not remember the shortcuts or you can not bind everything to the keyboard, you only need one shortcut: A shortcut to open quick commands,you can do anything from there. https://vivaldi.com/blog/quick-commands-universal-search/

I forgot to check the snapshots site (...)
Found it, search ok on this one. https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/first-snapshot-of-2019-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1420-4/

I actually didn't think you did, myself. It's just something one gets conditioned to go over in the IT field. My only suggestion left is to contact Vivaldi and report it as a bug.

https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/

They are pretty open about it.

> When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the IP address from your Vivaldi client then we store the resolved approximate location after using a local geoip lookup. The purpose of this collection is to determine the total number of active users and their geographical distribution.

I don't think it can be disabled, but it atleast seems to be pretty benign.

edit. Everyone who's interested in how vivaldi handles privacy should read their privacy policy

Vivaldi's help crash reporting page is apparently outdated, as it states that only the Windows version produces dumps, but here are the instructions:

Reporting a crash

Open the bug report page and provide any details you feel may be associated with the crash (e.g. the website you were viewing). To send us a crashlog, you must enter a valid email address.

Shortly after sumbmitting your bug report, you should receive an email from us confirming that it has been logged. Reply to this email with the crash log(s) attached. It is recommended that you zip them up first, if you are able to do so.

Our designer just added a new post today with a bunch of nice patterns & resources for this one: https://vivaldi.com/blog/perfect-textures-in-vivaldi/

Not totally, Chromium base is open source but not the functions added by the team of Vivaldi, which are proprietary, as is the case with another Chromium fork like Opera. You can find partial sources here

Yep, they aren't nobodies.

I haven't been able to find anything that says what exactly is closed source and why. They don't seem very open about it at all.

They do have a decent privacy policy about information that they gather on Vivaldi users.

Their entire "put the user first" goal of this browser seems counterintuitive when it's not open source.

As a cherry on top, the moderator in this thread about Vivaldi being open source seems pretty toxic to me. I understand what he's saying, but they're kind of being a dick about it.

As far as I understand the linked Vivaldi privacy policy it is about the website not the product.

> Vivaldi may collect visitor statistics. > The web sites may use cookies.

Both statements relate to the website.

Also I haven't found info.vivaldi.rocks in my Search-Engines. Don't know what this is about but it's not my search-engine.

But this info.vivaldi.rocks website is really fishy:

> [[WEBSITE_NAME]] Privacy Policy > If you have any concerns or questions with respect to any matter covered by this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by email at:[[PRIVACY_EMAIL]] or at the following address: <somewhere in Israel>

Wut? They even haven't filled out the website and email templates?

Just saw that you're on Linux, I was going to recommend either Groupy or TidyTabs but they're both Windows only. I've used both, and I much prefer Groupy over TidyTabs to the point it's become as essential to my workflow as the Taskbar is. It won't help you, but it might help someone else.

You can modify the UI of Vivaldi with CSS and JavaScript, but I've never delved very far into it.

On another note, I really wish that KDE would bring back native tabbed window support. It was a feature of KDE 4.x and has never been implemented in 5.x. I found an official listing of missing features a couple of years ago and it was still listed, but I can't find that page again.

• Better Youtube Subscriptions
• Dark Skin for Youtube™
• Reddit Enhancement Suite
• RemindMeBot-Reddit
• uBlock Origin

I use these too, but might not be necessary for you if you don't use these services:

• Private Internet Access (costs money, but its worth it)
• MEGA
• Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker

1) Might be helpful if we knew the VPN. Also some Free VPNs aren't actually VPNs and don't play well with certain DNS Services unless they are Encrypted.

2) I use a VPN with Vivaldi often, and just tested Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook and all work. I am on CyberGhost VPN.

You can have vivaldi open email links in gmail by make the changes in Ubuntu settings, not vivaldi settings

Your default internet browser should be set as vivaldi.

Then in default mail reader application, choose other and enter this line:

xdg-open https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&source=mailto&to=%s

&#x200B;

I use Xubuntu / XFCE and the place to do that is Settings > Preferred Applications > Internet > Mail Reader

Stock Ubuntu / Gnome will have different path. Probably Settings / Details.

Because chromium has a content module api you can work with.

e.g they've taken the html based UI concept mozilla sort of has with gecko (although that's xul) and creating it with react.js and html.

I'm sure KDE and Apple work really hard on webkit, but I think chromium excites people more because I don't think it would be anywhere near where it is without google.

I'm sure you could do the same thing with gecko, but I think the development is headed torwards using the chromium content api for the backend and html/javascript/css for the frontend. With node being the magic backend glue.

Not everyone is gonna use chromium obviously, but I think it's a platform that already works and has active developers from google, opera, and probably device manufacturers and adobe.

Even QT plans on moving to blink. http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-out-google-in-as-qt-dumps-webkit-for-blink/

Without google Webkit only has apple and apple primarily is interested in IOS and Mac. Anyone remember when apple stopped supporting safari on windows?

edit: I just sort of forgot about xulrunner, it could work for something like vivaldi but I dunno how well since it depends on xul.

CPU: i5-7200U
RAM: 16 GB
OS: Windows 10 21H2
Vivaldi Version: 5.0.2497.38 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
PowerToys revision v.0.53.3 but was there in the previous release
Github Issue (not from me): https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/15342

Video order:
1. Personal profile with Ecosia as the default web search (defaults to Google)
2. Test profile with Bing as the default web search (defaults to Google)
3. Google Chrome with Ecosia default (goes to Ecosia)

What I meant was replacement start pages like the Humble New Tab. I found that there are workarounds for this, but what these essentially do is a redirect every time you open a new tab. A disappointment, really.

About the self-destructing cookies - there's this extension https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/packet-guard/?display=en It's only available on the opera addon's site and on github. You can download it from the link I provided. Change the extension from nex to crx then drop it to the extension page in Vivaldi and install (with developer mode enabled). It's a good extension to have bearing in mind that chromium browsers are crippled in privacy options compared to firefox. You can also use it to disable cache, clear it on exit, disable referer info, etc.

Hi,
Thanks for sharing!
We are already working on eliminating any risk for our users - find our full statement here: https://adblockplus.org/blog/potential-vulnerability-through-the-url-rewrite-filter-option

Cheers,
-Jessy

This was reported here a few days back: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/sevkes/dragging_tab_to_secondary_monitor_leaves_file_on/

Since this is likely unintended, I suggest submitting a bug at: https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/

Hello... This sounds a bit wild and conspiratorial to say the least.

I can assure you there are no ties between Vivaldi and current Opera. I also feel like the unique identifiable address thing might be a confusion on this blogpost. In which case I suggest you read it again. 🙂

You request is much too wide. Did you take the welcome tour ? Use the command Help / Welcome Tour. Have you checked the tutorials ? Don't forget to explore Vivaldi's blog, there are many good ideas there.

The good news is that we may not need to use a non-Vivaldi browser on iOS much longer. From this blog post: https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/the-biggest-browser-fails-of-2021/

>4. Vivaldi didn’t debut on iOS One of our most asked questions is “When will Vivaldi be on iOS?” And our answer has generally been “It’s complicated.”

>As many of you understand, we can’t use the same code to build an iOS version. Apple requires all browsers in the App Store to be built on WebKit. Which for Vivaldi means starting from scratch.

>With a team the size of ours, this means that, unfortunately, 2021 has come and gone without Vivaldi on iOS making its debut.

>But all hope is not lost – perhaps 2022 will have some surprises in store. 🙊

Using a Trusted VPN Provider (ProtonVPN) that includes a private DNS, using adblock + tracking protection in-built in Vivaldi and also using the Malware + Ads + Tracking blocking on the DNS Level via ProtonVPN.

Ensuring that all sensitive applications such as Zoom and the Web Browser go through the VPN Tunnel while leaving applications such as games that do not need an encrypted tunnel outside of the split tunneling.

There are also extensions that I have used in the past which have helped to improve privacy, I am still testing which one's work best in Vivaldi to not cause slow-downs.

• LocalCDN or Decentraleyes (These extensions stop you from accessing data gathering CDN's when you access webpage resources and instead get's the info and stores it locally

• uBlock Origin (To block ads, trackers and malware) although since I switched to Vivaldi, I don't need this as Vivaldi takes care of it inside of the browser

• HTTPS Everywhere (I think this has been superseeded by in-built automatic upgrade to HTTPS webpages within chromium based web browsers meaning the extension isn't needed.

• Privacy Badger & Disconnect (These feel redundant considering that Vivaldi takes care of most of this stuff anyway and I feel adding these extensions just adds more bloat to the browser.

In General however, if you are using a VPN that has a private DNS with it as well, you are pretty much set.

The biggest tool that hackers and spying eye's have is WHAT YOU GIVE OUT, the best way to mitigate privacy issues is to not post things that could reveal personal details about yourself in the first page, that is the biggest weapon that everyone has to defend their privacy.

That's all I can say at any rate, I highly recommend ProtonVPN (and this is not an ad), I have been using them since 2019 and have never gone back, their company ethos is all about privacy which is at the forefront of what a lot of people are wanting in today's landscape.

Two things to try:

Disable screen zoom.

And if your Mac is touch capable, try disabling pinch zoom (even if you're using your mouse).

You can enable it via editing the .plist in Terminal. Source –here

You won't need to restart, it is immediate.

Open Terminal and enter > defaults write com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE

to turn it off, or

> defaults write com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool TRUE

to turn it back on.

Had the same problem, and I did a little investigation. Since it Vivaldi was based on Chrome, I took the answer from here and changed the .plist name to Vivaldi's. Tried it and it worked without needing to restart.

Open Terminal and enter > defaults write com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE

to turn it off, or

> defaults write com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool TRUE

to turn it back on.

I'm on the stable branch and cookies are deleted after I close the browser.

BUT:

Extensions are setting cookies. I have to check which extension it does, but I have 3 or 4 cookies after a restart and clearing the history.

edit: It's the Imagus extensions which checks for updates at: http://tiny.cc/Imagus and that URL sets cookies for tiny.cc and while the link goes to a Google drive folder, I also get a Google.com cookie.

What you are looking for is Pi-hole. A software that can be installed on anything more powerful than your toaster, running Linux. As the name suggests, it's been originally developed for Raspberry Pi, but you can use any computer that runs a supported distro and sits between your router and the Internet.

I deleted the comment because I figured you were going to just argue back and not actually have an objective conversation. And, like I said, I couldn't care less what extensions you decide to use - I was simply trying to make you an informed person and answer your question.

And here you are again asking for proof. I not only showed you the list of sites that are whitelisted to show advertisements, a near 9600 line filter.

I also showed you the FAQ directly from adblockplus.org that states that these whitelisted advertisers pay ABP to be whitelisted and part of their "Acceptable Ads" program. Had you read a few lines of this you would have been then linked to; https://adblockplus.org/about#monetization which states out right that 10% of their licenses in the whitelist program are paid for - the other 90% are "free to small entities."

> It also provides us with a viable source of revenue, paid only by larger participants in the Acceptable Ads initiative, which we need in order to be able to administer and maintain the program and continue development of a free product.

Once again, I don't care which program you use. I personally am fine with a company who makes a product that I enjoy making revenue so that they can stay in business; so long as they're transparent about it. The only lack of transparency I've seen from ABP is that they hide the whitelist from users who wouldn't know about it.

That could be a big or little deal to someone. Make informed decisions.

Edit: And why was I replying to a 2 week old comment? Because I just started using Vivaldi the other day and was going through the subreddit for tips.

Edit: And I should mention, I looked into this because of your post. I knew people ran off from ABP awhile ago but didn't know the specifics. It's nowhere near as nefarious as I had expected unless they didn't say any of this on their website prior but started doing it out of the blue and secretively.

I use raindrop.io to store my bookmarks. It puts all new bookmarks in the 'unsorted' section if you don't specify a folder. It can be a good option to sync links between Vivaldi and iOS devices.

This is fixed in the snapshot branch and will come back to the stable branch https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/on-to-the-next-one-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2512-3/ [Address bar] Trash should contain more than 25 items (VB-74499)

Instead of the history you can also use the window panel I think

I really suggest you to use as few extensions as you can in case of Vivaldi. They have many features built-in: the suspender is one of them (in case you do not use "pin" tabs - only active tabs become not hibernated). They probably will, you always can search for "Performance" changes in their changelogs, but the latest trend was improving "New Tab" page animations/performance. To make them really see your problem report it here: https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/ .

Seems to be a Chromium issue. I created a sandbox based on your description and get the same result in Vivaldi and Chromium

https://codesandbox.io/s/suspicious-galois-0stdv?file=/src/App.js

This could be a measure to protect you from websites that spam you with new tabs

You can download it here and create an installer usb, then load the OS from a usb drive and test it out. If you like it, you can install it.

https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you?country=US&amp;version=18.04.1&amp;architecture=amd64

I use Web of Trust…

https://www.mywot.com/

…which works in search results, incl DuckDuckGo which I also use. I shows a green, gray or red circle beside each search result. Mouseover the circle to see 2 ratings, for Security and Reputation.

~

Again adding to what the others said, you could set TrustPilot up as one of your search sources, then highlight the site name, r-click and select TP in 'Search with…'

yup, I haven't been up to date regarding Vivaldi's ability to load chrome extensions directly from the chrome web store. Opera for exmaple could do that only after installing the Download Chrome Extension addon. that's really cool, thanks for the update.