{"slug": "vivaldi", "name": "Vivaldi", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "Chromium-based desktop and mobile web browser from Vivaldi Technologies, built for heavy customization.", "recommenders": 21, "commenters": 45, "warners": 7, "score": 17.578, "rising": 6.07, "first": "2025-11-25", "latest": "2026-10-22", "why": "Liked for deep customization, built-in Workspaces and tab tiling, and Chromium compatibility with existing extensions and sites.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 22, "neutral": 16, "compare": 2, "warn": 8}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2], "listed": true, "loved": ["Customization", "Tab management"], "caveat": "Manifest V2 loss", "short_quote": "Vivaldi on desktop and mobile. It's still chromium for compatibility, but the tab handling fits me.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://vivaldi.com", "pricing": "free", "aliases": ["Vivaldi"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked for deep customization", "cites": [{"id": 803182096, "item_id": 50198881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198881", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm liking vivaldi a lot, user customization is deep", "excerpt": "I'm liking vivaldi a lot, user customization is deep", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser should I use? (RIP Arc)"}, {"id": 801297584, "item_id": 50081099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081099", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to Vivaldi for privacy, but the amount of control and customization was an unexpected surprise!", "excerpt": "I switched to Vivaldi for privacy, but the amount of control and customization was an unexpected surprise! Long has it been since such user choice has been made so easy", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy-focused browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 798089232, "item_id": 49880577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880577", "by": "swozey", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I absolutely love vivaldi and switched a few years ago", "excerpt": "I absolutely love vivaldi and switched a few years ago, probably 2 years ago, so I've used it enough to really know it's for me today and not 2 months then gone back to chrome after problems. I had major annoyances with its default settings (omnibars mostly) and it throws opinionated stuff at you but its customizability is incredible and once I fixed the omnibars annoying default search settings I was good. It defaul", "context": "heavy Chromium extension user", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "Chrome", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 759822786, "item_id": 47488924, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488924", "by": "darthcloud", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really love all the extra customization options. It was a very easy switch.", "excerpt": "As a Canadian, I\u2019ve been thinking since last year about migrating to non-US services and applications. My main goal is simply to avoid giving money or data directly to US corporations. I have no illusions, these non-US services probably still benefit US companies in some ways. They\u2019re rare, but I\u2019ve consciously decided to stay away from some Canadian alternatives. The main customers of most Canadian tech companies ar", "context": "Canadian avoiding US services", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "Google Chrome", "story": "Migrating to the EU"}]}, {"text": ", built-in Workspaces and tab tiling", "cites": [{"id": 771614272, "item_id": 48225892, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225892", "by": "noisy_boy", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vivaldi because of its Workspaces which have so much better UX than tab groups.", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi because of its Workspaces which have so much better UX than tab groups. I don't need to see my Social or my Tech tab group until I'm switching for it; Firefox shows them all the time - atleast I haven't found a way to hide them and associated tabs until I need them without having to launch a new window. In Vivaldi, they are ready to use immediately upon switching while keeping everything in the same win", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser with tab workspaces", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 785457648, "item_id": 49091103, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091103", "by": "dagurp", "date": "2026-07-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi has included split view for years (called tiles).", "excerpt": "Vivaldi has included split view for years (called tiles). You can also right click a link and choose open in follower tab. This lets all links clicked in one tile open in another tile. I use this regularly on HN.", "context": "", "use_case": "split view browsing HN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"}, {"id": 798079024, "item_id": 49879939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879939", "by": "jttnr", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a no-nonsense, fully featured workhorse that I use as my main browser", "excerpt": "The author mentions that he tried Vivaldi. Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the original Opera browser (not the Opera browser you get today, which is crap). Opera was for power users, and the same goes for Vivaldi today. I can see that there's a learning curve, and it takes some time to get used to. But overall, it's a no-nonsense, fully featured workhorse that I use as my main browser. It has built-in ad blocki", "context": "", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}]}, {"text": ", and Chromium compatibility with existing extensions and sites.", "cites": [{"id": 798146577, "item_id": 49884161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884161", "by": "AbstractH24", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "compare", "quote": "is making me consider Vivaldi. Its still Chromium, so it will support all my plugins", "excerpt": "Main reason I keep using Brave is its \"good enfough.\" The CTO at my company recommended Brave in 2019; I figured why not and have found a compelling reason to change. The \"elephant in the room\" paragraph actually is making me consider Vivaldi. Its still Chromium, so it will support all my plugins, and I use NextDNS so most of ads will be blocked anyway. And its not like its amazing, but I've just never heard anyone r", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 788608112, "item_id": 49288007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288007", "by": "mzehrer", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi on desktop and mobile. It's still chromium for compatibility, but the tab handling fits me.", "excerpt": "Vivaldi on desktop and mobile. It's still chromium for compatibility, but the tab handling fits me. And of course the social/political aspect is appealing (I'm from the EU).", "context": "from the EU", "use_case": "desktop and mobile browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 737483856, "item_id": 46092741, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092741", "by": "anonymouskimmer", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi is a nice chromium-based browser that I use on Linux for sites that don't work on Firefox.", "excerpt": "You're welcome. This article is from Microsoft itself and may help more: https://woshub.com/add-certificate-to-trusted-on-linux/ Vivaldi is a nice chromium-based browser that I use on Linux for sites that don't work on Firefox. The certutil commands for it are apparently these: https://labs.gwendragon.de/blog/Web/Browser/Vivaldi/linux-add-ca-certificate-to-vivaldi-2", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "sites incompatible with Firefox", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaints are losing Manifest V2 extensions like uBlock Origin", "cites": [{"id": 788932896, "item_id": 49308306, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308306", "by": "grishka", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}, {"id": 787572080, "item_id": 49223255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223255", "by": "computronus", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I immediately ditched Vivaldi. I'm sad about it, I think Vivaldi otherwise is a good browser.", "excerpt": "Vivaldi is about to drop support for Manifest V2 as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1urieed/comment/owi02gg/ I'd been using it solely for GMail / Google Drive / etc. at work, for whatever improved compatibility a Chromium browser might provide over Firefox, which I use for everything else. I got the warning that UBlock Origin won't work, and I immediately ditched Vivaldi. I'm sad about it, I th", "context": "", "use_case": "Google Workspace at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}, {"id": 792481712, "item_id": 49530107, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530107", "by": "Mashimo", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I switched from chrome to vivaldi in the hopes of they would keep the v2 api alive.", "excerpt": "Might be, but I can't take on every battle. I switched from chrome to vivaldi in the hopes of they would keep the v2 api alive. They could not. Currently I can't be asked to switch browser again. Maybe at some point. But OP asked if \"is this not enough of a selling point\" and I wanted to answer that honestly.", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "Chrome", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 784459008, "item_id": 49028688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028688", "by": "netsharc", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Vivaldi, sadly it's based on Chromium and has quite a bit of the stinky parts...", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi, sadly it's based on Chromium and has quite a bit of the stinky parts... (Currently on an old Vivaldi version that still allows manifest v2.. I guess I'm asking to be pwned)", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account"}]}, {"text": " and growing feature bloat that some say hurts performance.", "cites": [{"id": 771544192, "item_id": 48221512, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221512", "by": "agotterer", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The problem for me was the browser got too bloated and buggy.", "excerpt": "I used Vivaldi for many years and was a huge advocate. The problem for me was the browser got too bloated and buggy. They kept adding functionality that for me wasn\u2019t necessary. For example: built in Proton VPN support, calendars, email functionality, notes, a game arcade. I don\u2019t want any of that bundled in my browser. I want my browser to be lite weight. I eventually switched to Edge a few years ago because it was ", "context": "used Vivaldi for many years", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771586560, "item_id": 48224160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224160", "by": "brandonkal", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari", "excerpt": "Great job on the design refresh! I was a heavy Vivaldi user and especially liked the integrated tiling and tab grouping. But over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari (didn\u2019t expect that) for most browsing plus Helium when I need to test in Chromium. I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance so when that becomes annoying", "context": "former heavy user", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771511104, "item_id": 48219444, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219444", "by": "mrweasel", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "it's just a little to busy for me.", "excerpt": "It's a lovely browser, and a lot of work has clearly been put into it. I should like it, because I used Opera for ages (in the Presto era), but it's just a little to busy for me. There's way to much stuff, to many feature and when the rendering engine is just Blink, I don't really see much of a reason to use it over Firefox. Nice work though and wonderful to see a 3rd party browser maker giving it a go.", "context": "used Opera for ages", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Customization", "summary": "Commenters call its customization deep and say it makes user choice easy.", "quotes": [{"id": 803182096, "item_id": 50198881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198881", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm liking vivaldi a lot, user customization is deep", "excerpt": "I'm liking vivaldi a lot, user customization is deep", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser should I use? (RIP Arc)"}, {"id": 801297584, "item_id": 50081099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081099", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to Vivaldi for privacy, but the amount of control and customization was an unexpected surprise!", "excerpt": "I switched to Vivaldi for privacy, but the amount of control and customization was an unexpected surprise! Long has it been since such user choice has been made so easy", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy-focused browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 798089232, "item_id": 49880577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880577", "by": "swozey", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I absolutely love vivaldi and switched a few years ago", "excerpt": "I absolutely love vivaldi and switched a few years ago, probably 2 years ago, so I've used it enough to really know it's for me today and not 2 months then gone back to chrome after problems. I had major annoyances with its default settings (omnibars mostly) and it throws opinionated stuff at you but its customizability is incredible and once I fixed the omnibars annoying default search settings I was good. It defaul", "context": "heavy Chromium extension user", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "Chrome", "story": "I switched to Brave"}]}, {"label": "Tab management", "summary": "Workspaces, tab tiling and tab handling are a main reason people use it.", "quotes": [{"id": 771614272, "item_id": 48225892, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225892", "by": "noisy_boy", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vivaldi because of its Workspaces which have so much better UX than tab groups.", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi because of its Workspaces which have so much better UX than tab groups. I don't need to see my Social or my Tech tab group until I'm switching for it; Firefox shows them all the time - atleast I haven't found a way to hide them and associated tabs until I need them without having to launch a new window. In Vivaldi, they are ready to use immediately upon switching while keeping everything in the same win", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser with tab workspaces", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 785457648, "item_id": 49091103, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091103", "by": "dagurp", "date": "2026-07-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi has included split view for years (called tiles).", "excerpt": "Vivaldi has included split view for years (called tiles). You can also right click a link and choose open in follower tab. This lets all links clicked in one tile open in another tile. I use this regularly on HN.", "context": "", "use_case": "split view browsing HN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"}, {"id": 788608112, "item_id": 49288007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288007", "by": "mzehrer", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi on desktop and mobile. It's still chromium for compatibility, but the tab handling fits me.", "excerpt": "Vivaldi on desktop and mobile. It's still chromium for compatibility, but the tab handling fits me. And of course the social/political aspect is appealing (I'm from the EU).", "context": "from the EU", "use_case": "desktop and mobile browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}]}, {"label": "Chromium compatibility", "summary": "Being Chromium-based means existing plugins and sites that fail elsewhere still work.", "quotes": [{"id": 798146577, "item_id": 49884161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884161", "by": "AbstractH24", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "compare", "quote": "is making me consider Vivaldi. Its still Chromium, so it will support all my plugins", "excerpt": "Main reason I keep using Brave is its \"good enfough.\" The CTO at my company recommended Brave in 2019; I figured why not and have found a compelling reason to change. The \"elephant in the room\" paragraph actually is making me consider Vivaldi. Its still Chromium, so it will support all my plugins, and I use NextDNS so most of ads will be blocked anyway. And its not like its amazing, but I've just never heard anyone r", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 737483856, "item_id": 46092741, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092741", "by": "anonymouskimmer", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi is a nice chromium-based browser that I use on Linux for sites that don't work on Firefox.", "excerpt": "You're welcome. This article is from Microsoft itself and may help more: https://woshub.com/add-certificate-to-trusted-on-linux/ Vivaldi is a nice chromium-based browser that I use on Linux for sites that don't work on Firefox. The certutil commands for it are apparently these: https://labs.gwendragon.de/blog/Web/Browser/Vivaldi/linux-add-ca-certificate-to-vivaldi-2", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "sites incompatible with Firefox", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"}, {"id": 775584048, "item_id": 48474003, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474003", "by": "TomMasz", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "so I use Vivaldi for work", "excerpt": "The university I work at is heavily dependent on Google and its products, so I use Vivaldi for work. Otherwise, it's Firefox. I've been using it since the beginning and see no reason to change. If a site doesn't work with it, than I don't visit that site.", "context": "works at a university dependent on Google", "use_case": "work browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}]}, {"label": "Daily driver", "summary": "Several use it as their main browser and call it a feature-rich workhorse.", "quotes": [{"id": 798079024, "item_id": 49879939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879939", "by": "jttnr", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a no-nonsense, fully featured workhorse that I use as my main browser", "excerpt": "The author mentions that he tried Vivaldi. Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the original Opera browser (not the Opera browser you get today, which is crap). Opera was for power users, and the same goes for Vivaldi today. I can see that there's a learning curve, and it takes some time to get used to. But overall, it's a no-nonsense, fully featured workhorse that I use as my main browser. It has built-in ad blocki", "context": "", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798334000, "item_id": 49895875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895875", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-09-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I am using Vivaldi on desktop as daily driver", "excerpt": "Redesign for the sake of the redesign, I am using Vivaldi on desktop as daily driver, tried updating Firefox, after update received some gayish pink browser, which I resolved by installing Dark theme for firefox (I don't want dark pages), not really optimal since I would prefer the current tab highlighted in white, the density can be resolved by using Compact setting, but still dunno: 1. how to have rectangular tabs ", "context": "", "use_case": "daily desktop browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "The new Firefox design is here"}, {"id": 792483920, "item_id": 49530245, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530245", "by": "aladine", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "switch to Vivaldi for daily driver work browser", "excerpt": "This article seems directly target me. I was a Firefox fanboy and switch to Vivaldi for daily driver work browser. I still keeps Firefox for personal browsing. If Firefox could address the performance issue when opening many tabs, I definitely go back to Firefox.", "context": "", "use_case": "work browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}]}, {"label": "Profiles", "summary": "Separate profiles are useful for isolating identities and testing web apps.", "quotes": [{"id": 783947025, "item_id": 48996689, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996689", "by": "bityard", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like using Vivaldi/Chrome's separate profiles", "excerpt": "> site-specific container assignments This is (or was, before I switched to Vivaldi) the killer feature of Firefox containers for me. I could banish certain tracking-heavy sites to their own containers so that they could only track where I've been on their own properties and not across the whole web. (Without having to remember to switch to their containers beforehand.) So I guess if I go back to Firefox, I'll still ", "context": "", "use_case": "separate browser profiles", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Firefox Containers Preview"}, {"id": 784749585, "item_id": 49046849, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046849", "by": "temporallobe", "date": "2026-07-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have been using profiles for years in Chrome/Vivaldi for similar reasons.", "excerpt": "I have been using profiles for years in Chrome/Vivaldi for similar reasons. I do a lot of web app development and this is extremely useful for testing. In fact I have 10 different profiles on one of my setups so that I can easily simulate multiple users accessing the same app and each profile can remember its own passwords, settings, cookies, and session data, etc. Firefox\u2019s MAC seems like it\u2019s not quite as isolated ", "context": "web app developer", "use_case": "multiple profiles for web app testing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Containers Preview"}, {"id": 783547152, "item_id": 48971697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971697", "by": "pasc1878", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have just switched from Orion to Vivaldi partially as it seems to use less memory.", "excerpt": "I have just switched from Orion to Vivaldi partially as it seems to use less memory. I suspect this is because I use several profiles amd each one in Orion is in effect a copy of the whole Orion browser whilst in Vivaldi less things a re duplicated. Or possibly my style of when to close things works better wehn an app has many profiles like Vivaldo or Safari rather than each profile is an app like Orion or Firefox.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browser", "switched_from": "Orion", "story": "Orion Browser by Kagi"}]}, {"label": "Opera successor", "summary": "Former Opera fans see it as closer to classic Opera than current Opera.", "quotes": [{"id": 753083216, "item_id": 47067701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067701", "by": "yareally", "date": "2026-02-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These days, Vivaldi is more like Opera than current Opera", "excerpt": "I used to love Opera, until they dropped the Presto Engine for Chromium's and sold off the company. These days, Vivaldi is more like Opera than current Opera since the founder is the former co-founder of Opera.", "context": "former Opera fan", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "Opera", "story": "Ask HN: Why do so many people dislike the Opera browser?"}, {"id": 798079024, "item_id": 49879939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879939", "by": "jttnr", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a no-nonsense, fully featured workhorse that I use as my main browser", "excerpt": "The author mentions that he tried Vivaldi. Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the original Opera browser (not the Opera browser you get today, which is crap). Opera was for power users, and the same goes for Vivaldi today. I can see that there's a learning curve, and it takes some time to get used to. But overall, it's a no-nonsense, fully featured workhorse that I use as my main browser. It has built-in ad blocki", "context": "", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Manifest V2 loss", "summary": "Updates disabled Manifest V2 extensions such as uBlock Origin, driving some users to downgrade or leave.", "quotes": [{"id": 788932896, "item_id": 49308306, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308306", "by": "grishka", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}, {"id": 787572080, "item_id": 49223255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223255", "by": "computronus", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I immediately ditched Vivaldi. I'm sad about it, I think Vivaldi otherwise is a good browser.", "excerpt": "Vivaldi is about to drop support for Manifest V2 as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1urieed/comment/owi02gg/ I'd been using it solely for GMail / Google Drive / etc. at work, for whatever improved compatibility a Chromium browser might provide over Firefox, which I use for everything else. I got the warning that UBlock Origin won't work, and I immediately ditched Vivaldi. I'm sad about it, I th", "context": "", "use_case": "Google Workspace at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}, {"id": 784459008, "item_id": 49028688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028688", "by": "netsharc", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Vivaldi, sadly it's based on Chromium and has quite a bit of the stinky parts...", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi, sadly it's based on Chromium and has quite a bit of the stinky parts... (Currently on an old Vivaldi version that still allows manifest v2.. I guess I'm asking to be pwned)", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account"}]}, {"label": "Bloat", "summary": "Long-time users say added features like mail, notes and games made it bloated and busy.", "quotes": [{"id": 771544192, "item_id": 48221512, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221512", "by": "agotterer", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The problem for me was the browser got too bloated and buggy.", "excerpt": "I used Vivaldi for many years and was a huge advocate. The problem for me was the browser got too bloated and buggy. They kept adding functionality that for me wasn\u2019t necessary. For example: built in Proton VPN support, calendars, email functionality, notes, a game arcade. I don\u2019t want any of that bundled in my browser. I want my browser to be lite weight. I eventually switched to Edge a few years ago because it was ", "context": "used Vivaldi for many years", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771586560, "item_id": 48224160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224160", "by": "brandonkal", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari", "excerpt": "Great job on the design refresh! I was a heavy Vivaldi user and especially liked the integrated tiling and tab grouping. But over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari (didn\u2019t expect that) for most browsing plus Helium when I need to test in Chromium. I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance so when that becomes annoying", "context": "former heavy user", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771511104, "item_id": 48219444, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219444", "by": "mrweasel", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "it's just a little to busy for me.", "excerpt": "It's a lovely browser, and a lot of work has clearly been put into it. I should like it, because I used Opera for ages (in the Presto era), but it's just a little to busy for me. There's way to much stuff, to many feature and when the rendering engine is just Blink, I don't really see much of a reason to use it over Firefox. Nice work though and wonderful to see a 3rd party browser maker giving it a go.", "context": "used Opera for ages", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}]}, {"label": "Performance", "summary": "Some found it laggy on older hardware or slower as it grew.", "quotes": [{"id": 792495170, "item_id": 49530948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530948", "by": "andai", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Vivaldi is cool (I loved Opera 20 years ago) but very laggy on my machine.", "excerpt": "Firefox was slow on my computer (old Thinkpad). I tried using Degoogled Chromium but it kept crashing. So the closest thing for me (Chrome minus Google) was Brave. Vivaldi is cool (I loved Opera 20 years ago) but very laggy on my machine. (They did the UI in JavaScript or something.) I use both now (Brave and Firefox), when I want to use a second account. And Firefox scrolls PDFs more smoothly. (But Chrome-based brow", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 771586560, "item_id": 48224160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224160", "by": "brandonkal", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari", "excerpt": "Great job on the design refresh! I was a heavy Vivaldi user and especially liked the integrated tiling and tab grouping. But over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari (didn\u2019t expect that) for most browsing plus Helium when I need to test in Chromium. I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance so when that becomes annoying", "context": "former heavy user", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}]}, {"label": "Breaking changes", "summary": "Users report bugs wiping tab groups and a design overhaul that removed the classic look.", "quotes": [{"id": 771528064, "item_id": 48220504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220504", "by": "FlyingSnake", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it kept breaking my workflows and would wipe out my meticulously assembled tab groups", "excerpt": "Used Vivaldi for years but it kept breaking my workflows and would wipe out my meticulously assembled tab groups. After few such gaffes I switched to Brave. I really wanted Vivaldi to work but can\u2019t let it break workflows.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing with tab groups", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771610224, "item_id": 48225639, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225639", "by": "bityard", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Looks like that's all gone now and Vivaldi is just yet another generic \"flat design\" browser. Time to look for something else...", "excerpt": "Well, fuck. One of the main reasons I switched to Vivaldi a few years ago was that it allowed and even advertised a \"classic\" browser experience. By which I mean: tabs that behaved like tabs, visual separation, not a lot of useless whitespace and corner-radius-maxxed borders everywhere. Looks like that's all gone now and Vivaldi is just yet another generic \"flat design\" browser. Time to look for something else...", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771651264, "item_id": 48228204, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228204", "by": "BrenBarn", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "if I have been using something for years and have my setup exactly as I want it, then I do not want any overhauls.", "excerpt": "> Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul, ever > If you have been using Vivaldi for years, you have your setup exactly as you want it and you would not trade it for anything. The thing so many software makers seem to not understand is that if I have been using something for years and have my setup exactly as I want it, then I do not want any overhauls.", "context": "long-time user", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}]}, {"label": "Default settings", "summary": "Opinionated defaults and quirks, such as omnibar search behavior, frustrate new users until changed.", "quotes": [{"id": 798089232, "item_id": 49880577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880577", "by": "swozey", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I absolutely love vivaldi and switched a few years ago", "excerpt": "I absolutely love vivaldi and switched a few years ago, probably 2 years ago, so I've used it enough to really know it's for me today and not 2 months then gone back to chrome after problems. I had major annoyances with its default settings (omnibars mostly) and it throws opinionated stuff at you but its customizability is incredible and once I fixed the omnibars annoying default search settings I was good. It defaul", "context": "heavy Chromium extension user", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "Chrome", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798151072, "item_id": 49884442, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884442", "by": "nchmy", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "eventually settled on Vivaldi. It has some annoying quirks, but overall it suits my needs quite nicely.", "excerpt": "i used edge on windows since it become chromium, but i moved to linux a year ago and edge barely works there. So, i looked around and eventually settled on Vivaldi. It has some annoying quirks, but overall it suits my needs quite nicely. And I like their general ethos more than the rest (that I'm aware of). I use it now exclusively on android and linux.", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "main browser on Linux and Android", "switched_from": "Microsoft Edge", "story": "I switched to Brave"}]}, {"label": "Security and openness", "summary": "Critics note it is closed source and based on extended stable Chromium.", "quotes": [{"id": 798451188, "item_id": 49903199, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903199", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Vivaldi is closed source.", "excerpt": "It's about alignment of interests. They believe that there is a business that is valuable selling a user-centric browser. A user-centric browser does not exist today. Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms to run, for example, ad-blocking in the browser and they do so under the name of security. They've already tried to push the web integrity initiative. They'll try again. Mozil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 745780640, "item_id": 46611290, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611290", "by": "subsection1h", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "you switched to Vivaldi, a browser that is based[1] on extended stable Chromium, which is not \"recommended for any team where security is a primary concern\"[2].", "excerpt": "> broke their workflows because of vague technical reasons > I switched to Vivaldi You refer to important security improvements as \"vague technical reasons\" and you switched to Vivaldi, a browser that is based[1] on extended stable Chromium, which is not \"recommended for any team where security is a primary concern\"[2]. It seems you don't care about security. 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(RIP Arc)"}, {"id": 803172432, "item_id": 50198277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198277", "by": "jaffa2", "date": "2026-10-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i too like vivaldi for the same reasons", "excerpt": "i too like vivaldi for the same reasons. i use brave, chrome for google stuff, firefox if i need a third browser but i use vivaldi mostly. except on mac where i still use safari", "context": "", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "A farewell to Arc browser"}, {"id": 801297584, "item_id": 50081099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081099", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to Vivaldi for privacy, but the amount of control and customization was an unexpected surprise!", "excerpt": "I switched to Vivaldi for privacy, but the amount of control and customization was an unexpected surprise! Long has it been since such user choice has been made so easy", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy-focused browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 798451188, "item_id": 49903199, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903199", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Vivaldi is closed source.", "excerpt": "It's about alignment of interests. They believe that there is a business that is valuable selling a user-centric browser. A user-centric browser does not exist today. Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms to run, for example, ad-blocking in the browser and they do so under the name of security. They've already tried to push the web integrity initiative. They'll try again. Mozil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798334000, "item_id": 49895875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895875", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-09-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I am using Vivaldi on desktop as daily driver", "excerpt": "Redesign for the sake of the redesign, I am using Vivaldi on desktop as daily driver, tried updating Firefox, after update received some gayish pink browser, which I resolved by installing Dark theme for firefox (I don't want dark pages), not really optimal since I would prefer the current tab highlighted in white, the density can be resolved by using Compact setting, but still dunno: 1. how to have rectangular tabs ", "context": "", "use_case": "daily desktop browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "The new Firefox design is here"}, {"id": 798151072, "item_id": 49884442, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884442", "by": "nchmy", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "eventually settled on Vivaldi. It has some annoying quirks, but overall it suits my needs quite nicely.", "excerpt": "i used edge on windows since it become chromium, but i moved to linux a year ago and edge barely works there. So, i looked around and eventually settled on Vivaldi. It has some annoying quirks, but overall it suits my needs quite nicely. And I like their general ethos more than the rest (that I'm aware of). I use it now exclusively on android and linux.", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "main browser on Linux and Android", "switched_from": "Microsoft Edge", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798146577, "item_id": 49884161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884161", "by": "AbstractH24", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "compare", "quote": "is making me consider Vivaldi. Its still Chromium, so it will support all my plugins", "excerpt": "Main reason I keep using Brave is its \"good enfough.\" The CTO at my company recommended Brave in 2019; I figured why not and have found a compelling reason to change. The \"elephant in the room\" paragraph actually is making me consider Vivaldi. Its still Chromium, so it will support all my plugins, and I use NextDNS so most of ads will be blocked anyway. And its not like its amazing, but I've just never heard anyone r", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798089232, "item_id": 49880577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880577", "by": "swozey", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I absolutely love vivaldi and switched a few years ago", "excerpt": "I absolutely love vivaldi and switched a few years ago, probably 2 years ago, so I've used it enough to really know it's for me today and not 2 months then gone back to chrome after problems. I had major annoyances with its default settings (omnibars mostly) and it throws opinionated stuff at you but its customizability is incredible and once I fixed the omnibars annoying default search settings I was good. It defaul", "context": "heavy Chromium extension user", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "Chrome", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798079024, "item_id": 49879939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879939", "by": "jttnr", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a no-nonsense, fully featured workhorse that I use as my main browser", "excerpt": "The author mentions that he tried Vivaldi. Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the original Opera browser (not the Opera browser you get today, which is crap). Opera was for power users, and the same goes for Vivaldi today. I can see that there's a learning curve, and it takes some time to get used to. But overall, it's a no-nonsense, fully featured workhorse that I use as my main browser. It has built-in ad blocki", "context": "", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 795675296, "item_id": 49729706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729706", "by": "Ray-On-Emacs", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Time for a Vivaldi update...", "excerpt": "Okay, I used MS Edge to find that \"Chrome/150 and Chrome/152 work fine, it's specifically 151 that seems to be blocked.\" Time for a Vivaldi update...", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE"}, {"id": 792495170, "item_id": 49530948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530948", "by": "andai", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Vivaldi is cool (I loved Opera 20 years ago) but very laggy on my machine.", "excerpt": "Firefox was slow on my computer (old Thinkpad). I tried using Degoogled Chromium but it kept crashing. So the closest thing for me (Chrome minus Google) was Brave. Vivaldi is cool (I loved Opera 20 years ago) but very laggy on my machine. (They did the UI in JavaScript or something.) I use both now (Brave and Firefox), when I want to use a second account. And Firefox scrolls PDFs more smoothly. (But Chrome-based brow", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 792483920, "item_id": 49530245, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530245", "by": "aladine", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "switch to Vivaldi for daily driver work browser", "excerpt": "This article seems directly target me. I was a Firefox fanboy and switch to Vivaldi for daily driver work browser. I still keeps Firefox for personal browsing. If Firefox could address the performance issue when opening many tabs, I definitely go back to Firefox.", "context": "", "use_case": "work browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 792481712, "item_id": 49530107, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530107", "by": "Mashimo", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I switched from chrome to vivaldi in the hopes of they would keep the v2 api alive.", "excerpt": "Might be, but I can't take on every battle. I switched from chrome to vivaldi in the hopes of they would keep the v2 api alive. They could not. Currently I can't be asked to switch browser again. Maybe at some point. But OP asked if \"is this not enough of a selling point\" and I wanted to answer that honestly.", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "Chrome", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 792308050, "item_id": 49519253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519253", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "desktop (Vivaldi)", "excerpt": "This summer when visiting father I noticed he is using Firefox with uBO as his default browser on desktop, it made much easier to switch from Chrome to Firefox also on his phone since there was not Google sync across browsers argument present, but I can imagine this can make switching for people invested too much into Google account troublesome, since 3rd party Chromium browsers don't support Google Sync, neither doe", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"}, {"id": 789741202, "item_id": 49358825, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358825", "by": "sandreas", "date": "2026-08-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Vivaldi", "excerpt": "There is nothing like Apple Mail in my opinion, but here are some alternatives... I use Evolution in Linux, but since you explicetely need Windows, I only listed cross Plattform... Vivaldi MailSpring Pelton BetterBird Aerion Self-hosted: Kurrier NextCloud", "context": "", "use_case": "cross-platform email client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?"}, {"id": 788938402, "item_id": 49308650, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308650", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-08-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi supports uBlock Origin", "excerpt": "1. Vivaldi supports uBlock Origin, if you consider Firefox a \"major browser\" then sure also Vivaldi and Brave are major browsers 2. while I use uBlock Origin on phone (Firefox) and desktop (Vivaldi), it's overrated, AdGuard works under MV3 AND unlike uBlock supports element picker, so if I was on browser not supporting uBO I would switch to AdGuard since I can't live without element picker", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}, {"id": 788932896, "item_id": 49308306, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308306", "by": "grishka", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}, {"id": 788608112, "item_id": 49288007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288007", "by": "mzehrer", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi on desktop and mobile. It's still chromium for compatibility, but the tab handling fits me.", "excerpt": "Vivaldi on desktop and mobile. It's still chromium for compatibility, but the tab handling fits me. And of course the social/political aspect is appealing (I'm from the EU).", "context": "from the EU", "use_case": "desktop and mobile browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 787621811, "item_id": 49226363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226363", "by": "Marsymars", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use all of Safari/Vivaldi/Edge with some specific configuration for some specific things.", "excerpt": "Firefox is my main browser, but I use all of Safari/Vivaldi/Edge with some specific configuration for some specific things. Edge primarily just to access MS sites, logging into the browser with MS account makes it easy.", "context": "", "use_case": "specific tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}, {"id": 787615250, "item_id": 49225953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225953", "by": "spockz", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Both with Firefox and Vivaldi.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m running CachyOS (based on arch) and it is blazing fast. Both with Firefox and Vivaldi. Especially compared to the windows install I used to have on the same machine. Or is your point only about windows?", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"}, {"id": 787572080, "item_id": 49223255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223255", "by": "computronus", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I immediately ditched Vivaldi. I'm sad about it, I think Vivaldi otherwise is a good browser.", "excerpt": "Vivaldi is about to drop support for Manifest V2 as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1urieed/comment/owi02gg/ I'd been using it solely for GMail / Google Drive / etc. at work, for whatever improved compatibility a Chromium browser might provide over Firefox, which I use for everything else. I got the warning that UBlock Origin won't work, and I immediately ditched Vivaldi. I'm sad about it, I th", "context": "", "use_case": "Google Workspace at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}, {"id": 787564016, "item_id": 49222751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222751", "by": "g8oz", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Vivaldi, but it also uses Chromium.", "excerpt": "I love Vivaldi, but it also uses Chromium. If an extension is not in the Chrome Web store Vivaldi will not be able to install it. Firefox seems to be the only reasonably mainstream option for proper ad blocking.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}, {"id": 785457648, "item_id": 49091103, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091103", "by": "dagurp", "date": "2026-07-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi has included split view for years (called tiles).", "excerpt": "Vivaldi has included split view for years (called tiles). You can also right click a link and choose open in follower tab. This lets all links clicked in one tile open in another tile. I use this regularly on HN.", "context": "", "use_case": "split view browsing HN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"}, {"id": 784749585, "item_id": 49046849, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046849", "by": "temporallobe", "date": "2026-07-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have been using profiles for years in Chrome/Vivaldi for similar reasons.", "excerpt": "I have been using profiles for years in Chrome/Vivaldi for similar reasons. I do a lot of web app development and this is extremely useful for testing. In fact I have 10 different profiles on one of my setups so that I can easily simulate multiple users accessing the same app and each profile can remember its own passwords, settings, cookies, and session data, etc. Firefox\u2019s MAC seems like it\u2019s not quite as isolated ", "context": "web app developer", "use_case": "multiple profiles for web app testing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Containers Preview"}, {"id": 784459008, "item_id": 49028688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028688", "by": "netsharc", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Vivaldi, sadly it's based on Chromium and has quite a bit of the stinky parts...", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi, sadly it's based on Chromium and has quite a bit of the stinky parts... (Currently on an old Vivaldi version that still allows manifest v2.. I guess I'm asking to be pwned)", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account"}, {"id": 784218704, "item_id": 49013669, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013669", "by": "emsign", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vivaldi which is Chromium based and the only choppiness comes from the friction of my sweaty wrist", "excerpt": "Firefox is definitely choppy for me renderingwise. I use Vivaldi which is Chromium based and the only choppiness comes from the friction of my sweaty wrist on the gamepad. If I hover my wrist and only let it basically rest on the mouse itself, tracking becomes smooth. Changing my hand motion and stance is definitely part of the training process to become a better player.", "context": "", "use_case": "browser for web aim trainer", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer"}, {"id": 783947025, "item_id": 48996689, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996689", "by": "bityard", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like using Vivaldi/Chrome's separate profiles", "excerpt": "> site-specific container assignments This is (or was, before I switched to Vivaldi) the killer feature of Firefox containers for me. I could banish certain tracking-heavy sites to their own containers so that they could only track where I've been on their own properties and not across the whole web. (Without having to remember to switch to their containers beforehand.) So I guess if I go back to Firefox, I'll still ", "context": "", "use_case": "separate browser profiles", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Firefox Containers Preview"}, {"id": 783547152, "item_id": 48971697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971697", "by": "pasc1878", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have just switched from Orion to Vivaldi partially as it seems to use less memory.", "excerpt": "I have just switched from Orion to Vivaldi partially as it seems to use less memory. I suspect this is because I use several profiles amd each one in Orion is in effect a copy of the whole Orion browser whilst in Vivaldi less things a re duplicated. Or possibly my style of when to close things works better wehn an app has many profiles like Vivaldo or Safari rather than each profile is an app like Orion or Firefox.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browser", "switched_from": "Orion", "story": "Orion Browser by Kagi"}, {"id": 775598784, "item_id": 48474924, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474924", "by": "nchmy", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "switched to Vivaldi on Linux and android 8 months ago. Generally quite happy with it - not really missing any features from edge.", "excerpt": "Give Vivaldi a try. I used edge on windows and android ever since it started used chromium, and switched to Vivaldi on Linux and android 8 months ago. Generally quite happy with it - not really missing any features from edge.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "Edge", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}, {"id": 775584048, "item_id": 48474003, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474003", "by": "TomMasz", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "so I use Vivaldi for work", "excerpt": "The university I work at is heavily dependent on Google and its products, so I use Vivaldi for work. Otherwise, it's Firefox. I've been using it since the beginning and see no reason to change. If a site doesn't work with it, than I don't visit that site.", "context": "works at a university dependent on Google", "use_case": "work browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}, {"id": 771651264, "item_id": 48228204, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228204", "by": "BrenBarn", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "if I have been using something for years and have my setup exactly as I want it, then I do not want any overhauls.", "excerpt": "> Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul, ever > If you have been using Vivaldi for years, you have your setup exactly as you want it and you would not trade it for anything. The thing so many software makers seem to not understand is that if I have been using something for years and have my setup exactly as I want it, then I do not want any overhauls.", "context": "long-time user", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771641280, "item_id": 48227580, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227580", "by": "ofalkaed", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In all the years since they have not made one change that has caused me grief or affected my use in the slightest", "excerpt": "I switched to Vivaldi years ago because I got sick of dealing with extensions; an update broke a few of my long relied on extensions and a search for alternatives showed hundreds of options. A few hours into my search for replacements I found a post somewhere by someone in a similar situation, one of the responses was \"just install Vivaldi\" and I did. In all the years since they have not made one change that has caus", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "Chrome", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771614272, "item_id": 48225892, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225892", "by": "noisy_boy", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vivaldi because of its Workspaces which have so much better UX than tab groups.", "excerpt": "I use Vivaldi because of its Workspaces which have so much better UX than tab groups. I don't need to see my Social or my Tech tab group until I'm switching for it; Firefox shows them all the time - atleast I haven't found a way to hide them and associated tabs until I need them without having to launch a new window. In Vivaldi, they are ready to use immediately upon switching while keeping everything in the same win", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser with tab workspaces", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771610224, "item_id": 48225639, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225639", "by": "bityard", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Looks like that's all gone now and Vivaldi is just yet another generic \"flat design\" browser. Time to look for something else...", "excerpt": "Well, fuck. One of the main reasons I switched to Vivaldi a few years ago was that it allowed and even advertised a \"classic\" browser experience. By which I mean: tabs that behaved like tabs, visual separation, not a lot of useless whitespace and corner-radius-maxxed borders everywhere. Looks like that's all gone now and Vivaldi is just yet another generic \"flat design\" browser. Time to look for something else...", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771586560, "item_id": 48224160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224160", "by": "brandonkal", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari", "excerpt": "Great job on the design refresh! I was a heavy Vivaldi user and especially liked the integrated tiling and tab grouping. But over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari (didn\u2019t expect that) for most browsing plus Helium when I need to test in Chromium. I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance so when that becomes annoying", "context": "former heavy user", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771544192, "item_id": 48221512, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221512", "by": "agotterer", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The problem for me was the browser got too bloated and buggy.", "excerpt": "I used Vivaldi for many years and was a huge advocate. The problem for me was the browser got too bloated and buggy. They kept adding functionality that for me wasn\u2019t necessary. For example: built in Proton VPN support, calendars, email functionality, notes, a game arcade. I don\u2019t want any of that bundled in my browser. I want my browser to be lite weight. I eventually switched to Edge a few years ago because it was ", "context": "used Vivaldi for many years", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771528064, "item_id": 48220504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220504", "by": "FlyingSnake", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it kept breaking my workflows and would wipe out my meticulously assembled tab groups", "excerpt": "Used Vivaldi for years but it kept breaking my workflows and would wipe out my meticulously assembled tab groups. After few such gaffes I switched to Brave. I really wanted Vivaldi to work but can\u2019t let it break workflows.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing with tab groups", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771512112, "item_id": 48219507, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219507", "by": "xerox13ster", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It is the best browser hands down IMO.", "excerpt": "I have been using Vivaldi since it was an alpha build. It is the best browser hands down IMO. I have been here for the entire ride. I am so glad to see that there is not AI bundled in this release, which has been a major concern for me when anticipating future releases of this browser. I hope they keep it up.", "context": "user since the alpha build", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 771511104, "item_id": 48219444, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219444", "by": "mrweasel", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "it's just a little to busy for me.", "excerpt": "It's a lovely browser, and a lot of work has clearly been put into it. I should like it, because I used Opera for ages (in the Presto era), but it's just a little to busy for me. There's way to much stuff, to many feature and when the rendering engine is just Blink, I don't really see much of a reason to use it over Firefox. Nice work though and wonderful to see a 3rd party browser maker giving it a go.", "context": "used Opera for ages", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 768327441, "item_id": 48020465, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020465", "by": "skeledrew", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "though I use Vivaldi now and then", "excerpt": "So typical. Just imagining the consequences for someone with chronically low disk space, like me. Luckily I'm a Firefox person, though I use Vivaldi now and then.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"}, {"id": 759822786, "item_id": 47488924, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488924", "by": "darthcloud", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really love all the extra customization options. It was a very easy switch.", "excerpt": "As a Canadian, I\u2019ve been thinking since last year about migrating to non-US services and applications. My main goal is simply to avoid giving money or data directly to US corporations. I have no illusions, these non-US services probably still benefit US companies in some ways. They\u2019re rare, but I\u2019ve consciously decided to stay away from some Canadian alternatives. The main customers of most Canadian tech companies ar", "context": "Canadian avoiding US services", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "Google Chrome", "story": "Migrating to the EU"}, {"id": 737483856, "item_id": 46092741, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092741", "by": "anonymouskimmer", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vivaldi is a nice chromium-based browser that I use on Linux for sites that don't work on Firefox.", "excerpt": "You're welcome. This article is from Microsoft itself and may help more: https://woshub.com/add-certificate-to-trusted-on-linux/ Vivaldi is a nice chromium-based browser that I use on Linux for sites that don't work on Firefox. The certutil commands for it are apparently these: https://labs.gwendragon.de/blog/Web/Browser/Vivaldi/linux-add-ca-certificate-to-vivaldi-2", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "sites incompatible with Firefox", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"}]}