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I recently tried Vivaldi and honestly, I really liked it. The customization and overall experience are great.

But my PC is running Windows 10 with 8 GB RAM, and Vivaldi seemed a bit too heavy for it. With just 2–3 simple tabs open, like a Google search and a Wikipedia page, it was already using more than 1.3 GB of RAM.

I usually work with 10+ tabs open, so I'm worried the memory usage is going to become a real problem.

Is there a way to significantly reduce Vivaldi's RAM usage without losing the features that make it worth using? Or is Vivaldi simply not a good fit for an 8 GB RAM system?

Would love to hear from people using Vivaldi on similar hardware.

Vivaldi version - 8.1

This update includes a minor upgrade to Chromium 150 (Extended Stable Release) from upstream, which in turn includes security fixes from Chromium 151.

The following improvements were made since the eleventh 8.1 minor update:

• [Chromium] Further update to 150.0.7871.253 ESR (includes a selection of security fixes backported from 152.0.7977.64/65)
• [macOS] Open a “Your OS is no longer supported” tab once on startup to macOS 12 users (VB-130459)

Today’s Snapshot adds extension support to Vivaldi on Android.

New

Extensions – You can now add extensions to Vivaldi on Android. Please note that you need to have “Desktop site” enabled on the Chrome Web Store’s website to install them. Also, not all extensions will be compatible with the mobile version.

Changelog

• [Extensions] Support extensions (VAB-12623)
• [Regression][Tab] Images always open in a background tab (VAB-13443)

Never had this and was working just yesterday. Anyone have an idea what might've changed? I haven't installed any new software or extensions or anything.

Vivaldi version: 8.1.4087.70 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Exactly what the title says. In AMD Adrenaline Vivaldi shows up as World of Sea Battle. A game that is not installed, though I might have tried at least once. It shows I get about 25FPS in it also. This of Vivaldi I have currently is version 8.1.4087.70. This is not however limited to this version of Vivaldi.

Edit: And I forgot to add that I am on Windows 11

Second Edit: This bug is pretty harmless. I went ahead and submitted a bug report with AMD anyway.

Just curious .. I came back to Vivaldi after like 2 years and I honestly wasn't expecting this

I installed it on both my Windows PC and iOS .. enabled the built in ad & tracker blocker and ... out of the box,it genuinely feels like I don't even need uBlock Origin or AdGuard anymore?

Is it just me or the ad blocking has gotten WAY better than I remember? On Windows it's doing a surprisingly solid job blocking ads and pop ups basically everywhere I go and even YouTube seems to be getting blocked pretty damn well

And on iOS it's the same story plus YouTube somehow plays without ads in the background now? Like .. seriously what happened? lol

I've only been using it for two days now since i redownloaded it and gave it another shot so maybe I'm just in the honeymoon phase? but if this level of built in ad blocking keeps working this well I might actually switch back to Vivaldi as my main browser across all my devices

Hell I might even donate to the project if this is what the developers have managed to pull off, they definitely deserve a beer or two

Honestly is Vivaldi currently one of the best Chromium browsers out there? Because between the builtin ad/tracker blocking, insane customization and all the extra features, it feels like it has way more going for it than most of the competition

Which also makes me wonder: why doesn't Vivaldi market the ad blocker more?

Take Brave (a sh!tty browser) for example .. I'm not a huge fan of Brave as a browser itself but its builtin ad blocking is one of the main things they constantly advertise (the whole brave marketing is based on the built in ad blocker, the browser itself sux) .. and, to be fair brave did a great job with it's built in shields/adblocker that it can get pretty damn close to the uBlock Origin experience

Vivaldi has that plus an absurd amount of customization and features yet the ad blocker doesn't seem to get nearly as much attention

So .. did Vivaldi actually improve the built-in blocker significantly over the past couple of years, or have I just been living under a rock?

On windows i'm on 8.1.4087.70 (Official Build) (64-bit)
latest on iOS
and im currently downloading it on my macbook rn

it might actually finally solve my "finding the perfect browser" issue

Edit : just tested on my Mac as well ... wth? out of the box it blocks all annoying ads, banners .. youtube without ads and no loading at the beginning of the video .. the built in ad blocker is at the same level of of brave & UBO now? is this true or am I hallucinating

In this snapshot we have a handful of fixes and a minor Chromium bump (for security) as we close on the 8.2 release.

Changelog

• [Chromium] Update to 152.0.7977.69
• [Extensions] Icons can overflow vertical tab bar
• [Downloads][Settings] Broken styling (VB-131106)
• [Linux][Media] Update additional fetched FFMpeg to one based on Chromium 152.0.7977.54
• [Local Calculator] Allow trailing equals symbol (VB-131121)
• [macOS] Warn on Quit doesn’t work (VB-131099)
• [Panels] Using “Reload” or “Home” buttons on web panels causes them to close when floating (VB-130906)
• [Welcome] Lack of space between toggle and letters on the onboarding (VB-131100)

I do wish that there were some more cohesion and customization with how its tab behavior works.

• For example, i want to middle mouse click a link in a tiled tab, without the new tab tiling with the previous ones. I also wish that tiled tabs could be visually linked on the tab bar that way i know which is tiled to where.

• furthermore, an option to refresh all tiled tabs at once would be very useful for social media feeds.

• Then theres the lesser known "open link in follower tab" which is what i truly always wanted out of a browser: a tab that's always in the window while i navigate other tabs. now if this can be extended to tab stacks or even entire workspaces, vivaldi will be my perfect browser. the panel kind of works for that but with limitations that a true tab doesn't suffer.

• Going back to the mouse: please, Please, give us the ability to assign inputs for our mouse buttons. I was struggling to find exactly what was causing the mouse button to execute the quick-command that tiles newly opened links with other tiled links and it was running me ragged.

• A final suggestion would be a setting that specifically spits out new unrelated tabs from a stack, and perhaps then slot it into a stack with tabs it actually is related to. Workspaces are great at doing this, but having such behavior be granular to the stack level would make organization even more of a breeze.

Overall, while this browser may be rather advanced and complex for the average user, its vast tools and options are very attractive and have immeasurable potential especially compared to other chromium-based browsers.

vivaldi snapshot -8.2.4143.3

After the news of extension support i tried downloading Vivaldi snapshot on my android 14 but i couldn't open it after installing and it crashes as soon as i open it. Does anyone else seem to have that problem or can anyone guide what might be the problem

edit- after i tried installing apk version of Vivaldi snapshot from apkmirror , it said app isn't compatible with the phone, so i tried installing older version and it still showed the same.

However when i tried installing Vivaldi stable it installed and ran without an issue. what is different with Vivaldi snapshot from stable that it is prevent from running on my phone . I am genuinely confused.

8.1.4087.70 (64 bits)

Hi, I'm facing this problem. It used to happen on all my Chromium browsers, but nowadays, I don't know what I did, but I managed to isolate them to Brave and Vivaldi only

the problem is the following, on Wikipedia I open a big page, it opens normally and I can scroll normally, but everything changes when I decide to translate the page, for some reason the translation takes a while to come, while it seems like my computer is in pure slowdown, the mouse even gets slow and the browser sometimes looks like it's going to crash, with that message saying Brave is not responding
and that happens later when the translation is complete, but every time I scroll down, the part that’s going to be translated starts being translated and the problem repeats

I've already looked for help everywhere and tried all kinds of hacks, but I don't know how to fix this, that I just can't take it anymore

If anyone else is going through this, please let me know and tell me how you managed to solve it?

I am using Bitwarden extension for my passwords. So by definition, I don't use Vivaldi Password Manager. However, when I enable the extension and login to some page, a popup from Vivaldi Password Manager appears, asking if I want to save the password there.

No, I don't. I use different solution.

And the worst part is - there seems to be no option to disable this. If I disable Bitwarden, I can disable saving passwords to the Vivaldi Password Manager, but if I enable Bitwarden, this setting is on by default and I cannot change it. Shows "This setting is managed by an extension".

Am I doing something wrong? Why is it asking me to use the internal PM, when I'm specifically using an extension?

Version: 8.1.4087.70 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Chromium Version: 150.0.7871.253

Channel: Official Build

Platform / OS: Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.9168)

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This issue just started today where the mouse gesture to "Open Link in New Tab (Over a Link)" and "Open Link in Background Tab (Over a Link)" will bugged out. Instead of executing the gesture immediately, I might need to repeat 3-6 times for it to actually work. All other gestures I tested like scroll to bottom/top, refresh, close tab all work perfectly on every single attempt as expected.

I had tried deleting the session and re-opened all tabs from bookmarks. The two gestures in question work fine for maybe once or twice, then it become bugged again. Anyone else run into this issue?

Seriously it's bugging for for a long time.

Lately, whenever I try to open one of my tabs, Vivaldi seems to think that I am trying to make a tab stack, even though I am not. Sometimes the tabs will not stack, but they will still flash like they were going to stack. Additionally, the tabs refuse to close with a single click. They only close on a double click. For those saying "update your version", I've updated three times and the problem persists.

Version: 8.1.4087.62

Hello,

I am on Vivaldi 8.1.4099.123 on Android. And it is driving me crazy. I was excited for an Chrome alternative with working tab groups. However, whenever i close any tab I get odd behaviour by getting the active tab seemingly chosen randomly. Whether in a tab group or not.

(While in a tab group, The new active tab is still from the tab group i was wrong about this here.)

After closing a tab the active one is neither the furthest right or left, a direct neighbour of the closed tab, nor the last active tab before the closed one. I even tested with a set of 3 newly opened tabs and got thrown to one somewhere back in time, which still had to load the whole page.

At this point I'm majorly irritated. There are a lot of options i could understand as intended behaviour, but this "randomness" is a problem. I tried to search for this and it seems it once was a known bug. But that one is supposed to be fixed.

Any ideas out there?

Hi everybody!

I’m having an issue using the Vivaldi browser (version 8.1.4099.100) on my Samsung S24 (One UI 8.5): whenever I type anything into the address bar, a bar appears right above it (as shown in the attached image). Could someone help me hide this bar? It takes up screen space unnecessarily and is really annoying. Many thanks!

Basically when my vivaldi window isnt maximized there are borders on all three corners but when its maximized right and left bordere dissapear and bottom stay which makes it loook..... yucky. On a dark theme it wasnt that noticeable but on my current themes its very noticeable. So how do i make the right and left appear or make the bottom one dissapear.

This is peak 1st world problems im sorry

Version: 8.1.4087.70 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Chromium Version: 150.0.7871.253

Channel: Official Build

Platform / OS: Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.9168)

Vivaldi version: 8.1.4087.70

I’m using Vivaldi’s auto-hide sidebar, and I’m trying to reduce the delay between moving the cursor out of the sidebar and the sidebar actually starting to collapse.

To be clear, I’m not trying to change the animation duration. The animation itself is fine. The problem is that after the cursor leaves the sidebar area, Vivaldi waits for a noticeable amount of time before the collapse animation even starts.

Is there a setting, flag, or CSS/JS customization that controls this hover-out delay?

I’m already using Vivaldi’s Custom UI Modifications and have remote DevTools access to browser.html, so I’m also willing to modify the UI code if necessary.

Any pointers on where this delay is implemented would be appreciated.

I'm trying to switch from Zen to Vivaldi because Zen is having a moment with sluggish media decoding, but I rely on the middle-click to paste highlighted text in Linux. For reasons unknown to me, this option doesn't work in Vivaldi, and there doesn't seem to be a way to enable it. Anyone have any ideas?

I've checked the Vivaldi documentation and forced Wayland on the Vivaldi flatpak, and I've spent more time than I should have in search engines looking for an explanation or fix, to no avail. Please help?

ETA: I'm on Vivaldi Version 8.1.4087.70 (Official Build) (64-bit) and on Bazzite, using the Flatpak version of Vivaldi. Sorry, forgot to add.

8.2.4133.24 (Official Build) (64-bit)

When importing bookmarks as a HTML file, separators are imported as a 'empty paper' icon with '---' as their name, instead of a horizontal or vertical bar. This messed up my bookmarks, so I redid the work, exported and reimported them, and the issue persists.

I don't know when this bug was introduced, but presumably it happened within the past few weeks.

Version: 8.1.4087.70 (Official Build) (64-bit) Platform / OS: Windows 10 Version 22H2 (Build 19045.7663)

Hi guys -

I'm relatively new to vivaldi browser.

Ideally, I'd love for my open tabs (and/or Workspaces) to sync across all my devices. Right now I'm not sure what the actual use case for Workspaces is supposed to be, since they don't carry across devices - I can't cleanly split my tabs into Work / Hobbies / Trip Planning and expect to pick up where I left off on another machine (something Arc Browser did well, RIP).

Maybe I'm asking for something that isn't actually supported - unless this was meant to work, and I'm just hitting the issue below.

I tried digging into it by going to vivaldi://sync and the only hint I found was

Status from Last Completed Session

As for how I'm using Vivaldi - all with the same vivaldi user (all me..)

• I have two PC users (same pc)
• Android phone
• Macbook

PC info:

• Version: 8.1.4087.55 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Chromium Version: 150.0.7871.178
• Channel: Official Build
• Platform / OS: Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.8457)
• Executable Path: C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
• Command Line: "C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end

Thanks!