A Chromium-based Web browser designed for power users.
Vivaldi is a freeware web browser by Vivaldi Technologies.
The first stable release was in April 2016. It is available for Windows, OSX, and Linux.
Questions tagged [vivaldi]
52 questions
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Why do different sites report Vivaldi's user-agent as different strings?
Site
Reported UA
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+user+agent&ia=answer
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.81 Safari/537.36…
Bentch
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Can Vivaldi open tabs in the background?
When using the Vivaldi browser (version 1.2), it is possible to right-click on a link in a web page and select Open In New Tab. This, of course, is common to most browsers nowadays.
Other browsers have a user setting whereby the browser will remain…
Chenmunka
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How to force Vivaldi to FULLY reload page on startup
A similar question has been asked before, namely How to force Vivaldi to reload page on start - but it only concerns the lazy loading feature, i.e. loading a tab content only after it has been activated.
With this setting deactivated, Vivaldi will…
user710269
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How do you create your own quick commands in Vivaldi?
I am using the new Vivaldi browser. On the Vivaldi website, it says:
Quick commands menu is highly customizable allowing you to create your own commands and run them instantly.
But, how do you create your own quick commands in Vivaldi?
Ishan
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How can I set Vivaldi (browser) to use my system window decorators/borders?
How can I set Vivaldi to use my system window decorators/borders?
With Chrome/Chromium set you do this with a boolean option in the window border’s context menu. I’ve not yet found a similar setting in Vivaldi.
ThorSummoner
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Docking Vivaldi's Dev Tools
As I open the Developer Tools or the JavaScript Console on Chrome/Chromium, I can select a dock side (separate window, bottom or right side).
I started using Vivaldi because I like how customizable it is, however, when it comes to the dev tools, it…
Vince Varga
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How do I enable click-to-play functionality for HTML5 media in Vivaldi?
I've already tried:
Going to vivaldi://settings/content and enabling Content Settings → Let me choose when to run plugin content
Going to vivaldi://plugins and unchecking 'Always allowed to run' for Widevine Content Decryption Module (Enables…
galacticninja
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Stop Vivaldi from reloading already opened tabs
With Vivaldi, if I click a tab in order to change my currently present web-app, the contained page gets reloaded. This happens for downright apps nearly everytime. For things like dictionaries (linguee etc.), it doesn't happen that often.
I'll…
OddDev
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Is there a way to make Vivaldi fake-report the OS to webpages as Windows instead of Linux?
I run Linux and Vivaldi. Various webpages are able to tell that I run Linux, and I'm unsure if this is done from sniffing the User-agent header anymore.
Regardless of how it is done these days, I would like them to not be able to tell I run Linux,…
Stan
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How can I see search result suggestions in Vivaldi's address bar?
I am trying to use Vivaldi, because I am having issues with Firefox on Manjaro.
I think I am doing something wrong/stupid, because I don't seem to be able to search using Vivaldi's address bar.
When I start typing in the address bar, I see suggested…
hba
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With Chromium-based browsers, how to force-open an HTTP version of the site if HTTPS is also available?
Consider I want to open a website and force HTTP, even if an HTTPS version is available. For example, I want to browse http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/ (HTTP), because the HTTPS version
presents an invalid SSL certificate (either expired or with…
Bass
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How to keep zoom setting permanent for each website in Vivaldi?
Say I want to zoom Stack Exchange at 120%, Reddit at 130%, Google at 100%. I do that in Vivaldi, and after I close the tab and reopen it, the scale is reset to 100%. The only way I can force it to be zoom is via Setting → Webpage → Default Webpage…
Ooker
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Vivaldi 1.13 goes full screen when opening link from external app
With the last update of Vivaldi (1.13) I noticed it maximises the window every time I open a link from external application (e.g. Slack). Is it an option that could be turned off? Can I change this behaviour? I don't want it to change the window…
amorfis
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How to force Vivaldi to reload page on start
I use the new Vivaldi browser and its Startup option is set to Last Session.
When I click on a restored tab, it loads it into the memory but does not reload the page itself, it is a cached version of it.
How can I force it to reload the restored…
Nestor
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What exactly is a "Google Services Token"?
In the privacy settings for Vivaldi, there is a "Google Services Token" checkbox. I unchecked it. After that, it was possible to log in to Gmail, with the site claiming that my "browser is insecure". So I was forced to check it. Then it was able to…
Breland
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