Vivaldi 8.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

#251

Post by sharts » Fri, May 22, 2026, 3:49 PM UTC

I wonder if they have a way to sync profiles, extensions, history, etc across devices + mobile without needing to create an account. Similar to what brave does. Oh well

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by tau255 » Fri, May 22, 2026, 10:25 PM UTC

Vivaldi was only an option until Google removed any real way to run adblocking extensions from Chromium source. If there was a fork of Chromium allowing Ublock Origin to run it could be considered but as it is now there is no real point to consider Vivaldi or any other Chromium based browsers if you want real ad blocking.

Used Vivaldi and it was always slower and more clunkier than Chrome/Chromium but it had its advantages. The team behind it was old Opera team and tried/tries to bring that feel back to the browser with some success. I had been user of old Presto based Opera, the Blink version wasn't really what I looked for and the change of ownership was really questionable.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

#253

Post by aucisson_masque » Sun, May 24, 2026, 9:03 AM UTC

sys_64738 wrote: post #117

aucisson_masque wrote: post #2

Vivaldi is all about customization but then they categorically refuse to add extension support to their android browser. Imo extension is the ultimate way to customize your browser experience. It's not technical difficulties, there are open source projects that have such support. I also don't believe it's against any TOS because some of these browser are available in the Google play store. I just don't get why they r…

Probably it's a very low request priority. I use Vivaldi on Android with the built in blocking at strict. The last thing I remotely have interest in are Extensions in Android Vivalid.

> Probably it's a very low request priority.

Oh no it's requested a lot. You just got to go in their forum to see it.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

#254

Post by aucisson_masque » Sun, May 24, 2026, 9:03 AM UTC

tredre3 wrote: post #191

aucisson_masque wrote: post #2

Vivaldi is all about customization but then they categorically refuse to add extension support to their android browser. Imo extension is the ultimate way to customize your browser experience. It's not technical difficulties, there are open source projects that have such support. I also don't believe it's against any TOS because some of these browser are available in the Google play store. I just don't get why they r…

You also can't import bookmarks on Android. The officially recommended way is to sign up for a sync account and verify it (they don't accept throwaway emails), install on desktop, import on desktop, then sync to mobile.

That's bad, there is no reason whatsoever you shouldn't be able to import bookmark on the phone.

I believe they should just ditch the android version if they don't want to put any effort in it.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by xerox13ster » Tue, May 26, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

culopatin wrote: post #241

AlienRobot wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vivaldi is the only browser I feel actually has features. Built-in RSS client, mail client, vertical tabs, workspaces, notes, saved sessions, tab groups, side by side tabs, profiles, etc. To put more simply, just look at how many preferences its preference dialog has compared to other browsers. It feels like nobody else is even doing anything except coming up with a new CSS property nobody is going to use every 3 mon…

Does it have a torrent client like Opera did? I really miss that browser

Unfortunately that is one feature they haven't added back. That died with Opera 10 (or 11? idr)

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by dzjkb » Wed, May 27, 2026, 9:35 PM UTC

youngtaff wrote: post #224

dzjkb wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

shady and slimy? what are you talking about?

I’ve heard enough about their past behaviour from separate independent sources to know I’d never use Ladybird

care to provide any info instead of ominously refusing to do so?

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

#257

Post by zimmund » Sat, May 30, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

adrian_b wrote: post #19

With Firefox, especially with Firefox on Linux, which always had and still has poor GPU support, I frequently encounter sites that do not work well or they do not work at all. So I must keep a backup browser, which is normally Vivaldi, because typically any site that works in Chrome also works in Vivaldi. Moreover, Vivaldi has a great advantage over both Firefox and Chrome, in it the command to print a Web page usual…

> I frequently encounter sites that do not work well or they do not work at all

What kind of sites do you visit frequently? Because as a Firefox user, I rarely see issues like this and it's usually related to either chrome-specific things they didn't bother to implement in a compatible way or very cutting-edge features that are not fully available in browsers yet.

I know Firefox had issues in the past (I suffered them myself) but I don't remember having issues with it over the last bunch of years, and it's my main (only) browser.