Vivaldi

“It's hard to step away from Vivaldi. Although Vivaldi runs Chromium, it in 2026 is basically what Opera 12 was in 2016”

“Brave and Vivaldi are the only two browser companies I know of that let you directly donate to the browser itself”

“its customizability is incredible and once I fixed the omnibars annoying default search settings I was good”

“content_scripts and popups generally work, but anything touching the chrome.* API beyond storage/tabs gets awkward”

“Vivaldi has ad blocking built into it, and has no issue with you enabling developer settings”

“If an extension is not in the Chrome Web store Vivaldi will not be able to install it.”

“Vivaldi has included split view for years (called tiles). I use this regularly on HN.”

“Vivaldi has spoiled me with this and it is very hard to switch to another browser that doesn't have it.”

“I use Vivaldi which is Chromium based and the only choppiness comes from the friction of my sweaty wrist”

“They're built on Chromium, they still reinforce the Chromium monoculture and expand Google's influence.”

“I wanted a Chromium-based browser but didn't want Chrome, Edge, or Brave. I ended up landing on Vivaldi and have been happy with it so far.”

“they say that their built-in content blocker is "good enough" that you supposedly don't need uBO (I very much disagree)”

“it was always slower and more clunkier than Chrome/Chromium but it had its advantages”

“There are some very annoying bugs or quirks unfixed since years. I tried very hard to like Vivaldi, but it is impossible to use it as a web developer.”

“In all the years since they have not made one change that has caused me grief or affected my use in the slightest”

“Displaying non-personalized ads (which are trivial to completely avoid in Vivaldi) is not that.”

“They have affiliate bookmarks and as well as links that are injected when you type things in the address bar.”

“I mainly use Vivaldi because it has the best vertical tabs experience among the browsers.”

“It's my daily browser. Small glitches occasionally and can lag chrome releases, but the best absolute non-adware browser with powerful features.”

“that page only provides the changes to the Google Chromium source that allows their UI to run”

“How are integrated ads and dispatch of user data to third-parties sustainable sources of income?”

“Vivaldi makes money by promoting search engines and bookmarks to their users via their closed source, secret, Chromium fork.”

“Vivaldi is the only Chromium browser that actually breaks sites that work on Chromium(based) browsers itself”

“the mouse gestures are similar. Ny favorites: "Hold right mouse button, click left" is the browser back gesture”

“Vivaldi has a great advantage over both Firefox and Chrome, in it the command to print a Web page usually works fine”

“It's the only browser for me, that reliably filters out all ads with ublock origin while working on all websites without any problems.”

“I appreciate the intention to protect my privacy. How does that square with Manifest V2 deprecation”

“Looks way better and almost everything is quite cohesive but then they add the weird arrow with an uggly box around it in the top right.”

“Vivaldi just works without annoying crypto and most importantly provides lot of customization”

“they're all little more than reconfigurations and reskins of Chromium when you look at the entire code base”

“allowing you to block overrides for specific shortcuts so you Ctrl F is always yours”

“Vivaldi is based on the Chrome codebase, but I really love all the extra customization options.”

“a better designed customizable browser like Vivaldi you can just see the menu itself”

“it has a built-in ad blocker that in my few years experience works exactly the same as ubo out of the box”

“I've had Vivaldi as default for awhile now and it's great, everything is as seamless as using Chrome.”

“vertical tabs mean each tab takes about 40 vertical pixels of height, so I can skim through the titles of each tab”

“I was drawn to it by the amount of personalization it offers and after spending a bit of time setting it up to my liking it is now my daily browser.”

“Vivaldi has had tiling for a while now. It's not quite free form mdi, but it beats opening two windows next to each other”

“browsers with corporate backing and enough income like Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox exist because without them you would have no serious choice”

“The Vivaldi web browser tab groups are a killer feature. It's my main browser because of this.”