Vivaldi

Vivaldi is a web browser from former Opera founder & team members, based on Chromium and focused on personalization aspects.

Installation

Vivaldi can be installed with vivaldi or vivaldi-snapshot^AUR. Prebuilt packages can alternatively be found in the herecura unofficial repository. For differences between snapshot and stable versions, see this page.

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Extensions

Vivaldi is compatible with most of Chrome's extensions. These can be installed directly from the Chrome Web Store.

Tip: Vivaldi supports appending proxy server parameters to the command line with --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:1080". This may help to solve network connectivity problems under certain conditions.

To see which extensions are installed/enabled, type in the address bar.

Media playback

To enable proprietary media (H264, AAC, etc.) playback support:

install or
start Vivaldi fresh (after update or fresh install), close Vivaldi and restart again
use the vivaldi-update-ffmpeg-hook^AUR

Making flags persistent

You can put your flags in a file under $HOME/.config/ (or under if you have configured that environment variable).

No special syntax is used; flags are defined as if they were written in a terminal.

The arguments are split on whitespace and shell quoting rules apply, but no further parsing is performed.
Flags can be placed in separate lines for readability, but this is not required.

Below is an example file that disables hardware media keys for the browser:

The vivaldi-snapshot^AUR package can get its flags set with the file.

Modding

Vivaldi has modding capabilities through its file.

The file can be found at:

Another way to find the path is through the Executable Path section at .

You can also use . It can help you manage mods: add or remove them from , and redo changes at vivaldi updates.

Tips and Tricks

Transfer your profile to snapshot version

If you switched to snapshot version because of lacking features of stable version, you want to also use your user profile. Copy the to .

Google search suggestions

Vivaldi cannot be shipped with enabled suggestions for google search. The user must manually add the suggestion url https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=chrome&q=%s in search settings.

Native Wayland support

Go to chrome://flags page, then search wayland. You will see the Preferred Ozone platform setting. Set it to auto. The default one is "X11". "Auto" selects Wayland if possible, X11 otherwise.

Keep picture-in-picture window above other windows

When viewing some video, you can press the picture-in-picture button to detach it to a separate window. By default this window is not kept above others and it is inconvenient. To fix it in KDE, create a window rule to keep it above others. See KDE#Using window rules.

Troubleshooting

Generic wayland icon in the taskbar

Currently, there is a bug that vivaldi's window is not recognized by DE as a vivaldi browser. See . See workaround for KDE here.

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