Welcome to the Community and Services Forum!

A place to talk about Vivaldi community and the services. Follow the news, get help with troubleshooting issues, request new features and more. 

Information about the Vivaldi account and services can be found on Vivaldi Help.

Before starting a new topic, please search the forum first. There might be an existing discussion you can join.

  • Read and comment on the latest news about the Vivaldi Community and its services.

    72 Topics
    2k Posts
    U
    great
  • Discuss Forum specific topics.

    391 Topics
    4k Posts
    barbudo2005
    B
    Script "2.- HIGHLIGHTING WHO THE POST IS ADDRESSED TO" updated.
  • Discussion around the Vivaldi Social platform, powered by Mastodon

    130 Topics
    877 Posts
    S
    Thanks for the suggestion but a) the Tangerine UI has the same scrollbar width problem b) I hate dark themes. I started looking for a good Mastodon client under Linux but it seems that many of them default to dark themes and have only screenshots of the dark themes. It seems I have to install each one of them in turn to see if a) they have a light theme b) the UI of the client fits in with my preferred XFCE theme. c) they have scrollbar issues either i) too narrow as with the web interface or ii) scrollbars that only appear if you mouse over them for a few seconds and then disappear as you approach them to click on them. Det ikke er bare bare!
  • Discuss blogging platform specific topics.

    137 Topics
    640 Posts
    disu1950
    D
    Hello, How to use these "Recommended Plugins" ? [image: 1748214903784-screenshot_20250526_011119_vivaldi-snapshot.jpg] MSG pop up saying: Sorry, you are not allowed to install plugins on this site.
  • Discuss Webmail specific topics.

    274 Topics
    3k Posts
    EBlock
    E
    @AltCode As I follow these same steps for the 5th or 6th time, just to take screenshots to show you, it suddenly worked. I have no idea what changed, but I'll take the W. Thank you for your help.
  • Discuss Themes specific topics.

    37 Topics
    167 Posts
    WerewolfAX
    W
    @3dvs It's even simpler: You don't need to update the themes at all if you like them the way they were when you installed them in your browser. So theoretically, the theme kind of “auto-updates” with your browser because the theme is just some kind of “setting” for the browser UI and does not necessarily require to be updated to be compatible with the browser or to apply security fixes. If you download a theme package not for installation but to take a look at how a theme “DNA” looks like (right click → save link as) and extract the zip, you'll notice that themes only contain a background image, sometimes icon files (images) beside a settings.json file. The settings.json File contains the values the theme editor from the browser itself uses and understands. That's why — no matter how old or new — theme files are also compatible with newer versions of Vivaldi without problems. If the author changes aspects of the theme file — like images, icons, or colors — the theme itself changes, and you need to re-install it if you want to have those new icons or background images applied. (Or simpler: In the Vivaldi theme editor you'll find an “update theme”-button then, just click it to apply the changed version of the theme) But if you still like the theme that is installed, you basically never need to update it for compatibility reasons. Just for aesthetical reasons, and only if you really want changed aspects of a newer theme version applied to your browser UI. The fact that you have to trigger this kind of “update” (or, better said, “replacement of settings and graphics”) manually is a good thing! If you alter an installed theme to your needs, it would be bad if the theme gets a new version and overrides your changes every time automatically. Many users, for example, set individual background images or modify the roundess-factor or use different iconsets from another theme. By the way: You can also change the themes with the editor directly in Vivaldi, and if you use the theme export function there, you'll get a theme package again with a .json file that contains your changes. If you publish it the theme gets an id and the possibility to check the version for a manual update ("theme replacing") then, but for the browser it is irrelevant which version of a theme you are using and I'm sure if any new theme-values sould ever be added to the browser, it will still not break but just use a fallback / default value instead.
  • Discuss Sync specific topics.

    398 Topics
    3k Posts
    luetage
    L
    @TwilightGarden You should take a look at the modifications forum board. The page action folder is inside the application, not the profile. Since the application gets replaced on every update, your page action vanishes. The best thing to do is to automate the placement of the file with a batch script.
  • Discuss Proton VPN for Vivaldi specific topics.

    43 Topics
    184 Posts
    BoozeOperator
    B
    Proton VPN warns that “something” went wrong and that perhaps the re-installation of the extension might help, when – in reality – no Internet connection was established when Vivaldi was started. The message is completely useless in this case and, if the extension is not able to detect the situation correctly, should at least include a different recommendation or no recommendation at all. I have already reported the observation via the developper contact on the Web-pages for Proton VPN.
  • Vote for and submit your own requests for features you'd like to see in Vivaldi services.

    319 Topics
    2k Posts
    bocko414
    B
    I think this is a good discussion pertaining to the security concerns one might have about browser data and the systems Vivaldi has in place to address those. However, the searching that led me here was strictly pertaining to reliability and uptime. Back in November/December of 2024 when there was a significant and very long outage of Vivaldi's sync server(s), my workflow as disrupted enough that moved to Firefox as my primary browser and have not, as yet, returned. I wasn't plugged in to the community at the time that those service issues were resolved, so I admit I don't know the steps that were taken to assure future reliability and avoid a similar situation. (I did some quick browsing of the vivaldi.com blog around that timeframe to see if the sync issue was ever mentioned and didn't see it; I'd love to read more if anyone would be willing to point me in the right direction). TL;DR -- I agree that the security and encryption measures that Vivaldi has in place by default are sound. So, my desire to self-host a sync server is not due to concern about data security, but rather access reliability.

Give a donation to help us keep building the most amazing browser.