Unsolved How to keep Vivaldi running in the background?

[speedy9383]

Hi, i would like to keep Vivaldi running in the background like Chrome does :
I have enabled the option in vivaldi://settings/system but when i close the application, no icon in the taskbar tray appears, and opening it is still slow. I like this in Chrome because it makes the startup of the application a lot faster, and Vivaldi's startup is a bit too slow for me (i keep closing and opening Vivaldi a lot)

[DoctorG]

@speedy9383 I saw this feature existed in Edge 94, but not in Chromium 94.
Such feature is not implemented in Vivaldi yet.

[speedy9383]

The option is actually located at chrome://settings (typed in the search bar). It's such an important feature, and without it, i can't switch to Vivaldi from Chrome. But i'll surely be looking at the updates log in case they add this feature.

[mib2berlin]

@speedy9383
Hi, do you meant this setting?

For me Chrome and Edge are not stay in the task bar with this settings enabled.
This setting is for running apps and extensions in the background but not the whole browser. This is the first thing I usually disable in Chromium browser.
It is no marginal difference starting Vivaldi compare to Chrome, cold start is >2 seconds, warm start is >1 second on my system.
Specs are in my signature

Cheers, mib

[Hadden89]

@speedy9383 I never saw the chrome/chromium icon minimized in the tray but you can try this or this for any application which don't support such function. The setting, as Mib said, is only for apps.

[mib2berlin]

@speedy9383 @Hadden89
Hi, I guess you meant this Edge setting:

This keep parts of the browser running, not in the systray on Windows 11 but speed up the start time to >0.5 seconds.
I tested Edge Beta on Linux first and there it is not implemented, I guess Windows only at moment or forever.

Cheers, mib
EDIT: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/startup-boost-faq/m-p/1810423#M3640

[speedy9383]

I thought the option mentioned by @mib2berlin makes the Chrome startup so fast, but its not actually that. I mean the Chrome startup is almost instant, while Vivaldi takes >2 seconds to start (not cold start). It's the deal-breaker to say so for me, as i open and close my browser multiple times (i open a lot of tabs of what i need, and never close them, just close the browser when i dont need them anymore, and when i am using alt+tab it's just easier to have less windows open). The startup doesnt have to be like Chromes, but i see that Edge also opens almost instantly (because of that feature), altough a little bit slower than Chrome, but it's not that noticeable. It would be really nice if the devs implemented such a feature in Vivaldi, as it would become my main browser, but until then, Chromes startup is just way better for me.

[mib2berlin]

@speedy9383
Hm, Chrome does not have this feature and Edge start faster on my system but anyway, Vivaldi would never start as fast as Chrome because of the second layer it use for the UI.
I always close all tabs before I stop working and shutdown or hibernate my system but I never close the browser during work.
Do you have some RAM limits or something else you have to close it?
How many tabs we are talking about?
May it help if you enable lazy loading in vivaldi://settings/general/ but make no difference for me with 20-30 tabs open for startup speed of Vivaldi.

Cheers, mib

[Eggcorn]

@speedy9383 Why not just minimize Vivaldi to the taskbar, instead of closing it.

[speedy9383]

@eggcorn Because before minimizing it i have to close all the tabs(i dont like to keep a lot of tabs of different stuff open at the same time, and its a few more clicks). I'll actually keep using Vivaldi and just minimizing it altough it's kind of annoying. Still the best browser regarding all the other features from my opinion.

[Hadden89]

@mib2berlin Interesting feature which probably keep a background service with Edge UI pre-loaded. May be useful for less powerful PCs - as long they have a good amount of ram - and tab hoarders.

[mib2berlin]

@hadden89
Yes, it takes only 40 MB of RAM or less.
Sometimes Microsoft backport patches to Chromium but I guess not this one.

Cheers, mib

[Hadden89]

@mib2berlin Pretty much the case. Is an Edge-on-Chromium w10/11 feature so should be behind MS Eula and not on Chromium Bsd.