Please let us modify the new Splash Screen
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I have issues with my eyes that require me to use dark mode on just about everything or risk migraines. This can literally cause me headaches, and did the first time. Luckily, after that, I knew to look away.
Of all the things, who thought a splash screen may force me to change browsers.
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I hate it! Hundreds of lines of custom css and I finally had the browser styled exactly like I wanted.
And this is the feature Vivaldi chooses to make non-customizable? And it's every single time I open the window.
I don't understand -- users request thousands of individual features and the devs (understandably) complain about how they can't implement all of them, but then they decide to implement one which nobody wants, needs, or even asked for?
Please make this optional.
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Duplicate of https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/106634/please-let-us-modify-the-new-splash-screen which contains a lot of information already. Please continue the discussion there.
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In case people are unaware, the splash screen itself is nothing new; the only change is the color and message at the bottom of the splash screen. The splash screen has existed for at least as long as I have been using the browser (since 2019).
Disabling the splash screen isn't really an option, but hopefully Vivaldi's developers can make an option that isn't as noticeable; like it was before this update.
And, as mentioned earlier in this thread, the splash screen is shown before HTML rendering is active, so customizability likely isn't an option either. They probably could make it match the currently active theme better, given how private windows get their own splash screen, but I am not sure if there is a good way to tie it in to those settings. The splash screens' appearances are probably more of a hard coded thing right now, and it might be too much effort to tie them into theme colors for something that get shown for a second or two at most.
The most likely outcome I see is changing the background color to something less noticeable, like the grey that preceded this update.
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@bangu715 See this post in the other thread (or this one if they get merged together).
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/823223
The splash screen used to be customizable with CSS, but that was removed for much faster window rendering speed. A fair tradeoff in my opinion.
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@daddiofaddio said in Why, Vivaldi Devs? Please Let Us Remove or Modify the New Splash Screen:
Now we’re stuck with a hard-coded splash screen, complete with a clunky "Made with ️
in Europe" message, that ignores our themes, disregards our settings, and can’t be turned off. Worse, it appears not only at startup, but every single time a new window is opened.I've contacted them about it, it was unfinished, the latest plans are to make it look like [/edit due to the merge]: this, it will be awesome and our hearts will be full of
But if you don't like it you can just blink away for 1-3 seconds.
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I downgraded to 7.2.3621.63, because it doesn't contain the new splash screen.
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@alonezw Well, downgrade is not recommended as such can break profile settings and data.
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@DoctorG I'm sorry, but it is also not recommended to scare users with unnecessary, non-disableable features.
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@alonezw It will be your problem with unfixable issues after downgrade.
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downgrading is a bad idea, avoid it
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@alonezw
I also did it on 03/22/2025, when in the comments on the Vivaldi forum the curator confirmed that now this is a new function in the new version (v.7.2.3621.67) and not to change it back. -
I would like to expand on the main topic - modifying the splash screen:
- it should be inconspicuous.
- it should be barely noticeable, i.e. it should be visible for a much shorter time.
Other browsers have realized this much better. I first saw that a splash screen is used with Vivaldi.
Opera has a black screen for a small fraction of a second, with Brave I can see my desktop background - also for this fraction of a second.
It would be ideal if there were no splash screen at all. Who cares about this image? Probably nobody. But if it can't be completely eliminated, then please make it as inconspicuous and short as possible.Of course, the question arises as to why it is visible for so long. Is it because of the many features that have to be put in place first? Is it an unavoidable price for a browser that is also a mail client, calendar and much more?
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@Dancer18 said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
Is it an unavoidable price for a browser that is also a mail client, calendar and much more?
Not for those reasons. It is because Vivaldi is much more customisable than other browsers due to its layer of code on top of the Chromium base, that the Vivaldi window takes a few hundred milliseconds longer to load (or a few seconds on slower systems).
On my 4-year-old PC, it takes 200 or 300 milliseconds to load Vivaldi.
Watch Loading Vivaldi on YouTube.
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I first thought that it was a temporary message/slogan (which personally I support and appreciate anyway) in a difficult political era, then I realised that it is here to stay ?
So, how can we disable the splash screen ? I just want to go directly to Speed Dial or a blank page.
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@gorg The splash screen is required to avoid a bright white flash while Vivaldi starts. Showing a logo, or some slogan is the secondary purpose. Without it, users might think that they did not click the shortcut, and so press it again.
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@Pesala Still, I think it is a bad UI for most and I would prefer to just go directly to the program, like in most other applications I use.
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@gorg said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
@Pesala Still, I think it is a bad UI for most and I would prefer to just go directly to the program, like in most other applications I use.
If it was possible they wouldn't have to show a splash screen at all.
The splash screen is there to tell you "stop clicking the icon on the desktop, you already started the application but we need to do some invisible things before even creating and showing the GUI"On my PCs where Vivaldi is installed on SSDs and I have very few tabs and sidepanels the splash screen is so quick to disappear that I barely notice it, on the older PCs where it was installed on HDs a splash screen could really take a couple of seconds to disappear and the GUI finally get shown.
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@iAN-CooG said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
@gorg said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
@Pesala Still, I think it is a bad UI for most and I would prefer to just go directly to the program, like in most other applications I use.
If it was possible they wouldn't have to show a splash screen at all.
The splash screen is there to tell you "stop clicking the icon on the desktop, you already started the application but we need to do some invisible things before even creating and showing the GUI"On my PCs where Vivaldi is installed on SSDs and I have very few tabs and sidepanels the splash screen is so quick to disappear that I barely notice it, on the older PCs where it was installed on HDs a splash screen could really take a couple of seconds to disappear and the GUI finally get shown.
Multiple clicking an icon on the desktop was never a problem for me and I am using computers since the mid 80s. I have an ultra fast intel (sic) Mac, Vivaldi is on NVMe and the splash screen lag from v7.3 is definitely noticeable and startup is much worse than v7.2. Not only this but if for some reason a reboot/relogin forces previously open apps to reopen, Vivaldi either takes too long or hangs at the new splash screen and I have to force-kill it.
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