Please let us modify the new Splash Screen

nomadic

@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.

npro

@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.

alonezw

I downgraded to 7.2.3621.63, because it doesn't contain the new splash screen.

DoctorG

@alonezw Well, downgrade is not recommended as such can break profile settings and data.

alonezw

@DoctorG I'm sorry, but it is also not recommended to scare users with unnecessary, non-disableable features.

DoctorG

@alonezw It will be your problem with unfixable issues after downgrade.
We can not help in repair of such downgrade experiment.

Stardust

downgrading is a bad idea, avoid it

rudpsk

@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.

Dancer18

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?

Pesala

@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.

gorg

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.

Pesala

@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.

gorg

@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.

iAN CooG

@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.

gorg

@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.

DoctorG

Sadly with a dark theme and/or dark OS mode i see a short white flash after start before splash screen appears.

Dancer18

@DoctorG said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

i see a short white flash after start before splash screen appears.

In both Windows and Linux? Here - with Linux - it's only light splash screen...

Fishay1337

Man, I thought I was going nuts. I'm so glad I've found this post.

The new splash screen is hideous.

Listen, I don't care if you advocate for an intergalactic gummy bear religion in the splash screen - please for the love of the world return the old solid dark colour. The new splash screen burns my eyes in a dark room.

Please, I don't want to start browser hopping - Vivaldi is the best browser in the world, but this new splash screen colours are seriously making me want to change (and I really don't want to leave the Vivaldi eco system)

npro

@Fishay1337 said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

advocate for an intergalactic gummy bear religion

you are a little god

Stardust

@Dancer18 said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

@DoctorG said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:

i see a short white flash after start before splash screen appears.

In both Windows and Linux? Here - with Linux - it's only light splash screen...

Vivaldi snapshot 7.4.3648.3 on Linux.
I see splash screen has changed a bit compared to the previous snapshot, but it's still bright!

I would just take good old dark splash screen and make it a bit darker. That's it, problem solved, everyone happy again