How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome

OlgaA

Just like Google Chrome, Vivaldi browser is built using the open-source Chromium code. So how different is Vivaldi from Chrome?

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stardepp

Super crazy happy first again

stardepp

It's good to know what the Vivaldi team makes possible to provide us with this unique browser.

omnireso

So this about the next-gen browsers. I'm trying Vivaldi right now, could you tell us about memory usage and performance please ? Thanks and happy new year

Catweazle

Great explanation, that is to say that Vivaldi has not simply put a disguise to Chromium, but has put its own environment to the engine, therefore it would be more correct to define it as a Blink Browser.

@omnireso , welcome to our community.
Memory usage depends a lot on the pages you visit, the tabs you have open and the extensions you use. Although Vivaldi is based on Chromium, it uses significantly less resources than other browsers with this base, which you can check with the Task Manager of Vivaldi (Shift+Esc).
Enjoy browsing

KimmoJ

It's true that the Vivaldi UI and feature set is outstanding.

But the browser still can't do something as basic as let me grab a tab, detach it from the underlying window, drag it to the top of my second monitor and release to have it maximize smoothly on the second monitor. At best it detaches from the UI - on the same screen as the original window. In non maximized form.

Firefox, meanwhile, smoothly does exactly what's expected. And that's why Vivaldi is not my daily driver. It's clunky in some aspects that annoy me on a daily basis. Yeah, I could relearn using the browser in a different fashion, but I shouldn't have to.

stardepp

@omnireso Vivaldi is economical in CPU consumption. Vivaldi needs little CPU, at startup, if this is set so...

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...then Vivaldi starts without loading the tabs, which saves CPU.

If you have Vivaldi open with a lot of tabs and Vivaldi consumes a lot of CPU, then you can force the background tabs to sleep.

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Nevertheless, Vivaldi is fast and powerful.

stardepp

@waj Welcome here to the Vivaldi Forum

zakius

@kimmoj: but it can do magical things like dragging tab from Vivaldi to Waterfox and it works
not the other way around though

Chas4

12th
Webkit and Opera's old Presto engine were developed in the same building on different floors in Norway, also in the building was an adult store (not sure if it is there still). To make an engine from scratch also is hard as you have all the HTML5 standards to implement, then all the different CSS, TLS, and a way to handle Javascript, a way to have updates and handle crashes among other things.

iAN CooG

@Chas4 said in How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome:

also in the building was an adult store

now THIS is a very interesting info, explains many things. Right?

derDay

Great article (mainly because Vivaldi is a great product ‍️)

Priest72

@boruta It would appear you did not read the article fully.The settings you are seeing are "chromium" settings NOT chrome.
Vivaldi is based on chromium so naturally the chromium settings are there.

legobuilder26

@boruta Vivaldi's actual settings are at vivaldi://settings.

OR on the panel

OR in the menu

Priest72

@legobuilder26 why would we type that when the settings are in our main drop down menu.

legobuilder26

@Priest72 I like typing more than clicking. I'm kinda obsessed with keyboard shortcuts.

xnaas

If you look closely, you’ll notice that no-one has built a new engine from scratch in 20 years. There’s a reason for that. The rendering engine is the most complex part of the browser. Developing a new engine from scratch would take far too long and require significant resources.

Mozilla created (and then abandoned) Servo which is now part of the Linux Foundation.

senja

"We disable a lot of stuff in the Chromium code to keep your data private."
This is important. Many people think that Chromium is scrapped from all Google stuff. And that is enough to choose Chromium if you want to escape from Google. As this explanation tells us, Google tracking is integrated directly in open-source Chromium, or Blink engine.

Priest72

@boruta Chromium does not "automatically" clean anything.The only main browser which does is firefox and other mozilla based browsers.

VAPG1974

I tend to say Vivaldi is the direction ol' good Opera should've taken...

Its full customization is something you're grateful for when you care aesthetics since your browser is where you'll be seeing the whole time when websurfing. It's a nice mix between my Nestcape days and modern browsers.

Continous improvement, showing they love their product and us, the users.
Five stars.