Development

Covers the why, how, and when of the various stages of development of Vivaldi browser.

From me to you: A dev’s take on Vivaldi

April 12, 2019

A recent addition to the team, developer Trond Kjetil reflects on switching to Vivaldi and working on older bits of code to improve performance.

An array of Vivaldi icons displayed in a grid.

Refining the Vivaldi icon library

April 2, 2019

Remember when we introduced the new Application Icon way back in Vivaldi 1.11? It was high time for all the little icons in our interface to get refined.

Building buttons that move

March 28, 2019

For the first time in Vivaldi history, a button can exist in more than one location. Here’s how we’ve been able to achieve this.

Exploit that bug: The untold story of Auto-Stacking

February 7, 2019

Vivaldi is the first browser to introduce auto tab stacking, but did you know that it owes its life to a good karma bug?

Vivaldi Sync Encryption

Encryption keys and usability in Vivaldi and other browsers

November 19, 2018

Have you ever wondered how browsers handle the user-facing portion of data-encryption? Julien Picalausa explains this in details, as well as goes into how Vivaldi’s encryption key is handled.

Three reasons Vivaldi.net registration is now better

October 24, 2018

The revamped registration and profile pages for Vivaldi.net are now live. Front-end developer Fredrik Andersson takes us through the thinking process and implementation of the new Vivaldi Account.

Vivaldi Sync

Sync hits Vivaldi Stable

September 26, 2018

Vivaldi can now seamlessly and securely sync your data between multiple computers. Our Sync lead takes a look at what we’ve accomplished so far and what’s next for Vivaldi’s Sync.

Vivaldi’s code integration. Our developers speak.

September 12, 2018

Recently, Norway’s leading tech publication Digi.no published a story about how Vivaldi works with the Chromium code. In the interview, three of our devs talk for the first time about this little-known side of building Vivaldi.

Scrollbars in Vivaldi browser

Better Scrollbars in Vivaldi

August 27, 2018

In a recent Snapshot, we improved the scrollbars in the browser’s UI. Vivaldi Designer Henrik Helmers explains how the team accomplished the styling of scrollbars.

Page color in Vivaldi

August 23, 2018

Ever wondered how Vivaldi decides what color is selected for a given page? Vivaldi Designer Henrik Helmers explains.

Introducing Vivaldi’s extensions to GN on GitHub

August 20, 2018

Vivaldi has added various extensions to the GN tool developed by Chromium and has made them available in a GitHub repository. Find out if your project can benefit from these extensions.

Vivaldi with a Window Background Image

Perfect textures in Vivaldi

April 26, 2018

In our latest release, we introduced the option to use a Window Background Image. This presents you with new ways to customize Vivaldi to your liking. Here we share a few tips and tricks to achieve texture perfection!