Vivaldi is a customizable, tabbed web browser based on the same engine as Google Chrome. Its appearance and capabilities can be extended with themes and extensions. It features a bookmark manager, speed dial, notes, custom search engines, sessions, tab stacks, web panels, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, user interface scaling, adaptive interface color and much more.
Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux.
Category: | |
Runs on: | Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: |
In the User Data folder, which is created in the same root as "Application" folder. Note that the program resets some settings, including the list of installed extensions, when you move between PCs. |
Stealth: ? | No. HKCU\Software\Vivaldi |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Otter Browser, Opera, Google Chrome, Slimjet, SRWare Iron |
What's new? |
See: https://vivaldi.com/nl/changelog-vivaldi-browser-6-6/ Blog: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-6/ |
Zorro is absolutely right, even Vivaldi Standalone version registers 'update_notifier.exe' to auto-start with Windows -- something that somehow slipped by me in the previous test.
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@zorro: do you mean 'update_notifier.exe'? I haven't erased it but never found it in memory in my brief testing of Vivaldi... and I couldn't make the previous instructions work in a straightforward way, hence my last comment.
BTW, Vivaldi Standalone still saves loads of settings to 'HKCU\Software\Vivaldi'.
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Well, the previous instructions still work. If you do it the installer way and don't want new stuff in autostart, don't forget to delete the updater exe in the "Application" folder, because even with update check disabled in the settings this exe starts with windows..
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Extraction instructions outdated. Should be "run installer, choose advanced, choose standalone, select path"...
For more info, see https://help.vivaldi.com/article/standalone-version-of-vivaldi/.
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...well, there's more - I launch Vivaldi with my own batch file:
@echo off
REG IMPORT vivaldi.reg
start /wait "" "Application/vivaldi.exe"
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Vivaldi vivaldi.reg /y
REG DELETE "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Vivaldi" /f
REG DELETE "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google" /f
RD %LocalAppData%\Vivaldi /s /q
DEL %USERPROFILE%\.vivaldi_reporting_data /f /q
exit
You see, there's also HKCU\Software\Google and - came with version 2.9 - the ".vivaldi_reporting_data" directly in the userprofile.
It's a pity, but nothing that can't be handled with a batch file. Of course the biggest drawback remains the hardware binding of extensions and some settings...
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