Vivaldi
Vivaldi is a web browser from former Opera founder & team members, based on Chromium and focused on personalization aspects.
Installation
Vivaldi can be installed with vivaldi or vivaldi-snapshotAUR. Prebuilt packages can alternatively be found in the herecura unofficial repository. For differences between snapshot and stable versions, see this page.
To use Qt instead of GTK dialogs for file selections just install kdialog.
Extensions
Vivaldi is compatible with most of Chrome's extensions.
These can be installed directly from the Chrome Web Store.
To see which extensions are installed/enabled, type vivaldi://extensions in the address bar.
See also Wikipedia:Google Chrome Extension.
Media playback
To enable proprietary media (H264, AAC, etc.) playback support:
- install vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs or
- start Vivaldi fresh (after update or fresh install), close Vivaldi and restart again
- use the from AUR
Making flags persistent
You can put your flags in a file under (or under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if you have configured that environment variable).
No special syntax is used; flags are defined as if they were written in a terminal.
- The arguments are split on whitespace and shell quoting rules apply, but no further parsing is performed.
- Flags can be placed in separate lines for readability, but this is not required.
Below is an example file that disables hardware media keys for the browser:
~/.config/vivaldi-stable.conf
--disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling
The vivaldi-snapshotAUR package can get its flags set with the file.
Modding
Vivaldi has modding capabilities through its file.
The file can be found at:
Another way to find the path is through the Executable Path section at .
Tips and Tricks
Transfer your profile to snapshot version
If you switched to snapshot version because of lacking features of stable version, you want to also use your user profile. Copy the to .
Google search suggestions
Vivaldi cannot be shipped with enabled suggestions for google search. The user must manually add the suggestion url https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=chrome&q=%s in search settings.