Notices by Vivaldi Browser (vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net), page 2

When it’s spring, but you remember you live in Norway…🙄

Happy Easter everyone!

Today we launched Tabs As A Service...but only on LinkedIn 😄

Why? Because it's April 1st and this was the dumbest new vertical we could think of.

We would never charge nor judge you for any number of tabs you have open or how many tab management features you use.

To any PE or VC fund feeling like this was supposed to be your golden ticket to ascend into tech-heaven. Sorry, not sorry.

To you who thought it seemed fair to charge for TaaS, get it for free by clicking the link in the comments.

To our community and friends, we love you, and we love tabs. ❤️

We're pleased to confirm that TaaS is free forever!

After last week's update, you can now enjoy a Daily Image option for your Start Page on both iOS and Android ✨

A nice little detail for those of us who get easily bored!

To enable it, go to Settings > Start Page > Wallpaper and select “Use Daily Image”, or tap on “Customize” at the bottom of the Start Page and enable “Use Daily Image”.

Vivaldi 7.9 is here!

We’ve put a lot of effort into this release and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. ❤️

What are the highlights?

✨ UI Auto-hide
➡️ Follower tab
✉️ Powerful Mail updates

There is real browser magic coming with this release so make sure you get it NOW! 🪄

Read more: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-9/

🚀Vivaldi デスクトップ版、7.9 リリースしました！
タブバーやアドレスバーを自動で隠してコンテンツに没頭できる「UI 自動非表示」を追加。マウスカーソルを端に寄せたら、すぐ操作 UI が戻ってくるので安心です😍

https://vivaldi.com/ja/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-9/

Happy birthday Mastodon! 🎉

From Vivaldi, a big thank you to @Gargron, the rest of Mastodon's team and everyone else who enjoys and breathes life into this corner of the internet!

Here's to 10 more! 🥂

The fact that browsing without built-in AI seems like such an innovative thing these days, should make us all think twice.

Keep exploring!

https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-browser-that-doesnt-have-ai/

#NoAI #browser

Big Tech is at it again.

Some of you might have seen this already. Google has announced a new policy for Android app developers, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (on their own website or on alternative app stores). This would entail:

1) agreeing to their terms and conditions
2) paying a fee
3) uploading a government ID

Which is wrong on so many levels. Nobody should be forced to register with Google if they don’t want to use their services.

In doing so they would be extending their gatekeeping (tentacles) into distribution channels where they’re just not a legitimate authority.

At Vivaldi, we believe you have the right to run whatever software you want on a device you own. That’s why we’ve co-signed this open letter, together with other 53 organisations, requesting Google to back off on the proposed policy before it enters into force.

(Plus, they have have a pretty cool logo 😄)

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

It’s 2026, and some people still believe women don’t belong in tech. But we're here to prove them wrong. 😌

At Vivaldi, women are cofounders, sys admins, developers, QA engineers, HR, community specialists, and office managers. 🔥

If you're a woman in tech, what do you do?

#8mars #8march #internationalWomensDay

Anyone up for a sticker swap?

We send you one of these, you send us something else? Let us see what you got 👀

(Please boost for reach!)

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@TonyVivaldi/116142036165742730

For the last two months, our mascot Tony has been trying to persuade people to leave Big Tech behind as their new year resolution for 2026. We're already in March, so it's time to put an end to this campaign, but we hope you'll let us keep walking with you on this journey towards digital sovereignity.

Here's some mantras for you to repeat in front of the mirror every morning:

"I can make choices."
"My data is mine to control."
"I'm done being used and abused by big corporations."

We've got this!

#digitalIndependenceDay #DiDay #digitalsovereignty #BigTech

昨年12月に施行された #スマホ法 📱のブラウザチョイススクリーン、皆さんのお手元でも表示されました？
私たちも見てみたけれど、表示されるブラウザの順番や、あれ？Vivaldi は？など、気になる点がありました。詳しくはブログで👇
https://vivaldi.com/ja/blog/choice-screen-where-is-vivaldi/

The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.

Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe. 🤞

If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness about what's really behind the tech they use?

#ethics #BigTech #browser

@p you're probably aware of our reasons not to publish under an open-source license, but you can still find it here https://vivaldi.com/source/

Big Tech: "Introducing AI that can hallucinate answers to questions you didn't ask"
Vivaldi: "We made the most advanced tab multitasking system ever built”
Big Tech: "But AI is the future…."
Vivaldi: "Cool. Our future includes a browser the user controls, and it shipped today"
Big Tech: "You're missing the point…."
Vivaldi: "You're missing the download link"

Vivaldi 7.8. No bullshit. Just love for tabs and our users
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-8/

Tab Hoarding alignment chart ⚔️

We definitely have a bunch of chaotic characters around the office...Where would you fall?

@itchi5 👋 hello, we're a non-Big-Tech, non-AI browser company based in Norway and Iceland. Nice to meet you!

Our first tagline was "a browser for our friends", and although we have a better marketing team now than we had 10 years ago...these words say a lot about who we are.

That, and the fact that we're here scrolling on VS on a Saturday night. 🙃

The good thing about having strong values is you don't need to backtrack on your stances. 😇

#AI #Browser

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115728747391375438

First launch of the year pushed, and so far...sticking to the roadmap. ✅

Perks of being employee-owned and not having to sell your soul to keep shareholders happy. 😎