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It's that time of the year again, and hate it or love it...you can't avoid it! 😜

Check out your 2023 year in review from the Vivaldi ! 🎧

Video of Vivaldi in the style of Spotify wrapped, showing that we don't have any access to your data.
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Day 4 of Vivaldi's !

Annoyed by the amount of holiday offers and newsletters filling up your inbox this month?

Step 1: Enable Vivaldi (Settings > Mail > Enable Mail, Calendar and Feeds).

Step 2: Set up some filters and forget about manually adding flags and labels to your mails.

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Vivaldi on Desktop's UI showing mail filter options.
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Day 5 is here!

Did you know that, like Santa, you can check who's been naughty and tried to track you online this year? 🎅

Open your Statistics and get ready to have your mind bloooown. 🤯

✨ adventcalendar.vivaldi.net/day-5 ✨

Video showing how to check Privacy Statistics in the Vivaldi browser, including trackers and ads blocked, and the source site they came from.
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Time to open another window (or tab? 😉) in our .

Traveling home during the , and you won't have internet for a while?

🪄 Save pages you want to read so you can still access them offline!

Learn how:
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Vivaldi on Android UI showing the context menu and the 'Download Page' and 'Reading List' selected.
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🎁 Here's a little holiday gift from Germany: Legislators take action against for ignoring your Do-Not-Track privacy setting on browsers.

Let's dive into the DNT ruling to understand what this means for our digital . 🔐

vivaldi.com/blog/do-no-track-g

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‘Do-No-Track’ makes a comeback with legal backing in Germany | Vivaldi Browser
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decor at home is fine, but sometimes websites have too many visual distractions around this time of the year.

💡 Enable Reader View for focused reading without all the bells and whistles.

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A holiday gifts website with the Reader view icon highlighted
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The same website in Reader view, where just the text is displayed.
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Feeling extra festive this ? 🎁

Add that extra holiday touch to your Vivaldi by updating your User Profile avatar image to match the season; or match your Christmas PJs, we're not judging! ☃️🎄

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Vivaldi on Desktop UI showing a Christmas hat as the user profile avatar
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As a company of 54 employees and zero external investors, it's always very exhilarating at Vivaldi.

But thanks to our talented crew, we're the only cross-platform available on computers, phones, tablets, and cars. 😎

Grid layout of how Vivaldi looks on desktop, mobile, cars and tablets.
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We're halfway through our , and you might be getting tired of us christmassifying everything — fair enough, we'll give you a breather!

Today's tip is very easy to follow: head to vivaldi.com/game whenever you need a break. :tony_normal:

Keeping your mind off of everything else to fight robots and dinosaurs will give you the mental space you need to tackle other tasks! 🦖

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Play Vivaldia on Vivaldi Browser and Steam: A Battle for Humanity
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Some people don't want to use browsers based on . And it is a choice as valid as any other. But one thing is clear: building a engine from scratch is not a simple task.

Our team maintains and modifies the Chromium code constantly, both to add features and to get rid of tools and other stuff added by . And this is already complex enough.

On top of that, we also have to modify WebKit on - at least for the time being.

Here's a recent interview where @jon talks about our choices and the challenge of going against as a small company:

kode24.no/artikkel/kritiserer-

(It's in Norwegian but don't let that scare you! 😉)

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Kritiserer Google, men bruker Chromium: «Urealistisk å lage egen motor»
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Here's our tip for today, day of ! 🕯️

If you want to share several links to the websites that you have opened, just right-click on a selection of Tabs, Tab Stack or Workspace, and select 'Copy Links'.

Sharing is caring, so share away! ✨
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Vivaldi on Desktop UI showing a selection of tabs and the context menu with the option 'Copy Links' highlighted. The current open tab displays a recipe for Santa Lucia saffron buns.
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Two powerful releases on one day! Is it already? 😲 🎁

Download Vivaldi 6.5 on and , and get ready to welcome a whole new set of unique features and options! ⚡

Desktop: vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-de
iOS: vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-io

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Vivaldi celebrates the Holidays with a feature-packed update
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Vivaldi on iOS gets Address Bar at bottom and Custom Wallpapers
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Hero image for our iOS release showing bottom Tab Bar and Address Bar and a tab open about how to make the most of the Winter.
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クリスマス前にやってきたあわてんぼうの🎅こと Vivaldi です!🎁プレゼントはもちろん、Desktop と iOS のアップデート。仲良く揃って 6.5 になりました。

楽しい年末年始までもうちょい。便利なツールと一緒に乗り切っていきましょ🎄

🖥 vivaldi.com/ja/press/vivaldi-c

📱🍎 vivaldi.com/ja/press/vivaldi-o

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機能盛りだくさんのアップデートで年末年始をお祝いしよう | Vivaldi Browser
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iOS 版 Vivaldi: さらに便利になった Vivaldi で年末年始をエンジョイしよう! | Vivaldi Browser
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新機能アドレスバーのボトム表示を主とした iOS 版 Vivaldi 6.5 リリースブログのトップ画像
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users rejoice, because Vivaldi 6.5 arrives with bottom Address and Tab Bars! 🎉

📣 You asked for it, and we heard you loud & clear! You can now choose whether to have your Address and Tab Bars at the top or bottom.

↕️ When enabled at the bottom, you can also enable 'Reverse search suggestions order', so that they will show from the bottom up. Clever huh? 🧠

😍 The Start Page gets some love, with the option to add either custom or preloaded wallpapers.

🎨 Accent colors for webpages will make you go "woooow", with the UI matching the colors of each website that is being visited.

🔒 Encrypted full History Sync, so you can securely access any site you visited from another device.

Get all the details 👇
vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-io

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Vivaldi on iOS gets Address Bar at bottom and Custom Wallpapers
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😎 We are wrapping 2023 on a high note with a feature-packed update on desktop that includes a new Sessions Panel, Full History , Workspace Rules & more. 🔥

No time to read the blog? Watch this video to learn what's new!👇

youtube.com/watch?v=Cg7ONfoKuA

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New in! 👕 Tony T-shirt in 6 different colors.

...and since we're in a great mood due to Thursday’s release, here's a 10% discount code for the Vivaldi Store, valid through the weekend! 😍

➡️ hohovivaldi ⬅️

Support a small business and...treat yo' self! ❤️

store.vivaldi.net

Olive green T-shirt with the Vivaldi logo in white on the sleeve and a white drawing of Tony, our mascot, on the front.
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You don't need a to get your tabs in order. 😅

Workspaces are great, but some of you had the problem of opening tabs in the wrong Workspace and then having to manually rearrange them.

With our new Workspace Rules, tabs will automatically go where they belong.

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Workspaces.
2. Click on ‘Add New Workspace Rule’.
3. Set up the rule criteria.
4. Select to which Workspace the tab should be moved to.

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Vivaldi on desktop UI highlighting the new Workspace Rules, where you can set URLs to go in a given workspace.
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Vivaldi on just got bottom Address Bar, but our has had this setting for a while!

To move the Address Bar (and Tab Bar) to the bottom:

1. Go to Vivaldi menu > Settings > Appearance.
2. Toggle on Address Bar at Bottom.

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Vivaldi on Android with tab and address bar on top or bottom.
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Customize your Start Page on by either choosing one of our preloaded wallpapers, or using any image of your own. 🎨

Have you tried it out? We'd love to see how yours looks like!👇(Especially if it's a pic of your cat 😻).

Video showing the customization options for the Start Page on Vivaldi on iOS.
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Some of you might be following the eruption in .

One of our team members lives in the area, but he evacuated a while ago and he and his family are safe!

Did you know that our mascot Tony is a lava ball to represent our icelandic roots?🌋

You can follow it live here: youtube.com/watch?v=hvcP4kVVOn

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Google has announced they'll kill third-party cookies 🍪 in 2024, but despite what it seems, remember that this is only because they have come up with a new way to track users. 🙄

We talked about this on our blog a while ago, and we're well prepared. At Vivaldi we've campaigned against tracking for years, and this won't be any different.

PS. Old but timely pic!

➡️ bit.ly/3GSy5wS

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Who here remembers old Tony from ca. 2015? :tony_happy:

He clearly needed that cup of coffee! 😅

Old version of the Vivaldi mascot, Tony the lava ball.
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Time to look back on 2023, another year fuelled by passion and purpose. 🤩

Thank you for your support and for being with us on this journey!

Greetings from everyone at Vivaldi. 🎉

vivaldi.com/blog/2023-fuelled-

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2023: Fuelled by passion and purpose | Vivaldi Browser
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We've reached the end of our Advent Calendar! Time to mourn that the chocolate calendar is also over 🥲.

If the festive season has left you feeling like you need to take a break from everything, hit that Break Mode button!

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Break Mode screen in the Vivaldi browser on desktop.
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Merry Christmas from all of us at Vivaldi! 🎄

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Wishes do come true! And one of yours did this year.🙌

You wished for Vivaldi on and here it is ⬇️

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One of the ways to kick off the on a Friday is that we go into the weekend strong. And if you are planning a , here's our recommendation ⬇️

Vivaldia, our arcade game series. :vivaldia_3:

So let the games begin here ➡️ vivaldi.com/game/.

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We've already got a brilliant hangover of the year 2023. :tony_happy:

From all of us at Vivaldi, here's wishing you a great, fabulous, splendid 2024!🎉 :tony_wee:

Love and Light 🫶

Video with Vivaldi's highlights from 2023.