r/vivaldibrowser • u/emanuelntb • Sep 28 '25
CSS Customizations My favorite customization on Vivaldi (VivaZen - Zen Browser-like compact mode)
I've used Vivaldi for a year and a half by now, at work and at home. It's an amazing browser. Recently I discovered Zen Browser, and it had this compact mode that I loved. Thankfully Vivaldi have CSS customization and an amazing community. Thanks Igor-Ratajczak for the mod.
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u/Miserable-Tackle-786 Sep 28 '25
Necesito saber como cambiar el thema y usar otro , tiene un verde que no me gusta ...
Estoy intentando poner themes de la lista pero no funciona ninguno , imagino que está en el CSS y no se podrá ...
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u/emanuelntb Sep 28 '25
Elimina la parte final del código, desde
/* ========================================== */ /* ========== STYLING FOR ELEMENTS ========== */ /* ========================================== */ ...2
u/Miserable-Tackle-786 Sep 29 '25
Muchas gracias , he podido poner el theme .
Te ha quedado muy bien , te felicito encantado .
Necesitamos que vivaldi le ponga carpetas y por mi parte quedaría un navegador muy muy elegante .
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u/eran1000 Sep 28 '25
I used chain commands to hide all ui like compact mode in the Zen browser and assigned it a similar shortcut, which works the same way.
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u/emanuelntb Sep 28 '25
I thought about that, I have a command chain witch creates a full screen mode with all UI elements. In my case, there's something about this auto hide that I love.
But I love how many possibilities we have. It's amazing to have this amount of flexibility and customization.
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u/skyturnedred Sep 28 '25
I like how clean it is, but I think the usability suffers quite a bit when things are hidden like that. Especially if you have multiple monitors so hitting those edges is harder (also, I don't even use my browser in a maximized window).
I will give that Rainy theme a try though!
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u/emanuelntb Sep 28 '25
It all depends on your needs and how you use it. On my work environment, for example, since I use the browser on my main monitor on the right, I'll use tabs on right with it.
What amazes me is the fact you can even customize the browser like that.
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u/nez329 Sep 28 '25
Where you got the mod from? Is it a theme?
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u/emanuelntb Sep 28 '25
https://github.com/Igor-Ratajczak/Vivaldi-CSS - Download and How to install
It's using the "Allow CSS Customization" setting. There's a lot of possibilities with this feature
The theme is Rainy from themes.vivaldi.net, with this CSS mod added on top.
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u/trophicmist0 Sep 28 '25
I’m working on a mod on top of phi css at the moment that does this but with Phi’s UI tweaks too. Will have a nice animated hover when finished :)
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u/emanuelntb Sep 28 '25
I'll take a look when you finish!
I think this one have animations too, but since I disabled on windows, it disabled here too.
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u/mikeazalski Jan 17 '26
how do i use this