Vivaldi is Bringing Its Browser to Windows on Arm Too

You can add Vivaldi to the growing list of companies that will offer a native version of their web browsers on Windows on Arm. It’s still early days, but it’s happening.

“Today’s snapshot includes access to the Chromium memory saver options and an option to use the (older) more compact menus,” Vivaldi’s Ruarí Ødegaard writes in a blog post tied to a pre-release build of the browser. “As an extra bonus, we also include Windows arm64 ‘architecture preview’ packages for those of you with suitable hardware. These builds are not yet part of our automated test system and have only been lightly tested on one piece of hardware. Serious issues may exist and should be expected. Nonetheless, any testing and feedback would be greatly appreciated!”

That’s about it for information, but you can see that Vivaldi already offers the macOS version of its browser in a Universal binary that runs natively on Apple’s M-series Macs and in native Arm and Arm64 versions for Linux. So it’s only natural that it would eventually create a similar version for Windows on Arm. It should work on Windows 10 or Windows 11 on Arm.

You know, with caveats. “Early access (Preview) arm64 builds have undergone very limited testing,” the changelog for Vivaldi 6.6.3329.7 concludes. “Use at your own risk.”

Vivaldi’s hardly alone in supporting Windows on Arm, of course. Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and now Google Chrome are all available natively on this platform too.