We all depend on our web browsers to get work done, and keeping that work organized can be a challenge. Handling an overload of open tabs is something many of us struggle with, and finding what we need at any given time definitely becomes a problem.

Different browsers offer different ways to manage tabs, and in many cases, extensions can also help with this. However, if you're trying to manage your tabs the best you can, choosing the right browser may be the key, and if you ask me, the right browser is Vivaldi. I've loved Vivaldi's productivity features for as long as I've been using it, and that includes its fantastic tab management features.

Workspaces, stacks, and tiles

It's your browser, your rules

Vivaldi touts itself as a productivity-focused browser, and you can definitely see it when it comes to your tab management. The team has put a lot of work into enabling as many features as possible, and it shows. First off, there are workspaces, which aren't necessarily exclusive, but they do work pretty well here. You can organize your tabs into workspaces to make it easier to swap between groups of tabs dedicated to specific tasks. You can name workspaces anything you want, and they can contain as many tabs as you want. Workspaces essentially are different Vivaldi environments with their own sets of tabs, and you can give them different names so you can more easily find what you're looking for if you're juggling a lot of projects.

Another big feature in Vivaldi are tab stacks, which are the company's equivalent to tab groups some other browsers offer. And while tab groups are fine, they really don't save space in the way that they ought to. When you stack tabs in Vivaldi, a second row of tabs appears, letting you maintain the full top-level view of open tabs, while breaking the contents of a tab stack into the second row so you can still have a holistic view of everything you're working on. This makes it far easier to manage large groups of tabs whenever I need to, because scrolling through tabs can be a bit of a nightmare. You can also rename tab stacks so you know exactly what's in each one (for that matter, individual tabs can be renamed, too), and you can choose their highlight color, too.

One of my personal favorites is the ability to tile tabs, however. At any point, you can select two or more tabs within your Vivaldi window and tile them, making it so they're shown side by side on the screen. Many browsers support a dual-pane view for tabs, but Vivaldi can split the screen numerous times to show as many tabs as you want, and you can resize the areas for each page to your heart's content. It's a level of flexibility you don't get anywhere else.

And that's on top of the basics, like easily moving tabs from one window to another, being able to pin tabs and actually keep those pinned tabs across sessions. Vivaldi is just great for tab management.

Tab syncing

It's so much better than Chrome

Managing tabs is one thing, but there's nothing quite like being able to hop from one device to another and keep access to all the things you were doing before. And when it comes to roaming across devices, Vivaldi is easily one of the best browsers out there. Across all your PCs and phones, open tabs are always synchronized to the cloud, and it does a good job of staying up to date.

Many times, I'll start research for a project on my main work PC (a Mac Mini), but I need to test something on another. With Vivaldi, I can just go on the test PC and select the cloud icon to see synced tabs from all my devices. It's just a matter of finding the one I need and opening it. There's no action required to send the tab over to another device, it's just there. Admittedly, it hasn't always been totally perfect, but I can't remember the last time I had to manually send a tab from one device to another (though yes, that option also exists). Even on my phone, I can easily see my cloud-synced tabs, so it really comes together very well.

Vivaldi is also great about recovering closed tabs and windows, since it keeps a history of them as well. The trash can icon at the top of the browser keeps a fairly long list of all the tabs you've closed recently on your current device, so you can reopen a tab or window relatively easily if you closed it accidentally or forgot something. You can even save your open tabs at any given time as a session, allowing you to come back to it later whenever you want. This can be useful if you want to plan a trip during your downtime without it getting in the way of your work, when your browser activity might push those tabs out of your recent history. Sessions are saved indefinitely, so you never lose them.

It's all easy to manage

Tab management all in one place

On top of all these features, the cherry on top of Vivaldi's tab management is that it's all easy to do from a single place. The cloud and trash can icons live at the top of your browser window, but a recent update added another button to this section, which gives you access to all of the tab features I mentioned above. This area summarizes everything on your slate, including cloud synced tabs, recently closed tabs, and tabs open across different windows and workspaces. You can easily jump to any tab from this one menu, so you may not have to hunt for open windows in the operating system.

In fact, there's a second place where you can do this, thanks to the sidebar in Vivaldi. You can open the Windows and Tabs section to see the same information, but with some additional controls, like the ability to create new workspaces.

And that's another thing: this sidebar also gives you access to certain websites in a small overlay that opens over your current window. You can add even more pages to your browsing habits, which is especially useful for tools you use recurrently but that don't warrant taking a big chunk of your screen. There are so many ways to manage your tabs and open pages to maximize your productivity.

Vivaldi is the king of browser productivity

While many companies are busy cramming AI features into their browser, Vivaldi has been around for almost 11 years with a focus on proper browser productivity. The way tabs are handled is leagues ahead of any competing browser, and I've tried a lot of them. I wouldn't trade it for anything else, even if there are extensions to help improve tab management.