Choose a custom Theme color for Vivaldi on Android.
By default, with a light theme, Vivaldi on Android will change the Address and Tab Bar colors based on the open website. To change the accent color:
By default, with a light theme, Vivaldi on Android will change the Address and Tab Bar colors based on the open website. To change the accent color:
Whether you’re streaming audio or video, getting notifications from a messaging service or browsing sites that make noise, occasionally it’s necessary to silence them to focus on sounds from a single source or to have complete piece and quiet.
To mute and unmute Tabs in Vivaldi, use one of the following options:
When the tab is muted, in place of the website’s logo, you’ll see a muted speaker icon.
To mute and unmute Web Panels, right-click on the web panel’s icon on the Panels bar and select Mute Panel.
Web pages often come with a lot of content on them and focusing on the article you’re there to read can be a bit difficult with all the distractions. Enabling Reader View removes all but the main article, allowing you to focus on what’s important.
To enable Reader View:
To adjust settings, such as font size, line height or color scheme, click on the Settings button in the top right corner of the page or go to Settings > Webpages > Reader.
A signature is a personalized section that is automatically added to the end of all messages you send from Vivaldi Mail (or other mail clients).
To add a signature in Vivaldi:
If you need additional text formatting options or want to add an image to the signature, tick the box for Enable Rich Text and Images below Signature field.
To add an image, drag and drop the file to the signature field.
You can always customize your Start Page and Speed Dials from the main Settings page. To see the changes, though, you have to go back and forth between Settings and the Start Page. An alternative is to make the changes in the Quick Settings panel on the Start Page itself. That way you can see the changes immediately.
To customize the Speed Dial via Quick Settings:
When you load a page, then by default all images are loaded and animated ones play on a loop. If constantly moving images are a disturbance for you, you can prevent it with a simple setting change.
To stop images from moving:
It’s easy to accumulate an abundance of tabs, so every now and then it’s good to close them. You can of course close them one by one, which gives you the chance to review the tabs you’re closing or you can be bold and close them all at once.
To close all tabs:
To search only a specific category in Quick Commands, you can use a the following keywords in front of the search term to filter out only relevant results:
bookmark:
note:
tab:
history:
command:
action:
An example:
It’s also possible to use shorter keywords like bkm:
(bookmark), tb:
(tab), cmd:
(command) and other alternative search terms derived using regular expression.
When writing a blog post or creating a new page on your blog on Vivaldi.net, you can get a better overview of the blocks used in the blog and select blocks to work on from the List View.
To open List View, click on the List View button in the top left corner of the page.
To focus on a block and edit it, click on the block in the List View.
To close List View, click on the same List View button or on the Close button in the top right corner of the List View panel.
When you swipe right or left on the Android browser’s Address Bar or bottom toolbar, you can switch to the next or previous tab that you have open.
When you swipe down from the Address Bar (up, if you’ve moved the Address Bar to the bottom), you can open the Tab Switcher, from where you can see all your open tabs, as well as access private, recently closed and synced tabs. In case the swipe down/up gesture doesn’t seem to work, make sure you have Enable Address Bar Swipe Gesture toggled on in Settings.
If you’ve compartmentalized your browsing by creating multiple User Profiles, you can open links from one profile in the other, should you come across a useful link in the “wrong” profile.
To open links in a different User Profile:
Focus will go to the profile window where the link will be opened.
To open active tab’s link in another profile, try the suggestion shared in Tip #63.
Vivaldi Calendar can easily be used to keep track of your to-do list. Tasks with deadlines will be shown on their due date among your other events. All tasks, including ones with a deadline, can be seen in the Agenda view.
To create a new task in the Vivaldi Calendar:
Rocker Gestures are Mouse Gestures used to execute commands with the left and right mouse buttons.
To perform an action using Rocker Gestures, you have two options:
To edit Rocker Gestures:
If you need a bit more control over your downloads, instead of the built-in downloader, you can opt for an external download manager app.
To set an external app to manage your downloads:
Then whenever downloading a file the external app will take over.