Single-letter Search Engine Nicknames allow you to quickly switch search engines from the Address Bar of Vivaldi on Android. But if, for example, due to characteristics in the language you use, you find yourself unintentionally switching search engines you can disable the feature.
To disable nickname use:
With more and more new cars coming out with a tablet-like screen on their center consoles, being able to access the web from them just makes sense, and the Android version of Vivaldi for Android Automotive OS is perfect for it.
You can watch videos together while you’re waiting for your car to charge for the next leg of the trip, look for dinner inspiration while waiting for the kids at the school parking lot, read the news while the spouse is shopping, and so much more. For safety reasons, the browser can only be used while the car is parked.
To install Vivaldi in your car:
Vivaldi is available in an increasing number of new car models by Polestar, Renault, Volvo, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Audi, Lynk&Co, Ford, Lincoln, and more.
Finding the link to an online store listing you came across while browsing on your phone or continuing the research you started on another computer is easier than ever with Vivaldi and its History Sync.
To sync History in Vivaldi:
Repeat these steps on all desktop and mobile devices you use Vivaldi on.
You may be comfortable with one search engine for your everyday browsing but prefer a different search engine when you want stronger privacy. In Vivaldi on Android, like in Vivaldi on desktop and iOS (see Tip #378), you have the choice to set separate Search Engines as the default ones for Standard Tabs and Private Tabs.
To update the default search engines:
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When Vivaldi starts behaving in expected and unwanted ways it’s time to troubleshoot and solve the issue. The solution might be as easy as restarting the browser, or maybe a third-party extension you’ve added is causing trouble.
To troubleshoot issues in Vivaldi check out the following Help pages:
If the suggestions in these Help pages don’t get rid of the issue, you can ask for further assistance on our Forum and if you can consistently reproduce the issue, report it to us as a bug on https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/.
Usually, mobile browsers are optimized for smartphones but not for tablets. Vivaldi’s user interface is designed to work just as well on tablets, Chromebooks, and screens in cars by allowing you to change the zoom level of the browser interface.
To increase or decrease the size of Vivaldi on Android’s user interface:
Seeing suggestions from your browsing history helps to get to pages you want to visit again faster, but what to do with suggestions that are no longer relevant? Remove them of course. Here’s how!
To delete a history entry from suggestions:
In a spree of tapping the back button to go to previous pages in the tab history, you might end up tapping too many times resulting in the app closing. To make it less likely to happen, you can enable a setting requiring you to tap twice, while on the Start Page, to exit the browser. After a single tap, you’ll also be prompted to tap once more to exit.
To enable double tap to exit Vivaldi:
This exiting method is equivalent to choosing “Exit” from the main Vivaldi menu, which removes the app from the selection of open apps in your mobile device’s app switcher.
Tiling tabs is very popular on the desktop version of Vivaldi, but did you know you can tile 2 web pages on Vivaldi on Android as well?
To view 2 sites side by side:
You can even resize the tiles by moving the line dividing the two windows.
Some websites have content in multiple languages and check your browser/OS setting to decide which language to display it in. In Vivaldi on Android, you can choose the languages you’d like to see websites in.
To review and add preferred languages:
Vivaldi menu > Settings > Language settings > Preferred languages.You can change the order of priority by tapping on the 
symbol in front of the language name and dragging it up or down in the list.
You know you have a lot of open tabs in Vivaldi on Android, when instead of a number on the Tab Switcher button you see :D. To keep the number of open tabs manageable, you can set Vivaldi to prompt you to close tabs that you haven’t visited in a while.
To set a time after which you’ll get prompted to close old tabs:
“Copy link to highlight” (see Tip #169) is a great feature for sharing a specific part of a web page quickly. Instead of sharing a link and instructing the recipient to scroll past 5 paragraphs of text and 3 images, they’ll be taken to the exact spot you want to highlight (as long as they also use a browser that supports this feature). While on desktop only the link is shared, on Android the highlighted text is also included in the message.
To share text from Vivaldi on Android:
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 aka Simplified View on Android removes all but the main article, allowing you to focus on what’s important.
To enable Reader View on Android:
Let’s say you block all ads and trackers by default but want to make an exception for a specific website that you trust or, maybe, the site behaves strangely, so you want to check whether disabling the content blocker will solve the issue. In that case, while the website you want to change the blocking level for is open in the active tab:
Content Blocker button on the left side of the Address Bar.You can view and manage all websites you’ve set a separate blocking level for in Settings > Privacy > Tracker and Ad Blocking > Exceptions.
