As you were browsing, did a tab accidentally end up in a Tab Stack where it doesn’t belong? There’s an easy fix for that.
To remove a tab from a Tab Stack:
You can gain a few pixels for displaying more web content and/or hide distracting notification icons from view, by hiding Android’s Status Bar. It’s especially useful when you tend to browse more with Vivaldi in landscape mode.
To hide your mobile devices Status Bar while using the app:
Sometimes grabbing a screenshot is the best way to save or share web content. Especially, if you want to share more than just images.
You could use your mobile device’s capture feature, but that will also show the status bar and the browser interface, requiring you to spend more time on cropping the output. In addition, you’ll only be able to capture the visible area of the page. Vivaldi’s Capture tool offers a better solution.
To capture a screenshot in Vivaldi on Android:
The screenshot will be saved to your image gallery, from where you can open it for viewing, further edits, and sharing.
You might be wondering what a feature in Vivaldi on Android is about, trying to figure out how to configure the app to your liking, or in the unfortunate event, trying to troubleshoot an issue. Vivaldi Help with its growing selection of articles is here to help.
To quickly open Vivaldi Help on Android, use one of the following methods:
Vivaldi menu, scroll to the end, and select Help & Feedback.Check out Tip #2 to see how to best get to Vivaldi Help on desktop and Tip #567 for iOS.
If you’ve been enjoying using the Vivaldi Browser on your Android devices, let others know about it by leaving a positive rating and a review on the Play Store. It helps us a lot. 😊
To leave a rating:
So, as the song goes 🎶 “If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it… give Vivaldi 5 stars!” 🎶 😄
You might not be ready to commit to making Vivaldi the default browser right after installation, but after using the app for a bit, you’ll likely want to use Vivaldi as your main browser.
To set Vivaldi as the default browser app:
Private Tabs are a good option when you want to use the same service with two different accounts, hide your browsing activity from someone you’re sharing the device with, or any other reason. But before you can start browsing in a Private tab, you need to open one first.
Take a look at the list below to see the many ways you can do it in Vivaldi on Android:
+ Tab Switcher button and select “New private tab”.+ New Tab button on the Tab Bar and select “New private tab”.+ New Tab button in the bottom right corner.
There are a lot of search engines you can use to find information on the internet. Vivaldi on Android comes with a good selection and allows you to set your preferred search engine as the default one, while still allowing you to quickly use others via Search Engine Nicknames.
To change the default search engines:
If the search engine you like most isn’t listed, check Tip #230 to see how you can add more.
The desktop-like Tab Bar in Vivaldi on Android comes with a desktop-like option to reorder your open tabs with drag and drop. The only difference is that instead of a mouse you need to use your finger or stylus pen to do it.
To reorder tabs on the Tab Bar:
QR codes can be found everywhere, both in the physical world and on the web. It’s common to launch the camera app to scan QR codes and then open the scanned link in a browser or app, but if you want to open the link in Vivaldi anyway, why not use the built-in QR code scanner.
To scan a QR code with Vivaldi on Android:
If the scanner detects a URL, it’ll automatically open the link in a new tab. In case it detects some other information, it offers to copy the information or to do a search with it.
Bonus tip! Use the QR code generator on desktop to quickly share and open links in Vivaldi on Android. See Tip #14 for instructions.
Smaller screens fit less tabs on the Tab Bar. To squeeze in a few more than usual, you can hide the tab titles and only display the website’s logo aka the favicon.
To display only the favicon for each tab:
You can win even more space, if you disable “Show X Button For Background Tabs”. That way only the active tab has the Close button visible.
Are you new to Vivaldi and looking for where you can access the browser’s menu with some of the most useful features. In Vivaldi the menu can be opened when you click or tap on the Vivaldi logo, except for Vivaldi on macOS, where the full menu is always on display.
On desktop the Vivaldi logo is in the top left corner and on Android it’s on the right side of the Address Bar, either at the top or bottom of the screen, depending on your settings.
You can learn more about the menus on desktop and Android on Vivaldi Help.
Writing down your thoughts or turning snippets of text from web pages into Notes is a great way to save important knowledge for later. Since Notes can be on any topic, grouping related notes into folders helps to keep things organized and easy to find.
To organize notes into folders in Vivaldi on Android:
Take a look at the video to see how to create a new Notes folder on the tablet version of Vivaldi on Android.
We shared how to search with a snippet of text on a web page on the desktop version of Vivaldi in Tip #8. This time we’re sharing how to do the same on Android.
To search with selected text:
Results will be shown from your default search engine.
