There are a few ways you can open a new window in Vivaldi, For example, by clicking a button on the Tab Bar, from the File menu, through Quick Commands, etc. One of the more common ways to open a new window, though, is to use Keyboard Shortcuts.
Ctrl + N on Windows and Linux, and ⌘ N on macOS.Ctrl + Shift + N on Windows and Linux, and ⌘ Shift N on macOS.Especially useful with Vivaldi Calendar’s Minimal View, but handy in all views, event property icons for links, location, reminders and recurrence let you know at a glance what type of additional information the event includes.
To enable the icons:
You can hide the browser’s toolbars by enabling Full Screen view, but that maximizes the window and you’re not able to view the OS’ Task Bar or other open apps. As an alternative, you can just hide all toolbars and have the browser window as big or small as you want.
To quickly toggle Vivaldi’s user interface off and on, use the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl+F11 / ⌘ F10.
Alternatively, use the following options:
There are some unique ways you can use different Vivaldi features together to make the browser behave the way you want it. For example, with the help of Command Chains, Toolbar Editor and Custom Icons you can take Workspaces to the next level. Here’s how:
Step 1 – Create Command Chains for switching Workspaces.
Create a chain for every workspace. In each chain, you can also add other commands that will be executed at the same time. For example, add the command “Switch to theme” to make workspaces visually more different.
Step 2 – Add Command Chain buttons to a toolbar.
Step 3 – Add Custom Icons.
By default all Command Chain buttons looks the same, but you can add Custom Icons to make each button stand out.
For a more in depth description of this feature combination and final results, take a look at our blog post and video here.
With endless emails flooding your mailbox, moving messages to dedicated folders, assigning flags and labels to them, and marking tackled messages as read helps to keep things neat and easy to find later. Working with messages using the right-click context menus or shortcuts are excellent ways to manage your messages, but since Vivaldi 6.0 a quick drag and drop can get things done as well.
To move a message, change its read state or assign a property to it:
When there’s too much content on a page to read it all, you can search through the text with Find in Page.
To open Find in Page’s search field:
Ctrl / ⌘ + F.If you’ve already come across the keyword you want to search for on the page, select the keyword (or phrase) and only then open Find in Page. That way you can get to the results immediately, without needing to type the search term manually.
Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs for short, are websites that are installed as independent applications and are opened from shortcuts to their own window.
To get an overview of all your PWAs, type vivaldi://apps in the Address Field and press Enter.
There, when right-clicking on the app logo, you can open the PWA, adjust settings, create a new shortcut and remove the app.
When you’ve set Vivaldi to open with the last session, but you tend to have a lot of tabs open, then loading all websites on startup can create a spike in your computer’s resource use. To prevent that, you can load only the active tab and load background tabs in an hibernated state, aka lazy load, and fully load other tabs only when you view them.
To lazy load background tabs during startup:
Since pinned tabs tend to be important ones, you can enable always loading them during startup.
Trying to rely more on Keyboard Shortcuts in Vivaldi, but keep forgetting some of the key combinations? Use the Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet to quickly check the shortcuts without needing to go to browser settings.
To open the cheat sheet, on Windows and Linux, press Ctrl + F1. On macOS use the shortcut ⌘ F1.
PS! The search field in the top right corner helps to find the commands you need faster. 😉
Panels and Web Panels on the sidebar, navigation buttons on the Address Bar, tools on the Status Bar – in Vivaldi there are many buttons to click. To organize buttons into groups you can use Space, Flexible Space and Separator elements between them.
To add dividers:
To remove an element, while the Toolbar Editor is open, drag the element from the toolbar and drop it on the area between toolbars and the editor.
Tab Stacks are a great way to group tabs by domain or topic, but Workspaces take it to another level. With Workspaces you’ll only see the tabs in the current Workspace, allowing you to focus on one thing at the time.
To create a new workspace:
From the Workspaces menu (or using Shortcuts) you can quickly switch between the Workspaces you’ve created.
It’s convenient to open PDF files from web pages in a browser tab to take a quick look. If you want to use more advanced features to edit and manage PDFs you can also use your computer’s default PDF software.
To prefer dedicated PDF software when opening PDF files:
When the setting is disabled and you’re trying to view a PDF file, a dialog to save or open it will be displayed first.
Do you use Philips Hue lights at home? Did you know that you can connect them to Vivaldi and have the lights change colors together with Vivaldi Themes?
To connect Philips Hue with Vivaldi:
The lights will be in the theme’s accent color. The color show will be more noticeable, if you have Accent Color from Active Page or Theme Scheduling with frequent switches enabled.
Don’t have Philips Hue lights, but do use Razer Chroma devices? Check Tip #183, to see how to link Razer Chroma and Vivaldi.
Did you know that you can use Mouse Gestures even when you don’t have a mouse at hand? Instead you can draw the gestures on your touchpad/trackpad while holding down a modifier key.
To start using Mouse Gestures with a touchpad:
Then, to perform a gesture:
Alt key on your keyboard.Alt key to execute the command.