Vivaldi 5.6 added a splash of color to Settings and divided the categories into groups for better discoverability. But as always, we’ve made it an option. If you prefer a more minimalistic look, you can disable the colors.
To return to the monochrome look:
Vivaldi Theme settings allow you to display your chosen color or a color of the active page on the Tab Bar or Navigation Bar (depends on your Color Overrides settings). While your chosen color is most likely perfect, colors from active pages can sometimes be too bright. If the vivid colors become too distracting, you can fix that in Theme settings.
To adjust accent color saturation:
The smaller the value the more subdued the color will be.
Shortcuts help to speed up your workflow considerably. By using single key shortcuts in Vivaldi Mail, you can work with your emails with efficiency that will make others go green with envy. Move between emails, mark them read, send messages and more. In this tip, we’ll introduce you to three shortcuts that help you start composing messages.
If you’d prefer to use different shortcuts, go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mail and assign new shortcuts for the commands.
Vivaldi’s Reading List feature lets you save web pages with, for example, interesting articles in a list you can access from your browser on desktop and Android. Using the Reading List prevents endless tabs from accumulating on your Tab Bar and Bookmarks from being filled with entries you only need once.
To add a page to the Reading List on desktop:
Add Current Page.To add a page to the Reading List on Android:
Vivaldi menu > Reading List.
The Tracker and Ad Blocker comes with a large selection of sources that can be enabled to block unwanted content on web pages. You can enable them in the browser’s Privacy and Security settings. In addition to the default sources, you can add your own custom source lists. To do that:
Add List below Tracker Blocking Sources or Ad Blocking Sources lists.The newly added list will be automatically enabled.
To find additional sources, you can start by checking this Forum thread, where Vivaldi Community members have shared the blocking sources they use.
Web calendars, for example local public holidays or your favorite sports team’s match calendar, are a good way to follow events that you don’t want to add manually yourself, but would still like to know about. Web calendar events are read-only, meaning you can view them, but only the calendar owner can edit the events.
To subscribe to a web calendar from a website:
To manually add a web calendar:
While actively browsing, it’s easy to accumulate a large number of tabs. To keep things in order and tabs easy to find, it’s good to group them together. In Vivaldi you can group all tabs from the same domain (e.g. vivaldi.com) with just two clicks.
To stack tabs by hosts:
By default, when you click on the 
Go to homepage button on the Address Bar, you’ll be taken to the browser’s Start Page. If there’s a web page that you visit all the time, you could set that as the homepage instead. To do that:
In Vivaldi your History of visited web pages is not just an endless list. Instead History in Vivaldi is a detailed overview backed by statistics and presented in a nice, visual way.
To view your full history, use one of the following options to open the page:
Vivaldi menu > Tools > History.
History Panel button and select Open in > New Tab.Switch between the different views (List, Day, Week and Month) from the top right corner to see not just the pages you’ve visited but also statistics, which show you your browsing activity, when you were most active, what kind of websites you visited and how you ended up there.
Creativity has no limits and with the Themes editor in Vivaldi, you can let it run wild. Change the colors, add a custom background, tweak the settings and you have yourself a custom theme. Would be a shame to keep it to yourself. Themes.vivaldi.net is the place where Vivaldi users can share their creations with the community and already over 3000 themes have been published on the website.
Here’s how you can share your theme:
Vivaldi Team will review your theme and publish it. You’ll be notified once the theme has been published (also, when for some reason, the theme was rejected).
Backup encryption key is an alternative method to the encryption password for decrypting your Sync data. Like with the encryption password, your backup encryption key is never sent to us or any other third party, which ensures that we cannot decrypt your data. For it to be useful, you need to save the key in a safe location, while you can access your Sync settings with the encryption password.
The key is valid until you reset the remote Sync data. We recommend storing the key file in a location that can survive something irreparable to your device, such as an external memory drive or a trusted cloud service.
Need to work more with an email than just read through it? Double-click on the message to open it in a new tab. That allows you to keep the message open while checking other emails and use browser features, such as pinning, grouping, tiling (shown on the screenshot below), and more on the tab.
There are more ways to close tabs in Vivaldi than can be counted on one hand. In this tip post we’ll introduce you to two lesser known options.
Option 1 is to double-click on the tab with the left mouse button. It works best when you want to close the active tab, but can be used to close background tabs as well. To use this option, first go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Handling and enable Close Tab on Double Click.
Option 2 is to click on the tab with the middle mouse button (commonly mouse’s scroll wheel). It works in the Window Panel as well.
To see other ways to close tabs in Vivaldi, visit the Help page about Opening and closing Tabs.
In case you got carried away with closing tabs, check Tip #95 to see how to reopen recently closed tabs.
If you have a Chromecast device connected to your TV, you can display audio-visual content, browser tabs or even your computer’s whole screen from Vivaldi on the TV screen.
To start casting:
Vivaldi menu > File.Some websites detect a Chromecast connection and display the casting option on the website. Look for the 
Cast button, for example, on a video player’s menu.
