Vivaldi comes with a lot of built-in functionality, but you can do some additional fine tuning by adding Extensions. Since Vivaldi is built on Chromium, most Extensions available on Chrome Web Store also work in Vivaldi.
Enable “Remove cookie warnings” in Tracker and Ad Blocker settings to hide websites’ cookie dialogs.
Since Europe’s GDPR and a few other user privacy laws don’t allow placing Cookies in your browser without consent, on your first visit, most websites ask for your permission as soon as the page has loaded. Accepting all cookies will allow the website and third parties to collect information on you and use the data in an attempt to influence your decisions later on. Until there’s better legislation, we recommend rejecting these cookies. But, depending on the website, rejecting all cookies can take minutes, slowing down your browsing significantly.
That’s why we’ve added a way to remove these cookie dialogs in the browser. To enable it:
In the list of Ad Blocking sources, look for “Remove cookie warnings (EasyList Cookie List)” and “Remove cookie warnings (I don’t care about cookies)” and enable them.
Enabling these lists will simply block the service that asks for consent, or hide the consent dialog, in the same way as it might remove a tracker or an ad. Without consent cookies cannot be placed in the browser.
We at Vivaldi believe that spying on users on the Internet using cookies and other tracking methods should be banned. To join our fight, check out https://banspying.org and share it with your friends.
Not in the mood for the current theme, but don’t feel like opening ThemesSettings either to pick a different one? No problem. In Vivaldi, you can switch to the next theme in your Theme Library with a Keyboard Shortcut.
Since the command doesn’t come with a default shortcut, you first need to assign one to it.
Go to Settings > Keyboard > View.
Find the command ‘Next Theme’ on the list.
Assign a shortcut to it.
Now, whenever you feel like changing the theme, just use the shortcut. Use it multiple times in a row to shuffle through all themes in your Theme Library.
When you group tabs into a stack, the icon and title of the most recent active tab in the stack will be shown on the Tab Bar. With many tabs and stacks, locating the tab you need can still take time. Tab Stack renaming to the rescue!!! By giving the stack a title, you can spot the right stack on the Tab Bar in no time. 💪
There are a couple of ways to rename a Tab Stack.
Option 1
Right-click on the Tab Stack.
Select Rename Tab Stack from the context menu.
Give the Tab Stack a name.
Press Enter or focus elsewhere in the browser to save the new name.
Option 2
Double-click on the Tab Stack.
Give the Tab Stack a name.
Press Enter or focus elsewhere in the browser to save the new name.
In case you have enabled minimizing tabs or closing tabs on double-click, it’s not possible to start renaming a Tab Stack with double-click.
Option 3
In the Window Panel, right-click on the Tab Stack.
Select Rename from the context menu.
Give the Tab Stack a name.
Press Enter or focus elsewhere in the browser to save the new name.
Open the web page you want to generate the QR code for.
Use the shortcut whenever you want to create a new QR code.
When the code has been created, you can download the QR code as an image, copy the QR code image, or show your device’s screen to someone, who can scan the QR code with their device.
Go to chrome://settings to access additional browser settings.
Vivaldi is based on Chromium. This means that we inherit the settings Chromium comes with. We have transferred all the important settings to Vivaldi Settings, where they can be accessed together with settings that are unique to Vivaldi.
To access the settings that are not available in Vivaldi Settings, type chrome://settings to the Address Field. Once the page loads, the URL will automatically change to vivaldi://settings. Typing vivaldi://settings directly to the Address Field will, however, take you to the main Vivaldi Settings.
On the left side of the Address Field, click on 🔍 to search for the entered word/phrase or to go to the entered URL.
Most of us probably just press Enter on our keyboards when we’re ready to do a search or open a website, but did you know there’s a button in the user interface you can click instead?
The Site Info button turns into a Go to Address button on the Start Page or when you’ve entered something in the Address Field. Just click on the magnifying glass, when you’re ready to see the search results or load the web page.
In case you’ve used a search engine nickname before your search term, you’ll see the chosen search engine’s logo instead. You can click that one too.
Vivaldi Community shares and works on modifications together on the Forum’s Modifications category. Feel free to ask assistance and share your work there.
Important! Code shared on the forum has not been reviewed by the Vivaldi Team. Which means that issues, including security issues, may be present.
Highlight text on a web page, right-click on the selection and select “Search…” to get results in an instant.
Instead of copying and pasting or, heaven forbid, manually typing a search term from a web page to the Address or Search Field,
Highlight the text you want to search with.
Right-click on the highlighted text.
Select Search [your default search engine] for [highlighted text]. To search with a different search engine, hover over Search With and choose a search engine.
Hold down the Ctrl / ⌘ key to change the location of buttons in the browser’s user interface.
Don’t like the default order of Panels? Or you’d prefer to have some buttons currently residing on the Status Bar on the Address Bar instead. No problem, Vivaldi has got you covered. 😎
To move toolbar buttons:
Press and hold down the Ctrl / ⌘ key on your keyboard.
Click and drag the button you want to move.
A line showing the new location will appear when the button can be dropped.
Release the mouse button and keyboard key. On macOS, release the ⌘ key before releasing the mouse button.
On Vivaldi Themes, click on “Download theme” to preview the theme before installing it.
When browsing themes.vivaldi.net for new Themes for your desktop Vivaldi browser, you can get a live preview of the theme by clicking “Download theme”.
Then you have 1 minute to see how the theme looks. Make sure to check the Start Page to see how the awesome background image looks behind your Speed Dials. Other places where the user interface colours are clearly visible are Panels, Settings, Mail, etc.
When you’re satisfied with the theme, click “Install” in the pop-up to add the theme to your Theme Library. If it’s not really what you were looking for, click “Cancel” or let the preview time run out.
Vivaldi Help on https://help.vivaldi.com/ is an ever growing catalogue of articles that introduce Vivaldi features and services to you in more detail, instructs you to make the most of them and in the unfortunate event when something doesn’t work as expected, helps you troubleshoot issues.
There are a few ways to open Vivaldi Help.
Press the F1 key on your keyboard (on Windows and Linux).
Open the Vivaldi menu > Help > Vivaldi Help.
Type “help.vivaldi.com” in the Address Field.
Open Vivaldi Help’s Web Panel.
Check out Tip #297 to see how to best get to Vivaldi Help on Android and Tip #567 for iOS.
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