Workspaces are a way to organize your tabs where you can keep different tabs in different Workspaces, based on a topic or category. You might, for example, have a workspace for work, another for sports, and a third for travel.
To set up Workspace Rules:
By default, to switch tabs using the Window Panel, you need to double click on an entry to activate it. If you’d like to switch tabs with only one click, like on the Tab Bar, you’ll need to enable a setting for it.
To enable single click tab switching in the Window Panel:
If you temporarily want to stop receiving messages for a mail account, but don’t want to remove the account from Vivaldi Mail altogether, you can enable offline mode.
To take a mail account offline:
You’ll still be able to send messages from the account, but won’t receive any new incoming messages until you turn off the setting.
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/.
In Vivaldi, you can install web pages as Progressive Web Apps, aka PWAs, or open them in separate User Profiles, to give a feeling that you’re using them separately in a dedicated app. These are more permanent options, but there’s another solution for a quick temporary option.
To get an app-like feeling of a website:
Since the user interface is toggled off only in the current window, you’ll still see all your other windows with the usual toolbars.
Imagine that you have some background music playing in one browser tab, but you come across a video (or some other media with audio) in another tab that you want to watch and listen to. So you go to mute or pause your music and only then start watching the video. And after you’re finished you need to go back to unmute or unpause the music. Annoying isn’t it? Vivaldi has a better solution to offer.
That way you can just start playing the video in the active tab and Vivaldi will automatically mute the audio coming from other tabs. Once you’re done watching the video, the audio from other tabs will be unmuted. Sweet! 😎
Whenever a video can be moved to a pop-out window, a small icon appears on the video that allows you to do so quickly. If Pop-out Video, aka Picture-in-Picture, is a feature you never use, you might want to hide the little icon from appearing whenever you hover over a video.
To hide the button:
In Vivaldi Mail, Outbox is a sub-folder in All Messages, where you can store message drafts that you’ve finished writing, but don’t want to send just yet.
To queue emails instead of sending:
To send all emails in the Outbox.
“Send from all accounts” at the top of the panel.
Have you ever considered having a preference for which tab to focus on next when you close a tab you no longer need? With Vivaldi you can do just that. In addition to prioritizing related tabs, you can choose to open tabs you had focused on before the closed tab or open the tab that was on the left/right side of the closed tab.
To make your choice:
With Vivaldi’s highly customizable user interface, you can move toolbars around as you like. The Panels Toolbar, hosting your Bookmarks, Downloads, Notes, Web Panels and more can be located either on the left or right side of the browser window. Especially when you prefer vertical Tabs (see Tip #204), you need to think about whether you want to have Tabs and Panels on either side of the window or both on the same side.
To move Panels:
With the integrated Vivaldi Calendar, you can quickly add events and get back to what you were doing in no time by opening the new event dialog using either Quick Commands, a Keyboard Shortcut, or a Mouse Gesture.
Quick Commands
F2 / ⌘ E).Keyboard Shortcut
Mouse Gesture
Following a social media feed, live updates to an event, or changes on the financial market in Web Panels? With periodic reloading of the panel you can always be up to date with the latest information.
To automatically reload Web Panels at your chosen internal:
To learn how to set Tabs to periodically reload, check out Tip #120.
Enabling Reader View when reading an article online is a great way to remove distractions and adjust the text for comfortable reading. In Tip #91, we showed you how to enable Reader View from the Address Bar and where to adjust the settings. This tip is about toggling Reader View on and off as fast as possible with shortcuts.
To create a Keyboard Shortcut:
To create a Mouse Gesture:
+ New Gesture.Then, whenever you want to switch to Reader View, just use the shortcut you created.
While we’re busy making a browser, our friends at Porcelain Fortress have been working hard on a follow-up to the Vivaldia game. In Vivaldia 2, the game world is bigger, the enemies stronger, and the game a lot more adventurous. While the first game could only be played in the Vivaldi browser (see Tip #144), the new game is available on the web and Steam.
To play Vivaldia 2 on the web, go to https://vivaldi.com/games/vivaldia2/.
To get the game on Steam, head over to https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623150/Vivaldia_2/.
Have fun! 😎
