If the Speed Dial thumbnail is missing or you don’t like the current one, you can update it with a new screenshot of the web page. If you prefer to choose an image for the thumbnail, follow our directions in Tip #69.
To quickly update Speed Dial thumbnails:
“Update thumbnail” in the top left corner of the Speed Dial.
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:
If you feel like the Search Field takes a little too much space on your Vivaldi Browser’s Address Bar, you can have it displayed as a button instead. The button is also a great option if you want to move the Search function to the vertical Panel bar.
To display Search as a button:
To search for something on the web, click on the button to show the full Search Field.
If you follow many different types of accounts on Vivaldi Social, the main Home timeline can feel like a huge smorgasbord of content. To focus on one topic or group of people at a time, divide the accounts you follow into Lists.
To create a list:
To add people to Lists:
“Show settings” > “Edit list”
“Add to list” next to their name.Alternatively:
Lists’ timelines can be accessed from the menu column on the right side of the page.
By default, Bookmarks open in the active tab. If you’d rather not have Bookmarks hijack websites you were viewing, you can opt for opening them in their own tab as well.
To always open Bookmarks in a new tab:
To open a single bookmark differently from your default setting, right-click on the bookmark and select the opening option you prefer – “Open in New Tab”, “Open in Background Tab”, “Open” (in active tab), plus “Open in New Window”, “Open in New Private Window”.
Tasks in the Vivaldi Calendar and in their own Tasks Panel are a great way to keep track of your to-do list. To make life even easier, you can create recurring tasks for things you need to do regularly.
To create a recurring task:
Copying links one by one to share or save them is a thing of the past in Vivaldi. Instead, you can copy all links you have open in a Workspace and Tab Stack with just a couple of clicks. In addition, you can manually select specific tabs and copy the links of those.
To copy multiple links at once:
Now, sharing your research on the trip you’re planning with your family, sending a bunch of memes to a friend, who needs cheering up, or something else is smoother and faster than ever before.
Vivaldi Browser aficionados, those who have just discovered Vivaldi, and everyone in between have joined either communities we have started or they’ve created their own space on the internet around their common interest – Vivaldi. We love to see your praise and feedback on Vivaldi, plus witness new online friendships being formed.😊
If you’re active on any of these platforms, join us!
Know of more places where Vivaldi users gather? Let us know!
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.
Workspaces allow you to divide tabs into independent sections. But what if you come across a link in one space that you’d like to open in another? You could open the link in the current Workspace and move the tab to a different one, but it’s faster to open it directly as a new tab in the Workspace you want to have the page in.
To open a link in a different Workspace:
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.
Quick Commands allow you to search everything in Vivaldi – Bookmarks, open Tabs, commands, etc. You can also open web links through Quick Commands by entering the URL and pressing Enter. By default, the link will open in the active tab, but if you prefer to open the link in a new tab:
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!” 🎶 😄
Like any social media or public communication channel, Mastodon, including our Vivaldi Social instance, isn’t immune to spam and other bad actors. Luckily, it has many useful settings you can toggle on and off to make your experience on the Fediverse more pleasant. One of them is preventing users that you don’t follow from sending you a direct message.
To enable the setting:
