Category: Vivaldi Tips

Tip #385

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Decide which tab should be opened after closing another tab.

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:

  1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Close Tab Activation.
  2. Choose in which order tabs should be activated after closing another tab:
    • In recently used order,
    • Left in the Tab order,
    • Right in Tab order.
Tab Settings window with "Close Tab Activation" setting highlighted.

Tip #384

— Posted inAndroid, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Remove individual suggestions from History in Vivaldi on Android swiftly from the Address Bar’s drop-down menu.

Seeing suggestions from your browsing history helps to get to pages you want to visit again faster, but what to do with suggestions that are no longer relevant? Remove them of course. Here’s how!

To delete a history entry from suggestions:

  1. Tap on the Address Bar to open the drop-down menu.
  2. Long press on the suggestion you want to remove (either a visited site’s favicon or a typed search term).
  3. Tap “OK” on the confirmation dialog.
Confirmation dialog for deleting a history suggestion in Vivaldi on Android.

Tip #383

— Posted iniOS, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Choose from 4 Speed Dial layout options for Vivaldi on iOS.

Speed Dials are Bookmarks that are displayed on your browser’s Start Page. In Vivaldi, you can choose how they’re displayed.

To change the look in Vivaldi on iOS:

  1. Go to  Vivaldi menu > Settings > Start Page Layout.
  2. Select your preferred layout:
    • Large Speed Dials,
    • Medium Speed Dials
    • Small Speed Dials,
    • Speed Dial list.

Got an Android device? Check Tip #157.

Large Speed Dials
Medium Speed Dials
Small Speed Dials
Speed Dial List

Tip #382

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Left or right? Choose a side for your Panels.

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:

  1. Go to Settings > Panels > Panel Position.
  2. Choose either Left or Right.
Two Vivaldi browser windows, showing Panels on opposite sides of the window.

Tip #381

— Posted inCommunity Services, Vivaldi Social, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Pin the posts you want others to see first to the top of your Vivaldi Social profile.

Whether it’s your post, big news, or just something you want people to see, you can pin the post and it’ll be displayed before all your recent posts just below your bio.

To pin a post on Vivaldi Social:

  1. Publish the post you want to pin or find one from your older posts.
  2. Click on the 3 dot menu below the post.
  3. Select “Pin on profile”.

You can later unpin it from the same menu.

Vivaldi Social post's context menu with the pinning option highlighted.

Tip #380

— Posted inCalendar, Desktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Add new events without even going to the Calendar by opening the event dialog with a shortcut.

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

  1. Open Quick Commands (F2 / ⌘ E).
  2. Type in “Add Calendar Event (dialog)” and press Enter.
  3. Add the event.

Keyboard Shortcut

  1. First, create the shortcut in Settings > Keyboard > Window > Add Calendar Event (dialog).
  2. Use the shortcut to open the event dialog.
  3. Add the event.

Mouse Gesture

  1. First, create the gesture in Settings > Mouse > New Gesture > Add Calendar Event (dialog).
  2. Use the shortcut to open the event dialog.
  3. Add the event.
Vivaldi Calendar's event editor over a web page.

Tip #379

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Always see the latest content by periodically reloading Web Panels.

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:

  1. Right-click on the web panel’s button.
  2. Select Periodic Reload and how often you want the content to reload.

To learn how to set Tabs to periodically reload, check out Tip #120.

Web Panel's context menu open to set up Periodic Reloading of the panel.

Tip #378

— Posted iniOS, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Set default search engines for both standard and private tabs in Vivaldi on iOS.

Like the results and features of one search engine, but want to amp up the privacy of search in private tabs? In Vivaldi on iOS, like in the desktop version, you have the choice to set separate search engines as the default ones for standard tabs and private tabs.

To update the default search engines:

  1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Search Engine.
  2. Select either “Standard Tab” or “Private Tab”.
  3. Tap on the search engine you want to set as the default one.
  4. Exit by tapping Done or go back to the main Settings menu using the  back arrow.
Search Engine settings in Vivaldi on iOS.

Tip #377

— Posted inAndroid, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Enable “Double tap back button to close app” to prevent accidental closing of Vivaldi on Android.

In a spree of tapping the back button to go to previous pages in the tab history, you might end up tapping too many times resulting in the app closing. To make it less likely to happen, you can enable a setting requiring you to tap twice, while on the Start Page, to exit the browser. After a single tap, you’ll also be prompted to tap once more to exit.

To enable double tap to exit Vivaldi:

  1. Go to Settings > General.
  2. Toggle on “Double tap back button to close app”.

This exiting method is equivalent to choosing “Exit” from the main Vivaldi menu, which removes the app from the selection of open apps in your mobile device’s app switcher.

Vivaldi on Android, with a prompt to tap again to exit the app.

Tip #376

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Create a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Gesture to toggle Reader View on and off faster.

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:

  1. Go to Settings > Keyboard > Page.
  2. Find “Toggle Reader View” and focus on the input field.
  3. Press the key combination you want to use.

To create a Mouse Gesture:

  1. Go to Settings > Mouse > Gesture Mapping.
  2. Click on + New Gesture.
  3. Start typing “Toggle Reader View” to find the command.
  4. Click “Next”.
  5. Hold down the left mouse button and draw the gesture you want to use in the box outlined in red.
  6. Click “Save Gesture”.

Then, whenever you want to switch to Reader View, just use the shortcut you created.

Tip #375

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Embark on a fun adventure in the new chapter of Vivaldi’s arcade game Vivaldia 2.

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! 😎

Tip #374

— Posted inCommunity Services, Vivaldi Social, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Never miss a thing by enabling email notifications on Vivaldi Social.

You don’t need to keep checking Vivaldi Social to see whether someone has started following you or mentioned you in one of their posts. By enabling email notifications, you can go about your day as normal and get a message whenever something important related to your account has happened.

To review your email notification settings:

  1. Go to Preferences > Notifications > Events for email notifications.
  2. Tick and untick the boxes for the following notification options:
    • Someone followed you,
    • Someone requested to follow you,
    • Someone boosted your post,
    • Someone favorited your post,
    • Someone mentioned you.

Normally, e-mail notifications won’t be sent when you are actively using Mastodon, but if you wish to receive email notifications regardless of your online status, you can additionally enable “Always send e-mail notifications”.

Notification preferences in Vivaldi Social.

Tip #373

— Posted inCalendar, Desktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Create templates for frequent, but not recurring events in Vivaldi Calendar.

If you frequently add the same kind of event (birthday, doctor’s appointment, meeting, etc.) but it doesn’t occur regularly so you can’t set recurrence to it, you can use event templates to speed up adding new events instead.

To create a template:

  1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Event Templates.
  2. Click on Add Template below the list of existing templates.
  3. Fill out the event details.
  4. Click Save.

Alternatively, you can create a new template directly from the event editor > Templates > Create New Event Template.

Event template creation in Calendar Settings.

Tip #372

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Do you remember your encryption password for Vivaldi Sync? Reset it if you’ve forgotten it.

Your synced browser data in Vivaldi is end-to-end encrypted. To decrypt it, you need to know the encryption password you set up on your first Sync use. Should you be in a situation where you no longer have the browser data stored locally (e.g. after an operating system reset) on any devices and you’ve forgotten the encryption password, there’s unfortunately no way to restore the data.

So, while everything is still alright, make sure you have the encryption password memorized or stored in a safe location. In case you’ve forgotten the encryption password, you can easily reset it without data loss on a device that has your browser data accessible locally.

To reset Sync’s encryption password:

  1. Go to Settings > Sync.
  2. Click on “Reset Remote Data”.
  3. Click “Delete Sync Data” in the dialog that appears.
  4. Set a new encryption password for your data.
  5. Start syncing from fresh.

Sync settings in Vivaldi with Reset Remote Data button highlighted.