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 and Tip #567 for iOS.
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:
Looking at the Address Field you may have noticed that you don’t see the full address unless you focus on it. That’s because we want you to easily see the most important parts of the URL – the domain and the path. The protocol in front can give you false security, and parameters and anchors at the end can add so much confusion that it can be hard to see which website you are using.
But if you prefer to see the full address at all times:
Alternatively, enable it in Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Options.
It’s easy to have too many Tabs open, but it’s even easier to accumulate a large number of Bookmarks. Finding a bookmark by scrolling through the long lists and folders can be time-consuming. Using the search option in the Bookmarks Panel, Bookmarks Manager, Address Field, or Quick Commands will find the correct bookmark for you a lot faster.
To search for Bookmarks, start typing the name, URL, nickname, or description in one of the places mentioned above and (double-)click on a search result to open the bookmark.
You might not be ready to commit to making Vivaldi the default browser right after installation, but after using the app for a bit, you’ll likely want to use Vivaldi as your main browser.
To set Vivaldi as the default browser app:
Vivaldi Mail has three read states – Unseen, Unread, and Read. Messages go from Unseen to Unread automatically after opening them, but marking each message as Read is an active choice. The Unread state is a good way to keep track of messages you’ve already seen but have not dealt with yet.
If this doesn’t fit your workflow, you can skip the Unread state by enabling “Automatically Mark as Read” in Settings > Mail > Mail Settings > Unread Messages.
Using Custom Icons with your browser theme, allows you to take the uniqueness of your Vivaldi to yet another level. You can create an icon for each toolbar button yourself or you can make use of the numerous Themes with Custom Icons the creative minds of Vivaldi Community members have shared with everyone.
To download custom icons:
To use custom icons from a different theme with your active theme:
In addition to deciding what elements are displayed on your Vivaldi Browser’s toolbars, you can also adjust the size of some of them, for example, the Search Field on the Address Bar.
To resize the Search Field:
Instead of switching between different apps while working on your computer, open local files in their own tab in the browser and work with everything in one place. It allows you to group, tile, and use many other features on both web pages and local files together.
To open a local file in Vivaldi, use one of the following methods:
File:///C:/ (on Windows) or file:// (on macOS and Linux) in the Address Field and browse through the folders for the file.