When you’ve enabled automatic theme switches from light to dark and back or do it often manually on your iPhone or iPad, you can have Vivaldi change themes accordingly as well.
To follow the system’s theme:
Whether you switch between light and dark modes on your computer manually or you’ve set up a schedule to switch between them automatically, you can select different Vivaldi Themes for both operating system’s light and dark modes.
To assign themes for light and dark modes:
When you create a new workspace, you can select an icon for it from one of Vivaldi’s presets or from a small selection of emojis. But your options aren’t limited to the 20 emojis you see in the menu, you can use any common emoji to decorate your Workspaces.
To add a custom emoji:
Start Page with the Speed Dials and Dashboard is a starting point in every new Vivaldi tab for most people. To make it useful, choose what you want to see.
To make your decision:
If you’re opting for “First Group”, check out this recent tip on reordering your Speed Dial Groups.
Command Chains can be triggered with Quick Commands, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mouse Gestures, toolbar buttons, and from menus. Command Chain toolbar buttons all look the same, though. If you have multiple chains on the browser’s toolbars, you should give them custom icons to make them easier to recognize.
To give a Command Chain button a custom icon:
To add a Command Chain to a toolbar:
The same way you can decide how many Speed Dial columns you have on the Start Page when the browser window is large enough to fit a lot of them (see Tip #89), you can choose how many columns of widgets you have on the Dashboard.
To update the limit:
Option 1
Option 2
Latest emails, tasks, newest feed articles, most visited sites, favorite bookmarks, and more can be pulled into the all-in-one control center – the Dashboard.
To add a new widget:
Some widgets, like Date and Tip of the Day, can be added to the Dashboard once, but most can be added multiple times. This allows you to display different content in each widget, such as different email accounts, calendars, bookmark folders, etc.
Do you prefer to give the buttons on the toolbars plenty of breathing room, or do you want them packed together nice and snug next to each other? As with most things in Vivaldi, you’re in control and can decide what works best for you.
To change the UI density:
When you’re viewing multiple browser or app windows side by side, it can be difficult to see, which one you’ve focused on. Fading Vivaldi window’s colors when it’s not in focus helps to make it more obvious.
To enable background window color fading:
In addition to individual Speed Dial bookmarks, you can add thumbnails to Speed Dial folders (see Tip #69).
To add a custom thumbnail image to a bookmark folder:
Option 1
Option 2
“Select Custom Thumbnail”.The recommended image size is 440×360px and most image formats, including animated GIFs, are supported.
The desktop-like Tab Bar in mobile versions of Vivaldi makes switching tabs very convenient, but what if you need a bit more space to view websites? Luckily there are a few other ways you can switch tabs.
First, to hide the Tab Bar:
To switch tabs:
Tab Switcher from the bottom right corner and select the tab you want to open next.
Whether the tab has an uninformative title, you have too many tabs with identical names or just wish to have more fun tab titles – whatever the reason, renaming tabs helps you keep tabs in your Vivaldi browser organized and easy to find.
To rename a tab:
PS! It also works with Tab Stacks (see Tip #17).
Do you like to learn about Vivaldi by watching videos? You’re in luck because we have a new video series introducing you to the browser’s features and showing you how to customize the browser according to your preferences.
To be notified about new videos in the series, add our YouTube channel to Vivaldi Feeds following the instructions in Tip #40, or subscribe to the Vivaldi channel directly on YouTube.
Some of the adjustments you can make to your Vivaldi Theme are more subtle than others. One such customization option is removing the faint background from the tabs you have open in the background.
To make background tabs transparent:
