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:
You can find the options to open a new tab and reload the active tab from the main menu of Vivaldi on iOS, and you can close tabs from the Tab Bar or the Tab Switcher, but when you’re at the top of the page, you can also use swipe gestures to do the same.
To reload the tab:
To open a new tab:
To close the tab:
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! 😎
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:
Tiling tabs is very popular on the desktop version of Vivaldi, but did you know you can tile 2 web pages on Vivaldi on Android as well?
To view 2 sites side by side:
You can even resize the tiles by moving the line dividing the two windows.
Grouping tabs into Tab Stacks is a great way to keep your tabs neat and organized. But what to do with a tab that has ended up in the wrong stack? Use one of the following ways to remove a single tab from a Tab Stack:
You know you have a lot of open tabs in Vivaldi on Android, when instead of a number on the Tab Switcher button you see :D. To keep the number of open tabs manageable, you can set Vivaldi to prompt you to close tabs that you haven’t visited in a while.
To set a time after which you’ll get prompted to close old tabs:
When you open a new tab in Vivaldi, you have various options for what’s displayed in the new tab before you navigate to a web page. You can choose between the Start Page, Home Page, Blank Page, or a web page of your choice. But there’s one more option – a New Tab Page Extension.
To set an extension for the new tab:
Posts feed, direct messages, notifications, trending content – most social media sites offer them all and more. Some have their own (paid) dashboards for simultaneous viewing of these pages, like X’s (formerly Twitter) X Pro (formerly TweetDeck), or Mastodon’s advanced web interface. But you can also create a custom dashboard with Vivaldi’s tab tiling feature of any site you frequent.
To create a social media dashboard:
Bonus tips!
Moving the Tab Bar to the side of the window (see Tip #204 for instructions) is a good way to gain some vertical space for the websites you have open. But your options don’t stop there. On the side of the window, you also have the option to set the width of the Tab Bar.
To resize the Tab Bar:
You can make the Tab Bar wider if you wish to read more of the tab titles or make it only wide enough to fit the website’s favicon.
There are many ways you can open new windows and move tabs to them in Vivaldi, but a simple drag-and-drop is probably the fastest way to do it.
To create a new window with a tab of your choice:
If you want to create a new window with multiple tabs at once, use the Ctrl or Shift key to select multiple tabs and then drag them off the Tab Bar.
As you were browsing, did a tab accidentally end up in a Tab Stack where it doesn’t belong? There’s an easy fix for that.
To remove a tab from a Tab Stack:
Workspaces are an excellent way to divide tabs into groups to focus on one topic at a time. There are several ways to open a different workspace and one of the tabs in it, such as via the Tab Bar or Window Panel. But another quick way of switching to a specific tab in a different workspace is using Quick Commands.
To switch tabs using Quick Commands:
F2 / ⌘ E).
