Adding new Web Panels is pretty straightforward in Vivaldi, but when it’s a Web Panel you’ve already had on your browser’s sidebar, it’s even easier to restore it.
To reopen a Web Panel:
Keyboard Shortcuts are excellent for opening and closing Web Panels for a quick glance. But before you toggle Web Panels with Keyboard Shortcuts, you need to assign each panel its unique shortcut.
To add Keyboard Shortcuts:
Then whenever you want to open one of the web panels just use the shortcut for both opening and closing the panel. If you already have one open, the shortcut will switch focus to the one you need.
Web Panels show you the mobile view of a web page. Some websites show pages on mobile much differently than on desktop or don’t even let you use some of the site’s functionality. Don’t let this stop you! Simply click on the “Switch to Desktop/Mobile View” button at the top of the panel and get to the content you’re after.
If things are a bit tight with the desktop view, check out Tip #15 and learn how to make the web panel wider without changing the size of the other Panels.
Web Panels are great for taking a quick glance at a website, but occasionally the mobile-sized view may not be enough. In that case, you can open the current page you have open in the Web Panel in a tab instead.
To open a Web Panel in a tab:
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:
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:
To learn how to set Tabs to periodically reload, check out Tip #120.
Whether to check the progress of your downloads, translate something, or check what’s next on your agenda, opening and closing Panels with shortcuts is an efficient way to take a quick look.
First, go to Settings > Keyboard > View and Settings > Mouse > Gesture Mapping to review and add shortcuts.
Then whenever you want to open one of the panels just use the shortcut for both opening and closing the panel. If you already have one open, the shortcut will switch focus to the one you need.
Web Panels are customizable Tabs which allow you to keep your favorite sites easily accessible in the side Panel of Vivaldi. And just like with web pages open in a tab, you can adjust the zoom levels for web pages added to Web Panels as well.
To increase or decrease the size of the content in Web Panels:
and 
at the top of the Web Panel to zoom in and out.Zoom level is retained through closing and reopening of the Web Panel and browser restarts.
Web Panels are customisable Tabs which allow you to keep your favourite sites easily accessible in the side Panel of Vivaldi. Opening a Web Panel will allow you to simultaneously view its content alongside the tab(s) in your main window.
There are a few different ways you can add a new Web Panel in Vivaldi. Choose the one you like best from the list below.
Add Web Panel button on the browser’s sidebar.
Site info button in the Address Field to the Add Web Panel button on the browser’s sidebar. Release the mouse button to create the Web Panel.
Many of Vivaldi’s key features, such as Bookmarks, Notes, Mail and your Web Panels, can be accessed from the browser’s sidebar. If you’re not using all these features, consider hiding the Panels you don’t need.
To toggle the visibility of a Panel:
Panels and Web Panels that are hidden don’t have a 
check mark in front of their name.
By default, opening and closing Panels will resize the web page to make space for the panel. But panels can also be made to float over the page content. Floating panels are useful when you briefly want to check something and don’t need to keep it open while working on the page. For example, Reading List Panel could be floating, since you’d only want to quickly add or open a web page from it, but then it should get out of the way again. While the Mail Panel with all the folders is useful to keep open on the side, without it covering anything.
To make all panels float:
Alternatively, Shift + click on the 
Panel toggle button on the left side of the Status Bar.
To change the floating state only for specific panels:
Whether you’re streaming audio or video, getting notifications from a messaging service or browsing sites that make noise, occasionally it’s necessary to silence them to focus on sounds from a single source or to have complete piece and quiet.
To mute and unmute Tabs in Vivaldi, use one of the following options:
speaker icon on the tab, when the tab is currently playing audio.When the tab is muted, in place of the website’s logo, you’ll see a 
muted speaker icon.
To mute and unmute Web Panels, right-click on the web panel’s icon on the Panels bar and select Mute Panel.
