Vivaldi Tips

A huge collection of Vivaldi browser tips, tricks and hacks.

Tip #702

May 7, 2025

Hide boosted content from Vivaldi Social’s Home feed to see only the posts people you follow have made.

Users on Vivaldi Social and on Mastodon in general, in addition making their own posts, can share aka boost content posted by others. In addition to the user’s profile, these posts will also appear on your Home feed. If you’re only interested in the posts the people you follow have published, you can hide boosted content from your Home feed.

To hide boosts:

  1. Go to the Home feed on Vivaldi Social.
  2. Click on the “Show settings” button on the right side of the posts section header.
  3. Toggle off “Show boosts”.
Home feed on Vivaldi Social open in the Vivaldi browser. Home feed settings are open and an arrow points at the "Show boosts" option.

Tip #701

May 6, 2025

Automatically tile a new tab opened from a link on a web page with the current tab.

Whenever you need to view or compare the contents of two web pages, using the Tab Tiling feature in Vivaldi makes it very easy. But there are little tricks in Vivaldi that help to make tiling tabs even easier.

To tile a new tab with the current tab:

  1. Go to Settings > Quick Commands > Command Chains.
  2. Click on “Add Command Chain”.
  3. Give the new chain a name and add the following commands:
    • “Open Link in New Tab” with {link_url} as the Command Parameter.
    • “Tile Vertically/Horizontally”.
  4. Go to Settings > Appearance > Menu > Menu Customization.
  5. Select Web Page > Link menu as the one you’re going to edit.
  6. From the Commands list > Command Chains, drag the new chain you created to the Content column.

Then whenever you want to tile the new tab with the current tab, right-click on the link on the web page and select the option with your command chain’s name.

Vivaldi browser window with a website open. Link's context menu is open in the foreground and an arrow points at the command chain option in the menu that will open the link and tile it with the current tab.

Tip #700

April 25, 2025

Open notes from Quick Commands’ search results in the Notes Manager.

Quick Commands are a great way to open your notes. Just enter the note’s title or even just a word in the note to find the right one. By default, the note will open in the Notes Panel, but if you prefer to view and edit your notes in the Notes Manager, you can do that too.

To open notes in the Notes Manager:

  1. Go to Settings > Quick Commands > Quick Command Options.
  2. Enable “Open Notes in Notes Manager”.
Vivaldi browser window with Quick Commands open. Search results display Notes that match the query.

Tip #699

April 24, 2025

Select your preference for Download notifications.

When you download something with Vivaldi, you’ll get a system notification when the download has finished. If you don’t care to see those, you can disable the notifications and check the status of your downloads from the Downloads Panel (even the panel button itself gives you a hint about ongoing downloads).

To disable notifications:

  1. Go to Settings > Downloads.
  2. Disable “Notify on Completed Downloads”.
Corner of a Vivaldi browser window on Windows. Near the corner of the browser window there's a notification announcing a completed download. An arrow is pointing at the notification.

Tip #698

April 23, 2025

Look back on the themes you’ve given a rating to.

On the Vivaldi Themes page on vivaldi.net, you can download browser themes created and shared by the members of the Vivaldi Community. If you’re logged in to your Vivaldi account, you can also give it a rating on a 5-star scale after installing the theme.

To view all themes you’ve rated:

  1. Go to themes.vivaldi.net.
  2. Log in to your Vivaldi account.
  3. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner of the page and select “Rated themes”.
Rated themes page open in the Vivaldi browser.

Tip #697

April 22, 2025

To save or discard event changes? That is the question.

When you have the event editor open and click somewhere outside of it, the editor will close. When you do that, do you want any changes you made to the event to be saved or discarded?

To make your choice:

  1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Display > Click Outside Event Should.
  2. Choose between “Discard Changes” and “Save Changes”.
Calendar Settings in Vivaldi. An arrow is pointing at the "Click Outside Event Should" setting.

Tip #696

April 21, 2025

Prevent a new tab from opening after closing all tabs in Vivaldi on iOS.

After you close the last tab you had open on your iPhone or iPad, normally, a new tab with the Start Page or your preferred website opens automatically. If you’d rather not open a new tab, you can disable this feature.

To disable the opening of a new tab:

  1. Go to Settings > Tabs.
  2. Toggle off “Open New Tab on Closing Last Tab”.
Tab Switcher in Vivaldi on iOS without any open tabs.

Tip #695

April 17, 2025

Save web pages for later by downloading them.

Whether you want to access the web page offline, keep a snapshot of it for archival purposes, inspect the code, or do something else, Vivaldi is here to help you out.

To download a web page:

  1. Open the page in a tab.
  2. Go to the main Vivaldi menu > File > Save Page As.
  3. Select the location for the downloaded page and, if needed, edit the file name.
  4. Select whether you want to save:
    • only the HTML code of the page,
    • the full page in a single file,
    • the complete page with files (e.g. images) in a separate folder.
  5. Click “Save”.
Vivaldi's main menu open over a web page with an arrow pointing at the "Save page as" option.

Tip #694

April 16, 2025

Divide your Vivaldi Webmail emails into folders.

You’ll never lose an email when they’ve been neatly organized into folders. You can add new folders from Vivaldi Webmail’s web view or from a mail client, such as Vivaldi Mail (see Tip #186).

To create a new folder in Webmail:

  1. Log in to your Vivaldi account on webmail.vivaldi.net.
  2. Go to Settings > Folders.
  3. Click on “Create” at the top of the rightmost column.
  4. Give the folder a name, select a parent folder, and decide whether you want to see the emails in a single list or grouped into threads.
  5. Click “Save”.

To make your life even easier, you can create Filters to move emails to folders automatically (see Tip #75).

Vivaldi Webmail's folder settings open in the Vivaldi browser. A new folder is being created for the account.

Tip #693

April 15, 2025

Share images on web pages by creating a QR code for them.

Did you find a cool image on a website you want to share with someone? You can make use of Vivaldi’s QR code generator to share the image with others.

To create a QR code for an image:

  1. Right-click on the image you want to share.
  2. Select “Create QR Code for This Image”.
    If the image is also a link, you’ll find the option in the “Image” sub-menu.
  3. Scan the QR code with a mobile, copy the QR code image to a clipboard, or download it.
Vivaldi browser window with a generated QR code pop-up in the foreground.

Tip #692

April 14, 2025

Bring back the Home button when moving the Address Bar to the bottom in Vivaldi on Android.

When you move the Address and Tab Bars to the bottom edge of the screen, the Navigation Bar, together with some useful buttons, will be hidden. For example, the one taking you back to the Start Page. Luckily, there’s a setting in Vivaldi on Android that you can toggle to bring it back.

To add a Home button to the Address Bar:

  1. Go to Settings > Appearance & Theme.
  2. Enable “Show Start Page Icon in Address Bar”.

If you want to open a website instead of the Start Page when tapping on the Home button (and New Tab button), go to Settings > General > Homepage to set the web page link.

Vivaldi on Android with the Address and Tab Bars a the bottom. An arrow points at the home button on the Address Bar.

Tip #691

April 11, 2025

Translate text pasted into the Translate Panel automatically.

Vivaldi Translate helps to broaden your horizons and make sense of content that hasn’t been written in languages that you speak. When you paste text into the Translate Panel, instead of getting the translation only after clicking the Translate button, you can enable a setting that shows you the translated version immediately.

To enable automatic translation:

  1. Go to Settings > Panel > Translate Panel.
  2. Enable “Translate when pasting text”.
Short snippet of text in English pasted into the Translate Panel, which has been translated into Japanese.