Desktop Tips

Tip #719

June 4, 2025

Vivaldi Calendar is great for managing all your events and tasks in various local and online calendars. While it’s good to be able to access all your calendars in one place, not all of them are always relevant. Luckily, these calendars can be hidden from view (see Tip #525). By default, you’ll still receive notifications with event reminders from these calendars, but you can mute those as well.

To disable notifications for hidden calendars:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Notifications.
2. Enable “Disable for Hidden Calendars”.

Tip #718

June 3, 2025

With Vivaldi, there’s no need to perform complicated one-handed gymnastics tricks on the keyboard to reach multiple keys simultaneously, while the other hand holds a cup of coffee or a stress ball. Instead, you can enable Single Key Shortcuts and browse with ease.

To enable Single Key Shortcuts:

1. Go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts.
2. Enable “Single Key Shortcuts”.

You can browse preset Single Key Shortcuts and add or edit them to match your preferences in Settings > Keyboard.

To use Single Key Shortcuts, first make sure that none of the input fields (Address Field, text box on a web page, etc.) are focused. Then simply press the command’s shortcut key on your keyboard.

Tip #717

June 2, 2025

Quick Reply in Vivaldi Mail is a great way to swiftly send a reply email. The Quick Reply field does take up a bit of space, though, potentially hiding parts of longer emails. Luckily you can resize or hide it altogether.

To resize the Quick Reply field:

1. Place the mouse cursor on the top edge of the section.
2. When you see a double-ended arrow, click and drag the mouse up or down to resize it.

To hide/show the Quick Reply field:

1. Place the mouse cursor on the top edge of the section.
2. Do a double-click to hide the section or a single click to display it again.

Tip #714

May 27, 2025

You can keep things more private and clean by excluding your past searches from the Address Field drop-down menu suggestions.

To disable search history:

1. Go to Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Suggestions.
2. Disable “Search History”.

Tip #713

May 26, 2025

You can use the browser’s screenshot tool, to capture the content on web pages. But if that content is a point in a video, then saving a frame from it directly is faster and gives you a better result than trying to draw a frame around the capture area.

To save a frame from a video as an image file:

1. Play the video and pause it at the point that you want to grab a screenshot of.
2. Right-click (in some cases double right-click) on the video to open the context menu.
3. Select “Save Video Frame As”.
   Alternatively, select “Copy Video Frame”.
4. Select the saved file’s destination folder.
5. Click ‘Save’.

Tip #710

May 21, 2025

When you’re looking for a web page you visited some time ago but no longer have it open in a tab, the logical place to look for it is in the History Panel. But instead of scrolling through all the days, you can collapse all the date folders to see all the days you’ve browsed with Vivaldi and expand the date you think you last visited the page.

To view web pages from a specific date:

1. Open the History Panel.
2. Right-click on a date or history entry.
3. Select “Collapse all folders” from the context menu.
4. Click on the arrow in front of the date to display web pages visited on that day.

Tip #709

May 20, 2025

In case the default 12 suggestions in the Address Field drop-down menu are not enough for you, you can increase the number of results all the way to 42 or go in the opposite direction and limit the number of suggestions to only the top 5.

To change the number of suggestions:

1. Go to Settings > Address Bar > Drop-Down Maximum Size.
2. Click the – and + buttons to change the number of results.

Tip #708

May 16, 2025

Do you frequently need to look up something on one site using information from another? For example, a ticket or product using its ID or name. Combining a few features in Vivaldi will help you cut out a lot of manual work.

To set things up:

First, add a custom Search Engine:

1. Go to the website you search for things on.
2. Right-click on the search field on the page.
3. Select “Add as Search Engine” from the context menu.
4. Review the name and nickname.
5. Click “Add”.

Secondly, create a Command Chain:

1. Go to Settings > Quick Commands > Command Chains.
2. Click on the + at the bottom of the list of chains to add a new one.
3. Give the chain a name and for Command 1 select “Search Selection with Engine”.
4. Select your newly added search engine as the Command Parameter.

Lastly, add the Command Chain to a context menu:

1. Go to Settings > Appearance > Menu > Menu Customization.
2. From the dropdown menu select Web Page > Selection.
3. From the Commands section, drag your newly created chain to the Content section.

To look something up:

1. Select text on a web page.
2. Right-click on the selection to open the context menu.
3. Click on the menu entry you added to open search results in a new tab.

Tip #705

May 12, 2025

In Vivaldi, you can compartmentalize what you search for online from the web pages you visit by only allowing going to web links in the Address Field. When searching is disabled in the Address Field, you can search the web by adding a dedicated Search Field to the Address Bar or by using Quick Commands.

To disable searching in the Address Field:

1. Go to Settings > Search > Search Options.
2. Disable “Search in Address Field”.

To add the Search Field to the Address Bar:

1. Go to the main menu > View > Customize Toolbar.
2. Drag the Search Field next to the Address Field on the Address Bar.

Tip #704

May 9, 2025

There are several ways you can find an open tab in Vivaldi and go to it. You can look for it in the Windows Panel, or search for it by name/URL in Quick Commands or Address Field. But there’s one more option – by going through the browser’s main menu.

To switch to an open tab using the Vivaldi menu:

1. Go to the main menu > Window > Other Windows and Tabs / Other Workspaces and Tabs.
2. Go through the submenus until you find the tab you’re looking for.
3. Click on it, to switch to the tab.

Tip #701

May 6, 2025

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.

Tip #700

April 25, 2025

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”.