Desktop Tips
Tip #683
April 1, 2025
Choose between a playfully dynamic or a fixed accent color for your browser theme.
Do you prefer your browser theme’s accent color to reflect the website you’re on or do you want it to stay the same no matter which site you’re on?
To make your decision:
- Go to Settings > Themes > Editor > Colors > Color Overrides.
- Keep the “Accent from Page” setting enabled, if you want the browser to change colors dynamically. Disable it, if you want your Tab Bar to always be in your chosen accent color.
Tip #682
March 31, 2025
Discover all the ways you can add tasks to your to-do list in Vivaldi.
By adding your tasks to the Vivaldi Calendar, you’ll never forget an obligation. There are so many different and convenient ways you can start adding a new task in Vivaldi, that you’ll get back to browsing in no time at all.
To add a new task in Vivaldi, use one of the following methods:
- Click on the “Add Task” button in the Tasks Panel.
- Click on the “New Event” button in the main Calendar view or in the Calendar Panel and tick the box for “Is a Task”.
- Click on a timeslot in the main Calendar view or in the Calendar Panel and tick the box for “Is a Task”.
- In the Calendar’s Agenda View, click “Add Task” in the Tasks sidebar.
- Type “Add Calendar Task” in Quick Commands.
- Create a Keyboard Shortcut, Mouse Gesture, or a Menu item for the action and use it when needed.
- Right-click on an email or feed’s post that you want to turn into a task in Vivaldi Mail and select Add to Calendar > Task from the context menu.
- Select some text on a web page that you want to turn into a task and select Add to Calendar > Task from the context menu.
Tip #681
March 28, 2025
Close tabs more efficiently by always displaying the close button on all tabs.
Usually, when you want to close a tab, you first need to hover over the tab on the Tab Bar to make the close button visible. But in Vivaldi, there’s a way you can always display the X on the tab for quick closing.
To always display the close button on all tabs:
- Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Options.
- Enable “Permanently” under “Display Close Button”.
Tip #680
March 27, 2025
Enable Proton VPN to protect your online privacy.
In Vivaldi, you can connect to Proton VPN without any extra hassle using your Vivaldi account, giving you a more private and secure browsing experience.
To get started:
- Click the ”VPN” button on the right side of the Address Bar.
- Log in to your Vivaldi account or to your Proton account.
- Click “Connect”.
Tip #677
March 24, 2025
Turn your emails into Calendar events.
Did you receive an email with tickets to an event, an assignment you need to complete, or something else that you need to keep track of? There’s a super easy way in Vivaldi Mail to turn any email into an event or task in the Vivaldi Calendar.
To create a new event from an email message:
- Right-click on a message in the Mail list or on the open message itself.
- Select “Add to Calendar”.
- Choose whether to add the message as an event, task, or invite*.
By the way, it also works with Feeds’ posts and selected text on a web page.
*Adds email recipients as invitees to the event.
Tip #674
March 19, 2025
Convert currencies swiftly on the Dashboard.
The Currency widget makes it easy to convert one currency into another, as well as follow the changes in exchange rates over time.
To add the Currency Widget:
- Go to the Dashboard on the Start Page.
- Click “Add a Widget” at the bottom of the window.
- Select “Currency”.
Tip #673
March 18, 2025
Get your Mail accounts in the correct order.
Vivaldi Mail makes managing multiple mail accounts a joy. But not all accounts are equally important. You probably want your main accounts to be at the top of the Mail Panel‘s All Accounts list, while the less frequently used ones can take their place at the bottom.
To reorder mail accounts:
- Go to Settings > Mail > Mail Accounts.
- Select the account you want to move.
- Click on the up and down arrows below the list of accounts to move the selected account.
Tip #672
March 17, 2025
Make the date and time in Vivaldi match your preferred format.
Should the date be written as day-month-year or month-day-year? Does the week start with a Sunday or a Monday? In Vivaldi, you can decide how dates should be displayed in the browser.
To review date and time settings:
- Go to Settings > General > Language > Preferred Date & Time Format.
- Choose whether to follow your operating system’s settings or the browser’s language.
- Additionally, choose what day the week should start with and which week to count as the first one of the year.
Tip #670
March 13, 2025
Declutter the Panels sidebar by hiding the Panels you don’t use.
Many of Vivaldi’s key features can be accessed from the Panels sidebar on the side of the browser window. Though we hope you find them all useful, there likely are some that you hardly ever use. If that’s the case, why not hide the panel buttons for a cleaner view allowing you to reach the Panels you do use faster?
To hide Panels:
- Locate an unused panel on the sidebar.
- Right-click on its button.
- Select “Remove from Toolbar”.
To bring a button back, go to the main Vivaldi menu > View > Customize Toolbar > Panel and drag the button back to the sidebar.
Tip #668
March 11, 2025
Make updating events in the Vivaldi Calendar a delight by enabling the correct settings.
Which is more important to you – event length or that it ends at the set time even when the start time changes? Whatever your preference, Vivaldi Calendar comes with a setting to cater to both needs.
To review the setting:
- Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Settings > Calendar Editing > Auto Adjust End Time.
- Choose between:
- Always, i.e. push the end time forward,
- Never, i.e. keep the same end time,
- Adjust the end time, except for all-day events.
Tip #666
March 7, 2025
Reorder tiled tabs for a more comfortable view.
In Vivaldi there’s no need to jump back and forth between tabs – Tab Tiling allows you to view several tabs at the same time in a split-screen view. Depending on your tab order and the layout of the web pages, the grid view might not work out of the box, so it’s necessary to adjust the view by resizing the tiles (see Tip #47) and by reordering the tabs in the tiled view.
To reorder tiled tabs:
- Click on a tab you want to move and hold down the mouse button.
- Drag the tab to a different location on the Tab Bar.
- Repeat with the other tiled tabs until all tiled tabs are where you want them.
Tip #663
March 4, 2025
Keep the Tab Bar only for tabs by moving or hiding the other buttons.
In Vivaldi, you can customize aspects you might have not even known could be customized, for example, on the Tab Bar.
To hide the Synced and Closed Tabs buttons:
- Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Bar.
- Disable “Display Trash Can” and/or “Display Synced Tabs Button”.
Please note that to open tabs sent from other synced devices using the “Send to Device” feature you need to have the Synced Tabs button enabled.
To hide the Workspaces menu:
- Go to Settings > Tabs > Workspaces.
- Disable “Show Workspaces in the Tab Bar”.
When the Tab Bar buttons have been hidden, you can access your Workspaces, and Synced and Closed Tabs from the Windows Panel.
To move the menu and window control buttons (minimize, maximize, close):
- Go to Settings > Appearance > Menu > Menu Position.
- Select “Horizontal”.
This will move the menu and window control buttons to their own toolbar.
