Desktop Tips

Check the weather forecast straight from your Dashboard.

The Weather widget allows you to keep an eye on your local weather and any other place you’re curious about. See what you can expect in the next 24 hours as well as in the upcoming week.

To add the Weather widget:

Open the Dashboard.
Click on “Add a Widget” at the bottom of the window.
Select the Weather widget.
Enter the location.
Select your preferred measurement units.
Click “Done”.

Vivaldi's Start Page Dashboard with Weather, Date and Calendar Agenda widgets.

Hide the message that’s shown when you switch a video into fullscreen mode.

When you watch videos in fullscreen mode frequently, you’ve probably seen the message “Press Escape key to exit fullscreen” countless of times. Did you know that you can hide it?

To disable the message:

Go to Settings > Webpages > Fullscreen Mode.
Disable “Show Fullscreen Reminder”.

View and open your synced tabs from the Windows Panel.

The Windows Panel lists tabs from all your Windows and Workspaces, as well as tabs you’ve recently closed. Also, if you’ve chosen to synchronize your open tabs, in addition to the Synced Tabs button on the far side of the Tab Bar, you’ll find them in the Windows Panel.

To open synced tabs from the Windows Panel:

Log in to Sync in Vivaldi on all devices you want to keep in sync.
Start syncing all data or make sure Tabs are selected for syncing.
Open the Windows Panel.
Find the Synced Tabs section.
Double-click on the tab you want to open.

Windows Panel with focus on Synced Tabs.

Tip #631

January 16, 2025

View all posts in Vivaldi Feed Reader in one list.

With the Vivaldi Feed Reader you can curate your own custom news feed with content you’ve handpicked. Clicking on a feed’s name in the Feeds Panel will show you all posts from that source, but there is an easy way to view all content in a single list as well.

To view all feed posts:

Open the Feeds Panel.
Click on “Feeds” above the list of feeds you’ve subscribed to.

Bonus tip! Explore the sorting and filtering options above the list of posts to make catching up with news even more efficient.

Vivaldi Feeds showing all posts in one chronologically sorted list.

Tip #628

January 13, 2025

Open the downloaded file’s location with one click in the Downloads Panel.

Instead of looking through all your folders in the File Manager/Finder, you can easily open the destination folder of the downloaded file from the Downloads Panel.

To open the folder in which you saved a file:

Open the Downloads Panel and locate the file in the list.
Click on “Show in File Manager/Finder” button on the right side of the file title.

Vivaldi browser's Downloads Panel. An arrow is pointing at the "Show in File Manager" button.

Tip #625

January 8, 2025

Pick a different size for the Widgets on your Dashboard.

The size of some Widgets can be resized to fit your Dashboard‘s layout better and/or to display as much or little content as you want to see.

To resize Widgets:

Open the widget’s menu from the top right corner.
Hover over “Widget Size”.
Choose between the Regular or Tall size.

Resizing is available for the following Widgets: Bookmarks, Calendar Agenda, Feeds, Latest Emails, Tasks and the Webpage widget.

Vivaldi browser's Dashboard. A widget's menu is open on the widget's size sub section.

Tip #624

January 7, 2025

Turn Extension pop-out dialogs into Web Panels.

Some Extension dialogs can be quite complex. To make using them easier, you can convert the pop-out dialogs into Web Panels.

To add an extension to Web Panels:

Install an extension from Chrome Web Store.
Click on it on the Address Bar to open its pop-out dialog.
Right-click on the dialog.
Select “Add Page to Web Panel” form the context menu.
If needed, adjust the width of the panel.

It’s not guaranteed to work with all extensions, but most should behave just fine.

Vivaldi browser window with Bitwarden extension's pop out menu turned into a Web Panel.

Tip #623

January 6, 2025

Follow Tips on vivaldi.com from now on.

New year, new… home? That’s right! Vivaldi Tips with all its posts is moving from tips.vivaldi.net to vivaldi.com/blog/tips/. The move allows us to translate tips into more languages, starting with Japanese.

You might need to update your subscription depending on how you’re following Vivaldi Tips.

If you’ve added the Tips widget to the Dashboard in the desktop version of Vivaldi or you check in on the Community homepage on vivaldi.net daily, you don’t need to do anything.

Feeds – If you read the posts via a feed reader, update the RSS link to https://vivaldi.com/category/tips/feed/.

Vivaldi Social – If you follow tips from the Fediverse, start following https://social.vivaldi.net/@[email protected] instead of https://social.vivaldi.net/@[email protected].

Tip #619

December 17, 2024

Try out every way you can close a tab in Vivaldi and find your favorite.

At Vivaldi, we believe that a browser should adapt to you, not the other way around. And that’s probably why we have 11 ways to close a tab. 😅 Take a look at the list below and try out the ones you didn’t even know about. Maybe there’s a new favorite among them.

To close a tab:

On the Tab Bar, click on the X button on the tab.
On the Tab Bar, right-click on the tab and select “Close Tab”.
On the Tab Bar, click on a tab with the middle mouse button
On the Tab Bar, double-click on tabs (first, enable “Double-Click to Close Tab” in Settings > Tabs > Tab Handling).
In the Windows Panel, click on the X button next to the tab’s title.
In the Windows Panel, right-click on the tab title and select “Close”.
In the Windows Panel, select the tab you want to close and press “Delete” on your keyboard.
Use the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl + W / ⌘ W to close the active tab.
In Quick Commands, type “Close Tab” to close the active tab.
Use a Mouse Gesture to close the active tab – while holding down the right mouse button, drag the mouse downwards and then to the left creating an L shape. Release the mouse button to close the tab.
In the main menu > File, select “Close Tab”.

Tip #618

December 16, 2024

Change Themes automatically to match your operating system’s light/dark mode setting.

Whether you switch between light and dark modes on your computer manually or you’ve set up a schedule to switch between them automatically, you can select different Vivaldi Themes for both operating system’s light and dark modes.

To assign themes for light and dark modes:

Go to Settings > Themes > Theme Schedule.
Select “Operating System”.
Choose a theme for both Light and Dark.

Theme Settings in Vivaldi browser. An arrow is pointing at the Theme Schedule section.

Tip #617

December 13, 2024

Take screenshots of full web pages with the Capture Page tool.

Have you ever tried to take a screenshot, but the target area doesn’t fit on your screen? In Vivaldi, you can screenshot whole web pages, including the areas that are out of view.

To capture a full page:

Click on the Capture Page button on the Status Bar.
Select “Full Page” as the area you want to capture.
Select the preferred output option.
Click “Capture”.

A recipe from Tatyana’s Everyday Food open in Vivaldi browser. Screen capture tool has been activated and an arrow is pointing at the Capture Page button on the Status Bar.

Tip #613

December 9, 2024

Try out the different ways you can search open tabs and switch to them.

With amazing tab management features, the Vivaldi browser is a tab hoarder’s paradise. In this tip, we list all the ways you can search for open tabs and switch to them.

Start typing the tab’s name or URL in the Address Field and click on “Switch to this Tab” in the Open Tabs section in the Address Field drop-down menu.
Open Quick Commands and start typing the tab’s name or URL. In the Tabs section, click on the tab you want to view.
Open the Windows Panel and start typing the tab’s name or URL in the search field at the top of the panel. (Double)-click on the tab you want to switch to.