Desktop Tips

Tip #855

October 29, 2026

Instead of trying to find the most suitable folder for your email, add labels to it, so you can include them in multiple relevant groups.

To add labels to your emails, either:

• Open the message, click on “Labels” on the menu above the message, and select an existing label or add a new one.
• Right-click on a message in the mail list, hover over “Labels in the context menu, and select an existing label or add a new one.
• Drag the message from the mail list to the relevant label in the Mail Panel.

Tip #854

October 27, 2026

While it’s easy to reopen closed tabs, it’s better to prevent accidental tab closing in the first place. In the Vivaldi browser, when you close 10 or more tabs, you’re prompted to confirm that you really do want to close all these tabs. In true Vivaldi fashion, the number of tabs that will trigger the close confirmation dialog can be adjusted and, if not needed, the dialog can be disabled altogether.

To adjust the limit:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Handling.
2. Make sure “Confirm When Closing # or More Tabs” is enabled.
3. Enter a number in the input field.

Tip #853

October 22, 2026

When learning a new language reading texts in the other language and trying to understand them is a big part of the process. With Vivaldi’s Command Chains you can make it easier by cloning and translating the page and tiling it with the original.

To create the Command Chain:

1. Go to Settings > Quick Commands > Command Chains.
2. Click on “Add Command Chain”.
3. Give the new chain a name.
4. Change “Command 1” to “Duplicate Tab”.
5. Click on the little + (Add Command) button on the right side to add the next command in the sequence.
6. Command 2 – Delay
7. Command 3 – Tile Vertically
8. Command 4 – Delay
9. Command 5 – Translate Page

Once set up, use Quick Commands, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mouse Gestures or custom

Tip #852

October 20, 2026

Hiding the browser’s toolbars gives you more room to enjoy your pages without distractions. With Vivaldi’s Auto-hide feature the toolbars will appear on mouse hover and disappear when you move the cursor away. Whether all of them disappear from view or only some is up to you to decide.

To review auto-hide settings:

1. Go to Settings > Appearance > UI Auto-hide.
2. Tick the box for “Enable UI Auto-hide”.
3. Untick boxes for toolbars you always want to see.

Tip #851

October 15, 2026

If you want to keep the selection of tabs in your Tab Stacks as they are and open links from stacked web pages in new tabs outside of the stack, there’s a setting in Vivaldi you will want to change.

To open links outside the stack:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Tab Stack Options.
2. Disable “Open Tabs in Current Tab Stack”.

Tip #846

September 29, 2026

When you right-click on the History back/forward button on the Address Bar, you get a list of pages you’ve visited in that tab. Clicking on an item on the list will take you to the chosen page. But what if you want to stay on the current page and open the page you’ve already visited? There’s a little trick in Vivaldi that allows you to open the page in a new tab.

To open visited pages in a new tab:

1. Right-click on the back/forward button on the Address Bar.
   Alternatively, click and hold down the mouse button until the menu opens.
2. Hold down the Shift / ⇧ or Ctrl / ⌘ key to open the page in a new foreground or background tab, respectively.
3. Click on the page you want to open.

Tip #844

September 17, 2026

Tabs playing audio can be spotted by the speaker icon on the tab, but with tens if not hundreds of tabs open, it can still be cumbersome to find from which tabs the sounds are coming from. Vivaldi’s Windows and Tabs Panel comes in handy here by allowing you to sort tabs in a way that makes them easy to spot.

To sort tabs by audio status:

1. Open the Windows and Tabs Panel.
2. Click on the sort menu between the search field and the list of open tabs.
3. Select “By Audio Status”.

Tip #843

September 15, 2026

With the Vivaldi browser on desktop, Android and iOS, you don’t need to switch apps or go to a website with a calculator to do a quick calculation. Simply use the calculator built into the browser’s Address Field.

To calculate something:

1. Focus on the Address Field.
2. Start typing the equation. For example, “888/37”, “sqrt 1764”, etc.

The result will be displayed automatically in the Address Field’s drop-down menu. If you need to use the result, press Enter or click the Copy button on the right side.

Tip #840

September 3, 2026

When you use a website often enough that you wish it were its own app, look no further than the Vivaldi browser’s Address Bar. If you see an “Install” button on the right side of the Address Field, the website is also available as a Progressive Web App (PWA).

To install a website as a PWA:

1. Click the “Install” button on the right side of the Address Field.
2. Click “Install” in the small menu asking you to confirm your action.

Alternatively, right-click on the tab and select Progressive Web Apps > Install [website name].

Tip #837

August 25, 2026

If you’re in the middle of something when you receive a reminder from the Vivaldi Calendar about an upcoming event or an approaching task deadline, you can simply click the “Snooze” button. It will temporarily dismiss the reminder and you’ll receive a new notification after a short while, giving you more time to finish what you’re doing without losing track of the event or task.

To receive a new reminder:

1. From the drop-down menu, select how much you want to postpone the reminder.
2. Click “Snooze”.

Tip #836

July 30, 2026

When you enable Daily Images as Start Page background images in Vivaldi, you’ll be treated with a new wallpaper every day. If there’s a picture that catches your eye and you want to see more works from the same author, check the image credits.

To view more images from the same author:

• On desktop, look in the bottom right corner of the Start Page and click on the author’s name.
• On Android and iOS, open the Customize menu (from the button at the bottom of the Start Page or from the 3-dot menu in the top right corner of the Start Page). Tap on the author’s name below the setting.

Tip #835

July 28, 2026

Time to revisit an old tip since things have changed since it was posted a few years ago.

Seeing your Tab Bar go from a complete mess to one that’s neatly organized in a blink of an eye is super satisfying. So, if your Tab Bar contains multiple tabs from the same site that could all be grouped into their own stacks, try the following:

1. Open Quick Commands (F2 / ⌘ E).
2. Type “Stack Tabs by Host”.
3. Press Enter.

Alternatively, assign a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the “Stack Tabs by Host” command, or customize the menus and add the command to a Tab menu.