Desktop Tips

Tip #775

December 4, 2025

If you’re using Vivaldi on a device that runs on battery, you can extend the battery life by capping background activity, visual effects, smooth scrolling, and video frame rates.

To choose your energy saving level:

1. Go to Settings > Performance > Energy Saver.
2. Select between:
   • Never Save Energy,
   • Turn on at 20% Battery or Lower,
   • Turn on When Running on Battery,
   • Always Save Energy.

Tip #773

November 27, 2025

When you’re browsing on multiple devices, you may find yourself in a situation where, while using Vivaldi on your computer, you need to access tabs that you have open on other devices.

To open synced tabs:

1. Make sure you’re logged in to Sync with the same Vivaldi account on all devices, and that tab syncing is enabled.
2. Open the Windows Panel or the Tab Button.
3. Right-click on the group of tabs you want to open. It can be all tabs on the device, in a chosen window, Workspace, Tab Stack, or a precise selection of tabs.
4. Select “Open” from the context menu.

In case you only want to open one tab, a quick (double-)click on that tab in the list of tabs is all you need to do.

Tip #770

November 18, 2025

If you’re ever wondering whether you have the latest browser version with all the coolest new features and the most recent bug fixes, simply head over to the About Page.

To open the About Page, either:

• Go to the main menu > Help > About.
• Type “vivaldi:about” in the Address Field.
• Type “About” in Quick Commands.

There, on top of the page, you can see whether the browser is up to date, needs a quick restart to update, or, in case you have automatic updates disabled, an update can be downloaded.

Tip #769

November 13, 2025

The Start Page is for populating it with your favorite and most used bookmarks – Speed Dials. To take it to the next level, you can also add Widgets to each Speed Dial group, creating unique dashboards that meet your browsing needs.

To add a new Speed Dial group:

1. Go to the Bookmark Panel or Bookmarks Manager.
2. Right-click on a folder and select “Use as Speed Dial”.

To add Widgets to the Speed Dial:

1. Go to the Speed Dial group you want to add widgets to.
2. Click on “Widget” at the bottom of the page.
3. Click on the one you want to add.
4. Repeat to add all the widgets you need.

Tip #767

November 6, 2025

Whether you’re working on a small laptop screen where every pixel counts or just prefer a more compact look, Vivaldi’s toolbar customisation settings are here to help you achieve a configuration that works for you.

To combine the Address Bar and the Tab Bars, you need to move components from the Address Bar to the Tab Bar. Here’s how!

1. Open the Toolbar Editor from the main menu > View > Customize Toolbar, or right-click on a component on the toolbars and select Customize Toolbar.
2. While the icons are wiggling in their place, drag components you regularly use from the Address Bar to the Tab Bar (or to other toolbars).
3. When you see a line in your theme’s highlight color appear, drop the component to its new place.
4. When you’re happy with the result, click “Done” in the editor window.
5. Then, in the main menu > View, click on “Show Address bar” to hide the Address Bar.

Tip#765

October 30, 2025

After having spent time on making your Start Page perfect by rearranging and customizing your Speed Dials, it would be a shame if things got disarranged because you accidentally clicked and dragged a Speed Dial. Luckily, there’s a setting to prevent it from happening.

To disable drag and drop:

1. Go to Settings > Start Page > Speed Dial.
2. Disable “Allow Drag and Drop Reordering”.

Tip #763

October 23, 2025

Whether for sharing, document naming, issue reporting or something else. Sometimes it’s good to get the full web page title, especially if it’s not displayed on the page itself.

To copy the web page title in Vivaldi:

1. Double-click on the tab or right-click on the tab and select “Rename” from the menu.
2. While the title is selected, press CTRL / ⌘ + C on your keyboard.

Tip #761

October 16, 2025

In addition to searching for web content with a search engine, you can use the Address Field to search for Bookmarks, open Tabs, and History.

To filter searches in the Address Field:

1. Type the nickname “bookmarks“, “@tabs“, or “@history” followed by a space in the Address Field.
2. Then start typing the web page’s title or URL to see relevant results.
3. Click on the suggestion to go to the web page.

Prefer using Quick Commands? See how to filter searches there in Tip #323.

Tip #760

October 14, 2025

You may find some sections in the Tab Button popup irrelevant to your workflow. If that’s the case, hide them and enjoy using a Tab Button that fits your needs perfectly.

To hide sections you don’t use.

1. Open the pop-up menu.
2. Open the Display Options menu by clicking on the 3-dot menu button in the top right corner.
3. Click on the section names on the menu to toggle their visibility off or on.
4. Click outside the menu to close it.

Tip #756

September 30, 2025

Reader View is an excellent feature to remove distractions on the website, but that still leaves room for other things on your screen to pull your attention away from the article you’re reading. To fully immerse yourself, in addition to toggling on the Reader View, you can switch to Fullscreen Mode. And to combine the two actions into one, in Vivaldi, you can create a Command Chain.

To create a new chain for enabling full-screen reader mode:

1. Go to Settings > Quick Commands > Command Chains.
2. Add a new Command Chain.
3. Add the following commands to the chain:
   • Command 1 – Toggle Reader View
   • Command 2 – Fullscreen Mode
4. Create a Keyboard Shortcut, Mouse Gestures and/or add a custom button to a toolbar for executing the chain.
   Straight out of the box, you can type the chain’s name in Quick Commands.

Tip #755

September 25, 2025

Starting to work on a project and need to open a bunch of bookmarks? Instead of opening the necessary links one by one, open them all in one go with the help of Quick Commands.

To open all bookmarks in a folder:

1. Open Quick Commands.
2. Start typing the bookmark folder’s name.
3. Click on the suggestion in the “Open All Bookmarks in Folder” section.

Tip #754

September 23, 2025

The Tab Button pop-up is a unified place to find, switch, close, and recover your tabs in all your Workspaces and Windows without interrupting your browsing flow.

In the Tab Button pop-up, you’ll find your:

• Open Tabs
• Unread Tabs
• Inactive Tabs
• Duplicate Tabs
• Synced Tabs
• Recently Closed Tabs