Desktop Tips

Tip #717

May 30, 2025

Choose whether to have a little gap between tiled tabs or not.

A little padding around each tiled tab makes it easier to see where one web page ends and the other begins, but if screen real estate is precious, you can remove it.

To remove space between tiled tabs:

  1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Tab Tiling.
  2. Enable “Remove Space Around Tiled Pages.
Two Vivaldi browser windows. The window in the background has three tabs tiled without any space between the tiles. The window in the foreground has the same three tabs, but the tiles have some space between them.
The window in the background has the space between tiles removed. The one in the foreground has a little gap between tiles.

Tip #714

May 27, 2025

Hide your search history from the Address Field drop-down menu.

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”.
Address Bar settings in Vivaldi. An arrow points at the disabled Search History option.

Tip #713

May 26, 2025

Grab a still frame from a video.

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’.
Paused video player open in Vivaldi. Video's right-click context menu is open and the option "Save Frame as" is highlighted.

Tip #710

May 21, 2025

Find visited web pages in History Panel faster by collapsing all date folders.

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.
History Panel in Vivaldi browser. Context menu is open and an arrow is pointing at the "Collapse all Folders" option.

Tip #709

May 20, 2025

Choose how many suggestions you see in the Address Field’s drop-down menu.

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.
Vivaldi browser window. The letter L has been typed into the Address Field and relevant suggestions are shown in the drop-down menu.

Tip #708

May 16, 2025

Speed up information lookup with custom Search Engines, Command Chains and menu customization.

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.
Selected text's context menu is open in the Vivaldi browser. An arrow points to the custom Command Chains menu entry.

Tip #705

May 12, 2025

Keep your website visits and searches separate by disabling searches in the Address Field.

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.
Vivaldi browser window with both the Address and Search Fields on the Address Bar.

Tip #704

May 9, 2025

Switch to a tab in a different window or Workspace from the browser’s main menu.

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.
Vivaldi browser window. The main menu is open showing a path to a pinned tab open in another window.

Tip #701

May 6, 2025

Automatically tile a new tab opened from a link on a web page with the current tab.

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.

Vivaldi browser window with a website open. Link's context menu is open in the foreground and an arrow points at the command chain option in the menu that will open the link and tile it with the current tab.

Tip #700

April 25, 2025

Open notes from Quick Commands’ search results in the Notes Manager.

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”.
Vivaldi browser window with Quick Commands open. Search results display Notes that match the query.

Tip #699

April 24, 2025

Select your preference for Download notifications.

When you download something with Vivaldi, you’ll get a system notification when the download has finished. If you don’t care to see those, you can disable the notifications and check the status of your downloads from the Downloads Panel (even the panel button itself gives you a hint about ongoing downloads).

To disable notifications:

  1. Go to Settings > Downloads.
  2. Disable “Notify on Completed Downloads”.
Corner of a Vivaldi browser window on Windows. Near the corner of the browser window there's a notification announcing a completed download. An arrow is pointing at the notification.

Tip #697

April 22, 2025

To save or discard event changes? That is the question.

When you have the event editor open and click somewhere outside of it, the editor will close. When you do that, do you want any changes you made to the event to be saved or discarded?

To make your choice:

  1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Display > Click Outside Event Should.
  2. Choose between “Discard Changes” and “Save Changes”.
Calendar Settings in Vivaldi. An arrow is pointing at the "Click Outside Event Should" setting.