Desktop Tips

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

Tip #753

September 18, 2025

Whether you have a trackpad on your laptop or a standalone one, using a swipe gesture on it makes moving between web pages a breeze.

• To move back in history, with two fingers, swipe from left to right.
• To move forward in history, with two fingers, swipe from right to left.

PS. It also works for swipe gestures on touch screens! 😉

Tip #752

September 16, 2025

It makes browsing with Vivaldi easier when each instance you sync has a clear name. For example, you’ll find tabs open on other devices faster, and sending a single tab to another device is quicker too. When you start syncing, you can give the synced Vivaldi instance a name during login, but you can also rename the device when Sync is already active.

To rename the device on desktop:

1. Go to Settings > Sync.
2. Click the pencil icon next to the current device name.
3. Type in the new name and press “Enter”.

To rename the device on Android or iOS:

1. Go to Settings > Sync.
2. Tap “Edit” next to the current device name.
3. Type in the new name.
4. Tap “Confirm”.

Tip #751

September 11, 2025

To make logging into accounts easier, you can save your passwords in Vivaldi. After you’ve logged in to a new website, you’re asked whether you want to save the password or not. In case you select “Never”, you won’t be asked again. In case you change your mind and do want to save passwords for that website, here’s what you need to do.

To remove websites from the Passwords’ Declined Sites:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Passwords > Declined Sites.
2. Select the website you want to remove from the list.
3. Click on the “Remove site” button at the bottom of the list.

Tip #750

September 9, 2025

You can reduce the number of open tabs by adding pages you want to check later to the Reading List. When you open a page from the Reading List, it gets marked as read automatically. In case you changed your mind about reading the article or didn’t get a chance to finish, you can mark the page as unread again.

To mark a page as unread:

1. Open the Reading List panel or Reading List pop-up.
2. Find the page you want to mark as unread.
3. Click on the eye icon next to the page title.

Similarly, by clicking the checkmark icon next to an unread page, you can mark it as read.

Tip #749

September 4, 2025

You can jot down ideas, save useful stuff you find online, make lists, and more with Vivaldi Notes. Some notes may be important enough for you to want to share them with others or access them from outside the browser or even your computer. In that case, you may be interested to know how to save notes as a PDF file or print them on paper.

To save or print a note:

1. Open the note in the Notes Manager.
2. Go to the main Vivaldi menu > File > Print.
3. Select the destination, for example, “Save as PDF” or your printer.
4. If needed, adjust other settings.
5. Click “Save”/”Print”.