Desktop Tips

Tip #406

January 16, 2024

A calendar is vital for keeping up with a busy schedule. To make it easier to view and manage your events and tasks, you can create multiple calendars for various types of obligations in your Vivaldi Calendar. You can also assign a different color for each calendar to make the events stand out more.

To create a new calendar:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendars.
2. Click on + Add Calendar below the list of existing calendars.
3. Select which account the calendar should belong to, give the calendar a name, choose a color and look over
4. Click “Save” to create the new calendar.

Tip #404

January 12, 2024

Markdown is a simple markup language used to create rich text (e.g. HTML) with a plain text editor. It lets you add basic formatting to your text, using symbols known and accessible on all keyboards.

To use Markdown in Vivaldi Notes:

1. Open the Notes Panel or Notes Manager and select or create a note.
2. Make sure the Editor/Text view is enabled.
3. Use the basic Markdown syntax to add headings, lists, bold text, etc.
4. Switch to Markdown/Visual view to see the outcome.

Tip #403

January 11, 2024

With Saved Sessions you can look up a single tab or restore your complete browsing session from a specific time in the past. You can save Sessions manually or have them be saved automatically once every hour.

To automatically back up all your open tabs as a Saved Session:

1. Open the Sessions Panel.
2. At the bottom of the panel, click on “Automatic Session Backup”.
3. Select how many days worth of backups you want to keep:
   • Last day,
   • Last 3 days,
   • Last 5 days,
   • Last 30 days.
4. Click “Save”.

Tip #400

January 8, 2024

Workspaces are a way to organize your tabs where you can keep different tabs in different Workspaces, based on a topic or category. You might, for example, have a workspace for work, another for sports, and a third for travel.

To set up Workspace Rules:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Workspaces.
2. Click on Add New Workspace Rule.
3. Set up the rule criteria.
4. Select which workspace the tab should be moved to.

Tip #398

November 30, 2023

By default, to switch tabs using the Window Panel, you need to double click on an entry to activate it. If you’d like to switch tabs with only one click, like on the Tab Bar, you’ll need to enable a setting for it.

To enable single click tab switching in the Window Panel:

1. Go to Settings > Panels > Window Panel.
2. Enable “Activate with Single Click.

Tip #397

November 29, 2023

If you temporarily want to stop receiving messages for a mail account, but don’t want to remove the account from Vivaldi Mail altogether, you can enable offline mode.

To take a mail account offline:

1. Go to Settings > Mail > Mail accounts.
2. Select the account.
3. In Identity settings, enable “Take Account Offline”.

You’ll still be able to send messages from the account, but won’t receive any new incoming messages until you turn off the setting.

Tip #395

November 27, 2023

When Vivaldi starts behaving in expected and unwanted ways it’s time to troubleshoot and solve the issue. The solution might be as easy as restarting the browser, or maybe a third-party extension you’ve added is causing trouble.

To troubleshoot issues in Vivaldi check out the following Help pages:

• Troubleshoot issues on desktop
• Troubleshoot issues on Android
• Troubleshoot issues on iOS
• Troubleshoot issues in Vivaldi Mail
• Troubleshoot issues in Vivaldi Calendar
• Troubleshoot issues with Sync

If the suggestions in these Help pages don’t get rid of the issue, you can ask for further assistance on our Forum and if you can consistently reproduce the issue, report it to us as a bug on https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/.

Tip #392

November 22, 2023

In Vivaldi, you can install web pages as Progressive Web Apps, aka PWAs, or open them in separate User Profiles, to give a feeling that you’re using them separately in a dedicated app. These are more permanent options, but there’s another solution for a quick temporary option.

To get an app-like feeling of a website:

1. Open the web page in a new browser window.
2. For that window, toggle the UI off to hide the toolbars in one of the following ways:
   • Go to the Vivaldi menu > Window > Hide UI;
   • Type “Toggle UI” in Quick Commands;
   • Use the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl+F11;
   • Create a Mouse Gesture for the action.

Since the user interface is toggled off only in the current window, you’ll still see all your other windows with the usual toolbars.

Tip #390

November 20, 2023

Imagine that you have some background music playing in one browser tab, but you come across a video (or some other media with audio) in another tab that you want to watch and listen to. So you go to mute or pause your music and only then start watching the video. And after you’re finished you need to go back to unmute or unpause the music. Annoying isn’t it? Vivaldi has a better solution to offer.

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Mute Tab Audio.
2. Enable “Prioritize Active Tab”.

That way you can just start playing the video in the active tab and Vivaldi will automatically mute the audio coming from other tabs. Once you’re done watching the video, the audio from other tabs will be unmuted. Sweet! 😎

Tip #388

November 16, 2023

Whenever a video can be moved to a pop-out window, a small icon appears on the video that allows you to do so quickly. If Pop-out Video, aka Picture-in-Picture, is a feature you never use, you might want to hide the little icon from appearing whenever you hover over a video.

To hide the button:

1. Go to Settings > Webpages.
2. Disable “Picture-in-Picture Button on Videos”.

Tip #387

November 15, 2023

In Vivaldi Mail, Outbox is a sub-folder in All Messages, where you can store message drafts that you’ve finished writing, but don’t want to send just yet.

To queue emails instead of sending:

1. In the Mail Composer, click the little arrow (▼) next to the “Send” button.
2. Select “Queue”.
3. When you’re done writing an email click the “Queue” button (previously “Send”).

To send all emails in the Outbox.

1. Open the Mail Panel.
2. Click “Send from all accounts” at the top of the panel.

Tip #385

November 13, 2023

Have you ever considered having a preference for which tab to focus on next when you close a tab you no longer need? With Vivaldi you can do just that. In addition to prioritizing related tabs, you can choose to open tabs you had focused on before the closed tab or open the tab that was on the left/right side of the closed tab.

To make your choice:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Close Tab Activation.
2. Choose in which order tabs should be activated after closing another tab:
   • In recently used order,
   • Left in the Tab order,
   • Right in Tab order.