Desktop Tips

Tip #13

May 6, 2022

Type “Show Webpage Access Key Shortcuts” in Quick Commands to see which shortcuts you can use on the open web page.

Access Keys are a way to use a website’s key functionalities through keyboard shortcuts. Each website defines these shortcuts themselves.

To view the available shortcuts, either:

To use the shortcut, hold down Shift+Alt (Ctrl ⌥ on maOS) and the listed key to run the shortcut on the open web page.

Wikipedia.org, with the website's access keys listed in a pop up window.

Tip #12

May 5, 2022

Go to chrome://settings to access additional browser settings.

Vivaldi is based on Chromium. This means that we inherit the settings Chromium comes with. We have transferred all the important settings to Vivaldi Settings, where they can be accessed together with settings that are unique to Vivaldi.

To access the settings that are not available in Vivaldi Settings, type chrome://settings to the Address Field. Once the page loads, the URL will automatically change to vivaldi://settings. Typing vivaldi://settings directly to the Address Field will, however, take you to the main Vivaldi Settings.

Tip #11

May 4, 2022

On the left side of the Address Field, click on 🔍 to search for the entered word/phrase or to go to the entered URL.

Most of us probably just press Enter on our keyboards when we’re ready to do a search or open a website, but did you know there’s a button in the user interface you can click instead?

The Site Info button turns into a Go to Address button on the Start Page or when you’ve entered something in the Address Field. Just click on the magnifying glass, when you’re ready to see the search results or load the web page.

In case you’ve used a search engine nickname before your search term, you’ll see the chosen search engine’s logo instead. You can click that one too.

"Star Wars" has been entered as the search term in the Address Field. An arrow is pointing to the magnifying glass button on the left side of the Address Field.

Tip #9

May 2, 2022

Change the look of Vivaldi’s user interface with custom CSS modifications.

If you’re familiar with reading and writing code, you can edit the desktop browser’s user interface with your own custom CSS modifications.

To get started:

  1. In vivaldi://experiments, enable “Allow for using CSS modifications”.
  2. In Settings > Appearance > Custom UI Modifications, select the folder where you’ll store all your custom CSS files.
  3. Restart the browser.

Now you can start inspecting the user interface using Developer Tools, write up your own CSS for the elements you want to change and see the browser transform to fit your preferences even more.

Vivaldi Community shares and works on modifications together on the Forum’s Modifications category. Feel free to ask assistance and share your work there.

Important! Code shared on the forum has not been reviewed by the Vivaldi Team. Which means that issues, including security issues, may be present.

If you don’t want to risk corrupting your main browser profile, test your modifications in a different User Profile or use a Standalone version of Vivaldi.

Tip #8

April 29, 2022

Highlight text on a web page, right-click on the selection and select “Search…” to get results in an instant.

Instead of copying and pasting or, heaven forbid, manually typing a search term from a web page to the Address or Search Field,

  1. Highlight the text you want to search with.
  2. Right-click on the highlighted text.
  3. Select Search [your default search engine] for [highlighted text].
    To search with a different search engine, hover over Search With and choose a search engine.
A phrase has been selected on a web page. Right-click context menu is open with "Search DuckDuckGo for "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon"" highlighted.

Tip #4

April 25, 2022

Hold down the Ctrl / ⌘ key to change the location of buttons in the browser’s user interface.

Don’t like the default order of Panels? Or you’d prefer to have some buttons currently residing on the Status Bar on the Address Bar instead. No problem, Vivaldi has got you covered. 😎

To move toolbar buttons:

  1. Press and hold down the Ctrl / ⌘ key on your keyboard.
  2. Click and drag the button you want to move.
  3. A line showing the new location will appear when the button can be dropped.
  4. Release the mouse button and keyboard key. On macOS, release the ⌘ key before releasing the mouse button.
Screen capture button being moved from the right to the left side of the Status Bar.

Learn more about editing toolbars in Vivaldi.

Tip #3

April 22, 2022

On Vivaldi Themes, click on “Download theme” to preview the theme before installing it.

When browsing themes.vivaldi.net for new Themes for your desktop Vivaldi browser, you can get a live preview of the theme by clicking “Download theme”.

Then you have 1 minute to see how the theme looks. Make sure to check the Start Page to see how the awesome background image looks behind your Speed Dials. Other places where the user interface colours are clearly visible are Panels, Settings, Mail, etc.

When you’re satisfied with the theme, click “Install” in the pop-up to add the theme to your Theme Library. If it’s not really what you were looking for, click “Cancel” or let the preview time run out.

Theme by Mak0013

Tip #2

April 21, 2022

Press F1 for Help.

Vivaldi Help on https://help.vivaldi.com/ is an ever growing catalogue of articles that introduce Vivaldi features and services to you in more detail, instructs you to make the most of them and in the unfortunate event when something doesn’t work as expected, helps you troubleshoot issues.

There are a few ways to open Vivaldi Help.

  • Press the F1 key on your keyboard (on Windows and Linux).
  • Open the Vivaldi menu > Help > Vivaldi Help.
  • Type “help.vivaldi.com” in the Address Field.
  • Open Vivaldi Help’s Web Panel.

Check out Tip #297 to see how to best get to Vivaldi Help on Android and Tip #567 for iOS.

Tip #1

April 11, 2022

Add vivaldi.com/blog/tips to Feeds to receive daily tips about Vivaldi.

Add Vivaldi Tips to Feeds in the Vivaldi browser

First, make sure you have Mail, Calendar and Feeds enabled in Settings > General > Productivity Features.

Option 1

  1. Click on the Feeds button on the right side of the Address Bar.
  2. Select “Vivaldi Tips Feed – RSS”.
  3. Click “Subscribe”.
Tips.vivaldi.net open in the Vivaldi browser. An arrow is pointing to the Feeds button on the Address Bar ad the menu is open showing the path to subscribing to the feed.

Option 2

  1. Click on the Feed (RSS) button below the page title ☝.
  2. On the feed’s preview page, click “Subscribe”.

Add Vivaldi Tips to any Feeds app

  1. Add the link https://vivaldi.com/blog/tips/ to a Feeds app of your choice.

Learn more about Feeds in Vivaldi.