Vivaldi Tips

Tip #715

May 28, 2025

If you keep a tab with the Vivaldi Forum open over longer periods, you can make use of the status feature to let community members know whether you’re actively browsing the Forum or busy with other things.

To change your status:

1. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner of the page.
2. Select your status:
   • Online,
   • Away,
   • Do not disturb,
   • Invisible.

Tip #714

May 27, 2025

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”.

Tip #713

May 26, 2025

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’.

Tip #712

May 23, 2025

Want to put on some music while browsing or don’t want to pause a video to respond to a message in a different app? Normally audio and video playback will stop when you switch tabs or apps, but there’s a setting in Vivaldi on iOS that, when enabled, will keep the audio in the tab playing, even when it’s no longer the active tab.

To enable media playback in the background:

1. Go to Settings > General.
2. Enable Allow media playback in background.

Tip #711

May 22, 2025

You can decide whether your tabs in Vivaldi on Android are shown in a grid with page previews as thumbnails or as a simple list.

To change the Tab Switcher’s layout:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs.
2. Toggle on/off “Show Tab Switcher as List”.

Tip #710

May 21, 2025

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.

Tip #709

May 20, 2025

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.

Tip #708

May 16, 2025

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.

Tip #707

May 15, 2025

In addition to translating full pages, Vivaldi can help you translate small snippets of text. Just highlight the text you want to translate and tap the “Translate” option in the context menu that appears. Whether the translation is shown in a basic dialog or in the full-featured Translate Panel is up to you.

To display selected text translations in the Translate Panel:

1. Go to the main Vivaldi menu > Settings > Content Settings.
2. Enable “Prefer Translate Panel”.

Tip #706

May 13, 2025

To make account registration and login faster, some websites offer to create accounts using a third-party service, such as Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. When you’re logged into one of the aforementioned sites, you’ll notice sign-in prompts popping up on websites that have implemented third-party sign-ins.

It may be easy to create an account that way, but it does allow the service providers to track and profile you, and the website may get access to personal data you might not have shared using their own sign-up form, to name just a couple of risks.

If you won’t be using this sign-in method and prefer not to see these prompts either, you can block them.

To disable third-party sign-in prompts in Vivaldi on Android:

1. Go to Settings > Content Settings > Site Settings > Content > Third-party sign-in.
2. Toggle the setting off.

Tip #705

May 12, 2025

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.

Tip #704

May 9, 2025

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.