Vivaldi Tips

A huge collection of Vivaldi browser tips, tricks and hacks.

Tip #747

August 28, 2025

Reorder your tabs in Vivaldi on iOS with drag and drop.

The desktop-like Tab Bar in Vivaldi on iOS and the mobile version’s Tab Switcher come with the option to reorder your open tabs with drag and drop, just like on desktop. The only difference is that instead of a mouse, you need to use your finger or a stylus pen to do it.

To reorder tabs on the Tab Bar or in the Tab Switcher:

  1. Long-press on the tab you want to move.
  2. Drag it to the new location.
  3. Release your finger to finish the move.
Tab Switcher in Vivaldi on iOS. A tab is being dragged to a new position.

Tip #746

August 26, 2025

Choose an animation for loading tabs.

You can get a hint that the web page in the active tab is loading from the Address Field, which temporarily turns into a progress bar. In addition, you can see when a tab is loading on the Tab Bar. This is especially useful for your tabs in the background, which might be loading, for example, when you’ve set up Periodic Reload. There are a few animation options available, so you can select the one you like most.

To select an animation:

  1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Page Load Progress.
  2. Choose between:
    • Progress Bar
    • Favicon Progress
    • Favicon Spinner (shown in the image below)
    • None
Vivaldi browser with a web page loading in a tab. An arrow points at the favicon spinner on the Tab Bar.

Tip #745

Juli 31, 2025

Let us know which features you’d like to see implemented in Vivaldi.

At Vivaldi, we’ve always listened to users‘ feedback and have added countless features that have been requested by the users of the browser. To learn about your wishes, we have special categories on the Vivaldi Forum, where we collect feature requests.

Browse through these categories and show support for the requests you’d like to see us implement.

To upvote a feature request:

  1. Open the feature request topic.
  2. Click on the thumbs-up 👍 button on the first post.
  3. Leave a comment if you’ve got something to add to the feature request

If you have an idea that hasn’t been posted on the forum yet, create a new topic so others can upvote your feature request.

Feature request topic open on the Vivaldi Forum. An arrow points at the upvote button.

Tip #744

Juli 29, 2025

Drag and drop files to Vivaldi Mail’s composer to attach them to the email.

Sending files via email is easy with Vivaldi Mail. Try out the two ways you can attach files to your outgoing messages, following the instructions below.

To add attachments:

Option 1

  1. Click on the Add Attachment button on the email composer’s menu.
  2. Locate the file and select it.
  3. Click „Open“.

Option 2

  1. Place the file folder and the Vivaldi window with the email composer side by side.
  2. Drag the file you want to attach from its folder to the email composer.
  3. Release the mouse button to add the file.
Vivaldi Mail's composer window. A file is being dragged over the content section to attach it to the email.

Tip #743

Juli 24, 2025

Decide for how many days tabs should be considered active.

Vivaldi’s tab management features make it easy to manage the tabs you’ve accumulated across all your windows and Workspaces. The Inactive Tabs list in the Windows Panel gives you an overview of tabs you haven’t looked at in a while and makes it easy to close them if they’re no longer needed.

To choose the inactivity cutoff point for tabs:

  1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Inactive Tabs.
  2. Move the slider to choose the number of days for determining inactivity.
Tab settings in Vivaldi. An arrow points at the "Inactive Tabs" setting.

Tip #742

Juli 22, 2025

Go to bookmarked web pages on mobile from the search widget.

Opening the Vivaldi browser on Android or iOS and tapping on a Speed Dial is already a quick way to go to a bookmarked page, but what if you have a lot of Speed Dials or you haven’t added the bookmark to your Start Page? Then browsing through the bookmarks to find the right one can take longer.

When you give your bookmarks nicknames, on the other hand, you can open them quickly by typing the nickname in the search field. And why not do that directly from the Search Widget without opening the browser first?

To add the Search Widget on mobile check out the instrcutions for Android here and for iOS here.

To give a bookmark a nickname:

  1. Open the Bookmarks Panel.
  2. Find the bookmark you want to give a nickname to.
  3. Long-press on it and select „Edit“ (pencil icon on Android).
  4. Give the bookmark a short nickname.
  5. Tap „Done“.

To open a bookmarked website from the widget.

  1. Tap on the Search Widget on the home screen.
  2. Type the nickname.
  3. Tap „Go“.

Tip #741

Juli 17, 2025

Promote other accounts on your Vivaldi Social profile.

Whether it’s an additional account you run, someone you’re associated with, or just really like, you can feature their profile on your own, making it easier for others to discover them as well.

To feature an account:

  1. Go to the account’s profile.
  2. Make sure you follow their account.
  3. Click on the 3-dot menu below their account’s header image.
  4. Select „Feature on profile“.
An account's profile on Vivaldi Social, The profile's menu is open and an arrow points at the "Feature on profile" option.

Tip #740

Juli 15, 2025

Use Vivaldi Feed Reader without enabling the mail and calendar clients.

If you’re settled with other ways than using Vivaldi Mail and Calendar to manage your emails and events, but still want to make use of the Feed Reader, you can enable only one of the clients in our productivity features trio.

To enable Feeds:

  1. Go to Settings > Feeds.
  2. Select „Enable Feeds“.
Vivaldi Feeds settings. An arrow points at the "Enable Feeds" option,

Tip #739

Juli 11, 2025

Choose a preferred DNS Over HTTPS provider.

In order to open a website, its IP address has to be fetched via a DNS (Domain Name System) provider. Secure DNS accesses DNS servers over HTTPS and encrypts all the data being transferred between your device and the DNS servers.

To choose a DNS provider in Vivaldi on desktop:

  1. Go to Settings > Network.
  2. Make sure DNS Lookup Over HTTPS is enabled.
  3. Select your preferred provider.
Vivaldi browser's Network settings page. an arrow points at the "DNS over HTTPS" setting.

Tip #738

Juli 10, 2025

Exit Settings on mobile with a simple tap.

Vivaldi is known for its abundance of settings that allow you to customize the browser to fit your workflow and aesthetic preferences. To make navigating Settings easier, they’ve been divided into folders, meaning you might end up a couple of levels deep when toggling a setting. But instead of making your way back to the start step by step using the back button, you can simply tap the „X“ (Android) or „Done“ (iOS) button in the top right corner to get back to browsing.

Vivaldi on Android's Settings. An arrow points at the close button.

Tip #737

Juli 7, 2025

Fetch new posts from all feeds you follow with just one click.

When you have some time to spend on catching up with your feeds, you may want to start by downloading all the latest posts first.

To check for new posts:

  1. Open the Feeds Panel.
  2. Click on the „Check all feeds“ button in the top left corner of the panel.
To right corner of the Vivaldi browser window, showing the Feeds Panel. A magnified icon, shows the "Check all feeds" button.

Tip #736

Juli 4, 2025

Choose the Speed Dial group you want to open the Start Page with.

We all have our preferred workflows and it’s great when the tools you use are able to adapt to that workflow. That’s why in Vivaldi you can choose what gets shown to you when you open the Start Page. Is it always the Speed Dial with your most important bookmarks or is it the one you viewed most recently?

To choose the view the Start Page is opened with:

  1. Go to Settings > Start Page > Reopen Speed Dial with.
  2. Select between:
    • Last Selected Group,
    • First Group (reorder groups using drag and drop on the navigation bar).
Start Page settings in Vivaldi. An arrow points at the "Reopen Start Page with" setting.