Vivaldi Tips

Tip #721

junio 6, 2025

Web Panels are indispensable for looking things up quickly without diverging too much from your main activities in the browser. But you may still stray quite far from the page you originally added as a We Panel.

Luckily, it takes only one click to return to the main page of the Web Panel. Simply click on the Home button on the panel’s navigation bar.

Tip #720

junio 5, 2025

You’re probably familiar with «blue ticks» on other social media sites that let you know that the account has been verified, i.e. it’s the person’s or brand’s official account. On Mastodon, verified accounts look a little different. You can spot them by green links to websites that they own in their profile info.

To verify your own account:

1. On Vivaldi Social, go to Preferences > Profile > Verification.
2. Copy the HTML code from the website verification section.
3. Paste the code to your website’s HTML.
4. Go to Preferences > Profile > Edit Profile.
5. Add your website’s link to the content field in the profile metadata section.
6. Click «Save changes».

If that doesn’t work on the first try, try the troubleshooting suggestions on Fedi.Tips’ Mastodon Guide.

Tip #719

junio 4, 2025

Vivaldi Calendar is great for managing all your events and tasks in various local and online calendars. While it’s good to be able to access all your calendars in one place, not all of them are always relevant. Luckily, these calendars can be hidden from view (see Tip #525). By default, you’ll still receive notifications with event reminders from these calendars, but you can mute those as well.

To disable notifications for hidden calendars:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Notifications.
2. Enable «Disable for Hidden Calendars».

Tip #718

junio 3, 2025

With Vivaldi, there’s no need to perform complicated one-handed gymnastics tricks on the keyboard to reach multiple keys simultaneously, while the other hand holds a cup of coffee or a stress ball. Instead, you can enable Single Key Shortcuts and browse with ease.

To enable Single Key Shortcuts:

1. Go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts.
2. Enable «Single Key Shortcuts».

You can browse preset Single Key Shortcuts and add or edit them to match your preferences in Settings > Keyboard.

To use Single Key Shortcuts, first make sure that none of the input fields (Address Field, text box on a web page, etc.) are focused. Then simply press the command’s shortcut key on your keyboard.

Tip #717

junio 2, 2025

Quick Reply in Vivaldi Mail is a great way to swiftly send a reply email. The Quick Reply field does take up a bit of space, though, potentially hiding parts of longer emails. Luckily you can resize or hide it altogether.

To resize the Quick Reply field:

1. Place the mouse cursor on the top edge of the section.
2. When you see a double-ended arrow, click and drag the mouse up or down to resize it.

To hide/show the Quick Reply field:

1. Place the mouse cursor on the top edge of the section.
2. Do a double-click to hide the section or a single click to display it again.

Tip #716

mayo 29, 2025

By adding the Reader View button to the Address Bar, you can keep a distraction-free reading mode within easy reach.

To add a Reader View toggle to the Address Bar:

1. Make sure the feature is enabled in Settings > Content Settings > Accessibility.
2. Go to Settings > Appearance & Theme > Toolbar Shortcut.
3. If needed, enable the feature.
4. Select «Reader view for web pages».

Tip #715

mayo 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

mayo 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

mayo 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

mayo 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

mayo 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

mayo 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.