Desktop Tips

Tip #91

August 24, 2022

Web pages often come with a lot of content on them and focusing on the article you’re there to read can be a bit difficult with all the distractions. Enabling Reader View removes all but the main article, allowing you to focus on what’s important.

To enable Reader View:

1. Open the article’s page you want read distraction free.
2. On the right side of the Address Field, click on the Reader View button to enable and later disable Reader View.

To adjust settings, such as font size, line height or color scheme, click on the Settings button in the top right corner of the page or go to Settings > Webpages > Reader.

Tip #90

August 23, 2022

A signature is a personalized section that is automatically added to the end of all messages you send from Vivaldi Mail (or other mail clients).

To add a signature in Vivaldi:

1. Go to Settings > Mail > Mail Accounts.
2. Select the account you want to add a signature for.
3. In the Identity section, focus on the Signature field.
4. Enter your custom signature.

If you need additional text formatting options or want to add an image to the signature, tick the box for Enable Rich Text and Images below Signature field.

To add an image, drag and drop the file to the signature field.

Tip #89

August 22, 2022

You can always customize your Start Page and Speed Dials from the main Settings page. To see the changes, though, you have to go back and forth between Settings and the Start Page. An alternative is to make the changes in the Quick Settings panel on the Start Page itself. That way you can see the changes immediately.

To customize the Speed Dial via Quick Settings:

1. Open the Start Page.
2. Open Quick Settings from the top right corner of the page.
3. Go to the Speed Dial Appearance section.
4. There you can:
   • Adjust the thumbnail size.
   • Set the maximum number of speed dial columns that can be displayed.
   • Choose whether to display the titles of the speed dials.
   • Toggle off and on Add and Delete buttons.

Tip #88

August 19, 2022

When you load a page, then by default all images are loaded and animated ones play on a loop. If constantly moving images are a disturbance for you, you can prevent it with a simple setting change.

To stop images from moving:

1. Click on Toggle images and animation on the Status Bar.
2. For Play Image Animation select either Once, if it’s ok to go through the animation one time, or Never, if you don’t want them to move at all.
3. Reload the page.

Tip #86

August 17, 2022

To search only a specific category in Quick Commands, you can use a the following keywords in front of the search term to filter out only relevant results:

• Bookmarks – bookmark:
• Notes – note:
• Open and Closed Tabs – tab:
• Browsing History – history:
• Commands – command:
• Page Actions – action:

An example:

1. Press F2 / ⌘ E to open Quick Commands.
2. Type “bookmark:” followed by your search term.
3. If the needed search result isn’t highlighted already, use up and down keyboard keys to select the bookmark you were looking for.
4. Press Enter or click on the bookmark to open it.

It’s also possible to use shorter keywords like bkm: (bookmark), tb: (tab), cmd: (command) and other alternative search terms derived using regular expression.

Tip #83

August 12, 2022

If you’ve compartmentalized your browsing by creating multiple User Profiles, you can open links from one profile in the other, should you come across a useful link in the “wrong” profile.

To open links in a different User Profile:

1. Right-click on the link to open the context menu.
2. Click on the second profile’s name.
   If you have more than two User Profiles, first select Open Link in Another Profile and then the profile you want to open the link in.

Focus will go to the profile window where the link will be opened.

To open active tab’s link in another profile, try the suggestion shared in Tip #63.

Tip #82

August 11, 2022

Vivaldi Calendar can easily be used to keep track of your to-do list. Tasks with deadlines will be shown on their due date among your other events. All tasks, including ones with a deadline, can be seen in the Agenda view.

To create a new task in the Vivaldi Calendar:

1. Start creating an event by clicking on any timeslot in the calendar or on New Event in the top left corner of the Calendar page.
2. Enter the task’s details.
3. Tick the box for Is a Task.
4. If the task needs to be completed by a certain time, give the task a deadline.

Tip #81

August 10, 2022

Rocker Gestures are Mouse Gestures used to execute commands with the left and right mouse buttons.

To perform an action using Rocker Gestures, you have two options:

• Rock to the right – hold down the left mouse button, then click the right mouse button.
• Rock to the left – hold down the right mouse button, then click the left mouse button.

To edit Rocker Gestures:

1. Go to Settings > Mouse > Rocker Gestures.
2. Select a command from the list of available actions. Once you’ve opened the list, you can also type the name of the command to find it faster.

Tip #79

August 8, 2022

Whether you like to keep a record of websites you’ve visited indefinitely or delete everything once you’re done browsing, you have options in Vivaldi.

To change for how long your browsing History is kept for:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Privacy > Save Browsing History.
2. Select your preferred option:
   • Session only,
   • One Day,
   • One Week,
   • One Months,
   • Three Months (default),
   • Six Months,
   • One Year,
   • Forever.
3. Restart the browser.

Tip #78

August 5, 2022

If you browse with Vivaldi on multiple devices, then by using the Sync feature, you can continue browsing seamlessly when switching devices.

To be able to access tabs you have open on other devices:

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Sync.
2. Log in to your Vivaldi account.
3. Enter the encryption password.
4. Sync all or select the data types you want to sync, but make sure to enable syncing of History.

To open synced tabs on desktop:

1. Click on the cloud icon on the right side of the Tab Bar (bottom, if you’re using a vertical Tab Bar).
2. Select the synced device.
3. In the list of synced tabs, click on the web page you want to open.

To open synced tabs on Android:

1. Open the Tab Switcher.
2. Tap on the cloud icon on the menu at the bottom of the screen.
3. In the list of synced tabs, tap on the web page you want to open.

Learn more about Sync:

• Sync on desktop
• Sync on Android

Tip #77

August 4, 2022

On macOS, Vivaldi’s main menu is always fully visible. On Windows and Linux, by default, the main menu can be accessed by clicking on the little Vivaldi logo in the top left corner of the window. But it can also be displayed in full on the top edge of the browser window.

To display the horizontal menu:

1. Go to Settings > Appearance > Menu > Menu position.
2. Select Horizontal.

Alternatively, toggle horizontal menu’s visibility from Vivaldi menu > View > Horizontal Main Menu.

Tip #76

August 3, 2022

Clicking on a bookmark, bookmark folder or empty space on the Bookmark Bar with the right mouse button will open a menu with various useful options.

Depending on where you click, the menu options you see may include the following:

• Where to open the bookmarked link. For example, in a new tab or a window.
• Option to add the active tab as a new bookmark on the Bookmark Bar.
• Manually create a new bookmark, bookmark folder or a separator for segmenting the Bookmark Bar.
• Edit the bookmark or bookmark folder.
• Cut (to move a bookmark), Copy (to make a copy of the bookmark or copy the link) and Paste (to move a bookmark or create a new bookmark from a copied link).
• Delete the bookmark or bookmark folder.
• Sort the bookmarks (only available, when clicking on an empty area of the Bookmark Bar).