Vivaldi Tips

Tip #480

May 2, 2024

If you’ve enabled Two-Factor Authentication for your Vivaldi account, then you need to use an app password when adding your account to mail and calendar clients, such as Vivaldi Mail and Vivaldi Calendar.

To generate an app password:

1. Log in to your Vivaldi account on Vivaldi.net and go to the profile.
2. Go to the Two-Factor Authentication management page and verify your identity with the login password.
3. If you have at least one 2FA method set up, you’ll see an option to create App Passwords, go to that page.
4. Select the type of app (mail, calendar, or both) you want to create the password for.
5. Give it a name, so you’ll recognize which apps and clients you’ve generated passwords for.
6. Copy the password, enter it on the login page of the client, and store the password in a safe location as this is the only time the password will be shown to you.

Tip #479

April 30, 2024

On iOS, you can use Vivaldi as a password manager to autofill login details in other apps you’ve installed on the device.

To start using Vivaldi as a password manager:

1. Go to your phone’s settings > Passwords.
2. Verify your identity.
3. Go to Password Options.
4. From the list of apps, select Vivaldi.

When you’re on the login screen of an app, just select the suggested login credentials you’ve saved in Vivaldi and verify your identity.

Tip #478

April 29, 2024

Give your blog on Vivaldi.net a look that reflects you and the topics you’re blogging about – from theme colors to fonts, a logo, and a header image. In this tip, let’s find out how to add the latter.

To add a header image to your blog:

1. Click “Customize” on the top menu bar of your blog or go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize.
2. Go to the Header Image section.
3. Click “Add New Image” to upload a new image, select one from your Media Library, or search for an image using Instant Images. Alternatively, select a premade color gradient as the header image.
4. If needed, change the blog title color.
5. Click “Publish” to save the changes.

Tip #477

April 26, 2024

Everyone can find a way to open a new tab in Vivaldi that fits their habits. You can click the + button on the Tab Bar, go through the main menu, or use one of the many shortcuts. But there’s another lesser-known option.

When you have the Tab Bar on the side of the window or at the bottom, you can just double-click on an empty area on the Tab Bar and a new tab will open. When you have the Tab Bar on top, then a double-click will maximize the window or revert it to its previous size, but you can get double-clicks to open new tabs on a top positioned Tab Bar when you turn on Native Window from Window Appearance settings.

Tip #476

April 25, 2024

Vivaldi 6.7 introduced a new design to the browser’s main and context menus. Among other changes, each menu item is given more space (great for when your screen supports touch interactions). If you prefer the previous design, you can enable it with a quick setting change.

To enable compact menus:

1. Go to Settings > Appearance > Menu.
2. Enable “Compact Layout”.
3. Restart the browser.

Tip #475

April 24, 2024

It’s common to add regularly visited sites to one’s Bookmarks, but scouring through the folders in the Bookmarks Panel is tedious. To open your favorite sites with the minimum effort, add them to the Speed Dial. Then, whenever you open a new tab in Vivaldi on Android, they’ll be just one tap away.

To add a website as a Speed Dial bookmark on the Start Page:

1. Open the web page in a tab.
2. Open the Vivaldi menu and select “Add Bookmark”.
3. Tap on “Edit” in the confirmation banner that appears at the bottom of the browser window.
4. For the bookmark location select a Speed Dial folder.
5. Finish by tapping on “Done” in the top right corner.

Tip #474

April 23, 2024

You can receive a notification about many things happening on Vivaldi Social. For example, when someone boosts your post, mentions you in their post, requests to follow you, etc. You probably care about some notifications more than others, so make use of the settings to decide what kind of notifications you get and how.

To edit notification settings:

1. Go to your Notifications page.
2. Click “Show settings” in the top right corner of the Notifications column.
3. Toggle notifications on and off as you wish.

To learn about email notifications, check out Tip #374.

Tip #473

April 22, 2024

When you press the Tab key, by default, it only focuses on input fields (search, login, forms, etc.) and a few other elements on the page. But by changing one setting you can browse through everything on a web page (in addition to the aforementioned, input fields, menus, links, etc.)

To enable this option:

1. Go to Settings > Webpages > Webpage Focus.
2. Select “Focus All Controls and Links”.

Tip #472

April 19, 2024

Bring your address book over to your Vivaldi account and add new contacts any time from the Contacts page in Vivaldi Webmail and send emails in a breeze.

To import contacts to Vivaldi Webmail:

1. Open the Contacts page in Vivaldi Webmail.
2. Click on Import on the menu above the contact view.
3. In the importer window, choose your contacts file.
4. Select the contact group to add the new contacts to.
5. Click Import.

Tip #471

April 18, 2024

Alt text provides additional information about the images you find on web pages. On the one hand, it makes the content on the page more accessible, for example, for people who use screen readers, but Alt text is also displayed when, for one reason or another, the images fail to load. Even if you don’t rely on assistive technologies and the content loads without issues, you might still want to take a look at the description of the image.

To view Alt text in Vivaldi on Android and Vivaldi on iOS, long-press on the image to open the context menu, where the Alt text will be displayed as the first thing in the menu.

In Vivaldi on iOS, the whole description is displayed. On Android, if the text is too long, you need to tap on it to display it in its entirety.

Tip #470

April 17, 2024

Did you know that in addition to the built-in Calendar client, Vivaldi also offers an online calendar service bundled with Vivaldi Webmail*? You can use it with Vivaldi Calendar and add it to other calendar clients and apps that support CalDAV.

To add your Vivaldi account to Vivaldi Calendar:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Accounts.
2. Click on + “Add Account”.
3. Select Vivaldi.net.
4. Give the calendar a name.
5. Enter your account’s email address.
6. Enter your account’s login password or the app password, if you have Two-Factor Authentication enabled.
7. Once logged in, select which calendars you want to sync or hide.
8. Finish by clicking “Save Account”.

To add your Vivaldi account to other clients and apps, follow their instructions and check out this Help page for more information.

*New accounts first need to build up reputation to use Vivaldi Webmail and the calendar. More info.

Tip #469

April 16, 2024

Enabling Reader View helps to read text-heavy pages more easily by removing distractions. To accomodate the readers of vertical text, we’ve also added a setting to display texts in Japanese, Chinese and Korean vertically when Reader View is enabled.

To enable vertical Reader View:

1. Go to Settings > Web Pages > Reader.
2. Enable “Allow vertical text direction”.