Vivaldi Tips

Tip #384

November 10, 2023

Seeing suggestions from your browsing history helps to get to pages you want to visit again faster, but what to do with suggestions that are no longer relevant? Remove them of course. Here’s how!

To delete a history entry from suggestions:

1. Tap on the Address Bar to open the drop-down menu.
2. Long press on the suggestion you want to remove (either a visited site’s favicon or a typed search term).
3. Tap “OK” on the confirmation dialog.

Tip #383

November 9, 2023

Speed Dials are Bookmarks that are displayed on your browser’s Start Page. In Vivaldi, you can choose how they’re displayed.

To change the look in Vivaldi on iOS:

1. Go to  Vivaldi menu > Settings > Start Page Layout.
2. Select your preferred layout:
   • Large Speed Dials,
   • Medium Speed Dials
   • Small Speed Dials,
   • Speed Dial list.

Got an Android device? Check Tip #157.

Tip #382

November 8, 2023

With Vivaldi’s highly customizable user interface, you can move toolbars around as you like. The Panels Toolbar, hosting your Bookmarks, Downloads, Notes, Web Panels and more can be located either on the left or right side of the browser window. Especially when you prefer vertical Tabs (see Tip #204), you need to think about whether you want to have Tabs and Panels on either side of the window or both on the same side.

To move Panels:

1. Go to Settings > Panels > Panel Position.
2. Choose either Left or Right.

Tip #381

November 7, 2023

Whether it’s your #introduction post, big news, or just something you want people to see, you can pin the post and it’ll be displayed before all your recent posts just below your bio.

To pin a post on Vivaldi Social:

1. Publish the post you want to pin or find one from your older posts.
2. Click on the 3 dot menu below the post.
3. Select “Pin on profile”.

You can later unpin it from the same menu.

Tip #380

November 6, 2023

With the integrated Vivaldi Calendar, you can quickly add events and get back to what you were doing in no time by opening the new event dialog using either Quick Commands, a Keyboard Shortcut, or a Mouse Gesture.

Quick Commands

1. Open Quick Commands (F2 / ⌘ E).
2. Type in “Add Calendar Event (dialog)” and press Enter.
3. Add the event.

Keyboard Shortcut

1. First, create the shortcut in Settings > Keyboard > Window > Add Calendar Event (dialog).
2. Use the shortcut to open the event dialog.
3. Add the event.

Mouse Gesture

1. First, create the gesture in Settings > Mouse > New Gesture > Add Calendar Event (dialog).
2. Use the shortcut to open the event dialog.
3. Add the event.

Tip #379

November 3, 2023

Following a social media feed, live updates to an event, or changes on the financial market in Web Panels? With periodic reloading of the panel you can always be up to date with the latest information.

To automatically reload Web Panels at your chosen internal:

1. Right-click on the web panel’s button.
2. Select Periodic Reload and how often you want the content to reload.

To learn how to set Tabs to periodically reload, check out Tip #120.

Tip #378

November 2, 2023

Like the results and features of one search engine, but want to amp up the privacy of search in private tabs? In Vivaldi on iOS, like in the desktop version, you have the choice to set separate search engines as the default ones for standard tabs and private tabs.

To update the default search engines:

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Search Engine.
2. Select either “Standard Tab” or “Private Tab”.
3. Tap on the search engine you want to set as the default one.
4. Exit by tapping Done or go back to the main Settings menu using the  back arrow.

Tip #377

November 1, 2023

In a spree of tapping the back button to go to previous pages in the tab history, you might end up tapping too many times resulting in the app closing. To make it less likely to happen, you can enable a setting requiring you to tap twice, while on the Start Page, to exit the browser. After a single tap, you’ll also be prompted to tap once more to exit.

To enable double tap to exit Vivaldi:

1. Go to Settings > General.
2. Toggle on “Double tap back button to close app”.

This exiting method is equivalent to choosing “Exit” from the main Vivaldi menu, which removes the app from the selection of open apps in your mobile device’s app switcher.

Tip #376

October 31, 2023

Enabling Reader View when reading an article online is a great way to remove distractions and adjust the text for comfortable reading. In Tip #91, we showed you how to enable Reader View from the Address Bar and where to adjust the settings. This tip is about toggling Reader View on and off as fast as possible with shortcuts.

To create a Keyboard Shortcut:

1. Go to Settings > Keyboard > Page.
2. Find “Toggle Reader View” and focus on the input field.
3. Press the key combination you want to use.

To create a Mouse Gesture:

1. Go to Settings > Mouse > Gesture Mapping.
2. Click on + New Gesture.
3. Start typing “Toggle Reader View” to find the command.
4. Click “Next”.
5. Hold down the left mouse button and draw the gesture you want to use in the box outlined in red.
6. Click “Save Gesture”.

Then, whenever you want to switch to Reader View, just use the shortcut you created.

Tip #375

October 30, 2023

While we’re busy making a browser, our friends at Porcelain Fortress have been working hard on a follow-up to the Vivaldia game. In Vivaldia 2, the game world is bigger, the enemies stronger, and the game a lot more adventurous. While the first game could only be played in the Vivaldi browser (see Tip #144), the new game is available on the web and Steam.

To play Vivaldia 2 on the web, go to https://vivaidi.xyz/games/vivaldia2/.

To get the game on Steam, head over to https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623150/Vivaldia_2/.

Have fun! 😎

Tip #374

October 27, 2023

You don’t need to keep checking Vivaldi Social to see whether someone has started following you or mentioned you in one of their posts. By enabling email notifications, you can go about your day as normal and get a message whenever something important related to your account has happened.

To review your email notification settings:

1. Go to Preferences > Notifications > Events for email notifications.
2. Tick and untick the boxes for the following notification options:
   • Someone followed you,
   • Someone requested to follow you,
   • Someone boosted your post,
   • Someone favorited your post,
   • Someone mentioned you.

Normally, e-mail notifications won’t be sent when you are actively using Mastodon, but if you wish to receive email notifications regardless of your online status, you can additionally enable “Always send e-mail notifications”.

Tip #373

October 26, 2023

If you frequently add the same kind of event (birthday, doctor’s appointment, meeting, etc.) but it doesn’t occur regularly so you can’t set recurrence to it, you can use event templates to speed up adding new events instead.

To create a template:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Event Templates.
2. Click on Add Template below the list of existing templates.
3. Fill out the event details.
4. Click Save.

Alternatively, you can create a new template directly from the event editor > Templates > Create New Event Template.