Vivaldi Tips

Tip #697

April 22, 2025

When you have the event editor open and click somewhere outside of it, the editor will close. When you do that, do you want any changes you made to the event to be saved or discarded?

To make your choice:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Display > Click Outside Event Should.
2. Choose between „Discard Changes“ and „Save Changes“.

Tip #696

April 21, 2025

After you close the last tab you had open on your iPhone or iPad, normally, a new tab with the Start Page or your preferred website opens automatically. If you’d rather not open a new tab, you can disable this feature.

To disable the opening of a new tab:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs.
2. Toggle off „Open New Tab on Closing Last Tab“.

Tip #695

April 17, 2025

Whether you want to access the web page offline, keep a snapshot of it for archival purposes, inspect the code, or do something else, Vivaldi is here to help you out.

To download a web page:

1. Open the page in a tab.
2. Go to the main Vivaldi menu > File > Save Page As.
3. Select the location for the downloaded page and, if needed, edit the file name.
4. Select whether you want to save:
   • only the HTML code of the page,
   • the full page in a single file,
   • the complete page with files (e.g. images) in a separate folder.
5. Click „Save“.

Tip #694

April 16, 2025

You’ll never lose an email when they’ve been neatly organized into folders. You can add new folders from Vivaldi Webmail’s web view or from a mail client, such as Vivaldi Mail (see Tip #186).

To create a new folder in Webmail:

1. Log in to your Vivaldi account on webmail.community.vivaidi.xyz.
2. Go to Settings > Folders.
3. Click on „Create“ at the top of the rightmost column.
4. Give the folder a name, select a parent folder, and decide whether you want to see the emails in a single list or grouped into threads.
5. Click „Save“.

To make your life even easier, you can create Filters to move emails to folders automatically (see Tip #75).

Tip #693

April 15, 2025

Did you find a cool image on a website you want to share with someone? You can make use of Vivaldi’s QR code generator to share the image with others.

To create a QR code for an image:

1. Right-click on the image you want to share.
2. Select „Create QR Code for This Image“.
   If the image is also a link, you’ll find the option in the „Image“ sub-menu.
3. Scan the QR code with a mobile, copy the QR code image to a clipboard, or download it.

Tip #692

April 14, 2025

When you move the Address and Tab Bars to the bottom edge of the screen, the Navigation Bar, together with some useful buttons, will be hidden. For example, the one taking you back to the Start Page. Luckily, there’s a setting in Vivaldi on Android that you can toggle to bring it back.

To add a Home button to the Address Bar:

1. Go to Settings > Appearance & Theme.
2. Enable „Show Start Page Icon in Address Bar“.

If you want to open a website instead of the Start Page when tapping on the Home button (and New Tab button), go to Settings > General > Homepage to set the web page link.

Tip #691

April 11, 2025

Vivaldi Translate helps to broaden your horizons and make sense of content that hasn’t been written in languages that you speak. When you paste text into the Translate Panel, instead of getting the translation only after clicking the Translate button, you can enable a setting that shows you the translated version immediately.

To enable automatic translation:

1. Go to Settings > Panel > Translate Panel.
2. Enable „Translate when pasting text“.

Tip #690

April 10, 2025

Usually, when you’re finished searching for something on a web page, to close it, you need to click the close button on the search bar or press the Esc key (which works when the search bar is focused). But there’s a setting in Vivaldi that allows you to open and close the Find in Page search bar with the same Keyboard Shortcut, Mouse Gesture, or Quick Command.

To enable the setting:

1. Go to Settings > Webpages.
2. Enable „Toggle Find in Page when using Shortcut“.

Tip #689

April 9, 2025

While customizing the appearance of the Start Page is fun, you probably don’t do it very often. The same goes for manually adding new Speed Dial bookmarks. If that’s the case, feel free to hide one or both of the buttons in Vivaldi on Android and iOS and use alternative routes on occasions you do need to access these features.

To hide the buttons from the Start Page:

1. Tap on the „Customize“ button on the Start Page.
   Alternatively, go to Settings > Start Page.
2. Toggle off „Customize Start Page Button“ and/or „Show Add Button“.

When these buttons have been hidden, tap on the 3 dot menu in the top right corner of the Start Page and select „Customize Start Page“ to access customization settings. To add new Speed Dial bookmarks, select the right Speed Dial folder when adding an open web page as a bookmark or add one manually in the Bookmarks Panel.

Tip #688

April 8, 2025

To make account registration and login faster, some websites offer to create accounts using a third-party service, such as Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. When you’re logged into one of the aforementioned sites, you’ll notice sign-in prompts popping up on websites that have implemented third-party sign-ins.

It may be easy to create an account that way, but it does allow the service providers to track and profile you, and the website may get access to personal data you might not have shared using their own sign-up form, to name just a couple of risks.

If you won’t be using this sign-in method and prefer not to see these prompts either, you can block them.

To disable third-party sign-in prompts:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Website Permissions > Global Permissions.
2. Locate „Third-Party Sign-In“ on the list of permissions and select „Block“.

Tip #687

April 7, 2025

When you view a post from another instance on Vivaldi Social, the page’s URL includes Vivaldi Social’s domain in the URL. When you’re sharing the post with someone, it’s best to share a direct link to the post, which will take the recipient straight to the original post on its home instance.

To get the post’s direct link:

1. Click on the  3 dot menu button below the post.
2. Select „Copy link to status“.

Tip #686

April 4, 2025

In addition to the browser being controlled with Keyboard Shortcuts, web pages can have their own set of shortcuts which can sometimes overlap with the browser’s shortcuts. In that case, shortcuts will trigger actions on the web page.

To give browser priority over shortcuts:

1. Go to Settings > Keyboard > Browser Priority Shortcuts.
2. Add shortcuts that should trigger actions in the browser, even when the web page uses the same shortcut.