Learn how and what kind of calculations you can do in the Vivaldi browser.

It’s always good to keep your browser up to date in order to enjoy the newest features and get the latest bug fixes and security updates. A new version of Vivaldi is released roughly every 8 weeks, with a few minor updates in between.

Here’s how to update your Vivaldi browser:

If, after an update, the browser doesn’t function as it used to, try troubleshooting the issue. It’s strongly discouraged to downgrade to an older version as it can corrupt the browser profile and cause issues, if not immediately, then in the future.

Cookies are small pieces of data (text files) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. The cookie will be used to recognize you and your preferences the next time you visit the site.

To adjust cookie settings globally:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Website Permissions > Global Permissions > Cookies.
2. Decide whether you want to accept all cookies, only allow them for the current session, or never accept them.

Third-Party Cookies

When First-Party Cookies are set by the website you see in the address field, then Third-Party Cookies are set by other domains. These cookies may be used for showing content from other domains (for example, an embedded YouTube video), advertising (to show you ads based on your browsing habits), etc.

Third-party cookies are blocked by default only in Private Windows. To block third-party cookies in all windows:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security> Cookies > Third-Party Cookies.
2. Select Block All.

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Do Not Track

In Settings > Privacy, you can also enable the option Ask Websites Not to Track Me. It’s a polite way to ask websites not to set tracking cookies. However, they can simply ignore it, and in most cases, the ones you want to avoid will be the ones who do not respect your request.

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Deleting Cookies

One option to delete all cookies is to clear the browsing data.

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > Tools > Delete Browsing Data.
2. Pick the time frame you want to delete cookies for;
3. Select Cookies for the data type to be deleted;
4. Click Delete.

Alternatively, go to Settings > Privacy > Cookies. There you can view all the saved cookies by clicking on Show Saved Cookies. You can also filter them by domain. To delete all cookies, click on Delete All Cookies. 

Delete Cookies from a specific website

To delete all cookies by the same domain:

1. In Settings > Privacy > Cookies, click on Show Saved Cookies;
2. In the search field. enter the domain name to filter out the cookies;
3. Click on Delete Filtered Cookies.

To delete a single cookie, hover the mouse cursor over it and click on X that appears on the right side.

Delete all site data per website

To delete all site data, including cookies for one site:

1. Open the website.
2. Click the Site Info button on the Address Bar and select Site Settings from the menu.
3. In the Usage section, click on Clear Data on the right.
4. Confirm, by clicking Clear in the dialog.
5. Reload the web page.

Delete Cookies and Site Data by cookie site

1. Open the website.
2. Click the Site Info button on the Address Bar and select Cookies and site data > Manage cookies and site data from the menu.
3. Next to the listed sites, click on Delete saved data from [site name] for each item you want to delete.
4. Click Done.
5. Reload the page.

Disable/Enable the storing of cookies per site

To block or allow cookies on a specific website:

1. Open the website.
2. Click the Site Info button on the Address Bar and select Cookies and site data > Manage cookies and site data from the menu.
3. In the pop-up window, click on More Actions next to each site that wants to save data on the current website.
4. Select between the following options:
   • Allow/don’t allow the site to save data.
   • Allow to save data, but delete the data every time you exit the browser.
5. Click Done.
6. Reload the page.

For an overview, go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Website Permissions, where you can see and manage all sites with customized settings.

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Hide Cookie warnings

Since Europe’s GDPR and a few other user privacy laws don’t allow placing cookies in your browser without consent, most websites ask for your permission as the first thing after the web page is loaded. The fastest option is to just accept everything, which always serves the interests of the website not the user. The other option is to manage your preferences and disable the data usage options all at once, if you’re lucky, or one by one, if the website wants to make it especially cumbersome.

Vivaldi offers a third option by including two blocker lists in the Ad Blocker that hide annoying cookie banners and dialogs on most websites.

To enable these lists:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Tracker and Ad Blocking;
2. Enable Block Trackers and Ads;
3. Click on Manage Sources;
4. In Ad Blocking Sources, enable “Remove cookie warnings (Easylist Cookie List)”.

If you only wish to hide the cookie warnings, but don’t want to block ads, disable other blocking sources.

Please note that not all cookies are used for creating behavioral profiles about users. Some are necessary for the website to function. When the website you’re viewing doesn’t look or work as it should, please disable the blockers. You can do so per site from the Content Blocker menu on the Address Bar.

User profiles allow multiple “users” to share one Vivaldi installation, without requiring you to log in to a different operating system user account, or maintain multiple Standalone installations.

Each profile can have a different set of Extensions, Bookmarks, Speed Dials, Cookies, History, etc.  In addition, each profile can have its own look and configuration (Keyboard Shortcuts, Mouse Gestures, etc.).

If a second profile is needed only briefly, for example, for a friend to use your browser (without messing up your setup or interacting with your open tabs), use a temporary Guest Profile.

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Add a new profile

1. Click on the Profile button in the top right corner of the browser window and select Manage People.
2. Click on Add Person at the bottom of the popout menu.
3. Pick a name for the new profile and select or upload an avatar. On Windows and macOS, you can also decide whether you want a Desktop shortcut for the profile or not.
4. Click Add Person.

You can also manage profiles from Settings > General > Profile Management and click on Manage Profiles, or type “Manage Profiles” in Quick Commands.

When you are logged in to your Vivaldi account to use Sync, your account’s username and profile image will be shown instead.

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Switch between profiles

• Open the Profile menu and click on the profile you want to open.

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Choose a profile on startup

To choose which profile to open when you start Vivaldi:

1. Type “Manage Profiles” in Quick Command or go to Settings > General > Profile Management and click on Manage Profiles.
2. In the bottom right corner, enable Show on startup.

When enabled, before the browser opens, you’ll see the window shown on the image below.

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Edit a profile

To change the name or avatar of the profile or create a desktop shortcut:

1. Open the Profile menu;
2. Click on the active profile’s avatar or name;
3. Make the changes and click Save.

In case you’re logged into your Vivaldi account, you can update the profile image on your account’s profile on Vivaldi.net.

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Delete a profile

To remove a profile:

1. Open the Profile menu and select Manage Profiles;
2. Click on the user you want to delete;
3. Before you delete the profile you’ll see information about the profile, such as the number of Bookmarks and saved Passwords;
4. Click Remove Person to permanently delete the profile and all its data.

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Move or hide the Profile button

You can change the location or remove the User Profiles button by Editing Toolbars.

If you don’t want to use the multiple profile feature or don’t want the button to clutter your Address Bar, right-click on the User Profiles button > Edit > Remove from Toolbar.

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Sync profiles

To Sync profile data across devices, currently, a separate Vivaldi account is needed for each profile.

Browsing in Guest Profile means that searches, sites visited, cookies, and temporary files won’t be stored by Vivaldi.

The Guest Profile will have Vivaldi’s default look and settings and the Guest won’t be able to change any of your browser settings or access your data from the Guest Profile. If all you want is to browse privately – with access to your customizations – use Private Windows instead of the Guest Profile.

Open Guest Window

• Click on the Profile button in the top right corner of the browser.
• Select Open Guest Window from the menu.

Alternatively, for example if you’ve hidden the Profile button, go to Settings > General > Profile Management > Manage Profiles > Guest mode.

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Close Guest Window

• Close the Guest Window as a normal window.
• Open the Profile menu in the main profile window and select Exit Guest Profile.

If the Guest Window was the very last window you closed, then on restart Vivaldi will display the profile manager.

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Privacy

Guest Profile does not encrypt or otherwise modify your connection. Note that if you log in to any websites, the website may still record your activity on any websites they have access to, and associate it with your account on that website. Use of guest mode will not hide your browsing activity from the website – it does not offer any anonymizing service. You would need to use a VPN or anonymizing proxy service if that is required.

Your activity might be visible to:

• Websites you visit (including the ads and resources used on those sites);
• Network admins;
• Internet service provider.

Save your login credentials in the Vivaldi browser to quickly access your online accounts.

Pinning Tabs allows you to keep your most used tabs open and available in the same location, at all times.

Pin a tab

• Right-click on the tab and select Pin Tab.
• Type “Pin Tab” in Quick Commands.
• Set a custom Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for pinning tabs.

To pin multiple tabs at once, select them using the Ctrl or Shift key and select Pin from the right-click context menu.

If the Tab Bar is located on the top or bottom of the window, the pinned tab will shrink to only fit the favicon (commonly the website’s logo) and position itself to the left side of the Tab Bar.

In case the Tab Bar is either on the left or right side of the window and in the Window Panel, the pinned tab will position itself at the top of the tabs list.

Pinned tabs will be listed in the order they were pinned, but you can change their order by dragging them. Pinned and regular tabs cannot be placed alternately.

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Restrict a pinned tab to the current site

To keep the pinned tabs locked to the same domain:

1. Right-click on the pinned tab.
2. Select Restrict Pinned Tab to Current Site.

When enabled, all links from the same domain will open in the pinned tab and all links from other domains will open in new regular tabs.

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Unpin a tab

• Right-click on the pinned tab and select Unpin tab. The unpinned tab will position itself as the leftmost/topmost tab after pinned tabs (if there are any).
• Type “Unpin Tab” in Quick Commands.
• Set a custom Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for unpinning tabs.

To unpin multiple tabs at once, select them using the Ctrl or Shift key and select Pin from the right-click context menu.

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Close a pinned tab

With default settings, to close a pinned tab, first, unpin it and then close it as a normal tab.

In Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Pinned Tabs, you can choose between three options:

• Don’t Close Pinned Tabs,
• Minimise Instead of Closing, and
• Close As Other Tabs.

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Pinned Tabs settings

If you enable Lazy Loading Restored Tabs (which restores tabs in a hibernated state) in Settings > Startup, but you wish to always fully load pinned tabs, check the box for Always Load Pinned Tabs.

By default, pinned tabs are grouped under one folder in the Window Panel and the Tab Button pop-up, but you can disable it in Settings > Panel > Window Panel > Pinned Folder.

A “crash” occurs when Vivaldi encounters an unrecoverable error and shuts down unexpectedly or a tab’s contents disappear and are replaced with a “dead bird” image. Information pertaining to the crash is logged by Vivaldi.

Enable automatic crash reporting

When you enable automatic crash reporting, we will receive the crash logs automatically. You can enable crash reporting during the welcome flow after installing the browser, or any time in Settings.

To enable automatic crash reporting:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Privacy > Crash Reporting.
2. Enable Share Crash Reports to Help Us Improve Product Quality.

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Provide additional information

By adding context to the crash, the team will have an easier time fixing the bug that’s causing the crash. You can do that by filing a bug report that gets linked to your crash log.

To file a bug report about the crash:

• Go to vivaldi:crashes.
• Look for a crash log that was created around the time you witnessed the crash.
• Click on Provide additional details.
  You’ll be taken to our bug report page, where the crash’s ID is already prefilled in the Summary field.
• Fill out the form with information you think is relevant to the crash, such as steps to trigger the crash.
• Submit the bug report.

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Manual crash reporting

To locate your crash log files open Finder and use the menu “Go → Go to folder” or the keyboard shortcut “⇧⌘G” and then paste this line:

~/Library/Application Support/Vivaldi/Crashpad

Here you will find all your crash log files (.dmp) under the pending or completed sub folders. Sort the folder contents by date and only send the very most recent one(s) because they can only be processed if we know exactly which version of Vivaldi they are from. To save space you might want to compress them and send them inside a zip archive.

Alternatively, you can do the following:

1. Launch the “Terminal” application—open “Spotlight”, type: Terminal
2. Copy and Paste the following text into the Terminal window and press “Enter”—triple click to select
   find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Vivaldi/Crashpad -newer /Applications/Vivaldi.app -name \*.dmp | zip -j ~/Documents/Vivaldi\ Crash\ Logs\ $(date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M') -@
3. Now open your “Documents” directory or type the following into “Terminal”
   open ~/Documents/
4. You will find a dated “Vivaldi Crash Logs” zip file that you can attach to your bug report

Then, go to vivaldi.com/bugreport and fill out the form with details about the crash and attach the crash log file to the report.

Vivaldi browser’s Address Bar is home to a lot more than just the URL field and basic navigation buttons. Continue reading to get to know all the available options that help you navigate the web.

What’s on the Address Bar?

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Address Bar location

You can decide whether to display the Address Bar at the top or bottom of the browser window. Make the choice in Settings > Address Bar > Address Bar Position.

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Show / Hide Address Bar

To toggle the visibility of the Address Bar, either:

• Go to Settings > Address Bar and (un)tick the box Show Address Bar;
• Type “Address Bar” in Quick Commands;
• Set a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse gesture for the action.

When the Address Bar is hidden, use the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl+L/⌘ L to focus on the Address Field and other shortcuts to execute commands usually completed by clicking on buttons on the Address Bar.

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Customise the Address Bar

All components on the Address Bar can be removed by right-clicking on the button > Customise > Remove From Toolbar. To remove the Address or Search Field, open the Toolbar Editor and drag the field off the Address Bar.

To reset the changes right-click on a button > Customise > Reset Toolbar to Default. In case you’ve removed all of the buttons, go to Settings > Appearance > Window Appearance > Toolbar Customisation > Reset Address Bar.

To change the order of the buttons. Hold down the Ctrl / ⌘ key and drag and drop the button to it’s new location.

You can also bring buttons from the Status Bar to the Address Bar and vice versa, move buttons from the Address Bar to the Status Bar. To do that, hold down the Ctrl / ⌘key and drag and drop them from one bar to another.

Learn more about customizing the browser’s toolbars on the Help page about Editing Toolbars.

When reporting a media issue on macOS, in addition to describing what is happening and where, we need more information to be able to follow up with it.
Please visit the following pages:

• GPU: vivaldi://gpu
• Media: vivaldi://media-internals

On both pages, click on Copy to Clipboard and paste the content to the bug report.

Furthermore, please visit the following links and tell us which options are selected for the selected flags:

• vivaldi://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
• vivaldi://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode

Please copy and paste all this information on vivaldi.com/bugreport