Tab Bar visibility

To toggle the visibility of the Tab Bar, use one of the following options:

• Go to Settings > Tabs and (un)tick the box for Show Tab Bar.
• Go to the Vivaldi Menu > View and select Show Tab Bar.
• Type “Tab Bar” in Quick Commands and press Enter.
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the action.

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Tab Bar position

The Tab Bar can be located on any side of the browser window. To change the position:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Bar Position.
2. Select your preferred side:
   • Top,
   • Left,
   • Right, or
   • Bottom.

When you have moved the Tab Bar to the left or right side of the browser window, you have the option to show the Title of the active tab in a Title Bar, which will also include the Vivaldi Menu button as well as window controls for minimizing, maximizing and closing browser windows.

To enable the Title Bar:

1. Go to Settings > Appearance > Window Appearance
2. Enable Show Title Bar.

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Tab Bar Appearance

To apply an accent color to the Tab Bar:

1. Go to Settings > Themes.
2. Select a theme and open the Editor > Colors.
3. Make sure Accent on Window setting has been enabled.
4. Either set an accent color yourself or enable Accent from Page to get the color from the website you’re currently viewing.

From Settings > Themes > Editor > Settings you can also adjust transparency and blur settings.

Tab Bar width on the side of the window

If you’ve positioned the Tab Bar on either the left or right side of the browser window, you can adjust the width of it. You can go wide enough to see plenty, if not all, of the tab title, or as narrow as to show only the website’s favicon.

To resize the Tab Bar:

1. Hover over the outer edge of the Tab Bar.
2. When you see a double-ended arrow, drag in either direction to change the width.

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Tab Bar Display

Horizontal Scrolling

When the Tab Bar is placed horizontally on the top or bottom of the browser window, by default, tabs start to shrink in size, the more you open them. That can result in page titles or even favicons becoming invisible. Enabling Scrollable Tabs can prevent that. When enabled, tabs won’t shrink in size. Instead, they’ll go out of view and you can scroll the Tab Bar to browse through the open tabs.

To enable Scrollable Tabs:
1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Bar.
2. Check the box for Enable Horizontal Scrolling.

Tab Spacing

When the browser window is not maximized in size, a narrow space is visible above the tabs. It allows you to click and drag the window around. By default, the space is removed when you maximize the window, but you can keep the space by disabling Remove Tab Bar Spacing in Maximized Windows in Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Bar.

Customize the Tab Bar

Apart from the tabs themselves, the components on the Tab Bar can all be moved or hidden, and you can add components from other toolbars to the Tab Bar.

To customize the layout of the Tab Bar and the components on it:

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > View > Customize Toolbar.
   Alternatively, right-click on the Tab Bar and select Customize Toolbar from the context menu.
2. Use drag and drop to rearrange the components on the Tab Bar, and drag components off the Tab Bar to remove them. Select different toolbars from the editor’s drop-down menu and drag additional components to the Tab Bar.
3. Click Done.

Tab Thumbnails give you a preview of the website you have open in the tab. To toggle thumbnails on and off, use one of the following methods:

• Go to Settings > Tabs  > Tab Display > Tab Options and toggle Show Tab Thumbnails on or off.
• Type “Tab Thumbnails” in Quick Commands.
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Gesture for the action.

On the iPad’s larger screen, you can get more of the desktop experience by tiling two Vivaldi windows or a Vivaldi window with another app side by side. In addition, you can open Vivaldi in Slide Over mode for a quick check of the app, while doing something else on your iPad.

Split View with Vivaldi

Open new windows

There are a few ways you can open a new Vivaldi window in split view on an iPad.

Option 1

1. Open the  Vivaldi menu.
2. Select New Window.

The new window will create a split view with the window you already had open.

Option 2

1. If Vivaldi is pinned to the dock, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to display the dock.
2. Long-press on Vivaldi’s icon on the dock.
3. Drag it either to the left or right side of the screen to create a split view.

Option 3

1. Long-press on a link on a web page.
2. Select Open in New Window.

Option 4

1. Tap on the Multitasking button at the top of the screen.
2. At the bottom, where other open Vivaldi windows are displayed, tap on the new window button.

Resize windows

To make one window bigger than the other:

1. Tap and hold your finger on the line between the two windows.
2. Slide your finger towards either side to resize the tiled windows.

View all open Vivaldi windows

To view all windows, either:

• Tap on the multitasking button at the top of the screen. All windows will appear at the bottom of the screen. Tap on one to bring it into focus.
• Open iPad’s App Switcher to view all Vivaldi windows together with other apps.

Move tabs to other windows

It’s not possible to move tabs from one Vivaldi window to another, but you can open a duplicate.

1. Open the Tab Switcher in the window from which you want to move the tab.
2. Long-press and drag the tab you want to move from one window to the other.
3. Drop the tab on the Tab Bar to open it in the second window.

Close windows

To close a Vivaldi window:

1. Swipe from the bottom of the screen to open the App Switcher.
2. Locate the Vivaldi window you want to close.
3. Swipe it off the screen.

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Slide Over mode

Open Vivaldi in Slide Over mode

To open Vivaldi in a smaller window on top of another app or Vivaldi window:

1. Open Vivaldi.
2. Tap on the multitasking button at the top of the screen.
3. Select Slide Over mode.
4. Select the app you want to open Vivaldi on top of.

Revert to full-screen

To open Vivaldi in Slide Over mode back in full-screen view:

1. Tap on the multitasking button at the top of the slide-over window.
2. Select the full-screen option.

Close Slide Over mode

To close a slide-over window:

1. Swipe from the bottom of the screen to open the App Switcher.
2. Swipe to the view that displays all apps open in Slide Over mode.
3. Locate the Vivaldi window you want to close.
4. Swipe it off the screen.

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More info on multitasking on iPads can be found on Apple’s Support pages.

Memory Saver helps reduce memory usage by automatically hibernating tabs that haven’t been used in a while. This way, active tabs, such as those used for gaming or streaming, can run more smoothly.

How much memory will be saved depends on the number of tabs you have open and how much memory they use. Also, how soon a tab is hibernated varies. Tabs that you rarely visit will be hibernated a lot sooner than the ones you view often. Tabs playing media, including forms, updating frequently (e.g. a mailbox), etc. will be kept active for longer.

To enable Memory Saver:

1. Go to Settings > Performance > Memory Saver.
2. Select your preferred option:
   • Never Save Memory,
   • Minimum Savings,
   • Balanced Savings,
   • Maximum Savings.

To reactivate a tab just go to it and it will reload. Due to this, you may lose your place on the page.

While Memory Saver puts tabs into hibernation automatically, you can still hibernate background tabs, Tab Stacks, and Workspaces whenever you need it by right-clicking on a tab, Tab Stack, or Workspace and selecting the hibernation option from the menu.

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Memory usage per tab

To see how much memory a specific tab uses in real time, hover over the tab on the Tab Bar to display the Tab Thumbnail. The thumbnail preview also lets you know when a tab is hibernated.

If you don’t see Tab Thumbnails on hover, go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Options and make sure Show Popup Thumbnails has been enabled.

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On Vivaldi Social, you can automatically hide posts that you find offensive, deal with sensitive matters, just oversaturate your timelines or you don’t wish to see for any other reason.

Add a new Filter

To create a filter:

1. Go to Preferences > Filters.
2. Click Add new filter in the top right corner.
3. Give the filter a name (if you choose to hide the posts with a warning, the filter’s name will be mentioned on the post).
4. If you want to apply the filter temporarily, select an expiration time.
5. Choose where the filter will be applied – Home and lists, Notifications, Public timelines, Conversations, Profiles.
6. Decide whether to hide the post behind a warning or remove it altogether.
7. Enter the keyword(s) you want to filter out. You can enter words, phrases, hashtags or emojis.
8. Click Save new filter.

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Edit a Filter

To update a filter:

1. Go to Preferences > Filters.
2. In the list of filters you’ve created, click Edit Filter on the one you wish to edit.
3. Make the changes.
4. Click Save Changes.

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Delete a Filter

1. Go to Preferences > Filters.
2. In the list of filters you’ve created, click Delete on the one you wish remove.

Products: Vivaldi for desktop.

Vivaldi can import and export Notes to a Markdown+Front Matter files (.md file extension) and directory structures. Vivaldi can also import plain text files (.txt file extension).

You can import your notes through the File: Import menu and export through the File: Export menu.

Notes will be exported while recursively preserving the notes folder structure in your file system. When importing notes, the selected notes directory is imported recursively while preserving the folder structure as notes folders.

On import, all files are assumed to be Markdown formatted, regardless of file extension. Unrecognized file extensions are ignored during import. Note attachments cannot be imported or exported. (We hope to include this in a future version.)

Vivaldi preserves note metadata — including a note’s title, associated URL, creation- and modification time — as a Front Matter preamble.

During import, all metadata and the entire Front Matter preamble is optional. The file name will be used as the title if the title is not provided in the metadata.

A Front Matter preamble consists of three hyphens on the first line of the file followed by a line break. Metadata is then listed as colon-separated key-value pairs which are separated by line breaks. The preamble is terminated by another sequence of three hyphens followed by a line break. Unrecognized keys in the Front Matter preamble are ignored.

Metadata dates should be in the ISO 8601 datetime format. Other formats may lead to unexpected results.

Example file with the complete set of recognized metadata keys:

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title: Example Title
url: https://example.com/
date: 2024-02-19T07:30Z
lastmod: 2024-02-21T15:09:58Z
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I'm a *bold* Markdown note!

* List item

With multiple mailboxes and probably thousands of emails, finding the correct one can be tough. Vivaldi Mail’s search function makes it easy to pin down the one you need in just a few steps.

Search messages

To search through everything, just type something relevant to the message you’re looking for in the search field and Vivaldi will show you all the relevant email messages.

To narrow down the search, use the various search filters that appear as soon as you’ve started a new search. The options include:

• Searching through all messages or specific accounts or folders.
• Specifying the date range.
• Looking for senders or recipients (From, To, CC).
• Search by the email subject.
• Search by something in the body of the message.
• Showing only messages that include attachments.
• Use the conjunction NOT to only find messages that do not match with the search keyword.

From View Filters you can further choose whether to display read messages, and messages from Custom Folders, Mailing Lists, Archived, Feeds, Spam, and Trash folders.

To reset the search filters, click on Clear Search.

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Save searches

Frequently performed searches can be saved as Filters.

To save a search:

1. Review the search keyword(s) and filters.
2. Click on Save as Filter, below the search filters.

Once the search is saved as a filter you can add actions to it.

1. Go to Settings > Mail > Mail Filters and Actions.
2. Select the saved search filter.
3. At the bottom of the filter settings, click Add Action.
4. Choose the action. For example, add a label, mark as read, etc.
5. If you wish, add more actions by clicking the + button next to the current action.
6. Finish by clicking Update Mail Filter.

Depending on the operating system you’re on, installing Vivaldi may differ a little.

Installation options

Click on Advanced in the top right corner of the installer window to reveal various options.

Language

Choose the language you want the browser’s user interface to be in. The chosen language will also be used as the default translation output language and websites may use it to determine which language to show the site content in.

Installation Type

• Install for all users – The browser will be installed for all user accounts on the operating system.
• Install per user – The browser will be installed only for the current user.
• Install standalone – The browser is self-contained within a single folder including all user data and, unless made available as a default app, won’t be added to the operating system’s registry. Choose this option, if you already have Vivaldi installed and want to create an independent or portable version of the browser. You can read more about the Standalone version here.

Additional options

• Destination folder – Shows the executable path for the browser. User data (browser profile) is stored in the default system location. In case of standalone installs, the destination folder will contain both the application files and user data.
• Make standalone Vivaldi available as a default app – Enabling this option will add the browser to the operating system’s registry, so it can be used to quickly open various file types from the operating system and other apps.
• Disable automatic updates (not recommended) – By default Vivaldi will download updates automatically and install them on the next browser restart. When disabled, you’ll have to check for and download updates manually.

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To make Vivaldi the default browser:

In case you see Vivaldi is set as your default browser instead of Set as Default button in General settings, then Vivaldi already is your default browser.

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Default browser check on startup

When Vivaldi isn’t your default browser, every time you open the browser you’ll be asked whether you want to make Vivaldi the default browser. To disable that notification:

1. Go to Settings > General > Startup > Default Browser;
2. Disable Check on Startup.

Vivaldi for Flatpak is distributed through Flathub. You may find Flathub already built-in to your Linux distribution’s software center app. If not, click the button below or copy the following link: https://flathub.org/apps/com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.

How do I set Vivaldi for Flatpak as my default browser and/or as my mail client?

You must set your preferred applications through the desktop’s file and protocol association settings.

• For GNOME, go to System Settings > Default Applications > Web Browser > select Vivaldi.
• For KDE Plasma, go to System Settings > Applications > Default Applications > Web Browser > select Vivaldi.
• For LXQt, go to Settings > File and Protocol Associations > Default Apps > Web Browser.

The instructions will be similar for other desktop environments. If you do not see Vivaldi as an option after installing, please log out of your desktop session and back in again.

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How do I import data from another web browser?

Vivaldi for Flatpak cannot detect or import data directly from another web browser, such as Firefox, Google Chrome, or Opera, but you can import the files exported from the other browsers for Bookmarks, Notes, and more.

1. Go to Vivaldi menu > File > Import From Applications or Files menu.
2. Select what you want to import from the dropdown menu and locate the file.
3. Click Start Import.

To import logins and passwords:

1. Go to vivaldi://password-manager/settings.
2. In the Import passwords section, click on Select File.
3. Locate the file and open it.

For a more complete import, including browser History and Cookies, you can import into a native installation for Vivaldi, available from vivaldi.com, set up Vivaldi Sync in the native version, and then log in to Sync in Vivaldi for Flatpak.

Vivaldi Sync is available for free and uses confidential end-to-end encryption.

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I’m having trouble getting an extension to talk with an app on my system?

The NativeMessaging API — used by extensions to communicate with other installed software on your computer — is unavailable in Vivaldi for Flatpak. This can affect password managers, hardware-integration extensions, and other extensions.

If you require any such extensions, please install the native version of Vivaldi available from https://vivaldi.com/download/?platform=linux.

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How do I migrate my profile between Vivaldi for Flatpak and a native install?

The best way to migrate from one install to another, or to keep using both versions in sync with access to your Bookmarks, Logins, Notes, and other data, is to set up Vivaldi Sync.

Vivaldi Sync is available for free and uses confidential end-to-end encryption.

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Where is my User Data stored in Vivaldi for Flatpak?

Vivaldi for Flatpak stores data in the ~/.var/app/com.vivaldi.Vivaldi/config/vivaldi folder. Native Vivaldi stores data in the ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/vivaldi directory.

You may do a one-time migration by copying the folder from one to the other, on the same computer. You should not run two copies of Vivaldi with the same data directory.

See also How do I migrate.

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I ran into a crash! How do I contribute a crash log from Vivaldi for Flatpak?

If you can reproduce a crash, restart Vivaldi for Flatpak with development tools enabled, reproduce the crash, wait three minutes, and restart Vivaldi for Flatpak normally. You should see the crash log appear on the vivaldi://crashes page.

To launch Vivaldi for Flatpak with development tools, run the following command in a terminal: flatpak run --allow=devel com.vivaldi.Vivaldi.

Vivaldi Social brings together speakers of many languages. While it’s fascinating to know what people are up to in various parts of the world, it can be challenging if you don’t speak their language.

To help you cross language barriers, Vivaldi Social uses the translation service powered by Lingvanex, a service familiar to those who use the Vivaldi browser.

Translate posts

Posts on Vivaldi Social will be translated to the language you’ve chosen for your user interface. You can change the user interface language in Preferences > Appearance > Interface language.

To translate content:

1. Find a post on Vivaldi Social you want to translate.
2. Click on the Translate button below the post.
3. Click on Show original, to revert to the original text.

If a post is in a different language, but you don’t see an option to translate it, then the post’s author hasn’t set the correct language for their post. In that case, you can use the built-in translator in the Vivaldi Browser to translate the post.

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Make your posts translatable

To make sure your posts are translatable, always make sure you’ve chosen a matching language for your post’s text.

Set a default posting language:

1. Go to Preferences > Other > Posting defaults > Posting language.
2. Choose the language you post in most.

If you’re posting in a different language from your default, change the language settings in the post editor:

1. Below the text field, click on the current language code (for example, ).
2. From the drop-down menu, select the language you’re posting in.