Quick Reply in Vivaldi Mail

Quick Reply in Vivaldi Mail is perfect for those fast, short replies, and feels like using an instant messenger. By removing the need to switch screens to open the composer window, this feature allows you to respond to emails more quickly.

To send a quick reply:

  1. Open the email message you want to reply to.
  2. Focus on the text field at the bottom of the message pane.
  3. Type your message.
  4. Click Send.
Quick Reply field with a drafted message in Vivaldi Mail.

Quick Reply field’s visibility

To hide/show the Quick Reply field:

  1. Go to Settings > Mail > Mail Settings > Quick Reply.
  2. Choose between:
    • Hide Quick Reply,
    • Minimize Quick Reply,
    • Show Quick Reply.

If you choose to display the Quick Reply field, you can also decide whether to quote the message you’re replying to by default or not.


Resize Quick Reply

To change the size of the Quick Reply field:

  1. Place the mouse cursor on the top edge of the section.
  2. When you see a double-ended arrow, click and drag the mouse up or down to resize it.

Minimize Quick Reply

If you’ve set Quick Reply to be shown or minimized, you have the option to easily toggle its visibility from the message view.

To minimize Quick Reply:

  1. Place the mouse cursor on the top edge of the section.
  2. When you see a double-ended arrow, double-click to hide the section.
    Alternatively, click and drag the edge all the way down.

To display minimized Quick Reply field:

  1. Place the mouse cursor on the narrow area between the email message and the Status Bar.
  2. When you see a double-ended arrow, click to show the section.
    Alternatively, click and drag the section to your preferred size.

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Tab Stacks in Vivaldi on iOS

Tab Stacks let you group your browser tabs to keep things neat and organized.

Make screenshots of videos

You can use the browser’s screenshot tool, to capture the content on web pages. But if that content is a point in a video, then saving a frame from it directly is faster and gives you a better result than trying to draw a frame around the capture area.

To save a frame from a video as an image file:

  1. Play the video and pause it at the point that you want to grab a screenshot of.
  2. Right-click (in some cases double right-click) on the video to open the context menu.
  3. Select Save Video Frame As.
  4. Select the saved file’s destination folder.
  5. Click Save.
Paused video player open in Vivaldi. Video's right-click context menu is open and the option "Save Frame as" is highlighted.

In addition to saving a frame as an image on your computer, you can also just copy it.

To copy a frame from a video:

  1. Play the video and pause it at the point that you want to grab a screenshot of.
  2. Right-click (in some cases double right-click) on the video to open the context menu.
  3. Select Copy Video Frame.
  4. Paste the image where you want to use it.

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Proton VPN for Vivaldi

Connect to Proton VPN effortlessly with your Vivaldi account in the Vivaldi browser.

Address Field in Vivaldi on Android

Address Field is a section on the Address Bar where you can see the URL of the page you’re currently on. There you can enter a new web page link to navigate to the website or a search term to see search results. But the Address Field in Vivaldi has a lot more to offer. Continue reading to learn all about the Address Field.

On the Address Field you’ll find:

  •  Site Info and Content blocker – check your connection security and access Site Settings, as well as change the tracker and ad blocking level for the website.
  • Address and Search field – type in the link you want to visit or a search term you want to look up.
  • Reader View – toggle on and off reader mode for a decluttered and focused reading experience.
  •  Reload – if you’ve scrolled too far down and swiping down to reload isn’t reasonable, you can tap on the Reload button.
  • Vivaldi menu – gateway to Vivaldi’s key features and settings.

Address Field settings

To move the Address Bar together with the Tab Bar to the bottom of the screen or back up again:

Option 1

  1. Go to Vivaldi menu button Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs.
  2. Toggle on/off Address Bar At Bottom.

Option 2

  1. Long-press on the Address Bar.
  2. Select Move Address Bar to the bottom/top.

Address Field Options

  • Show X for removing suggestions – To remove irrelevant suggestions in the drop-down menu you can long-press on an entry and tap OK in the confirmation dialog. Alternatively, you can enable Show X for removing suggestions in Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Options to show an X button next to suggestions that can be hidden.
  • Show Typed History – It can be handy to see what you previously typed in the Address Field and tap on the suggestion to get to results faster. If you’d rather not see your typed history, you can disable it from Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Options.
  • Enable Address Bar swipe gesture – Swipe down/up towards the page content to open the Tab Switcher.

Address Field Suggestions

In Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Suggestions, you can decide whether you see suggestions as you type in the Address Field from your browsing History, Bookmarks, and Direct Match, and more.

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Access Vivaldi Social from Mastodon apps

Vivaldi Social can be accessed from any web browser by logging in on the link https://social.vivaldi.net/. Mastodon also supports Progressive Web Apps.

In addition to the web version, you can access your Vivaldi Social account from various apps built for Mastodon. Check out the selection of available apps for both mobile and desktop on https://joinmastodon.org/apps.

To login to Vivaldi Social from an app:

  1. Install the app of your choice.
  2. Select Log In or the option that allows you to pick your Mastodon server.
  3. Enter Vivaldi Social’s domain name – social.vivaldi.net.
  4. Select logging in with vivaldi.net.
  5. Enter your Vivaldi account’s username and password.
  6. Give the app permission to access your account and its data.

The steps you need to follow may differ slightly from what’s listed here, depending on how the app’s onboarding process has been implemented. Furthermore, the in-app experience will likely be a little different from the web version as well. Explore the different apps to find the one you like best.

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Zoom options in Vivaldi on iOS

In general, mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, have smaller screens than laptops and desktop setups. This usually means that user interface elements and web contents are much smaller and that can make browsing on mobile more difficult. Luckily in Vivaldi on iOS you can change the zoom level to make reading easier.

Zoom in on web pages

To change the text size:

  1. While you’re on the page, go to the Vivaldi menu > Zoom text.
  2. Tap on the – or + buttons to find the best zoom level.
  3. Tap Done.

To reset the zoom level.

  1. While you’re on the page, go to the Vivaldi menu > Zoom text.
  2. Tap Reset or tap on the – or + buttons to go back to 100%.
  3. Tap Done.

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Progressive Web Apps on Android

Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are websites that can be installed as independent applications. They can be opened from shortcuts and used in their own window separate from the main browser.

Install a Progressive Web App

To install a website as a PWA:

  1. Open the web page in Vivaldi.
  2. Go to the Vivaldi menu button Vivaldi Menu > Add Page To > Home screen.
  3. Select Install.
  4. Tap Install in the confirmation dialog.
Install / Create Shortcut menu in Vivaldi in Vivaldi on Android.

If the site doesn’t support PWAs, you’ll be offered to create a shortcut instead. While PWAs open in their own window, tapping on the shortcut will open the saved site in a new tab in the main app window.


Open links from Progressive Web Apps in the main browser

To open a link from a PWA as a new tab in the main browser window:

  1. Long press on a link to open the context menu.
  2. Select “Open in Vivaldi Browser”.

Delete Progressive Web Apps and Home Screen Shortcuts

To uninstall a PWA or delete a shortcut:

  1. Long press on the PWA/shortcut icon on your home screen.
  2. Select Remove.

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Privacy and Security Settings in Vivaldi on Android

Vivaldi’s privacy and security settings give you solid control to safeguard your private data.

How Ad Attribution is implemented

In order to improve the result of ad monetization for sites where a user has decided to enable ads, Vivaldi has now included support for ad attribution. You can read more about why this change was implemented here.

This page mainly aims to describe how Ad Attribution is implemented and explain the choices that led to this implementation. The goal is to be fully transparent about what may be allowed through and when.

As with the rest of the ad blocker code, this implementation is fully available as part of our released source code bundles. This allows you to fully verify that our implementation is as described here and in other articles.

Allow Ad Attribution rules

The main challenge with ad monetization is that many ad providers rely on known trackers in order to prevent click fraud and ensure that conversion has occurred before paying out. The only solution to this is unfortunately to allow such trackers to load, regardless of what our tracker blocking lists say. However, we also want to ensure that these trackers are not loaded as part of general browsing.

In order to satisfy all these requirements, I have extended the normal ad blocker rules format. This is the same format used by all popular ad-blockers and rules lists. The extended format consists of three new options that will be detailed below.

This implementation was chosen as it allows us to reuse most of the ad-blocker functionality to effectively accomplish the goal of ad attribution while also allowing us to use the automatic update mechanism coming with ad blocker rules lists. This ensures that we can promptly fix any mistake.

How it works

Ensuring that ad attribution works is a complex task that takes multiple steps to accomplish. In general, the focus is on the site which uses ads for support, however most of the work is done after clicking on a given ad. As part of the implementation, we go through the following states.

1. Navigating to a site which the user wants to support.

When this occurs, the ad attribution implementation records that it should be looking for ad clicks. We say that it is primed.

Ad attribution is normally primed on any site where the ad blocker is disabled, regardless of the state of the tracker blocker. Priming ad attribution means we will check whether the next navigation is an ad click. It has no other effect.

In order to be able to support ad attribution for our partner search engines even when ad blocking is enabled for all sites, we introduced the attribute-ads rule option:

@@||partner-site.example.com/page-i-want-to-Support$attribute-ads

This causes ad attribution to be primed on the matching page, regardless of the ad blocker status. In practice, we would also add a document option (identical to the document allow rules supported by AdBlockPlus), in order to allow the partner site to show ads:

@@||partner-site.example.com/page-i-want-to-Support$attribute-ads,document

2. Matching an ad when Ad Attribution is primed.

When this occurs, the ad attribution implementation will examine the URL being loaded as well as the URLs of any redirections which occurs as part of loading.

If none of those URLs matches a known ad, then ad attribution remains disabled. It may be primed again if the site where the user ends up is one the user wants to support.

If the URL matches a known ad, then ad attribution moves to the next stage and the process continues.

The ad-query-trigger option is used to indicate that a rule should be used to match ad URLs:

||advertiser.example.com/ad-URL$ad-query-trigger=&click-id-param=|&other-click-id-param=

The ad-query-trigger option takes a value that is composed of several query string fragments, separated by |.

Once a document matching the pattern for an ad-query-trigger rule was reached, directly or via redirect, further redirections will be examined. For those redirections, the query string of the URL will be examined. If it contains any of the strings provided as value to the option, ad attribution will be fully enabled and the origin of the matching URL will be stored as the ad landing origin for this tab.

The ad-query-trigger option requires a pattern that provides a domain name in the ad URL pattern. This means, the pattern should be host-anchored and the domain should be followed by ^,/ or ?

Once ad attribution is enabled for a specific tab and origin, that state is preserved so long as the tab navigates within this same origin. Navigating to a different origin will cause ad attribution to be disabled, but it’s state will be preserved for a half hour. Further navigations within the deadline extend it to a half hour. If the deadline passes, further navigations outside the original origin clear the state fully. Navigating back to the landing origin will re-enable ad attribution.

The ad attribution state is normally confined to the tab where it was enabled. However, a same-origin navigation to a new tab from a tab where it is enabled will preserve its state.

Ad attribution also always gets disabled seven days after being triggered.

3.Matching trackers when ad attribution is enabled

When ad attribution is enabled, it examines resources loaded on pages whose origin match the landing origin. In order to indicate which resources should be allowed for ad attribution, rules with the ad-attribution-tracker option are used.

@@||advertiser.example.org/track-click$ad-attribution-tracker=advertiser.example.com/&click-id-param=|advertiser.example.net/&ad_id=

The body of this rule matches the url of the resource itself, while the value of the ad-attribution-tracker option provides the context in which it should be allowed. The value of this option consists of a pairs of domain/query-fragment separated by |. The domain part is matched against the domain of the ad that was clicked (the ad itself, not its landing origin). The query-fragment is matched against the query fragment used to enable ad attribution. A pair matches if both components are a match. This rule matches if the resource url matches and any of the domain/query-fragment pair is a match. When a tracker is allowed this way, it bypasses blocking both in the ad blocker and the tracker blocker.

These rules are currently only available in the “Allow Ads from our Partners” list that is provided by Vivaldi. This is to avoid situations where they may be employed in malicious rules lists. You can examine our list to learn of which partner sites have ad attribution enabled and which trackers are allowed as a result here.

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