Like the name Vivaldi Social hints the platform is for socializing. You can like people’s posts, share them with your followers, have discussions, and more. Keep reading to learn about it all.
View posts
To view and interact with posts, first browse the content on Vivaldi Social until you come across something interesting. Below each post, you see a menu of options. You can click on one of them immediately or you can click on the post itself (avoid hovering over media, links, hashtags, etc. when clicking) to see additional information about the post and comments other people have left on the post. Another option is to open the More menu and select Expand this post.
Click on the mentioned users, hashtags, etc. in the post to see related content.
Interact with posts
Reply to a post
To leave a comment on a post or start a discussion with the author:
Click on Reply / Reply to thread below the post.
The post you’re replying to will appear above the main post composer, so you can have the post you’re replying to in easy view.
Type your reply in the composer.
Adjust post settings, if needed.
Click Publish.
Reply as a direct message
When you only want select people to see your comment, while writing the post:
Adjust the post’s privacy level to Mentioned people only.
Make sure you only mention those people, who you want to see the post with an @ in front of their handle.
Share posts
Sharing or “boosting” as it’s known on Mastodon instances, will publish the post to your account’s timeline. To share a post, click on Boost below the post.
The shared post will show the original author’s name and say that you have boosted the post.
To prevent accidental boosting you can enable Show confirmation dialog before boosting from Preferences > Appearance > Confirmation dialogs. Then you’ll need to click an additional button to confirm that you really intended to share the post. The poster will be notified that you have shared their post.
Favorite posts
To show appreciation to a post and save it to your favorites, click on Favorite below the post. The poster will be notified that you liked their post.
To view posts you’ve liked, go to Favorites pages from the menu on the right.
Bookmark posts
To save posts for later, you can bookmark them. Click on Bookmark to be able to access the posts later from the Bookmarks page.
Share the post externally
To get the post link without opening the post to copy the link from the Address Field, click on Share. It will open your operating system’s share menu, from where you can select to copy the link or share directly to a recommended app.
Alternatively, click on the More menu and select Copy link to post.
Embed a post
To add a post to your website:
Click on the More menu.
Select Embed.
Copy the code.
Add it to your website.
Additional options
Click on the More menu to see additional options, from expanding and sharing the post to blocking and reporting the user.
Report posts and users
If you think a post is not suitable for Vivaldi Social, you can report it to the team, who will review the report and take necessary action.
To report a user:
Below the post open the More menu.
Select Report @username.
Select the reason.
Select which posts of the user are unsuitable.
Add a short comment to explain why you reported them.
If you think a post is not suitable for Vivaldi Social, you can report it to the team, who will review the report and take necessary action.
To report a user:
Below the post open the More menu.
Select Report @username.
Select the reason.
Select which posts of the user are unsuitable.
Add a short comment to explain why you reported them.
Moderation
Vivaldi Social is moderated by Vivaldi employees and volunteer moderators from the Vivaldi Community. They review reports and, if the content on your account is not in line with Vivaldi Social’s server rules, our Community Guidelines and/or Terms of Use, they can remove content, limit the reach of your account and/or suspend the account altogether.
If your account has been moderated, you’ll be notified via your account’s recovery email, through which you can submit an appeal, if you don’t agree with the decision.
In case you have any questions or complaints regarding moderation, please reach out to us through the contact form below.
Vivaldi Android comes with a Tab Bar known from the desktop browser. To enable/disable the Tab Bar:
Go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs;
Tap on Show Tab Bar to toggle the setting on or off.
Show Close button for background tabs
By default the close button is shown only for the active tab. In case you’d like to be able to quickly close background tabs:
Go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs;
Tap on Show X Button For Background Tabs to toggle the setting on or off.
It’s better to keep the setting disabled, if you find yourself tapping the wrong spot on the screen and accidentally closing tabs.
Show Tab as Favicon
In case you want to squeeze as many tabs on the Tab Bar as possible, you can opt for only showing the pages favicon without the page title on the Tab Bar. To do that:
Go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs;
Tap on Show Tab as Favicon to toggle the setting on or off.
Minimum Tab Width
To increase the width of tabs on the Tab Bar:
Go to Settings > Tabs > Minimum Tab Width.
Use the slider to set a preferred size for the tabs.
Open Tabs
Option 1
Open the Vivaldi menu on the right side of the Address Bar;
Select New Tab.
Option 2
Open the Tab Switcher;
Tap on the + button in the bottom right corner.
Option 3
In the Tab Switcher, tap on the overflow menu in the bottom right corner;
Tap New tab.
Option 4
While viewing a web page or the Speed Dial, long-press on the Tab Switcher button until a context menu opens;
Select New tab or New private tab.
Option 5
In case you have enabled the Tab Bar from Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs, tap on the New tab button on the right side of the Tab Bar.
Option 6
When Vivaldi isn’t open:
Long press on the app button on your home screen or app launcher until a context menu opens;
Select New tab or Private tab.
New Tab Position
Similarly to Vivaldi on desktop, you can decide where the new tab opens. Go to Vivaldi menu >Settings > Tabs > New Tab Position and choose between:
After Related Tabs: The new tabs will share a “parent-child” relationship – if you open a link in your current tab, the new tab will open next to its “parent”;
After Active Tab: Opens new tab next to the current active tab (this is the default);
As Last Tab: Opens new tab at the end of the tabs;
As Tab Stack With Related Tab: Opens a new tab stack with the active tab and the new tab.
New Tab Page
By default a new tab opens with the Start Page that has your favorite Bookmarks displayed on the Speed Dial. To open a new tab with a specific website:
Go to Vivaldi Menu >Settings > Homepage.
Toggle the setting On.
Select Enter custom web address.
Type or paste the link.
Exit settings.
The setting will also apply when tapping the Home button.
Automatically focus Address Field in a new tab.
Usually a new tab is opened to navigate to a new site or to Search. Both actions commonly require the use of the Address Bar. To skip the step of tapping on the Address Bar to focus on it before you can type the link or search term, the Address Field is focused automatically whenever you open a new tab. If you don’t like that behavior you can disable Focus Address Bar on New Tab from Vivaldi menu >Settings > Tabs.
Open links in new tabs
To open a link on a website in a new tab:
Long-press on the link;
From the context menu select:
Open in new tab,
Open in new Tab Stack (enable stacks from Vivaldi menu >Settings > Tabs),
Open in new background tab,
Open in private tab.
Reload Tabs
To reload the web page you have open in the active tab use one of the following options:
Tap on the Reload button on the Address Bar.
Scroll to the top and drag the page down. When you see the reload icon, release your finger to reload the page.
Open the Vivaldi menu and select Reload.
Tap on the Address Bar and tap Go on the keyboard.
Switch Tabs
Option 1
Swipe left or right, while your finger is placed either on the Address Bar or bottom toolbar to go to the next or previous tab.
Option 2
Open the Tab Switcher;
Tap on the tab thumbnail you want to open.
Option 3
In case you have enabled the Tab Bar from Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs, switch tabs by tapping on the tab on the Tab Bar.
Close Tabs
Option 1
Open the Tab Switcher;
Tap on the Close button in the top right corner of the Tab thumbnail you’d like to close.
Option 2
While viewing a web page or the Speed Dial, long-press on the Tab Switcher button until a context menu opens;
In the Tab Switcher, swipe left or right to close a Tab.
Please note that enabling Swipe to Close Tab, will disable swiping between panels in the Tab Switcher.
Close all Tabs
Open the Tab Switcher;
Tap on the overflow menu on the right side of the bottom toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
Tap Close All Tabs.
Inactive Tabs
Tabs you haven’t viewed in a while will appear in the Inactive Tabs section at the top of the Tab Switcher, allowing you to review and make a call on whether you want to keep the tabs open or whether they can be closed.
To change how fast tabs are considered inactive:
Open the Tab Switcher and go to the Inactive Tabs section.
Tap on the 3-dot menu in the top right corner.
Select Settings.
Choose between the following options:
Never
After 7 days
After 14 days
After 21 days
Automatically close inactive Tabs
If you have a tendency to open more and more new tabs, but hardly ever close any of the tabs, then eventually you’ll end up with so many tabs that closing them one by one will take a long time. Plus, a large number of tabs may start affecting performance and battery life.
In Vivaldi for Android, you have an option to close all inactive tabs in one move. To set it up:
Go to Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs > Automatically Close Tabs.
Select after what time period the tabs are considered inactive and you’ll be prompted to close them if you have more than 20 inactive tabs. You can choose between:
Never,
One Week,
One Month, and
Three Months.
If you don’t want to close inactive tabs, make sure Never is the selected option.
If you don’t want to wait for a prompt to close inactive tabs, go to Automatically Close Tabs settings and if there are any inactive tabs, you can tap the button Close Inactive Tabs.
Recently Closed Tabs
To open a recently closed Tab:
Open the Tab Switcher;
Swipe to Recently Closed Tabs or tap the Closed Tabs icon;
Tap on the entry you wish to reopen.
Reorder Tabs
To change the order of your open Tabs in the Tab Switcher:
Long press on a Tab;
Drag and drop the tab to its new location.
In case you have enabled the Tab Bar from Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs, long-press on the tab on the Tab Bar and drag to reorder the tabs.
Duplicate Tabs
To create an exact copy of your current active tab (including its history), open the Vivaldi menu and select Duplicate Tab.
Sync Tabs
In the third tab in the Tab Switcher, all the tabs you have open on your other devices – Remote Sessions – that you’ve Synced with the same Vivaldi account will be listed.
When you open a tab from Synced Tabs, it will be opened locally and listed with your other Tabs.
To learn more about syncing Remote Sessions, have a look at our help pages about Sync on Mobile and Sync on Desktop.
Private Tabs
When you browse using a Private Tab, Vivaldi will minimise what is stored locally on your phone so that very few traces are left of what you were browsing once you close all private browsing tabs.
Open private tabs
Option 1
Open the Vivaldi menu on the right side of the Address Bar;
Select New Private Tab.
Option 2
Open the Tab Switcher;
Slide to Private Tabs;
Tap on the + button in the middle of the bottom toolbar.
Option 3
In the Tab Switcher, tap on the overflow menu on the right side of the bottom toolbar.
Tap New Private Tab.
Close Private Tabs
Open the Tab Switcher;
Tap on the Close button in the top right corner of the Tab thumbnail.
Close all Private Tabs
Option 1
Open the Tab Switcher;
tap on the overflow menu on the right side of the bottom toolbar.
Tap Close Private Tabs.
Option 2
Open the phone’s notification menu by sliding down from the top of the screen;
Tap on Vivaldi – Close all private tabs.
Lock Private Tabs
When you leave Private Tabs open for longer, you can lock them. Next time you open Vivaldi and wish to view a private tab, you’ll be first asked for your phone’s or tablet’s screen lock (PIN, password, pattern, etc.).
To enable or disable locking of Private Tabs:
Go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Privacy and Security.
Toggle on Lock Private tabs when you leave Vivaldi.
Adding Tasks to your Vivaldi Calendar is a great way to keep track of your to-do list. Tasks can be managed in the Vivaldi Calendar and Calendar Panel, but to focus only on the tasks, the Task Panel is the best place.
Preview page feature on Vivaldi for Android comes in handy, if you want to quickly check the contents of a page, but don’t want to navigate away from your current page nor open the link in a new tab.
To preview a page:
Long press on a link.
Select Preview page from the context menu.
When you want to open the page, tap on the Open in New Tab button in the top right corner of the preview.
To close the preview, either tap the Close button or swipe down on the preview.
I am unable to login or register for my Facebook/Google/Other website account
We make the Vivaldi web browser. We do not own the websites that you visit (except vivaldi.com and vivaldi.net) and we cannot control your accounts on those websites. If you are having problems with your account on a website, you need to contact the owners of that website.
When I log in to my Facebook/Google/Other website account, it tells me that an unknown device or person has just logged into my account
The website owners choose how to notify you when you, or others, try to access your account. The website may be trying to tell you that this is the first time they have seen you using the Vivaldi browser, or some new device. You should contact the owners of the website if you need clarification about what is happening with your account.
When I try to access a website, my government or Internet Service Provider (ISP) blocks it
Your ISP and government choose which websites to block. You can contact your ISP for information about why a website was blocked, and whether it can be unblocked. Alternatively, your ISP may allow a member of your household to choose which websites to block. You should contact them for more information. If you are certain that the website you want to access is actually legal in your country, and if VPNs are also allowed, you may choose to find and use a VPN product to bypass local filtering. See our blog post for more details of VPNs.
Adverts keep popping up unexpectedly while I am browsing websites
(Or lots of adverts are showing on websites in places they are not supposed to have adverts)
Firstly, check that you have not enabled unwanted pop-ups on the website you are visiting. Click the badge to the left of the website address. Select “Site settings – Pop-ups and redirects”, and make sure that pop-ups are blocked. Websites are only allowed to open a single pop-up window when you click or type on the page.
Check that you have not allowed websites to display notifications without your permission. Menu – Tools – Settings – Webpages – Default Permissions – Notifications = ask. You can check if you have accidentally allowed a website to show notifications by pasting chrome://settings/content/notifications in the address field and pressing Enter. Scroll down to the “Allow” section, and remove any website that should not be showing notifications; click the three button menu beside the website name, and select “Block” or “Remove”. (You can also access this settings page by clicking the badge to the left of the website address. Select “Site settings – ← https://example.com – ← All sites – Notifications.”)
Websites may show adverts as part of the page if the website owner chooses (though you may use advert blocking extensions to block them), and those adverts may be designed to look like a pop-up, but without opening new tabs or windows. Some websites even block access to their own website, in order to show adverts (such as the Tubidy website), either intentionally or as a result of the website being hacked. The website owners would need to fix this, if it is the result of a hack – we cannot do this for them.
If you are seeing more adverts than the website owners intended on many websites, or if windows or tabs still keep opening to show you adverts even if you are not clicking on the page, you may have some malware or virus on your computer/device, that is showing the extra adverts.
If you recently installed another app/application/program, toolbar, add-on tool, or extension, try removing it or disabling it, and see if that fixes the problem.
Install reputable anti-virus and anti-malware products, and use them to scan your computer/device for malware. If you have already tried one product and it found nothing, try using a different product – some may be better than others at detecting certain kinds of malware. This is an essential step, since without removing the actual malware, it could just set itself back up again, and remove any of your fixes. Wikipedia has a good list of products here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_antivirus_software
Once the virus or malware has been removed, you will need to correct any settings that it had changed.
Check for unwanted extensions. Menu – Tools – Extensions. Disable all extensions, and see if this fixes the problem. Then enable each extension you wish to keep, checking to make sure that none of those caused the problem to reappear.
Correct your homepage and startup settings. Menu – Tools – Settings – Startup – Homepage and Startup with, or Vivaldi menu – Preferences – Startup – Homepage and Startup with.
Open the start page, and check if any unwanted speed dials have been added.
Check if any unwanted bookmarks have been added. Menu – Bookmarks – Manage Bookmarks.
Check if any unwanted search engines have been installed. Menu – Tools – Settings – Search, or Vivaldi menu – Preferences – Search. Remove any unexpected search engines, and make sure the correct search engine is set as default. (Or just restore defaults.)
For Windows users, locate any Vivaldi icons which can be used to start Vivaldi in the Start menu, desktop or Quick Launch. In the Windows 10 Start menu, search for Vivaldi, right click on it, and select “Open file location” to locate the actual icon. Right click on the icons and select “Properties”. Make sure that the target path to Vivaldi is correct, without any unwanted website addresses.
If you need assistance with these steps, consult a local computer servicing centre.
Strict SPF, DKIM and DMARC records are needed to prevent email spoofing
SPF, DKIM and DMARC do not prevent email spoofing. SPF protects only the envelope MAIL FROM header. It does not protect the email DATA “From:” header, which is what the recipient sees. DKIM (when enforced with strict DMARC) tries to protect the email DATA “From:” header, but it fails to cope with the reality that email clients accept multiple headers, and will show a different one than the one that DKIM will end up protecting. Strictly enforced DKIM also prevents or hampers the use of mailing lists, and is often undesirable. Email spoofing will always be possible one way or another, because of the flexibility of email. SPF, DKIM and DMARC cannot prevent that, unfortunately.
Most pages on the website do not have clickjacking protection
Most pages do not need clickjacking protection. Clickjacking attacks depend on the page performing a harmful action in response to simple clicks or keypresses. That is not possible on most pages. We enable clickjacking protection on pages where it is needed.
PrivacyTests.org (or a similar website) results show that Vivaldi does not block tracking
The results shown on that testing website are misleading. When you enable tracker blocking in Vivaldi, it does block actual trackers, but the tests on that website assume that browsers must use an approach that causes problems with legitimate websites. It does not test using actual trackers.
There are several different ways that a privacy oriented browser could try to prevent tracking online. It could simply refuse to support things that might get used for both legitimate purposes and tracking, such as localStorage and cookies (third party or otherwise), or APIs that might provide useful data to websites, such as the dimensions of your screen. This will definitely cause many legitimate websites to break. It could rely on heuristics to detect fingerprinting or tracking being used, and try to selectively disable things if they get used too often, in a pattern that appears to be tracking. This will randomly break legitimate websites or create false positives and negatives. Alternatively, the browser could use a reliable list of known tracking websites, and simply block access to those websites, so that no resources (first or third party, as needed) ever load from those websites. This prevents known tracking websites, without breaking legitimate websites, except in very rare cases where websites intentionally break themselves when trackers get blocked.
Vivaldi uses the approach of blocking known tracking websites. That testing website assumes that browsers can only use the other approaches, and does not test for Vivaldi’s approach. Therefore, the only way to make that website show a “PASS”, is to knowingly risk breaking legitimate websites, then add special hacks in for important websites to un-break them. We do not generally like that approach, as it will cause more issues on less frequented websites.
Vivaldi’s approach allows the APIs to work on websites that use them for legitimate purposes. There are pros and cons to either approach, but we favour the approach that causes least disruption on legitimate websites, while still protecting your privacy. The approach used by Vivaldi is similar to the approach used by virtually all browsers to protect against phishing, fraud, malware, and other malicious websites. That testing page does show a couple of minor things that should be different, however, and we are looking into those.
Vivaldi says that the website I am visiting is phishing, or serving malware
Vivaldi uses Google’s Safebrowsing API to detect websites that are known to be serving malware or phishing. It is possible for even a legitimate website to be hacked and have malware or phishing content installed on it. Normally, the website owner will then discover the problem, and remove the malicious content. The Safebrowsing project will periodically re-check the website and remove it from the blacklist once they detect that the malicious content has been removed. However, if Vivaldi displayed a warning on a website that you are certain is not infected, and you would like to ask the Safebrowsing project to re-check the website, you can report it to them here:
If you are the owner of the website, you should make sure that any phishing or malware has been removed, including any conditional redirects to other websites, before contacting the project. Check the Webmasters section of the Safebrowsing website for more information:
A website is serving malware or phishing, but Vivaldi does not block it
Vivaldi uses Google’s Safebrowsing API to detect websites that are known to be serving malware or phishing. The Safebrowsing project periodically checks websites, to detect malicious content. However, if Vivaldi did not display a warning on a website that you suspect is malicious, and you would like to ask the Safebrowsing project to check the website, you can report it to them here:
My anti-virus product says that the Vivaldi installer contains a virus
Depending on how your anti-virus product has been configured, it may create what are called “false positives”; where it claims something contains a virus, when it actually does not. Make sure you have downloaded an authentic copy of Vivaldi from our website. If your anti-virus product still complains, you may wish to check whether it has been configured with its settings set too sensitive (eg. using heuristics in extremely sensitive mode). You can consult with your anti-virus product vendor to ask what settings are best.
If the settings are correct, and you have downloaded an authentic version of Vivaldi from our website, you can contact your anti-virus product’s vendor to report their product’s mistake. Alternatively, you can file a bug report with us to let us know, and we can contact them on your behalf. Please provide as much detail as possible about which anti-virus product you are using, and what settings you have selected in that product. Some anti-virus product vendors take a few days to update their product after new Vivaldi releases, to recognize the new version.
Note that online services such as VirusTotal may report far more false positives, because they use multiple anti-virus products set to their most overly sensitive settings. Some of these engines are far more likely to show false positives than others.
My anti-virus product says that my Vivaldi cache files contain a virus
Occasionally, malicious or hacked websites may attempt to serve virus contents as part of a page. These are then downloaded into the browser’s cache when you load the page. These viruses normally target outdated versions of other browsers, and do not cause any harm at all to Vivaldi. Therefore, although it is alarming to see the warning, it normally does not cause any problems for either Vivaldi, or your computer, by having these detected in your cache. Some anti-virus products are configured to ignore browser cache folders, for this reason.
When I try to visit a website, it says I have viruses on my computer/device
Websites may sometimes display fake virus warnings, hoping to convince you to install some malware disguised as an anti-virus product to remove them, or hoping you will follow other malicious instructions. These warnings are almost always fake and malicious. Simply close the website, and browse elsewhere. You may also choose to report the website to the Safebrowsing project, so that it can be blocked in future:
A product is using an outdated version of Chromium
We try to keep as up to date as possible with Chromium in our products. However, sometimes the version of Chromium we are using falls behind the current release.
Whenever we release a stable version of Vivaldi, it includes applicable security patches for the current version of Chromium, even if it is based on an older Chromium version. As a result, as long as you allow Vivaldi to install updates, you will have important or relevant security patches from the current version of Chromium, no matter which version of Chromium it appears to be based on.
Third party software is out of date on the website
Third party software is updated on a schedule determined by the system administrators. We do try to keep it as up to date as needed. If the third party software vendor releases a fix for a security issue, we may sometimes choose to patch the individual issue without updating the software version. As a result, even though the software version may not be the latest, it will often have the security fixes anyway. In some cases, we may not need to update the software or apply patches, if we are not actually using an affected part of the software.
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.
Focus on the Address Field
To use the Address Field, you first need to focus on it. To do that:
Enter the full link or start typing and select a previously visited link from suggestions.
Open the link in one of the following ways:
Press Enter on your keyboard.
Click on a suggestion in the drop-down menu.
Press Alt + Enter to open the link or search results in a new tab. The shortcut can be changed to Shift + Enter in Settings > Address Bar > Open Address in New Tab.
Enter the search term to search with the default search engine or type a Search Engine Nickname before entering the search term.
Open the page with search results in one of the following ways:
Press Enter on your keyboard.
Click on a suggestion in the drop-down menu.
Click on the icon on the left of the Address Field. The icon can be Search’s magnifying glass or selected Search Engine’s logo.
Searching in the Address Field is enabled by default, but you can disable it from Settings > Search > Search Options, if you prefer to search using the dedicated Search Field and/or Quick Commands.
From Search Settings, you can also enable Search Suggestions and limit suggestions only to times when you’ve entered the Search Engine Nickname prior to entering the search term. It’s a convenient feature, but has privacy implications. You can read more on our Team Blog.
Address Field Options
Address Auto-Complete
When you type something in the Address Field, Vivaldi offers to auto-complete it with suggestions from your Bookmarks and History. In Settings > Address Bar > Address Auto-Complete you have a couple of options for the feature:
Autocomplete on Item Title – In addition to links, page titles will be searched through for a match.
Autocomplete on Domain First – This will prioritize autocompleting the homepage of a site before suggesting sub-pages.
Show Full Address
URLs can have a lot of distracting information in them, such as a protocol, query string parameters, and anchor identifiers.
We want to make it easy for you to see the most important parts of the URL by default. Those are the website’s domain, and which part of the website you are looking at.
The protocol, such as http: and https: look like they might be helpful, but they can be misleading. “https:” can make a website look like it will be secure, when actually, it could be insecure for some reason, such as using low grade encryption or no encryption, have failed certificates, or have mixed insecure content into the page. As a result, rather than showing the protocol, Vivaldi just shows a badge, which says whether the page is secure or not.
The query string parameters and anchor identifiers can add so much confusion that it can be hard to see which website you are using, and we need to make sure you know exactly which website you are using, without having to struggle to find it. The domain is far more important than everything else in the URL, which is why it appears first, why we highlight it, and why we try to reduce the clutter that might distract you from it.
The number of characters that are allowed in a website address, aka URL, are limited. If a URL contains special characters, for example spaces and characters from languages with a non-Latin alphabet, the browser encodes them before sending the URL to a web server. When you see a URL in the address field with special characters, like this: https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/26/日本語-japanese, the URL has been decoded. An encoded URL of the same address looks like this: https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/26/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E-japanese.
By default, Vivaldi copies and cuts encoded addresses. If you wish to copy and cut decoded addresses:
Important! Other apps may not be able to understand decoded URLs, which may break the URL.
Page Load Progress Bar
When Page Load Progress Bar has been enabled in Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Options, the Address Field will turn into a progress bar in your Theme’s accent color while the page is loading.
As you type a search term or a web link in the Address Field, you’ll see suggestions that match what you’ve typed in a drop-down menu. If you don’t want to see any suggestions, you can disable the drop-down menu in Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Options.
Always Show Item’s Badge
On the right side of the drop-down menu, a badge shows up on hover/selection which lets you know whether the suggestion is a bookmark, history, or some other type of entry.
If you wish, you can disable the showing of search queries in the Typed History. When disabled only links will be displayed.
To view your Typed History in the drop-down menu even when you haven’t typed anything in the Address Field, enable the Typed History drop-down button from Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Options > Drop-Down Menu.
Drop-Down Maximum Size
By default, you’ll see 12 suggestions in the drop-down menu. If you’d like to see less or more suggestions:
Click on the – and + buttons to change the number of suggestions.
Address Field Suggestions
In the Address Field drop-down menu, you may notice entries from Typed History, Bookmarks, suggestions from Search Engines, search and browsing History, and Direct Matches. If some of the suggestions hinder your browsing flow, you can disable them in Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Suggestions.
Enable/Disable suggestions from Bookmarks, Search Suggestions, History, and Direct Match on and off as you wish.
Delete suggestions
If an irrelevant suggestion in the drop-down menu keeps popping up, you can remove it by hovering over the entry and clicking on the X on the right side of the drop-down menu. Alternatively, while the entry is selected, use the Keyboard ShortcutCtrl+Delete / ⇧ Fn Delete.
To restore Direct Match suggestions you’ve removed:
Sometimes web page links have additional information, called parameters, added to the end of the URL. Parameters in an URL come after a ? symbol and if there are multiple parameters they’re separated by an & symbol. URL parameters are used for sorting and filtering, pagination, language options and more. But parameters can also be used for tracking.
Example URL from Vivaldi Forum with multiple search parameters: https://forum.vivaldi.net/search?term=tab%20stacks&in=titlesposts&matchWords=all&categories%5B%5D=32&sortBy=relevance&sortDirection=desc&showAs=posts.
The same URL without parameters: https://forum.vivaldi.net/search.
To copy a link without parameters:
Right-click on the Address Field.
Select Copy without parameters.
Tracker and Ad Blocker
Adjust the blocking of the active tab and view information about blocked trackers and ads from the Content Blocker button. Learn more about the feature on the Help page about Tracker and Ad Blocker.
Site Info
You can tell from the icon on the left side of the Address Field whether a site is Secure , not secure or even dangerous .
Clicking on the icon will open a menu with additional site settings, for example, for Cookies and Website permissions.
Start dragging from the Site Info button to your desktop or file folder, to create a webpage shortcut.
Feeds
Page Offers Feeds icon will appear on the right side of the Address field when the website offers feeds. Click on the button to preview and subscribe to the feed.
When there’s not enough space to show the full domain name, a warning icon will be shown. Make sure to check the full link and that you trust the website before submitting any data on the page.
Base Domain Highlighting
The URL’s base domain (eTLD+1) is highlighted and the rest lowlighted to help recognize which company controls the domain and prevents scams and phishing attacks.
It’s not recommended to disable base domain highlighting, but Vivaldi still gives you the option to do it in Settings > Address Bar > Security Features.
Strip Javascript from Pasted Text
Vivaldi allows you to type javascript: URLs in the address field. When you press enter, the JavaScript is run in the context of the current page. This allows you to quickly type some commands and execute them to modify the page’s behavior, without needing to open up the debugging tools.
When pasting a javascript: URL into the address field, by default Vivaldi will remove the “javascript:” protocol prefix from the start of the URL. This is done to prevent social engineering attacks, where an attacker convinces you to copy a JavaScript URL, paste it into the address field, and press enter before you realize what you pasted, allowing them to compromise your accounts on that website. When the setting is enabled, you would need to manually add the protocol back after pasting, which is enough to let you know that something malicious is happening.
However, some users might not want that protection, so they can disable the protection from Settings > Address Bar > Security Features. With it disabled, the protocol will remain.
Important! Only disable that setting if you are certain that you can detect this kind of malicious attack yourself.
Always Use Secure Connection (HTTPS)
To always load websites using the secure HTTPS protocol instead of the less secure HTTP:
By default, when you do not enable this setting, Vivaldi will check if websites can be accessed securely, and will use the secure connection if possible. As a result, for most websites, this setting is not actually needed. However, you may choose to enable this setting if you absolutely never want to use websites that do not offer HTTPS, without clicking on a warning message first.
Note that this setting will sometimes cause websites that do offer HTTPS to show a warning, if the website responds very slowly to HTTPS requests, since Vivaldi cannot tell if this is the website not supporting it, or just supporting it very slowly. Only enable this setting if you are willing to accept this annoyance!
Pop-out Video, aka Picture-in-Picture, is a popular feature on desktop, but did you know it’s also available on Android and iOS? The main difference is that, on your mobile device, you can’t browse other tabs in Vivaldi while Pop-out Video is enabled, but you can use most other apps.
Enable Pop-out Video on Android
While browsing with Vivaldi, find a video you want to watch.
Press play and enable full-screen view of the video.
Tap on your phone’s home button.
The video will continue playing in a small rectangle on your home screen. You can move the video by dragging it around and use the two-finger zoom gesture to change the size of the video.
Pop-out video from Vivaldi open on top of the Shazam app.
Tap on the rectangle to see video controls. Pop-out Video includes controls for:
Pausing the video.
Moving to the next/previous video (when playing a video from a playlist).
Closing the popped-out video.
Returning to the main window.
Shortcut to Android’s Picture-in-Picture settings.
If you’re unable to use Pop-out Video in Vivaldi, check whether you can enable it from Android Settings > Apps > Special Access > Picture-in-Picture.
Though, Vivaldi is a commercial company, fighting the gatekeeping behemoths of the web comes with a cost. Our users often show interest in contributing to Vivaldi’s development. Some give their time and volunteer as translators, testers, moderators, and/or ambassadors. Others prefer to give a donation.
You can donate anonymously or show off a donator’s Badge of Appreciation that gets added to your profile picture on vivaldi.net and in the browser. The badge is given automatically to all logged-in users. Logged-out users can claim the badge at a later date via the donation confirmation email.
Select Monthly or Yearly above the predefined donation amounts.
Select or enter a custom amount that you want to give each month.
If you want to have a badge on your profile picture, tick the box for “I want The Badge of Appreciation“.
Click Donate / Log In and Donate.
Enter your email address and card information.
Click Pay and subscribe. You may be directed to your bank’s website to confirm the payment.
View and download the invoice.
The receipt will also be sent to the email address you provided and can be downloaded within 30 days from the donation date.
Claim the Badge of Appreciation
The badge is given automatically to all logged-in users. If you were logged out during the donation, follow these steps to claim your badge:
Open the donation confirmation email.
At the end of the email, find the link to claim your badge and open it.
Log in to your Vivaldi account.
Manage recurring donations
If you were logged in during the donation, you can view your invoice history from your account’s profile on Vivaldi.net > Manage Subscriptions. In case you were logged out, you’ll find the link to manage your subscription in the donation confirmation email.
To update how much you donate each month:
Click on Update plan.
Select the new amount.
Click Continue.
Click Subscribe and pay.
To update the payment method:
In the Payment method section, click on Add payment method.
Enter the new card’s information.
Click Add.
Click on the 3 dot menu after the new card’s info.
Select Make default.
Click on the 3 dot menu after the old card’s info.
Select Delete and confirm the decision.
To update billing information:
In the Billing information section, click on Update information.
Enter a new email address and optionally your address.
Rocker Gestures are Mouse Gestures used to execute commands with the left and right mouse buttons.
Rocker Gestures are enabled by default, but the feature can be disabled from Settings > Mouse > Rocker Gestures > Allow Rocker gestures. Restart the browser for the change to take effect.
Use Rocker Gestures
To perform an action using Rocker Gestures, you have two options:
Rock to the right – hold down the left mouse button, then click the right mouse button.
Rock to the left – hold down the right mouse button, then click the left mouse button.
Edit Rocker Gestures
Predefined Rocker Gestures take you back and forward in History, but they can be assigned various different commands.
More menu and select Expand this post. 
Reply / Reply to thread below the post.
Boost below the post. 
Favorite below the post. The poster will be notified that you liked their post.
Bookmark to be able to access the posts later from the Bookmarks page.
Share. It will open your operating system’s share menu, from where you can select to copy the link or share directly to a recommended app. 
Search button in the top right corner of the Tab Switcher.
Vivaldi menu > 
overflow menu in the bottom right corner;
New tab button on the right side of the Tab Bar.
Home button.
Reload button on the Address Bar.
Closed Tabs icon;
Tasks button on the 
New Task button in the top right corner of the Tasks Panel.
Open in New Tab button in the top right corner of the preview. 
Close button or swipe down on the preview.
Content Blocker button. Learn more about the feature on the 
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Page Offers Feeds icon will appear on the right side of the Address field when the website offers feeds. Click on the button to preview and subscribe to the feed.
Reader View.
Translate Page on the right side of the Address Field.
Bookmark Page to add the active tab to Bookmarks.
a warning icon will be shown. Make sure to check the full link and that you trust the website before submitting any data on the page.
Supporter – one-time donation.
Patron – recurring donation.
Advocate – long-term donor.