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:
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.
Answers to common security-related questions about Vivaldi. The questions and answers can also be found on https://vivaldi.com/security/common-questions/.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
If you need assistance with these steps, consult a local computer servicing centre.
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 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.
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 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:
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/
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:
https://safebrowsing.google.com/
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:
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
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.
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.
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:
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
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 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.
To use the Address Field, you first need to focus on it. To do that:
To open a web page with a link you want to visit:
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.
To execute a Search from the Address Bar:
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.
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.
To always show the full address:
Alternatively, right-click on the Address Field and select Show Full Address from the context menu.
To place a text cursor to where you clicked on the address field instead of selecting the full address:
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:
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.
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.
To create QR links of the active tab from the Address Bar enable QR Code Generator in Settings > Address Bar > Address Field Options. Learn more about the feature on the Help page about creating and sharing QR Codes.
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.
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.
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.
To always display all badges:
In the Address Field drop-down menu, you may notice entries from the aforementioned Typed History, Bookmarks, suggestions from Search Engines, browsing History, and Direct Matches. If some of the suggestions hinder your browsing flow, you can disable them in Settings.
To review your preferences:
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 Shortcut Ctrl+Delete / ⇧ Fn Delete.
To restore Direct Match suggestions you’ve removed:
Ctrl / ⌘ + Click on the URL to cut the link at the point you clicked and go to that page. For example, when you click on the word “blog” in https://vivaldi.com/blog/address-field-drop-down-guide/, you’ll be taken to https://vivaldi.com/blog/.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Learn more about the feature on the Help Page about Feed Reader.
To concentrate on the main content of the web page and hide all distractions, switch on 
Reader View.
Learn more about the feature on the Help Page about Reader View.
With Vivaldi Translate, you can translate full web pages easily. Just click on 
Translate Page on the right side of the Address Field.
Learn more about the feature on the Help Page about Translate.
Click on 
Bookmark Page to add the active tab to Bookmarks.
Learn more about the feature on the Help Page about Bookmarks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tap on the rectangle to see video controls. Pop-out Video includes controls for:
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.
Supporter – one-time donation.
Patron – recurring donation.
Advocate – long-term donor.
To make a one-time donation:
The receipt will also be sent to the email address you provided and can be downloaded within 30 days from the donation date.
When setting up a recurring donation, you’ll contribute to Vivaldi’s development monthly or annually.
To make a recurring donation:
The receipt will also be sent to the email address you provided and can be downloaded within 30 days from the donation date.
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:
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:
To update the payment method:
To update billing information:
To cancel a donation:
If you have any questions or need assistance with making a donation, get in touch using the contact form below.
Need help with your Vivaldi account?
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.
To perform an action using Rocker Gestures, you have two options:
Predefined Rocker Gestures take you back and forward in History, but they can be assigned various different commands.
To edit Rocker Gestures:
Vivaldi for Snap is distributed through Snapcraft. You may find Snap already built into your Linux distribution’s software center app. If not, click the button below or copy the following link: https://snapcraft.io/vivaldi.
You must set your preferred applications through the desktop’s file and protocol association settings.
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.
Vivaldi for Snap 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.
Vivaldi menu > File > Import From Applications or Files menu.To import logins and passwords:
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 Snap.
Vivaldi Sync is available for free and uses confidential end-to-end encryption.
The NativeMessaging API — used by extensions to communicate with other installed software on your computer — is unavailable in Vivaldi for Snap. 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.
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.
Vivaldi for Snap stores data in the ~/snap/vivaldi/current/.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.
To use Vivaldi Mail, make sure you’ve enabled Mail, Calendar and Feeds from Settings > General > Productivity Features. On a brand new installation or in a new User Profile, choose the “Browser, Mail, and Calendar” option in the welcome flow.
To add your first mail account to Vivaldi Mail:
Add Account. To add more mail accounts:
Add account below the list of already added mail accounts.If you’d like to use Vivaldi Mail, Calendar and Feeds separately from your main browser, we suggest setting your mail and calendar accounts up in a new User Profile. You can find more detailed instructions here.
When you add a Google account to Mail or Calendar, you’ll be asked to log in through Google’s OAuth dialog.
Previously, there was a single login, which, in addition to the mail and calendar clients, logged you in to your Google account on all Google’s websites. Since Vivaldi 4.3, the logins are kept separate, improving privacy. This means that even if you’ve added, for example, your Gmail account to Vivaldi Mail, Google won’t know what you watch on YouTube or search on Google (unless you log in to the website).
If, for some reason, you’re logged out from your account(s) in Vivaldi Mail and Calendar, Google’s OAuth dialog will appear again for each account and service (Gmail, Google Calendar) you’ve added to Vivaldi. In that case, please login to your account again. If you ignore or dismiss the dialog, it will keep reappearing every time the account checks for updates. Alternatively, put the account offline from Settings > Mail > Mail accounts > select the account > enable Offline Account. Though, in that case you won’t receive new messages until you log in again.
In case you don’t want to use OAuth to log in to your Google account, you could use an App password instead.
Alternative Option – App password (needs two-factor authentication)
For this to work you will need to set up an App Password in your Google account settings. You have to have two-factor authentication set up as well. Once you have the password you can just fill this in when the password prompt appears in the setup with the option to use App-Specific Password.
To log in with a Microsoft hosted account (Outlook, Hotmail, MSN, etc.) you have two options. You can use OAuth or an app-specific password.
Option 1 – OAuth
Option 2 – App-Specific Password
To add your Apple’s iCloud account to Vivaldi Mail:
To log in with your Yahoo account (or Yahoo hosted email account) with your email address and login password, Yahoo requires the client or app to have Yahoo’s branded login dialog. Vivaldi Mail doesn’t have that feature implemented just yet, so adding a Yahoo account to Vivaldi Mail requires a small workaround.
To add your Yahoo account to Vivaldi:
Add account.With IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol), your emails and email folders are kept on the server. Any changes you make in the mail client will reflect on the server and vice versa. You can add your mail account using IMAP to as many mail clients as you need and also access your mail from the email service provider’s webmail interface.
With POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) the mail client downloads and stores your emails on the computer as soon as they arrive to the mail server and then generally deletes them from the servers. Vivaldi doesn’t delete the messages on the server automatically, but you can enable it in Settings > Mail > Mail Accounts > select account > Server settings.
When you enable Download Messages for Offline Viewing and Searching for a mail account, all content of your messages will be indexed in the mail database even before you open the message. Downloading messages, aka prefetching, improves search results and lets you easily access your messages offline.
Note: When emails are deleted from the server (another client or webmail) and the body of the email is already fetched we put those emails in trash and mark them as internal.
You can then replace them from there if the deletion was a mistake. If the body wasn’t already fetched we just delete them since there’s no reason to keep them.
To update the name, signature, password or check the account’s server settings:
1. Go to Settings > Mail > Mail Accounts.
2. Select the account you want to edit.
3. Update the information.
Changes will be saved automatically.
To add a signature:
By default, signatures are in plain text. In case you’d like to format the text and add images, below the Signature field, tick the box for Enable Rich Text and Images. That will add the common text formatting options to the text field.
To add an image to your signature, locate the image file and drag it to the Signature field.
Your signature can be located in one of two places:
Furthermore, you can decide whether the signature is included when you reply to a message and when forwarding a message.
If you don’t want to include any signatures in the email and want to delete the default signature:
To change the order in which your accounts appear in the Mail Panel:
To remove your mail account from Vivaldi Mail:
Delete mail account button.Vivaldi is all about customization. Editing toolbars is one of the customization tools that allow you to tailor the browser to your needs.
To change the Tab Bar’s location:
When you move the Tab Bar to the side or bottom of the browser window, buttons like the Vivaldi Menu, Minimize, Maximize and Close will be merged with the Address Bar as long as it’s at the top of the browser window. When the Address Bar is at the bottom, a title bar with the buttons will be displayed.
To always display the Title Bar when the Tab Bar isn’t at the top of the window:
To toggle the visibility of the Tab Bar:
Vivaldi menu > View and select Show Tab Bar.To change the Address Bar’s location:
To toggle the visibility of the Address Bar:
To change the Panel’s location:
To toggle the visibility of the Panel:
Hide/Show Panel button on the left side of the Status Bar. Vivaldi menu > View and select Show Panel.It’s, unfortunately, not possible to change the location of the Status Bar.
To toggle the visibility of the Status Bar:
You can add, move and remove any of the components on the Navigation Toolbar, Status Bar, Panel, Mail Toolbar, Mail Composer Toolbar and Mail Message Toolbar using the Toolbar Editor.
To open the Toolbar Editor, either:
Vivaldi menu > View > Customize Toolbar.
To add a new component to the toolbar:
To add components to Mail views, first open the Mail tab or the Mail composer and then open the Toolbar Editor.
In addition to components normally found on the toolbars, you can also add buttons for Command Chains.
To add a button for a chains:
To move a component that’s already on the toolbar, hold down the Ctrl / ⌘* key and drag the component to the new location.
*On macOS, release the ⌘ key before you release the mouse button.
Option 1
To hide a component from a toolbar, right-click on it > Edit > Remove from Toolbar.
Option 2
While you have the Toolbar Editor open, drag the component you want to remove to the area between the toolbar and Toolbar Editor window.
Option 1
Right-click on a toolbar component and select Edit > Reset Toolbar To Default.
Option 2
Go to Settings > Appearance > Window Appearance > Toolbar customizations and click on Reset Navigation Toolbar / Reset Status Toolbar.
Option 3
Open the Toolbar Editor, select the toolbar you want to reset and click Reset [toolbar name] to Default at the bottom of the editor window.
When you encounter an issue and you’re trying to determine whether you can fix it yourself or need to report a bug, follow the steps below. Remember that in many cases it’s important to reload the web page for any changes to take effect.
Sometimes the simplest things help, so exit/quit the browser, and hopefully on restart the issue will be gone.
If you’ve kept your computer on for a long time, restarting the device may help as well.
If you’re using an older version of the browser, there’s a chance that the bug has already been fixed and you won’t be having the issue in the latest version of Vivaldi. So make sure to update your browser regularly.
You can also check recent Snapshot changelogs on our Snapshot blog. The latest fixes and newest features are tested in Snapshots, before being released in the Stable version of the browser. Then you need to wait until the next version of Vivaldi Stable is released.
On desktop, sometimes an Extension or a specific Setting can cause the issue. To check if that’s the case, test the website or feature in a Guest Profile or in a new User Profile.
Click on the 
User Profile button (the image can also be your chosen avatar or Vivaldi account’s profile picture) on the Address Bar to create a new profile or open the guest window.
It is possible to install a second version of Vivaldi to test the issue. It’s best to test with the newest version of the browser, i.e. the Snapshot, as the likelihood of the issue being fixed is highest there and in that case, you just need a little patience until the fix is released in the Stable version. On Windows, you can install any version as a Standalone. On macOS and Linux, you can run the Stable and Snapshot versions side by side.
Since Vivaldi is based on Chromium, we sometimes inherit bugs from upstream. If that’s the case, you’ll likely be able to reproduce the bug in other Chromium-based browsers. In that case, please report the bug to the Chromium team.
Some websites make sure to check from which browser you’re viewing their pages from and based on the information may alter what you see. The websites may also block access to their content and features altogether. To check whether a website is displayed differently because you’re using Vivaldi, you can change the browser’s Sec-CH-UA identity and check the website again.
To change which browser brand is reported:
Website functionality may depend on elements with trackers that are blocked by the Tracker and/or Ad blocker. Click on 
Content Blocker on the left side of the address bar to disable blockers and test the website.
Extensions are a common cause of issues on the desktop browser. That’s one of the reasons Vivaldi has so many built-in features – so your browsing experience won’t be hindered by extension compatibility problems.
To disable Extensions go to Vivaldi menu > Tools > Extensions and toggle all Extensions off from the bottom right corner of each Extension card.
If the issue doesn’t occur with disabled Extensions, start enabling them one by one and test in between each re-enabled Extension.
Whether you’re using the built-in Proton VPN in Vivaldi or another VPN service, disconnect/pause the connection and reload the web page to see if the issue still persists.
In case the issue you’re facing is related to playing videos and other media or to the user interface’s appearance and responsiveness, you can go to Settings > Webpages and see if disabling Hardware Acceleration makes a difference. Remember to restart the browser before testing the issue again.
Cookies are used for a lot more than tracking users’ browsing habits. Sometimes websites require Third-Party Cookies to display content that was originally posted on a different site. For example, embedded videos or Vivaldi Blog’s comment section.
In Vivaldi, third-party cookies are blocked by default in Private Windows. To review and change your cookie settings, go to Settings > Privacy > Cookies.
Make sure your anti-virus product is up to date and not blocking Vivaldi. If your anti-virus product warns you about dangers in Vivaldi, it’s most likely a false positive. In that case, review your anti-virus product settings as they might be too sensitive. Read more about it in our answers to common security-related questions.
If the browser works as expected in a new User Profile with default settings, try resetting the settings in your main profile.
To reset settings:
Some Settings, such as Enable Mail, Calendar and Feeds, will not be reset.
Websites get updated all the time, but information about the old version of the site is still stored in cache files and Cookies. This may cause discrepancies in the displayed website and occasionally even break functionality.
In addition, storing old browsing data for a long time will use up your device’s memory space, so deleting it every now and then can have a positive effect on the browser’s speed as well.
To delete Cache and Cookies on desktop, click on the 
Clear Browsing Data button in the top-right corner of the History manager or go to Vivaldi menu > Tools > Delete Browsing Data.
If the issue is only occurring on a particular website you can opt for deleting Cookies and Site Data just for that site.
Site Info button on the Address Bar and select Site Settings from the menu. Site Info button on the Address Bar and select Cookies and site data > Manage cookies and site data from the menu.
Delete saved data from [site name] for each item you want to delete.
Delete Cookies button that appears on the right side.When you’ve followed the steps listed above and you can consistently reproduce the issue, please discuss it on our Forum. There, our Community members can test on their devices and either confirm the bug or suggest a fix for the issue. Some of them can also tell you whether the devs are already aware of the bug or whether a new bug report should be created.
To report a bug first check our bug reporting guidelines and then go to vivaldi.com/bugreport to file it.