Reading List allows you to add web pages to a list to keep for later. It prevents endless tabs from accumulating on your Tab Bar/Tab Switcher and Bookmarks from being filled with entries you only need once.
Though there are similar services out there, Vivaldi’s Reading List doesn’t require an external app nor do you need to sign up for an account. Also, you can keep your lists in sync on all Vivaldis on all your devices.
Add pages to the Reading List
To add an open web page to the Reading List.
Option 1
Open the Vivaldi menu.
Select Add Page to….
Tap on Reading List.
Option 2
To add a link on a page to the Reading List:
Long press on the link to open the context menu.
Select Add to Reading List.
View your Reading List
To open the reading list, either:
Open the Vivaldi menu and select Reading List.
Open Panels and switch to the Reading List Panel.
To open an article from the Reading List:
Open the Reading List.
Select an article you’d like to read.
Tap on the entry to open the article in the active tab.
Opened articles will be marked as read automatically and moved to the Pages That You’ve Read section.
To open an article from the Reading List in a New Tab or a Private Tab:
Open the Reading List.
Long press on the article you’d like to read.
Select Open in New Tab or Open in Private from the context menu.
Manage articles on the Reading List
Mark articles as read
To mark an article read without opening it:
Open the Reading List.
In the Unread Articles section, long press on the article to open the context menu.
Select Mark as read.
Do the same in the Pages That You’ve Read section, to mark articles unread.
To mark multiple articles as (un)read:
Open the Reading List.
Tap on Edit in the bottom right corner.
Tap on the list entries you want to change read status for.
Tap on Mark….
Select either Mark Read or Mark Unread.
Remove articles from the Reading List
You can remove both unread and read articles from the Reading List. To do that:
Open the Reading List.
Long press on the article to open the context menu.
Select Delete.
To remove multiple articles at once:
Open the Reading List.
Tap on Edit in the bottom right corner.
Tap on the list entries you want to remove.
Tap on Delete in the bottom left corner.
Sync your Reading List
Saved pages in your Reading List can be synced with Vivaldi on your other devices.
Managing all your tabs in the mobile version of Vivaldi is as easy and efficient as on the desktop.
Tab Switcher
To view your Tabs in the Tab Switcher tap on the Tab Switcher button in the bottom right corner. The number in the Tab Switcher button indicates how many Tabs you have open.
Slide right/left to view Private Tabs, Synced Tabs, and Recently Closed Tabs.
The active tab will be displayed with a border around the tab thumbnail. Tap on a thumbnail to switch to the selected tab.
Tab Bar
Vivaldi on iOS comes with a Tab Bar known from the desktop browser. To enable/disable the Tab Bar:
Go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Tabs < Tab Style.
Tap on Show Tab Bar.
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 at the bottom of the screen.
Option 3
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 Open in Private.
Option 4
On the Tab Bar, tap on the New Tab button on the right side.
Option 5
When Vivaldi isn’t open:
Long press on the app button on your home screen or app launcher until a context menu opens.
Toggle Open New Tab on Closing Last Tab on or off.
Inactive Tabs
If you tend to open more and more new tabs, but hardly ever close any of them, then eventually you’ll end up with so many tabs that closing them one by one will take a while. Plus, having a large number of tabs open may start affecting performance and battery life.
In Vivaldi on iOS, inactive tabs will be moved to their section in the Tab Switcher. There you can review the tabs – either keep them around, close them one by one, or close them all at once.
By default, a tab will be set to inactive if you haven’t used it in the last 21 days, but you can select the interval for when a tab should be moved to the Inactive Tabs folder.
Select after how many days tabs should moved to the Inactive Tabs folder:
Never Move,
After 7 Days,
After 14 Days,
After 21 Days.
Recently Closed Tabs
To open a recently closed tab in the active tab:
Open the Vivaldi menu and select “Recent tabs”.
Tap on the link you want to reopen.
To open a recently closed tab in a new tab:
Open the Tab Switcher.
Navigate to the Closed Tabs tab.
Tap on the link you want to reopen.
Reorder Tabs
To change the order of your open Tabs in the Tab Switcher:
Long press on a tab you want to move.
Drag and drop the tab to its new location.
On the Tab Bar, long-press on the tab and drag the tab left or right.
Sync Tabs
The third tab in the Tab Switcher – Remote Sessions – will list all the tabs you have open on your other devices that you’ve Synced with the same Vivaldi account.
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 minimize 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
While viewing a web page or the Speed Dial, long-press on the Tab Switcher button until a context menu opens.
Select Open in Private.
Close Private Tabs
Open the Tab Switcher.
Tap on the Close button in the top right corner of the Tab thumbnail.
On the Tab Bar, tap on the Close button on the tab you’d like to close.
Break Mode allows you to pause the Internet and focus on something else until you’re ready to return. Enabling Break Mode mutes and stops HTML5 audio and videos, hides all Tabs, Panels and other content leaving the screen clean.
When you enable Break Mode, you’ll see an introductory pop-up notification describing the feature briefly and an option to edit the Keyboard Shortcut (Status Bar needs to be visible). To close the notification, click anywhere outside the pop-up. In case you don’t want to see the notification in the future, tick the box for Do not show again.
Disable Break Mode
To return to what you were doing:
Click on the End Break button in the middle of the page;
In the top right corner of the Panel, click Remove all Finished. Alternatively, right-click on one of the download entries and select Remove all Finished from the context menu.
To customize Vivaldi webmail, click on Settings on the menu on the left side of the page.
You can change settings in the following categories:
Preferences:
User Interface,
Mailbox View,
Displaying Messages,
Composing Messages,
Contacts,
Special Folders,
Server Settings,
Encryption,
Calendar,
Folders,
Identities,
Responses,
PGP keys,
Filters.
Storage
In Vivaldi mail each account gets 10GB of storage space.
To see how much space you’ve used:
In the Mail view, look at the bottom left corner of the window, next to the Logout button.
You’ll see the percentage of used space immediately, but you can hover the mouse cursor over the section to see how many megabytes of the allocated 10GB you’ve used.
To see the size of specific folders:
Go to Settings > Folders > select a folder > Information > Size;
Click Click to get folder size.
When you start running out of space, you’ll get a warning, asking you to create more space by deleting some emails. When you reach the 10GB limit, new incoming emails won’t be delivered and the sender needs to send the email again after you’ve created enough space in your mailbox.
Folders
In the folder settings, you can add, edit and delete your mail folders. In addition, you can delete all message in your mail folders.
Archiving emails
To archive your emails:
Go to Settings > Preferences > Special Folders;
Select a folder for your archive (or create one first in Settings > Folders) and choose how to sort them into additional folders.
Select the email(s) you want to archive and click Archive on the menu above the email view.
Identities
In Vivaldi Mail all emails need to be delivered to and sent from [email protected]. This means that different aliases, unfortunately, can’t be used. But, if you have set your Vivaldi Mail up in a mail client, you may use plus addressing (also known as sub-addressing). With plus addressing you can add a keyword to your email address ([email protected]) which allows you to create different variations of the email address. Everything between the + and @ symbols is ignored when deciding, to which account the email belongs to. You can also create Filters with these addresses to automatically organise your emails into different folders.
Signature
To add a signature to your emails:
Go to Settings > Identities;
Select your identity;
Write your signature.
You can add either a Plain Text or HTML signature.
For additional signature options, go to Settings > Preferences > Composing emails > Signature Options.
Spellcheck
To check the spelling:
Select the email language from the small arrow next to Spell on the menu above the email composer.
Click Spell;
You can enable automatic spellcheck before sending an email and other options in Settings > Preferences > Composing Messages.
You can always access your mail from any browser on https://webmail.vivaldi.net/, but you can also set your mail account up in a desktop mail client or mail app on your mobile device.
There are many different mail clients available. To add your Vivaldi account to a mail client of your choice, follow the mail client’s instructions for adding a new account.
Select whether you want to verify yourself via OAuth or App-Specific Password.
Enter the relevant password and log in.
Once you’ve logged in, Vivaldi will start downloading your email messages and contacts. In Mail Settings you can also add a name, signature, enable prefetching full messages and check server settings.
OAuth vs App-Specific Password
Use OAuth when you haven’t enabled Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for your Vivaldi account. To use app passwords, you need to have 2FA enabled.
After staring to use Vivaldi mail, you might want to bring your old emails with you, so you can continue using email from where you left off. Here’s how.
Importing mail from another account
Setting up both accounts
The best way to move all of your emails from your current mailbox to Vivaldi is to set up both Vivaldi account and your current email provider’s account using IMAP in an email client of your choice (e.g. Vivaldi Mail).
Follow your mail client’s instructions for adding new IMAP accounts. If you need to enter Vivaldi’s server settings manually, check out our Help Page about setting up your Vivaldi mail in a mail client.
Moving the emails from one account to another
Once you have set both accounts up, you can move emails from your current email service provider’s IMAP folders to Vivaldi’s IMAP folders. To move emails:
Select the emails using Ctrl/Shift key or by other means available in the mail client;
Right-click on one of the selected emails and select either Move to or Copy to (path and labels may vary).
Select the corresponding Vivaldi folder as the destination.
To move whole folders full of emails, hold down the Ctrl key and drag the folder to Vivaldi’s Inbox folder.
If the suggestions above don’t work in your mail client, please refer to that mail client’s help documentation for moving emails.
After you have moved all the emails, you can use the Vivaldi webmail interface on webmail.vivaldi.net, continue using the mail client and add your Vivaldi account to other mail clients (e.g. mail app on your phone).
If you’re keeping the other account active and it allows automatic forwarding, you can set up email forwarding from the previous account to your Vivaldi email. That way you don’t have to manually check the old mailbox.
Exporting emails
To export all your emails from Vivaldi to another mail account, do the same as with Importing emails. Set up both accounts in a mail client and copy the emails and folders from Vivaldi to the destination mailbox.
Downloading emails
To download a single email:
Open the email;
Click on More (. . . ) on the menu above the mail view;
select Export;
Save the email as an .eml file.
Downloading all emails
Downloading more than one email at a time is, unfortunately, not possible in the Vivaldi webmail interface.
Right-click on one of the emails and select Save as/Download;
Depending on the mail client, the instructions may vary. If the above doesn’t work, refer to your mail client’s help documentation for downloading emails.
Click Create on the menu above the key information;
Select between a 2048 and 4096 bit key size;
Set a password for the key;
Click Save.
Please note that since the PGP keys are stored on our servers, encryption in Vivaldi webmail is not a full end-to-end encryption. For end-to-end encryption, we suggest setting up your account in a mail client that supports PGP.
Importing keys
To import keys:
Go to Settings > PGP Keys;
Click Import on the menu above the key information;
Click Browse to locate the file on your computer;
Click Import.
Exporting keys
To export keys:
Go to Settings > PGP Keys;
Click Export on the menu above the key information;
Select whether you want to export:
Public Keys Only,
Secret Keys.
Sharing public keys
Before you can start having encrypted email conversations with your contacts either import their public key file as described above or share your public keys with each other via email:
Compose a new email;
In the Options and attachments section on the right enable Attach my public key;
Send the email;
When you get an email back with your contact’s public key, click Import after “This message contains attached PGP key(s)”.
Sending and reading encrypted emails
When composing an email, in the Options and attachments section on the right, check the boxes for:
Digitally sign this message (asks for the key’s password), and/or
Encrypt this message.
When you receive an encrypted email enter your encryption key’s password to view the content.
In Settings > Preferences > Encryption you can decide, how long the password is valid until you need to enter it again.