User profiles allow multiple “users” to share one Vivaldi installation, without requiring you to log in to a different operating system user account, or maintain multiple Standalone installations.

Each profile can have a different set of Extensions, Bookmarks, Speed Dials, Cookies, History, etc.  In addition, each profile can have its own look and configuration (Keyboard Shortcuts, Mouse Gestures, etc.).

If a second profile is needed only briefly, for example, for a friend to use your browser (without messing up your setup or interacting with your open tabs), use a temporary Guest Profile.

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Add a new profile

1. Click on the Profile button in the top right corner of the browser window and select Manage People.
2. Click on Add Person at the bottom of the popout menu.
3. Pick a name for the new profile, select or upload an avatar and decide whether you want a Desktop shortcut for the profile or not.
4. Click Add Person.

You can also manage profiles from Settings > Address Bar > Profile Management and click on Manage People, or type “Manage Profiles” in Quick Commands.

When you are logged in to your Vivaldi account to use Sync, your account’s username and profile image will be shown instead.

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Switch between profiles

• Open the Profile menu and click on the profile you want to open.

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Choose a profile on startup

To choose which profile to open when you start Vivaldi:

1. Type “Manage Profiles” in Quick Command or go to Settings > Address Bar > Profile Management and click on Manage People.
2. In the bottom right corner, enable Show on startup.

When enabled, before the browser opens, you’ll see the window shown on the image below.

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Edit a profile

To change the name or avatar of the profile or create a desktop shortcut:

1. Open the Profile menu;
2. Click on the active profile’s avatar or name;
3. Make the changes and click Save.

In case you’re logged into your Vivaldi account, you can update the profile image on your account’s profile on Vivaldi.net.

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Delete a profile

To remove a profile:

1. Open the Profile menu and select Manage Profiles;
2. Click on the user you want to delete;
3. Before you delete the profile you’ll see information about the profile, such as the number of Bookmarks and saved Passwords;
4. Click Remove Person to permanently delete the profile and all its data.

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Move or hide the Profile button

You can change the location or remove the User Profiles button by Editing Toolbars.

If you don’t want to use the multiple profile feature or don’t want the button to clutter your Address Bar, right-click on the User Profiles button > Edit > Remove from Toolbar.

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Sync profiles

To Sync profile data across devices, currently, a separate Vivaldi account is needed for each profile.

Browsing in Guest Profile means that searches, sites visited, cookies, and temporary files won’t be stored by Vivaldi.

The Guest Profile will have Vivaldi’s default look and settings and the Guest won’t be able to change any of your browser settings or access your data from the Guest Profile. If all you want is to browse privately – with access to your customizations – use Private Windows instead of the Guest Profile.

Open Guest Window

• Click on the Profile button in the top right corner of the browser.
• Select Open Guest Window from the menu.

Alternatively, for example if you’ve hidden the Profile button, go to Settings > Address Bar > Profile Management > Manage Profiles > Browse as Guest.

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Close Guest Window

• Close the Guest Window as a normal window.
• Open the Profile menu in the main profile window and select Exit Guest Session.

If the Guest Window was the very last window you closed, then on restart Vivaldi will display the profile manager.

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Privacy

Guest Profile does not encrypt or otherwise modify your connection. Note that if you log in to any websites, the website may still record your activity on any websites they have access to, and associate it with your account on that website. Use of guest mode will not hide your browsing activity from the website – it does not offer any anonymizing service. You would need to use a VPN or anonymizing proxy service if that is required.

Your activity might be visible to:

• Websites you visit (including the ads and resources used on those sites);
• Network admins;
• Internet service provider.

With Vivaldi, you can store your account login credentials in the browser.

Saving passwords

When password saving is enabled, every time you log into a new account you’ll be asked whether you wish to save the password.

If you discard the prompt for saving a particular password but want to do it later, click on  Save your password on the right side of the Address Field.

In case you clicked Never, you won’t be asked whether you wish to save the password on that website again. In case you’ve change your mind, go to chrome://settings/passwords (the link will auto-correct to Vivaldi settings) and delete the website from the Never Saved list.

If you don’t want to save passwords or use other tools to manage them, you can disable the feature in Settings > Privacy > Passwords by unticking Save Webpage Passwords.

When you change an account’s password, you’ll get the same prompt asking whether you wish to update the credentials.

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Viewing Passwords

To view saved passwords:

1. In Settings > Privacy > Passwords > Show Passwords;
2. Click on

   

    Show Password, or right-click on the entry and select Show Password
3. Enter your computer’s login password.

To filter passwords, search for the Website or Account Name in the search box above the list of saved login credentials.

To sort saved passwords alphabetically, click on the column title according to which you want to sort the saved entries. Click again to reverse the order.

In addition to the option to show the password, from the right-click menu you can also copy the password or username, visit the page, and delete the saved password.

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Deleting passwords

To delete stored account credentials, right-click on the entry and select Delete Password.

To delete all passwords:

1. Go to Vivaldi menu > Tools > Delete Browsing Data;
2. Select Passwords (includes your Sync login password);
3. For Delete data for, select All Time;
4. Click Delete.

To delete a single password:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Passwords > Show Passwords;
2. Right-click on the entry you want to remove;
3. Select Delete Password.

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Importing passwords

The easiest way to import passwords from another Vivaldi browser is to use Sync, which also allows you to synchronize other types of data, such as Bookmarks and Notes.

To import passwords from another browser:

1. Make sure the source browser is closed;
2. Then go to Vivaldi menu > File > Import from Applications or Files;
3. From the dropdown menu select the browser you wish to import the passwords from;
4. Decide on the data you want to import;
5. Click Start Import.

Please note that password import is not possible from all browsers.

To import passwords from .csv file:

1. Go to vivaldi:password-manager/settings.
2. Locate the Import passwords section.
3. On the right side, click on Select file.
4. Choose the .csv file with your passwords;
5. Click Open.

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Exporting passwords

To export passwords:

Option 1

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Passwords.
2. Click on Export passwords.
3. Enter your computer’s password.
4. Save the .csv file.

Option 2

1. Go to Vivaldi menu > File > Export > Export Passwords.
2. Enter your computer’s password.
3. Save the .csv file.

Pinning Tabs allow you to keep your most used tabs open and available in the same location, at all times.

Pin a tab

• Right click on the tab and select Pin Tab;
• Type “Pin Tab” in Quick Commands;
• Set a custom Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for pinning tabs.

To pin multiple tabs at once select them using the Ctrl or Shift key and select Pin # tabs from the right-click context menu;

If the tab bar is located on the top or bottom of the window, the pinned tab will shrink to only fit the favicon (commonly the website’s logo) and position itself to the left side of the Tab Bar.

In case the Tab Bar is either on the left or right side of the window and in the Window Panel, the pinned tab will position itself at the top of the tabs list.

The pinned tabs will be listed in the order they were pinned, but you can change their order by dragging them. Pinned and regular tabs cannot be placed alternately.

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Unpin a tab

• Right click on the pinned tab and select Unpin tab. The unpinned tab will position itself as the leftmost/topmost tab after pinned tabs (if there are any);
• Type “Unpin Tab” in Quick Commands;
• Set a custom Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for unpinning tabs.

To unpin multiple tabs at once select them using the Ctrl or Shift key and select Unpin # tabs from the right-click context menu;

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Close a pinned tab

With default settings, to close a pinned tab, first, unpin it and then close it as a normal tab.

In Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Pinned Tabs you can choose between three options:

• Don’t Close Pinned Tabs,
• Minimise Instead of Closing, and
• Close As Other Tabs.

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Pinned tabs settings

If you enable Lazy Loading Restored Tabs (which restores tabs in a hibernated state) in Settings > Startup, but you wish to always fully load pinned tabs, check the box for Always Load Pinned Tabs.

By default, the pinned tabs are grouped under one folder in the Window Panel, but you can disable it in Settings > Panel > Window Panel > Pinned Folder.

A “crash” occurs when Vivaldi encounters an unrecoverable error and shuts down unexpectedly or a tab’s contents disappear and are replaced with a “dead bird” image. Information pertaining to the crash is logged by Vivaldi.

Locating Crash Logs

To locate your crash log files open Finder and use the menu “Go → Go to folder” or the keyboard shortcut “⇧⌘G” and then paste this line:

~/Library/Application Support/Vivaldi/Crashpad

Here you will find all your crash log files (.dmp) under the pending or completed sub folders. Sort the folder contents by date and only send the very most recent one(s) because they can only be processed if we know exactly which version of Vivaldi they are from. To save space you might want to compress them and send them inside a zip archive.

Alternatively you can do the following:

1. Launch the “Terminal” application—open “Spotlight”, type: Terminal
2. Copy and Paste the following text into the Terminal window and press “Enter”—triple click to select
   find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Vivaldi/Crashpad -newer /Applications/Vivaldi.app -name \*.dmp | zip -j ~/Documents/Vivaldi\ Crash\ Logs\ $(date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M') -@
3. Now open your “Documents” directory or type the following into “Terminal”
   open ~/Documents/
4. You will find a dated “Vivaldi Crash Logs” zip file that you can attach to your bug report

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Submitting crash logs

Crash logs are not sent back to us automatically. However, you can create a bug report and let us know about your issue.

After logging a bug report you will then be sent an confirmation email. Simply reply to this with your crash log(s) as an attachment. Such logs are greatly appreciated; they provide us with information as to exactly where in the code things went wrong.

Make sure the crash happens on the latest version of Vivaldi. If you’re not on the latest version, please update the browser and test the issue again.

Vivaldi browser’s Address Bar is home to a lot more than just the URL field and basic navigation buttons. Continue reading to get to know all the available options that help you navigate the web.

What’s on the Address Bar?

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Address Bar location

You can decide whether to display the Address Bar at the top or bottom of the browser window. Make the choice in Settings > Address Bar > Address Bar Position.

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Show / Hide Address Bar

To toggle the visibility of the Address Bar, either:

• Go to Settings > Address Bar and (un)tick the box Show Address Bar;
• Type “Address Bar” in Quick Commands;
• Set a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse gesture for the action.

When the Address Bar is hidden, use the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl+L/⌘ L to focus on the Address Field and other shortcuts to execute commands usually completed by clicking on buttons on the Address Bar.

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Customise the Address Bar

All components on the Address Bar can be removed by right-clicking on the button > Customise > Remove From Toolbar. To remove the Address or Search Field, open the Toolbar Editor and drag the field off the Address Bar.

To reset the changes right-click on a button > Customise > Reset Toolbar to Default. In case you’ve removed all of the buttons, go to Settings > Appearance > Window Appearance > Toolbar Customisation > Reset Address Bar.

To change the order of the buttons. Hold down the Ctrl / ⌘ key and drag and drop the button to it’s new location.

You can also bring buttons from the Status Bar to the Address Bar and vice versa, move buttons from the Address Bar to the Status Bar. To do that, hold down the Ctrl / ⌘key and drag and drop them from one bar to another.

Learn more about customizing the browser’s toolbars on the Help page about Editing Toolbars.

When reporting a media issue on macOS, in addition to describing what is happening and where, we need more information to be able to follow up with it.
Please visit the following pages:

• GPU: vivaldi://gpu
• Media: vivaldi://media-internals

On both pages, click on Copy to Clipboard and paste the content to the bug report.

Furthermore, please visit the following links and tell us which options are selected for the selected flags:

• vivaldi://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
• vivaldi://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode

Please copy and paste all this information on vivaldi.com/bugreport

 

The Pop-out Video feature, also known as Picture-in-picture (PiP), allows you to display HTML5 videos in a floating window so that you can continue watching the video while scrolling down a page or changing tabs.

To use this feature:

1. Hover the mouse cursor over the video;
2. Click on the pop-out video button that appears at the top edge of the video.

Alternatively, right-click on the video and select Picture-in-picture from the context menu. For certain sites, like Youtube, this is not yet possible via their custom context menu. In that case, double right-click to reveal the context menu with the Picture-in-picture option.

The popped-out video includes controls for:

• pausing the video;
• returning to the main window;
• changing the video’s volume;
• moving to the next/previous video (when playing a video from a playlist);
• skipping ahead or going back in the video timeline by either:
  • clicking on the progress bar, or
  • using the left and right arrow keys while the pop-out video is in focus;
• for closing the pop-out.

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Disable Pop-out Video button

Pop-out Video button is enabled by default. If you won’t be using the feature:

1. Go to Settings > Webpages.
2. Disable Picture-in-Picture Button on Videos.
3. Restart the browser.

Access Keys are a way to access key functionality of a web page through keyboard shortcuts. Each website can define these shortcuts, so that the website is easily accessible from a browser.

To view the available shortcuts, either:

• Open Quick Commands and start typing “Show Webpage Access Key Shortcuts”;
• Apply Inline Access Keys Page Action from the Status Bar;
• Set a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for this action in Settings.

Use the shortcut Alt Shift / Ctrl ⌥ and the listed key to run the shortcut on the webpage.

In order to block spammers and other scams in Vivaldi Webmail, we’ll need a copy of the email header you received.

Find the email header

Option 1

1. Open the email;
2. Click on More button on the top horizontal menu;
3. Select Show source;
   
4. Copy the content and paste it in the report you send us in the contact form below.

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Option 2

1. Open the email;
2. Below the senders name/email, click on Details;
3. Below the delivery date, click All headers;
   
4. Copy the content and paste it in the report you send us in the contact form below.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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