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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You do not need to do this. After downloading a Linux package and installing it our Linux update repositories will be configured automatically for you to receive updates.

Installing Vivaldi via the terminal

After downloading a suitable package for your distro, you can use the following commands (from the directory where you saved Vivaldi) to install one of our Linux packages directly from the terminal [where ‘vivaldi*‘ equals the name of the Vivaldi install package].

Ubuntu/Debian based distros:

sudo apt-get -y install ./vivaldi*.deb

Fedora based distros:

sudo dnf --nogpgcheck -y install ./vivaldi*.rpm

openSUSE based distros:

sudo zypper --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive install ./vivaldi*.rpm

The preventing of gpg checks is only needed for the initial install, after which Vivaldi will add its public gpg keys and configure an appropriate repository for updates automatically.

Can’t log in to Sync?

If you’re having trouble with accessing your Vivaldi account in Sync settings, take a look at our Help Page about Registration and Login issues.

Encryption password

If you’ve forgotten the encryption password, you can try the login password you used at the time you first started using Sync. When the Sync feature was first introduced, it was possible to skip entering a separate encryption password, in which case your login password was set as the encryption password. Please note that changing the login password will not change the encryption password.

If you’ve forgotten your encryption password or want to change it:

1. Open Sync Settings;
2. Log into your Vivaldi account;
3. Click on I Lost My Password;
4. In the pop up, click Clear Sync Data;
5. Then Start Sync again and enter a new password.

Your data will be deleted from Vivaldi’s Sync servers and re-uploaded from the device you’re using once you enter a new password.

In case the synced data isn’t stored locally on any devices (e.g. after a OS reset), the synced data will unfortunately be lost when resetting the encryption password. Sync is first and foremost intended to be used as a feature to synchronize data across multiple devices, not as a backup service. Though, in most cases, as long as you remember the encryption password, Sync works as a backup as well. But even then, we can’t guarantee that the data from the servers will always be available.

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Having trouble syncing your data?

If you’ve entered your credentials and hit Start Sync but the browser is not able to connect, the browser will continually attempt to connect to Vivaldi’s sync servers. Often logging out of the account and in again helps.

To check the availability of the Sync service, visit the Vivaldi Status page on https://vivaldistatus.com. If there’s a large scale issue with one of Vivaldi’s service, we’ll post updates there.

If Sync has not been able to establish a connection for more than 6 hours and there are no updates on the Vivaldi Status page, please submit a bug report with the following info:

• username of the account you tried to sync,
• error message shown (if any),
• a screenshot of vivaldi://sync-internals and the Sync settings page on vivaldi://settings/sync/ can help; (you can use Vivaldi’s Screen Capture Tool to take the screenshot).
  Alternatively, click on Dump Status on vivaldi://sync-internals and send us the content that appears in a small box below the button.
• time when it happened,
• detailed steps to reproduce the issue (basically where did sync fail?).

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Remote sessions don’t show up on synced computers?

This could happen, for example, when you’ve manually copied the profile from one Vivaldi to another and then use Sync.

To fix it:

• Log out of your account in Sync settings.
• Restart Vivaldi.
• Log back in.

If Remote Sessions still aren’t accessible, submit a bug report as instructed above.

The Vivaldi account gives you access to multiple different Vivaldi services. This means that exporting data is service-specific and has to be done separately for each service you use.

If you’re looking for instructions for importing and exporting Vivaldi browser data, take a look at the help page: Import and export browser data.

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Webmail

Mail: To export your emails from Vivaldi Webmail, it’s best to set up your mail account in a mail client and download all the emails. If the mail client doesn’t detect server settings automatically, you can find the settings on our Vivaldi.net webmail help page.
To transfer emails from one mail account to another, set up both accounts in the same mail client and copy the emails from one account’s mail folders to another account’s mail folders.
To download a single email click on More > Export after selecting/opening the email you wish to download.

Contacts: On the Contacts page you have two options to export your contacts. Either all of them together or only the selected ones (hold down the Shift or Ctrl / ⌘ key to select multiple contacts). A Vcard (.vcf) file will be saved to your computer.

Calendar: Calendars can be exported as iCalendar (.ics) files from the Calendar page in Vivaldi Mail. If you have multiple calendars, they need to be exported separately.

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Blog

To export your blog posts, pages and media, on blogs.vivaldi.net go to your blog’s Dashboard > Tools > Export. Select what you want to export and click Download Export File. An XML file will be saved to your computer.

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Forum

To export forum data, go to your forum profile on https://forum.vivaldi.net/me.  Open the menu on the right side, just below the cover image and select Your Rights & Consent.  It’s possible to export your profile and posts as .csv files and uploaded content as a .zip file.

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Vivaldi Social

To export data from Vivaldi Social, go to Preferences > Import and export > Data export or to this link – https://social.vivaldi.net/settings/export. There, you can download the list of accounts you follow, block, have muted, as well as your lists, bookmarks and instances you’ve blocked as CSV files.

To export your posts and uploaded media, click on Request your archive. Wait until the archive is compiled (you’ll be notified via email) and then click Download your archive.

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Sync

All Sync data is encrypted and can currently only be accessed locally on the devices that have been synced with the Vivaldi.net account. To export your data from the browser, take a look at the Help page about importing and exporting browser data in the desktop version of Vivaldi.

This article will show you how to get started with your new blog on Vivaldi.net.

Create a new blog

1. Log in on blogs.vivaldi.net with your Vivaldi account credentials.
   • If you don’t have a Vivaldi account yet, register here.
2. Once logged in, either:
   • Click on Create a blog near the top right corner of the page.
     
   • Click on your username in the top right corner of the website and select My Blog from the dropdown menu.
     
3. When you open your blog page for the first time, you will need to choose
   • a blog title,
   • language,
   • one of the three customizable themes.
4. The blog URL will be as follows: yourusername.vivaldi.net.
5. Finish up by clicking Create blog.

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Add a user to your blog

You can invite anyone to contribute or subscribe to your blog. Before adding a new user, make sure they have a Vivaldi account or ask them to register.

1. Go to the blog’s Dashboard > Users > Add Existing. 
2. Type in their account’s recovery email and select the role (Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor or Administrator).

The new user will get an invitation to their email, which they have to accept before they can access your blog as a contributor.

The different roles can be summarized as follow:

• Administrator  – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site.
• Editor  – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.
• Author   – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
• Contributor  – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
• Subscriber  – somebody who can only manage their profile.

Read more about user roles on wordpress.org.

Source: wordpress.org