If you have issues uninstalling Vivaldi while using Windows 10, Windows 10 provides two different UIs to add/remove programs: the old style UI, and a new modern look (see screenshots below).
Only the older style UI will allow a non-admin user to uninstall a single user installed program.

Older add/remove program Windows UI

New add/remove programs UI in Windows 10.

To uninstall Vivaldi from Windows 10, make sure that you are using the old add/remove UI.
To ensure that you are, follow these steps:

1. 1. Use ⊞ WinKey+R to open the Run dialog,
   2. Type: control appwiz.cpl,
   3. Press OK,

1. Scroll down to the “Vivaldi” entry and double click it.

Alternatively, you can also uninstall the browser by using the setup.exe we include with Vivaldi and calling it directly, e.g. assuming the version number is 1.7.735.29, start the run dialog and then issue the following:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Vivaldi\Application\1.7.735.29\Installer\setup.exe --uninstall --vivaldi

If you still run into issues when attempting to uninstall Vivaldi from Windows 10, please get in touch with our support team on vivaldi.com/contact.

Other operating systems

If you use macOS, Linux or another version of Windows, head here for instructions on how to uninstall Vivaldi.

Vivaldi’s built-in Capture tool lets you capture either a Full Page screenshot, or a Selection of the screen that you define. It can be accessed in a number of ways through the Vivaldi UI to give you flexibility in how you implement the tool.

Types of Capture

Full Page

A Full Page capture is a screenshot of the full length of a website (max 30 000 pixels). Whether you’re giving feedback on a design, gathering inspiration, or just want to share an interesting site with a friend, this is a great way to get a bird’s eye view in a single image.

Selection

Capturing a Selection lets you focus in on a particular piece of your screen for more precision. After doing an initial selection, you can resize the capture area, before taking the screenshot.

Output of Capture

Whether capturing a Full Page or a Selection, you can choose to save the new snap to your disk for later use, or copy it to your clipboard to share it instantly.

Save to Disk

In the Capture tool you are given options to “Save as JPEG” or “Save as PNG“. When choosing these options, your new screenshot will be saved immediately to your local disk.

Copy to Clipboard

A newly captured screenshot can be copied as an image to your system’s clipboard. This makes it easy to share your new screenshot in other applications and documents immediately; once a screenshot is copied to your clipboard, simply Paste in place to insert the image into the desired location.

Create a new note from the capture

When you save the capture as a note, the screenshot will be saved with the capture date and page URL. The note won’t have a title or any text content, so go to the Notes Panel or Notes Manager to add it.

Access the Capture tool

Vivaldi lets you choose how to use its features, giving you several ways to get something done. Capturing screenshots is no exception. Below we describe the ways which you can access the Capture functionality in your browser.

Status Bar

Capture can be accessed in your Status Bar via the camera icon. Clicking on the icon will bring up your options for capturing a new screenshot: Full Page vs Selection, “Save as…” and “Copy to Clipboard“.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Capture functionality can be activated using Keyboard Shortcuts in Vivaldi. This means that pressing a pre-defined combination of keys will fire the associated action (e.g. capturing a Selection screenshot).

To map a custom keyboard shortcut to your preferred Capture method open your Settings and search for “Capture”. The available actions that can be mapped to a keyboard shortcut will display in the search results.

Click into the action you’d like to work with, and type your custom shortcut. The command is available immediately.

• Read more about adding or editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Notes

Vivaldi has a built-in Notes tool which allows you to capture thoughts and ideas while you browse. The Capture tool is integrated directly in the Notes Panel, allowing you to attach screenshots to your notes.

Quick Commands

Quick Commands is a tool for users that like to keep their hands on the keyboard. To access the Capture tool via Quick Commands:

• Open Quick Commands by pressing F2 / ⌘ E.
• Enter “Capture” to filter the list of available commands.
• Use ↓ ↑ arrow keys to navigate the list of Capture commands.
• Press Enter to issue selected command, or
• Close Quick Commands by pressing Escape key.

Change the location of saved captures

When you select the option to “Save as PNG” or “Save as JPG“, your capture will be stored at the directory specified in Settings. The location where your captures will be saved can be edited in Settings > Webpages > Image Capture > Capture Storage Folder.

Naming the Capture

Captures will be named automatically, but you can define the format in Settings > Webpages > Image Capture > Capture File Name Template.

Use Tab Tiling in Vivaldi to create a split screen view of your Tabs.

Tiling Tabs

To tile two or more tabs:

1. Select the tabs by holding down the Ctrl/⌘ or Shift key and clicking on the tabs on the Tab Bar or Window Panel.
2. Tile the tabs by:
   • Right-clicking on one of the selected tabs and select Tile # Tabs,
   • Clicking on the Page Tiling button on the Status Bar and selecting the tiling layout,
   • Typing “Tile Vertically/Horizontally/to Grid” in Quick Commands,
   • Using a Keyboard Shortcut,
   • Creating a Mouse Gesture for the action.

To tile the active tab with the previous tab, you can simply click on the Page Tiling button on the Status Bar and select the tiling layout without needing to select the tabs on the Tab Bar first.

There’s no limit to how many tabs you can tile at once, but from a certain point onwards (depends on your screen size), seeing the page content can become difficult.

Tiling Tab Stacks

Tile a Tab Stack either by:

• Right-clicking on the Tab Stack on the Tab Bar or Window Panel and selecting Tile Tab Stack.
• Clicking on the Page Tiling button on the Status Bar and selecting the tiling layout;
• Typing “Tile Vertically/Horizontally/to Grid” in Quick Commands;
• Using a Keyboard Shortcut;
• Creating a Mouse Gesture for the action.

Untiling Tabs

You can untile tabs by:

• Right-clicking on one of the tiled tabs or on the Tab Stack and selecting Untile Selection / Untile Tab Stack;
• Clicking on the

  

  Page Tiling button on the Status Bar and selecting Untile pages;
• Typing “Untile Tabs” in Quick Commands;
• Using a Keyboard Shortcut;
• Creating a Mouse Gesture for the action.

Tiled Tabs layout

To change the layout of the tiled tabs use one of the following options.

Option 1

1. Clicking on the

   

   Page Tiling button on the Status Bar;
2. Select between, vertical, horizontal or grid tiling.

Option 2

Type “Tile Vertically / Horizontally / to Grid” in Quick Commands.

Option 3

Use Keyboard Shortcuts to switch layouts.

• Vertically Ctrl+F9 / ⌘F9
• Horizontally Ctrl+F8 / ⌘F8
• Grid Ctrl+F7 / ⌘F7

Option 4

Create Mouse gestures for the actions.

Take a look at the screenshots below, where each color represents a different tab.

Vertical tiles

Horizontal tiles

Grid tiles

Resizing Tiled Tabs

To resize tiled tabs:

1. Hover your mouse between two of the tiled tabs;
2. Drag in desired direction.

To return to the default layout:

1. Click on the

   

   Page Tiling button on the Status Bar;
2. Click on the highlighted option or select a different layout.

Reordering Tiled Tabs

To reorder tiles, reorder the tabs on the Tab Bar or in the Window Panel using drag and drop.

Tab Stacks let you group your browser tabs to avoid confusion and stay organised when you have several tabs open. In addition to the Tab Bar, tabs can also be managed in the Window Panel, in most cases, following the same instructions.

Create a new Tab Stack

Option 1

1. Click and start dragging one tab over another or over an existing Tab Stack;
2. When the second tab is dimmed, release the mouse button.

You can adjust Stacking Drop Delay in Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Tab Stack Options. Make it longer, if you often accidentally create Tab Stacks, when dragging tabs from one place on the Tab Bar to another.

In case stacking doesn’t work with drag and drop, make sure stacking tabs by drag and drop is enabled in Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Tab Stack Options > Allow Stacking by Drag and Drop

Option 2

1. Select multiple tabs while holding down either the Shift or Ctrl/⌘ key;
2. Right-click on one of the selected tabs.
3. Select Stack # Selected Tabs.

Alternatively, after selecting the tabs for the Tab Stack:

• Open Quick Commands and type “Stack Tabs“, or
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the action.

Option 3

To group all tabs from the same domain into a Tab Stack:

1. Right-click on one of the tabs you want to group;
2. Select Stack (# Tabs by Host – website.com).

The option is visible in menus only when there’s more than one tab open from the same domain.

Option 4

Option 3 is useful, if you only want to stack tabs from a single domain. To go through all your tabs and group them all by domain:

1. Right-click on a tab;
2. Select Stack Tabs by Hosts.

Option 5

It’s possible to create a new Tab Stack automatically with the active tab and any new tab you open from a link in the active tab. To enable this feature:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > New Tab Position;
2. Enable As Tab Stack with Related Tab.

In case creating Tab Stacks doesn’t work, make sure Tab Stacking hasn’t been disabled in Settings > Tabs > Tab features > Tab Stacking.

Add tabs to a Tab Stack

To manually add a tab to an existing stack, use either Option 1 or 2 described above.

To automatically add new tabs you open from a link to the same Tab Stack:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Tab Stack Options;
2. Enable Open Tabs in Current Tab Stack.

Remove tabs from a Tab Stack

Option 1

With Two-Level Tab Stacks enabled:

1. Right-click on the tab on the second level;
2. Select Remove from Tab Stack from the context menu.

Option 2

With Compact Tab Stacks:

1. Open the tab you want to remove from the Tab Stack;
2. Right-click on the Tab Stack;
3. Select Remove from Tab Stack.

Option 3

With Popup Thumbnails enabled for Tabs:

1. Hover over the Tab Stack;
2. Right-click on the tab’s thumbnail you want to remove from the Tab Stack;
3. Select Remove from Tab Stack.

Option 4

Drag the tab from the Tab Stack to the Tab Bar:

• With Two-Level Tab Stacks, first start dragging the tab downwards (to the side on a vertical Tab Bar) and then move it to the main level.
• With Compact Tab Stacks, hover the mouse cursor over the top edge of the tab and drag to remove it from the Tab Stack (see video below).
• With Popup Thumbnails enabled, hover the mouse first over the Tab Stack for the thumbnails to appear, then drag the thumbnail from the stack to the Tab Bar.

Ungroup a Tab Stack

To unstack tabs:

• Right-click on the Tab Stack and select Unstack Tabs.
• While one of the tabs in the Tab Stack is open, open Quick Commands and type Unstack Tabs.
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the action.

Tab Stack display

In Vivaldi, Tab Stacks can be displayed either on the same level as other tabs or on a second level.

Compact Tab Stacks

All tabs are on the same level. The Tab Stack, regardless of how many tabs are in the stack, will take up the same amount of space as other tabs.

To switch between tabs, click on the small tab indicators above the Tab Stack or hover over the stack and click on the tab’s thumbnail you want to open. In case you don’t see the thumbnails, check Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Options, to make sure Popup Thumbnails are enabled.

Two-Level Tab Stacks

Tabs in a Tab Stack are displayed on the second level and you can use Tab Features (e.g. hibernating, cloning, muting, etc.) the same way you’d use them on regular, ungrouped tabs.

The second level is only displayed when one of the stacked tabs is the active tab. To always show the second level, click on the padlock button on the far right of the Tab Bar (bottom on vertical Tab Bar) to lock it in place.

Accordion Tab Stacks

All tabs are on the same level. When the Tab Stack is collapsed the stack is almost the same width as a regular tab. When the Tab Stack is expanded, the tabs in the stack will share the available space on the Tab Bar with all other tabs.

The stack will expand automatically when viewing a tab in the stack and collapse, when viewing other tabs. To keep the Tab Stack open, click on the Expand/Reduce Tab Stack button or double click on the collapsed Tab Stack. Don’t use the latter option in case you have enabled closing tabs on double click.

The Tab Stack is surrounded by a border to help you visually distinguish the tabs in the group.

Rename Tab Stacks

Option 1

1. Double-click on the Tab Stack;
2. Give the stack a name;
3. Press Enter or focus elsewhere in the browser to save the new name.

In case Close Tab on Double Click has been enabled in Settings > Tabs > Tab Handling or Minimize Active Tab has been enabled in Settings > Tabs > Tab Features > Tab Cycling, it’s not possible to start renaming a Tab Stack with double click.

Option 2

1. Right-click on the Tab Stack;
2. Select Edit from the context menu;
3. Give the stack a name;
4. Press Enter or focus elsewhere in the browser to save the new name.

Add color to Tab Stacks

To make Tab Stacks stand out and be more recognizable, you can give the stack a color, which will be seen when the stack is not in focus.

To color a stack:

1. Right-click on the stack to open the context menu.
2. Select Edit.
3. Pick a color for the stack.

To remove the color, follow the same steps as above, but select the last “No color” option in the row of colors.

Pin Tab Stacks

Pinning a Tab Stack prevents it or any of the tabs in the stack from accidentally being closed. The pinned stack will be located at the beginning of the Tab Bar on the left or top, depending on your Tab Bar location.

To pin a Tab Stack:

1. Right-click on the Tab Stack on the Tab Bar (or in the Windows Panel).
2. Select Pin. (Pinned Tab Stack will have the most recently visited tab’s favicon.)

To unpin a Tab Stack:

1. Right-click on the Tab Stack on the Tab Bar (or Window Panel).
2. Select Pin.

Alternatively, type (Un)Pin Tabs in Quick Commands or create a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Gesture for the action.

Additional Tab Stack Features

When you right-click on a Tab Stack, you’re presented with some useful options. In addition to the ones covered above, you can also:

• Bookmark all tabs in the stack. The new bookmarks will be grouped into their own Bookmarks folder.
• Copy all links allows you to create a list of links you can share with others or save in a document somewhere.
• Save the stack as an Individual Session.
• Tile all tabs in the stack for side by side view.
• Reload all tabs in one go.
• Hibernate the stack to save browser resources.
• Move the stack left or right on the Tab Bar, to a new window or another Workspace.

Previewing tabs lets you find the page you’re looking for easily by showing you a screenshot of the page in a thumbnail.

Pop-up thumbnails

To preview a tab, move your mouse pointer over the tab in the Tab Bar. A visual preview of the tab’s contents will appear below. This feature can be enabled/disabled in Settings > Tabs  > Tab Display > Tab Options > Show Pop-up Thumbnails.

Pop-up thumbnails for Tab Stacks

When you’ve grouped tabs into a Tab Stack, hovering over the stack on the Tab Bar will show you the thumbnails for all tabs in the stack. You can close tabs from there and drag tabs out of the stack to the Tab Bar or new Window. Alternatively, right-click on the thumbnail and select Close Tab or Remove from Tab Stack from the context menu.

Tab Bar thumbnails

To enable or disable more permanent tab previews:

• Go to Settings > Tabs  > Tab Display > Tab Options and toggle Show Tab Thumbnails on or off.
• Type “Tab Thumbnail” in Quick Commands.
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Gesture for the action.
• Place the mouse pointer on the edge of the Tab Bar, where it changes into a double ended arrow. Then drag (like shown on the gif below), double-click or middle mouse button click to show and hide tab thumbnails. For this option to work, Show Tab Thumbnails needs to be enabled in Settings.

In this article we’ll show you how to backup your data and fully reset the Vivaldi browser.

IMPORTANT This article is for advanced users. Following the steps described here will result in losing all your Vivaldi data (Notes, Bookmarks, Web Panels, etc.) and settings, such as cache, history, themes and so on.

If you want to continue and fully reset Vivaldi, please make sure you have a backup of your data before you proceed.

Backup Vivaldi data

One option to back up some of your data is to Sync the data with other devices you use Vivaldi on. That way when the data is deleted on one device you can still access it on others and sync it back after the reset.

Alternatively, you can make a backup of the profile folder (follow the Profile Path on vivaldi://about), which includes some key elements of your Vivaldi setup, such as preferences, profile and settings. Most of the key components are stored within the Default folder, though you should also retain the First Run file stored alongside it. Deleting this file will make Vivaldi assume it is starting up for the first time.

Here are some of the key elements stored under the Default folder:

Bookmarks – contains bookmarks and information from Speed Dials.
Notes – notes taken in the Notes Panel.
Sessions –  saved tabs sessions.
Login Data – website passwords. Note: This file is encrypted and is only usable on the machine that created it.
Preferences and Local App Settings\mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli – Vivaldi settings and configuration.
Web Data – autofill data.
Current Session – data on open tabs.
History – website history.
Cookies – website data.
Extension Rules, Extension State, Extensions, Local Extension Settings, Local Storage, Managed Extension Storage, Extension Cookies and Secure Preferences – all extension preferences and extension data are stored here.

Make a copy of the Default folder and First Run file and paste them, for example on your Desktop or Documents.

How to reset Vivaldi settings

If you have completed the steps successfully, you will see the first step of the welcome tour as you start Vivaldi.

There are many ways to adjust the zoom in Vivaldi.

Zoom with the slider on the Status Bar

Drag the slider on the Status Bar to the right to zoom in and to the left to zoom out the active page. Click Reset to revert zoom to the default value.

You can switch the slider for buttons in Settings > Appearance > Window Appearance by ticking the box for Use Buttons in Range Controls. This will affect all range controls in the browser UI.

Zoom with keyboard shortcuts

Use the Ctrl + / ⌘ + Keyboard Shortcut to zoom in and Ctrl - / ⌘ - to zoom out of a page. The shortcuts can be edited in Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts.

Alternatively, focus on the zoom slider on the Status Bar and use the arrow keys to change the zoom level by 10% increments or the Page Up and Page Down keys to change the zoom level by 50%.

Pressing Home or End while the slider is focused will zoom the page to the minimum or maximum value (respectively).

To reset zoom to the default value, use the shortcut Ctrl + 0 / ⌘ 0.

When you’ve enabled Single Key Shortcuts, you can zoom in and out by pressing the following numbers either above the letters on the keyboard or on the number pad:

• 0 – zoom in by 10%
• 9 – zoom out by 10%
• 8 – double the zoom level
• 7 – halve the zoom level
• 6 – reset the zoom level

Zoom with a mouse scroll

When Use Ctrl/⌘ + Scroll to Zoom Page is enabled in Settings (see image below), hold down the Ctrl / ⌘ key and use the mouse scroll to zoom. On a touchpad hold down the same key and with two fingers slide either up or down.

When Use Ctrl/⌘ + Scroll to Zoom Page is disabled, then using the pinch zooming gesture on the touchpad, instead of rearranging the page and increasing font and other element sizes, will create an effect similar to using a magnifying glass (sometimes referred to as pinch-to-zoom).

Another option is to hover over the zoom slider on the Status Bar and use your mouse scroll or two finger slide on the touchpad to zoom.

Zoom from the Vivaldi menu

From menu (on Windows and Linux) > View select whether you want to zoom the page in or out, or reset the zoom to the default value.

Zoom every page from settings

Change the default zoom level of every page you visit by using the range control in Settings > Webpages > Default Webpage Zoom.

Website Zoom vs Tab Zoom

When Use Tab Zoom is enabled in Settings > Webpages > Default Webpage Zoom, the zoom level will stay the same on all the websites you visit in that tab. The same website open in different tabs can have different zoom levels.

When Use Tab Zoom is disabled each site you visit in the tab can have a different zoom level. When you open the same website in a different tab or at a different time, it will be displayed at the zoom level you set for the site in the other tab.

Zoom in Web Panels

To increase or decrease the size of the content in Web Panels:

1. Right-click on a Web Panel.
2. Select Navigation Controls > Display Zoom Controls from the context menu.
3. Then click on the zoom buttons  and  at the top of the Web Panel to zoom in and out.

Zoom level is retained through closing and reopening of the Web Panel and browser restarts.

Zoom the user interface

Change the default zoom level by using the range control in Settings > Appearance > User Interface Zoom.

Text Zoom

To increase the text font size on web pages:

1. Go to Settings > Webpages > Fonts.
2. Change the Minimum Font Size.

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Fast Forward

When a website has paginated content, instead of scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on the next page button on the web page, you can click on the Fast Forward button on the Address Bar to load the next page.

Fast Forward works, for example, on Search Engines‘ search results pages, forum topic lists pages, online (shopping) catalogues, etc.

Alternatively, you can use the Space key. Pressing Space on your keyboard will move you down the page bit by bit and once you’ve reached the end of the page, it’ll load the next page.

Rewind

Go back in one click to the first page if you’ve browsed several pages on a same website.

For example, if you visit a Search Engine site such as DuckDuckGo or Ecosia and search for something. You look for it on Page 1, then Page 2 and then Page 3, etc. Let’s say you are on Page 5, by hitting Rewind button, you can return straight back to Page 1 in a single click.

Vivaldi allows you to save your current open tabs as a named “session” and access them again later. This allows you to open the set of tabs included in a session with one click whenever you need or when the browser starts.

Saving a session

To save all open tabs in either one or multiple windows as a session, either:

• Open the  Vivaldi menu > File > Save Open Tabs as a Session.
• Click on Save Tabs as Session in the Sessions Panel.
• Type “Save Open Tabs as Session” in Quick Commands.
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the action.

To save only some tabs as a session, use the Ctrl/⌘/Shift key to make a selection and:

• Right-click on one of the selected tabs and select Save # Selected Tabs as a Session from the context menu.
• Type “Save Selected Tabs as Session” in Quick Commands;
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the action.

Opening a saved session

To open a saved session:

• Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Open Saved Session.
• Double-click on a saved session in the Sessions Panel.
• Start typing “Open Saved Sessions” in Quick Commands.
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the action.

Sessions Panel

A convenient and powerful way to manage your Sessions is using the Sessions Panel. Learn how to use it here.