❓FAQ

A Former User

This is a short list of most asked questions & answers to them.

The list should be only in this post, all the rest of this thread should be discussion about what to add/remove. If I, for some reason, become less active, I encourage the mods to edit this post, & someone (anyone) to back it up somewhere else (in case it’ll disappear).

Important: If an answer isn’t clear to you, search the forum, & if it still isn’t clear, create a new topic instead of asking here (& please mention that you’ve already seen the FAQ).

The Qs here:

The tab bar takes a lot of space & there’re some images
The tab bar changes colours like a chameleon
How can I move buttons?
The UI has disappeared!
I can’t install extensions from the Chrome Web Store
[WIP] Can’t log in to Google services

Q: The tab bar takes a lot of space & there’re some images

It looks like this:

Horizontal:

Vertical:

A: Go to Settings → Tabs → Tab Display → Tab Options & untick Show Tab Thumbnails.

Q: The tab bar changes colours like a chameleon

…every time I switch tabs, the colour changes.

A: Go to Settings → Themes, click on the Edit Theme button below the list of themes & untick Accent Colour from Active Page.

Official help about themes

Q: How can I move buttons?

A: This is a little weird in Vivaldi. You have to press Shift (keep it pressed), click & drag the button, & then release Shift. Also, you can only drag buttons between the left side of the address bar & the status bar, & reorder (but not move elsewhere) the extension & side panel icons.

You can remove buttons from their right-click menu. If you want to get them back, unfortunately you have to reset all the buttons in the tool bar where they originally were.

Official help page about editing toolbars

@CheVe11e_191 may I reuse your screen recording here? (I used it but then thought that it’d be better to ask first)

Q: The UI has disappeared!

What exactly has disappeared?

Well, everything is in its place, but there’s no text & no website
- A: Press Ctrl-period (⌃. on Mac). You’ve just discovered the break mode.
The side panel
- A: Press F4 (⌥⌘ P if you’re on Mac), or use the panel toggle button usually located in the status bar.
- Official help page about panels
All UI, even the OS UI (or only the OS UI)
- A: Press F11 (^ ⌘ F on Mac). You’ve just discovered the full-screen mode.
All UI (but not the OS UI)
- A: Press Ctrl-F11 (⌘ F10). You’ve just discovered the hide UI function.

Q: I can’t install extensions from the Chrome Web Store

There’s no button to install the extension.

A: In settings → Privacy → Google extensions, enable Web Store, & then restart Vivaldi.

Q: Can’t log in to Google services

A [WIP]: In settings → Privacy → Google extensions, enable Crypto Token, & then restart Vivaldi.

hlehyaric

@potmeklecbohdan I guess there should be something like «Where did my panels go/I lost my panels». Answer: use F4 or toggle button in status bar.

valiowk

Some settings are tied together in a way that is not obvious from the description, i.e. if you want/don't want one of the settings tied together, at the moment the only option is to change the "main" setting it is under (I created a feature request to separate out these settings):

"New Tab from Link Opens in Background" is tied to

Clone tab in background
Bookmarks open in background

"Open Tabs in Current Tab Stack" is tied to

Behaviour of tabs opened from unstacked tiled tabs

If I remember correctly there are a few other settings with similar issues, but I don't remember exactly what they are; maybe someone who remembers them can mention them.

A Former User

@valiowk

Is this a FAQ? I can’t tell since I now filter unread more as I want to read this than I don’t want to read this, but anyway…
How would you phrase it in a way that’s short & obvious? It seems impossible to me.
- ‘I changed a setting & it affects something else’ doesn’t seem right, who remembers changing a setting & connects some misbehaviour with it?
- We’d probably have to list all such settings, which seems wrong to me again.

nomadic

Might be good to include something about the Toggle UI default shortcut, Ctrl + F11.

That seems to pop up often enough.

A Former User

@hlehyaric & @nomadic Thanks! Also break mode to be added.

valiowk

@potmeklecbohdan There have been quite a few threads on these issues since v3.5 stable came out ("Where is the setting for clone tab in background [mentioned in the changelog]?", "Behaviour of unstacked tiled tabs has changed[, is there any way of changing it back?]").

Perhaps it could be phrased as "I have read that there is such a setting, but I can't find it in Settings" or "Something was changed in the changelog, is there an option to change it back to the old setting". I don't think we'd need to list all such settings, just the ones that forum users remember being asked frequently.

Also, perhaps it's good to just raise awareness that there are settings that are secretly tied together, so that more users can realise that misbehaviour may be related to changing a setting (that's how I figured out that bookmarks open in background is related to this new setting).

A Former User

@valiowk Hmm, I still don’t believe it. Is it really better to yell at them just because they didn’t match an FAQ entry, when it’s difficult even to think of how to phrase it?

I don’t know, maybe I just have a wrong mindset now. Can please the others tell us what do they think?

Also, @hlehyaric, can you please check that the mcOS shortcuts are right? I copied them from the help pages, but just in case…

hlehyaric

@potmeklecbohdan said in FAQ:

Q: The UI has disappeared!

The side panel

A: Press F4 (⌥⌘ P if you’re on Mac), or use the panel toggle button usually located in the status bar.

F4 is also default on Mac (beside ⌥⌘P).

Official help page about panels

All UI, even the OS UI

A: Press F11 (^ ⌘ F on Mac). You’ve just discovered the full-screen mode.

On Mac (at least on mine & Sierra), ⌃⌘F triggers full screen with UI on (UI is still here in full screen contrary to W).

All UI (but not the OS UI)

A: Press Ctrl-F11 (⌘ F10). You’ve just discovered the hide UI function.

⌘F11 is the KB shortcut to toggle UI in either mode (full screen or not).

I'm on macOS Sierra.

Pesala

I hate to be a wet-blanket, but an FAQ will not make the slightest difference.

Most users will not even see the FAQ list, let alone read it. This forum has so many categories.
It is a lot of work to maintain such a list and make it easy to understand. It is much easier to save boiler-plate text in notes to reply to the FAQ.

This is one of the FAQ

Right-click, Open in New Background Tab
Ctrl+click
Middle-click
Mouse Gesture, Open Link in Background Tab (Over a Link)
Vote for Option to Open New Tabs in Background as Default

A Former User

@Pesala True, but OTOH it’s easier if there’s one thread/something for everyone, not that everyone has to manage their own version. Also, this is easy to quote & copy to a note if it’s easier to use for you.

Btw., one of my notes:

[FAQ](/topic/54312/faq)

hlehyaric

@potmeklecbohdan That's what I did too, just in case.

A Former User

Added can’t install extensions.

hlehyaric

@potmeklecbohdan Excellent!

hlehyaric

@potmeklecbohdan I reset my profile and I found out you were right: some default shortcuts changed and now default shortcuts are ⌘F10 for Toggle UI & F10 / ⌃⌘F for Full Screen.