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For now, if you like having your notes attached to a URL, use the 'copy to note' option in the context menu, which will create a note with your highlighted text and attach the current URL to the note. The developers are aware of this, and I was told it would be fixed after launch. There's also a bug in the UI that doesn't allow you to add a URL when manually creating a note in Vivaldi Mobile. Currently there does not seem to be a way to add an image to a note in Vivaldi Mobile. You do get all your notes synced from the desktop, but not the images that go with them. I should also note that Vivaldi doesn't currently sync images attached to notes. It's not ideal, but until Vivaldi supports syncing images, it works. I set up Nextcloud to automatically upload anything in the Vivaldi screen captures folder on my phone and sync it to the Vivaldi screen captures folder on my laptop. You can work around the lack of image sync using a separate sync service like Nextcloud or Dropbox. Screen captures are, unfortunately, not currently synced with the desktop. The latter will produce a screenshot of either the current viewport or the entire page.

There are, however, some Vivaldi-specific customizations, like an option to clone the current tab, to add a bookmark, to access your recent tabs, or to grab a screenshot of the current page. Tap the Vivaldi icon and you'll get a main menu very similar to what you'll see in Chrome or Firefox. When you're in speed dial, on the other hand, the center button becomes a search button. The center button is actually context-based, so it's a speed dial button on a webpage. The bottom menu bar also offers back and forward buttons, speed dial, and access to all your open tabs. This is an overlaying screen that hides the rest of your content, not a side panel. And frankly, doing so wouldn't really make sense. Unlike the desktop, you can't add anything to this panel. On the left is the mobile version of Vivaldi's Panel, which brings up a new screen that contains bookmarks, history, notes, and downloads.

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Unlike more minimalist mobile browsers, Vivaldi adds a menu bar to the bottom of the page and gives you quick thumb access to a series of options along the bottom of the screen. But of course, Vivaldi's take on mobile isn't limited to syncing. If you, like me, make heavy use of Vivaldi's bookmarks, notes, and history search, having this synced to your phone is enough to make Vivaldi Mobile more powerful than other mobile browsers. Notes and bookmarks from my phone appear whenever a sync happens, too. The sync happens both ways of course, so I can click the cloud icon at the top of the browser on my laptop and get quick access to any open tabs on my phone. For this reason, Vivaldi is often called a 'power user's browser' (as opposed to, I guess, the powerless user's browser).įurther Reading Vivaldi 2.0 review: The modern Web browser does not have to be so bland Its preferences may be overwhelming at first glance, but if you dig in, you can make Vivaldi do just about whatever you want it to do. You can customize Vivaldi the way you like. von Tetzchner, co-founder and former CEO of Opera, Vivaldi's primary goal is to build a useful browser, a tool you can bend to your will rather than the other way around. On the desktop, of course, there has long been an exception to the uniformly dumbed-down offerings of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari-Vivaldi. And since most other browsers copy whatever Google Chrome does, most mobile Web browsers end up as minimalistic pieces of software. If Chrome is minimalist, it's safe to assume it's that way because Google has determined that's what its users want. Google, maker of the most widely used mobile browser, rarely does anything without extensive user testing. Most people probably like their browser this way. Further Reading Hands-on with Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users

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