Feature requests for 1.12
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@quhno I think that should show up in a Performance / Efficiency tab in Settings.
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Panel "Window" Modes
I'd like the Panel functionality to be available in a different mode. By this I mean, rather than a docked panel that crushes the current web page whenever it's open, there should be an option of Docked (current behavior), Overlay, or Floating Window.
The Overlay would work much like Extension Overlays which do not affect the current tab. This way there is no content reflow/redraw whenever a "Panel" is opened, like Downloads.
On the Docked option, there should be an option for which side the Panel is docked to (not just left and right, but top and bottom too). This should be configurable per panel. For example, the Downloads Panel could be configured to Dock at the bottom of the window. In this case, there would not need to be any space for the actual Panel buttons because it would be the only Panel configured to Dock in that location.
However, the Download Panel could also be configured as an Overlay, that much like Firefox, Safari, simply pops open to let you know a download started and then fades out (optional) if you ignore it.
The Floating Window option would work just as well for Downloads, particularly if you're downloading a lot of files. Just move it out of the way so you can keep an eye on it and download away.
My use case may be somewhat out of the ordinary because I never use maximized or fullscreen windows. My screens are large enough it would make most web sites look ridiculous if I did so. My home screen is wide enough I can have two windows 1200px wide next to each other with room to spare.
This use case, however, is probably overshadowed by the many people who have multiple display panels. I expect being able to put a Panel on another display would be even more valuable to those users.
The Overlay option should be able to function identically to a Floating Window if a user chooses to "pin" the Overlay open. I imagine a case where a Links Panel exists and to avoid a costly reflow of an enormous web page, the Links Panel could be opened in an Overlay, pinned to stay open, maybe even pinned to the specific tab so that other tabs could be opened from the original Links list. Ideally, the user would also be able to scale and resize the Overlay to fit their needs.
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Name proposals when saving files in a ComboBox/ListBox
Often when saving a file by right clicking the link and selecting "Save link as..." the chosen filename is gibberish.
Vivaldi should present the name/text of the link and the title of the webpage as potential filenames (in a ComboBox/ListBox).Example:
I want to download a movie from German state-run television public library. The link reads "Was tun gegen Neonazi-Konzerte?". When selecting "Save link as..." the filename becomes "FCMS-82b83c2b-997b-4925-845c-417da6f76979-c7cca1d51b4b_82.mp4".
This means that I have to type in something, which makes sense, myself.
Here Vivaldi could assist us with a ComboBox/ListBox, giving us alternative filenames (text of the link, title of the page, etc.).
After all, what makes Vivaldi great is that it's more convenient than other browsers.
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Add more theming freedom
Like CSS gradients genarator, ability to use another image as a theme, etc.
Make corner rounding focus more on the tabs rather than other elements, for example, if I want to make my tabs more rounded, the other elements, such as buttons and address bar, become more rounded than I want them to be.
Mute tab as right click on the tab rather than waiting for the tab to make a sound so you can catch the volume icon and click it, really unintuitive.
Add alternative option for downloads window - more like Firefox and Chrome - instead of showing in a sidebar, they can show in a popup and when clicked before they finish downloading, this sets them a task to be started automatically when completed downloading.
Make the prompt for saving a password stay even if you switch the tab before you answer it (choose whether you want the browser to save the password or not), because in Chrome when you do that and come back to the tab, it's still there and you can still answer it, while in Vivaldi, it disappears, and I have to log out, delete the cookie and log in again if I want it to save my password, really annoying.
Make Ctrl+Left Mouse Click or Middle Mouse Click on the Back/Forward button open the previous/next page in a NEW TAB, not like it does now - in the same tab.
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Video fade to fullscreen, like Firefox
When opening videos in fullscreen the whole browser changes size before video is fullscreen, making it look choppy.
Firefox fades the video to fullscreen, without changing the window size, more like a layer on top. -
@regnas The biggest problem with RAM usage is that it seems to me that Vivaldi refuses do give back memory from old tabs. Example, I'm testing Firefox Nightly and it never gets slow, I never have to close the whole browser from times to times to force it to clean the RAM.
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Create new folder when adding bookmark
Option to create new folder in bookmarking box
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Allow (vivaldi) download panel to be opened in new tab/window
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I'd like the option to open an address in a new tab by simply pressing enter. Basically, to have the Ctrl-Enter behavior be the default behavior.
Additionally, I'd also like the option to force all links to other domains to open in a new tab. I do have an extension that can do that, but it'd be nice not to have to rely on extensions from the Chrome store.
Finally, it would be nice if pinned tabs forced all other opening actions to happen in another tab. If I pin gmail, it's because I don't want other tabs opening inside of that tab.
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@rotfl I have another request from 2 releases back and I haven't bothered to repost it. When a new list starts, it gets jammed almost immediately with duplicates of old requests. Then it gets 40 or more pages long and people understandably can't be bothered searching it, so they post even more duplicates. It's a waste of everybody's time to plow through it all and I'm sure some really good ideas get buried in the middle.
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@tomzorz I don't even read multiple requests like this. They are a waste of time. Almost no one is going to agree on every single idea. The idea is to make votable requests so if one gets 20 or 30 votes, the developers know it's something a lot of people want.
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@aphala This is very similar to if not the same as a sync feature which I believe has been requested many times.
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@tomzorz The entire point of this topic is one comment, ONE request - so that other users may upvote THAT single request for developer consideration. Multiple requests are not considered here, so you wasted several minutes composing a comment no one will consider.
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@goddard That's how Firefox works for a long time. It's quite helpful.
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@marko-indaco I assume you mean an occurrence which has been found on the page. If so, this would be very helpful. Sometimes I just stare at the screen and cannot see where it found what I'm looking for.
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@pdray Firefox has this as part of the Nightly Tester Tools add-on. I'm sure this will really help with things like bug reports. Or proving how something used to work.
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@zaibon It's quite similar, but much more powerful to use tags. The difference shows up when you have multiple tags on one bookmark. You could make a description that is essentially a comma separated tag list (as I do now), but that's ugly.
Also, multi-tag (Boolean) searches are almost impossible because maybe "linux,bash" and "bash,linux" won't match the same bookmarks just because they're strings and not real tags. It gets even worse trying to find those two tags because neither will match "linux,admin,bash". Tags are real attributes.
I requested this feature over a year ago. It is the most important thing on my list that Vivaldi lacks.
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@novan-leon A hierarchical structure of bookmarks is very useful, but it represents only one classification scheme. Very few useful objects of any sort have only one interesting attribute. Short of duplicating bookmarks all over the bookmark tree (a bad idea for many reasons), a tree won't support that.
Should a link to a book be stored by author, title, subject? It all depends on what you want to query later, not when the bookmark is stored. That's a large part of why relational databases were invented and have become so popular.
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@urfausto +1 That's what tooltips are good for. They show up on hover and they can use lots of room.
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@daylicron Yes. And I'd like that or similar as part of the regular search feature to add a site:root-of-current-web-page search terms too. I use this all the time and it's annoying to construct manually.
