Feature requests for Vivaldi 1.14
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Native(ish) theme
Colorful themes are good, but users should be able to select a theme, which fits perfectly into the OS design on every supported system. This must include not only colors, but gradients, transparency, rounded corners and shadows too. And it must contain not only the toolbars and buttons, but scrollbars and menus as well. -
Support installation from the Opera addon catalog
There are well-tested extension, which can not be found in the Chrome catalog. -
Add options for cleaning stuff at the exit (like CTRL+SHIFT+DEL).
Having long download lists might slowdown the browser a bit. -
Floating sidebar panels
As a switch in the context menu of the given panel to display it above the page, without resizing the document window. Clicking outside the panel should close it. -
Calculate hash-codes for downloads (checksums)
Many websites offer checksums to verify the integrity and authenticity of downloads, but most people ignore them as its too much of a hassle to actually determine the checksums for a file. Many people also don't even know how to generate a hashcode.
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Win8/Metro style speed dial
It would be good to choose from various thumbnail sizes.- 1Ć1 should be around 64px, something like a desktop icon, showing only an icon of the page.
- 2Ć2 and 4Ć4 would be fine to differentiate by importance.
- 2Ć4, 4Ć2 and 4Ć4 would be great for speed dial extensions. Live content like weather, RSS, notifications and such.
Combining them freely in a grid, with the ability to leave blank spaces would bring great possibilities for customization, and also, it would make it possible to use the speed dial as a simple grid like now for those, who don't want fancy solutions.
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Built-in adblocker
EasyList-compatible -
Editable rocker gestures
Next/previous is already the default for left and right mouse gestures, so current rocker gestures are quite useless most of the time.
For example, being able to map a switch to previous or next tab using rocker "right+left" or rocker "left+right". -
Hello Vivaldi team!
I love this browser; you are doing great job! I just want to ask you for one more (I hope simple) thing:
Mouse gesture for "Copy Page Address" (it is in right-click menu now) as it was in old Opera (there it was called "Copy Document Address"). I am browsing with hidden address bar for saving space and this function is very important for me.
Thank you,
Urza -
Load tabs only from the current tab stack, and easily switch from stack to stack
Having a side bar to manage many tabs is nice, but in practice we won't keep the side bar open all the time, and the tab bar can still be filled up by too many tabs and stacks... so Window Panel still doesn't completely solve the many tabs problem.
One way to further improve tab management is to raise tab stacks to first-class citizens, that is, every tab must belong to some stack, and at any moment there is only one "current" stack , whose tabs are loaded in the tab bar. A keyboard shortcut can be set to switch the current stack, and thus loading different sets of tabs in the tab bar.
This way, there is only a subset of all the open tabs displayed in the tab bar at a time, and switching between one subset to the next is easily done via a key press. If the current tab stack grows too much and the tab bar is filled up again, users can just move some tabs into a new or existing tab stack. The point is, the tab bar itself can always be managed to have a reasonable number of tabs. If occasionally we do want a global view of all the stacks and tabs, then we go to Window Panel for help.
Currently, clicking on individual tabs within a tab stack on the tab bar is really not optimal, nor is tab tiling.
PS. This idea was first implemented in Firefox (and mostly likely first conceived by the Firefox team), and later re-implemented and improved by the author of the add-on "Tab Groups". But it is killed off since Firefox 57.
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Group tabs by host into new window
Similar to "Stack tabs by host" but it looks at the current tab's host and will group into a new window all tabs (in that window) that have that hostname.
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Set field priority for Quick Command text matching
This could be helpful if you want to match first on nickname, then on bookmark, then on tabs or whatever. I have a lot of quick command abbreviations that I always want to work against the nickname when I hit F2, so that my pattern can be "F2 cmd enter" without scrolling.
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Native Certificate Management
Improved certificate manager in Vivaldi style with quick/direct access to- default settings for preinstalled cert (site/mail/software signing)
- current settings for (preinstalled) cert (highlight if changed)
- list of sites blocked because (root) cert is disabled/invalid
- list of sites currently using root cert (merged with above?)
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Add setting button "Delete all personal data on Exit".
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Option to move status bar settings to side panel bar.
There is plenty of empty space on side bar and status bar, why not combine this two in one (as an option of course). For users who don't use status bar it will give much quicker access to additional options.
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Edit context menu
Look at the Firefox addon "menu wizard" (now legacy) for inspiration how to do it.
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Allow Editing of Menus
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The option for an Auto-hiding bookmark bar overlay.
There is a hack to do this via custom CSS, but it's far from optimal.
This feature should have some flexibility, such as whether it triggers when the mouse is over the address bar but not when it's over the navigation buttons, or vice-versa. Also, perhaps some timings (how quickly the bar displays, and how long you have to hover for it to appear).
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Bookmark Separators
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Download Manager
Multiple connections and Allocate bandwidth.
