Alternate Method to get to the Bookmark Manager
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Right now the only way I can see to get to the Bookmark Manager is by opening a Speed Dial page and choosing Bookmarks. I really would like to see another way to get to the manager and suggest a button beside the existing buttons to the right of the search bar at the top of the Bookmarks panel. It could be called something like 'Manager' (or an icon) and look like this: [ New Bookmark | New Folder | Delete | Edit | [b]Bookmark Manager[/b] ]
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To find bookmark manager:
Click on the icon on the left of the status bar to select panel. Bookmark icon is the top one. Click on bookmark to edit and pen icon becomes active.
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Thank you both.
What I mean by Bookmark Manager is shown in the pink area in the image. The green is the bookmark panel. I can only see the pink bookmark area by clicking bookmark in the speed dial page. I'd like to be able to get to the list from the bookmark panel.
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Near as I can tell the ONLY way to the bookmark manager proper, is via the speed dial. Functions in the panel are nearly identical to functions in the manager, but not quite. So the manager does need one-click access from the UI itself, not always from Speed Dial.
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So the manager does need one-click access from the UI itself, not always from Speed Dial.
Either like I first suggested A new entry at the end of the existing ones in the bookmark panel [ New Bookmark | New Folder | Delete | Edit | [b]Bookmark Manager ]. Or maybe maybe it's own icon in the side bar. But I'd prefer it in the bookmarks panel because a new icon on the side would be redundant.
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Or it could live on the Address Bar, immediately to the left of the URL box, to satisfy those who do not use the Menu Bar (I use both bars). As I see it, the primary objective is a SINGLE CLICK method to reach the full Bookmark Manager.
I could vote for this while still wanting it in the bookmark panel. Two places would not hurt.
Think of it. If we do have the bookmark panel open we see the edit buttons therein. A button leading to the full bookmark manager seems obviously needed beside them.
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It would then not need to be in the Speed Dial area any more, …
Yes, IMHO it doesn't belong in the speed dial area.
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BTW, the same overall logic could be applied to how we would access our History.
Since you don't use the side panel you may not agree but I believe the history links should load in a side panel precisely like O12 does. This we see the links and content at the same time and can click links in succession and have them load thus viewing them install without having to make extra clicks to open the history page again and again. Another case where O12 is perfect or very close to perfect. I'd like to see V do it the exact same way.
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From my perspective as an Olde Opera user, it would be better if Ctrl+Shift+B opened the Bookmarks Manager (not toggle the Bookmarks Bar as it does now) and Ctrl+Shift+H opened the History page.
(And I personally prefer both in a separate window rather than the active tab or a new tab, but I could live with a new tab. There probably should be an option for either. Could probably all be added to the Keyboard shortcuts section of the Vivaldi settings.)
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As an alternative to single-click button (e.g., on the Tool Bar) requested by many, an option that may be helpful to some for now is to create a bookmark for the Bookmarks Manager. This takes 2 clicks (Bookmarks Panel and the bookmark to Bookmarks Manager).
I haven't figured out a way to bookmark the page view seen when clicking the Bookmarks button on the Speed Dial, but I tried using vivaldi://bookmarks (from vivaldi://vivaldi-urls) as the URL for bookmarks. In my current 32-bit Win7 32-bit Vivaldi v1.0.138.4 it sometimes initially gets a Page Not Available error, but then after a few seconds it forwards to:
chrome-extension://eemcgdkfndhakfknompkggombfjjjeno/main.html#1
This is the default chrome bookmark manager, also used by Google Chrome (and #1 is the top folder). It can also, of course, can be bookmarked (with or without the #1 or any other folder # of your choice) instead or, or in addition to vivaldi://bookmarks.
It has a different, more traditional UI than the Vivaldi Bookmarks Manager UI accessed from the Bookmarks button on the Speed Dial, but the same content. Of course appearance is a personal preference, but I kind of prefer the traditional UI right now, partly because it is more compact, and my impression so far is that it may also be more responsive than the Vivaldi UI.
Given the erratic initial response of vivaldi://bookmarks (and several other vivaldi://vivaldi-urls) at this point in Vivaldi's development, it would probably be more reliable to just bookmark the chrome-extension. (For the time being, at least, both URLs end up at the same, more traditional, chrome-extension UI)
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…then added said bookmark to my Bookmarks Bar
Hey, that's a great idea for those who use Bookmarks Bars (I don't). Gets it down to the one-click many were wanting!
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Thank you gdveggie and Steffie. Linking to vivaldi://bookmarks is working great. Eventually I hope the devs will add icons as discussed above to load the bookmark manager in the content area as this link does. This will suffice for now.
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In Mozilla browsers, I learned of one which can be bookmarked to bring the Add-Ons Manager page - about:addons - and of course their famous about:config page for tweaking.
BTW, is there a page for Vivaldi or Chromium which works similarly to how about:config does for Mozilla browsers ?
For Vivaldi extensions, you might check out vivaldi://chrome/extensions. I haven't used Firefox in ages and never tweaked it much beyond adding a few helpful add-ons (and I haven't yet added any extensions to Vivaldi), so I'm not sure how how similar it might be.
BTW, you can also use vivaldi://settingspage/all/ to open all Vivaldi settings in a tab instead of a popup window (but for some buggy reason it displays without a scrollbar at this time). Also, if you're really interested in tweaking and not already familiar with vivaldi://flags, you might want to check it out as well.
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…still broken in SN 1.0.156.2, at least in Linux x64 :S
I'm far too slack & lazy to boot back to Win7 to test it there, so shall leave that to others.Still not working in 32-bit Vivaldi v1.0.156.2 on 32-bit Win7, either.
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Boohoo, sob, sniff… still broken in 1.0.162.2 Linux x64 as well. Bwahhhhhhhhhh...
Still not working in 32-bit Vivaldi v1.0.162.2 on 32-bit Win7, either.