(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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When I left click and hold the back button, I get a drop down history menu. Is that not what you mean?
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Thanks, but unfortunately it requires javascript enabled.
Well that was just an example. There are many proxy plugins for Chrome that may or may not work with Vivaldi. If you don't want to use any plugins, or can't find any that meet your standards, you could always launch Vivaldi with the command "–proxy-server=proxy-address-here"
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Printing from the browser would be great!
Right now, the websites keep crashing every time I attempt to print. -
If you don't want to use any plugins, or can't find any that meet your standards, you could always launch Vivaldi with the command "–proxy-server=proxy-address-here"
Now THIS is the answer I need! Thanks!
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No worries
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Option to keep "Find in Page" field visible when switching tabs, so user can continue search on another tab.
Entering <ctrl f="">every time you switch the tab is annoying.</ctrl> -
That there is an upcoming email client sounds wonderful (but where do we get this news?). One of the main reasons why I kept using Opera 12 was the integrated mail client. It was possible to access more than one email server through M2, but still I felt the support for different identities was a bit awkward.
Is there a plan for an integrated email client, or will there be a separate one, as happened with Opera in the end?
Ideal would be the kind of support of identities that we find in Thunderbird: settings for one account, but more than one choosable identity with the account. (I think this is what kiki meant by "Email with aliases".)
Email with aliases, please !
That would be a request for the vivaldi.net community, not the browser. Browsers have nothing to do with alias support, and when Vivaldi's email client ships, it will obviously support an infinite number of providers and identities (accounts) but, again, this will have nothing to do with aliases. Aliases are a provider trick, not a software trick.
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I'd want the ability to switch between the results in the ctrl+f menu with the enter key.
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I will mostly request gui types of enhancements;
1.The grab-able window bar (at top) is too small and not easily visible
so either make the non used tab space grabbable aswell or make the tab background with gradient coming down
from up so that we can see where we can grab the window2. Please please please god change the menu when clicking V logo at left top
it looks like as if I rightclicked something
maybe make it longer and taller/add some logos/some animation (like light up slowly when on a menu item)
and it will look better .. for now its a no no for me3.make a marketplace and tutorial for ui customizations (like themes)
thats it for now … ill dig in more and tell what I miss and (trying to think like others) what we may miss.. -
I will mostly request gui types of enhancements;
1.The grab-able window bar (at top) is too small and not easily visible
so either make the non used tab space grabbable aswell or make the tab background with gradient coming down
from up so that we can see where we can grab the windowI think you are using a pretty old build.
Get the latest here https://vivaldi.net/blogs/teamblog
2. Please please please god change the menu when clicking V logo at left top
it looks like as if I rightclicked something
maybe make it longer and taller/add some logos/some animation (like light up slowly when on a menu item)
and it will look better .. for now its a no no for meThey are working on it. Some changes are already visible if you switch to the horizontal (classic) menu.
3.make a marketplace and tutorial for ui customizations (like themes)
thats it for now … ill dig in more and tell what I miss and (trying to think like others) what we may miss..That will come surely but not in very close future, first the code has to be stabilized and most of the missing features should be [re]implemented
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Hi, I'm new here.
I'm not a huge tech geek, I love tech, but I'm not a programmer or anything. I never used the old Opera. I used the new Opera and loved it at the time, loved it more than Chrome and Firefox. I've now tried Vivaldi for a while now and I'm absolutely loving it! It's the most beautiful browser I've ever used, it's very easy to use and very fun to use keyboard shortcuts. The browser is the biggest part of my computing experience, so maybe that means I'm a power user.
I'd like to add these features on Vivaldi in the future:
The ability to use keyboard commands to move tabs left and right of the tab bar, so I don't have to use the mouse to do that.
Pair that with being able to right click a tab for the option "close tabs to the right", and it would make it easier to close links I had opened temporarily.
Actually closing the edge of the tabs in a maximized and minimized window, both with the tabs set on top and on the bottom of the screen(I like having my tabs at the bottom of the screen).
Being more compatible with popular websites(my friend gave me this suggestion).
Being able to remove extension buttons set beside the search bar. I want the stock UI but without the uBlock Origin ad blocker button stuck there.
Improve the Speed Dial. Make it more like the new Opera that I've used. Create flat UI background images for all popular sites like the Opera Speed Dial. And/Or create the url name with a colorful background if that's too much work.
Add things like an option to turn on hardware acceleration, Turbo mode, and a menu UI kind of like the one Firefox has. Or at least a new, smart way of implementing the menu, such as putting it in the panel, or having it turn into a pop up window like the settings or the quick commands. I don't know, the menu is nice, but don't change it for nothing
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The option to have tabs stay the same size, and have you scroll through them instead like Firefox.I love having a keyboard shortcut to focus on the address bar. I would also love to have one to be able to focus on the search bar of the website I'm on, like Google, or YouTube for YouTube videos, Facebook search, etc.
Create a small scroll bar like Chrome/Chrome Canary has. You then have more screen real estate for the website and can hover your mouse over the scroll bar to make it normal sized.
Create a "Reader Mode" like what Edge and Safari have. It's awesome to be able to read articles with big text.
And on reading articles with big text, if not Reader Mode, have some tool to be able to increase the text on a page(with a keyboard shortcut).
Have toggling the panels, status bar, menus, etc. all transition with smooth animations. Popping in, sliding out, something like that. Would make for a modern feeling browser.
On that note, whenever I toggle the panel in and out, the page stutters back and forth. It would be great to have a smooth transition a la Apple style of moving the page back and forth.
It would be great to right click on a page and have a personalized click menu pop up like Edge has, with it's own options personalized for the browser by the creators. One thing I would also love to see with the right click menu is a "search with" option, where hovering over it gives another list with Vivaldi's set search engines to search the thing selected. Then, add another option below that saying "image search with" and do the same thing! I always like searching and image searching for things on Google by right clicking them, so it would be great for Vivaldi to implement that so I there is no need for an extension.
Another thing would be great is Vivaldi's own dictionary in the browser. It would be great to search up a word without having to "search" that word on Google. I could just highlight the word and have a pop-up appear with the definitions, origin, pronunciation, of the word itself. Have it powered by something like Websters, or some really good dictionary. If more definitions are needed, the user can then click the expand button on the bottom of the box and expand it to show other definitions, or click a link at the bottom to a dictionary site.
Remove the door from the home button. That makes it more minimalistic and modern.
Have the title of the website show on the menu bar for all websites.
Have a keyboard command to focus on the search bar beside the address bar. Also have a command that toggles the search button so you can have the list of search options opened, click down, click the search option you want, then have the focus immediately go to the search bar and type your search.
An option to delay tab loading in background when you first open up the browser, like Firefox. I sometimes have multiple YouTube videos in different tabs and I wish I didn't have to stop each video after I open Vivaldi.
Basically come up with lots of keyboard commands to add to the list so we can set them and be much less dependent on the mouse/trackpad. I want to use the keyboard much more.
Fix some of the color UI errors on some websites. Some websites had a blue header at the top and Vivaldi turned red.
One super cool thing I once experienced in a linux distro was whenever I made a YouTube video go full-screen, the video wouldn't just stutter to full-screen, it would smoothly grow into a full screen video, animated. It was very cool and felt modern and intuitive. It would be cool if Vivaldi achieved that effect.
Speaking of animations and transitions, think of how you can use these in every action in Vivaldi that smoothly goes from one part of the browser to the other in a way that makes sense(like Material Design).
Make the browser lighter, take up less CPU like it currently promises.
I know you'll have an email client, which will be interesting to use, but how about also having an office client, file storage client, etc.?
Continuously evolve the UI. Others made suggestions on the UI. Evolve it, think about the user, making things better and easier for the user to do without taking away the power and features of Vivaldi itself. Think of all users and how all your unique features caters to both power users and casual users alike.
Honestly, the browser is fast and simple, which is what most browsers are trying to go for today. I wouldn't have known that this browser was "only" for power users, but I've never used the old Opera. I really think every person, from casual to hardcore, would enjoy this kind of browser. It's absolutely beautiful, much more so than Chrome, Firefox and Opera, so every user would want to try it out right there when they see it. It's fast and simple, and gives keyboard commands you can customize(with lots of commands at that), so I don't have to use a mouse/trackpad. It's speed comes from it's efficiency of navigation more than the browser speed itself, though the browser speed so far on the latest snapshot is very fast.
Think with this, Vivaldi team: have all the features you used to have with Opera, and the features of other browsers, make it better, faster, all on a lightweight, lightning fast browser you seem to be having right now. This could be better than every other browser at everything a browser does, not just about having lots of features. Vivaldi seems to be much more interested in giving a great browser for the user rather than for the interests of it's organization.
I'm thinking big with this browser, because I see a lot of potential in it. I think it could turn out to be really great.
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Hi, I'm new here.
Well, first of all, welcome to the community!
Secondly, wow. You posted so many great suggestions and gave such good feedback that I kinda wish you'd started your own thread instead of posting in this one. I know it's a sticky about feature requests, but I felt like I was reading a fairly good quality review on Vivaldi more than reading a users' requests. I agree with several things you said, would like to make some counter points to a few things, and give you some advice on customization that makes a couple of the things you covered completely possible already.
Being more compatible with popular websites(my friend gave me this suggestion).
Can you or your friend list some examples? Because the only thing that comes to my mind is Youtube. And that's really less of Vivaldi being incompatible with Youtube and more Google forcing html5 on the internet. Not that I'm against dropping Flash, but what happened when Google started really pushing html5 video playback instead of Flash playback on Youtube, several browsers were left out of the loop because they didn't have support for certain video codecs (specifically H.264). Which was brilliant from a business perspective, because that meant people were going to start using Chrome more just to watch Youtube videos.
There was, once, a time when you could opt out of using html5 on Youtube if you weren't using a browser that could support those codecs by going to this page on Youtube. That option no longer exists and that page now is only there to tell you that your browser doesn't support H.264, because Google.
Vivaldi doesn't currently support MSE and H.264 playback, so Youtube videos are going to be broken a lot of the time. It's almost definitely going to come to Vivaldi in the future as it develops and matures. But for now, I usually tell people to use this extension until Vivaldi supports H.264.
Being able to remove extension buttons set beside the search bar. I want the stock UI but without the uBlock Origin ad blocker button stuck there.
Ah, this is one of those customization things I mentioned that's already completely possible. Check out this thread where I covered the same question from another user. I'd normally also quote the relevant answer, but this post is already pretty long, and a quote would just use excess space.
Create flat UI background images for all popular sites like the Opera Speed Dial. And/Or create the url name with a colorful background if that's too much work.
This is another thing that's already completely possible. Check out this thread by An_dz where he explains in detail how to customize speed dial thumbnails.
Add things like an option to turn on hardware acceleration, Turbo mode, and a menu UI kind of like the one Firefox has. Or at least a new, smart way of implementing the menu, such as putting it in the panel, or having it turn into a pop up window like the settings or the quick commands. I don't know, the menu is nice, but don't change it for nothing.
I hate to admit it, but Vivaldi is based on the same engine as Google Chrome, so it has many of the settings that Chrome has - it's just harder to find them because there's no buttons to get to them.
Hardware acceleration:
- Put this in your address bar: vivaldi://settings/search#a
- Scroll down to "System"
- Tick "Use hardware acceleration when available"
Turbo:
This has been discussed before to the point where a dev started a thread about it recently. Most people seem to be weighing in that it's not really a feature that we need in our browser, but yeah, it would be nice to have. I'm going to assume a Turbo mode will be coming to Vivaldi soon enough.
"Smart" Menu:
Not everyone would like a more modern settings menu, and I'm one of those who like it pretty well the way it is. A settings panel is a pretty interesting idea, though. User choice on how the settings dialogue is displayed would be ideal.
Create a small scroll bar like Chrome/Chrome Canary has. You then have more screen real estate for the website and can hover your mouse over the scroll bar to make it normal sized.
This is one of those things that's already totally possible.
- Go to vivaldi://flags/#overlay-scrollbars
- Enable Overlay Scrollbars
Create a "Reader Mode" like what Edge and Safari have. It's awesome to be able to read articles with big text.
I put my reply to this statement in a spoiler because it's largely just me preaching about how I hate Microsoft and Apple. So, just skip that or read it, but I apologize in advance. I just couldn't stop myself.
! If I walked away from this thread without pointing out that Edge and Safari didn't do this first and are not the only browsers with this feature, it would bother me. I'd like to say Opera was the first browser with reading mode, but I can't. Mostly because I don't remember Opera having a reading mode, and I doubt very much that ChrOpera has a reading mode. I don't know which browser did it first, and that's not ultimately important to most people or to me. The only thing here important to me is pointing out that Microsoft and Apple only steal other people's ideas because I have to be that guy. I'm sorry.
! The first browser I ever used that had a reading mode was Maxthon Cloud Browser (edit: Actually, I think Maxthon was the second browser I ever used that had a reading mode. Sleipnir 4 (and previous versions) was the first. I could be wrong though, it's been awhile since I've used Sleipnir.) and I loved it. I loved everything about it. Not the browser, the reading mode. The browser itself was lacking so many features that Opera had and it was pretty buggy. I mean, I did love the browser, but I didn't love everything about it.
! Firefox implemented a reading mode a few months back (could be wrong on the time frame). There was some brief news about a reading mode coming to Chrome, but I don't know if anything happened with that because I firmly avoid using Chrome at near any cost. I'll end this tangent now.Have toggling the panels, status bar, menus, etc. all transition with smooth animations. Popping in, sliding out, something like that. Would make for a modern feeling browser.
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Speaking of animations and transitions, think of how you can use these in every action in Vivaldi that smoothly goes from one part of the browser to the other in a way that makes sense(like Material Design).
I'm okay with this, as long as the length of the animation can be adjusted - because if it's too long I will hate it, and so will a lot of other people. The faster a menu gets displayed, the faster you get to your content or finish your work. Smooth transitions can delay that process. That aside, you can sort of kind of already do this with some custom css. It's not ideal or perfect, but it's something until the devs add it for real. If they do.
It would be great to right click on a page and have a personalized click menu pop up like Edge has…
If I understand what you're talking about: I could rant more about how Microsoft didn't do this first, but I won't since I've done that probably too much already. I will say that this was a thing that the old Opera could do, and several people have asked for it to come to Vivaldi. I wholly support this feature request.
If I don't understand what you're talking about: Please ignore everything I just said in the above paragraph.
Another thing would be great is Vivaldi's own dictionary in the browser. It would be great to search up a word without having to "search" that word on Google.
I have no idea if it works in Vivaldi, but you could try out this extension.
Remove the door from the home button. That makes it more minimalistic and modern.
You could edit the image yourself and achieve this. I personally like the door, but I can see the appeal of removing it.Have a keyboard command to focus on the search bar beside the address bar.
This is a thing. I believe the default shortcuts are ctrl+k and ctrl+e
Fix some of the color UI errors on some websites. Some websites had a blue header at the top and Vivaldi turned red.
Vivaldi's adaptive colour scheme is determined by the dominant colour of the website's favicon. So, the favicon of that website must have been mostly red or non-existent.
Make the browser lighter, take up less CPU like it currently promises.
Because Vivaldi is based on Chromium, that might be pretty difficult for the devs to achieve. The Chromium browser engine is just a notorious, resource consuming piece of software that is really draining on the system. Particularly and probably most noticeably on older hardware. It's for this reason that many people wish the devs had chosen a different engine (and one of the countless reasons a lot of users left Opera when it picked up Chromium), but it's probably too late to change it now.
I know you'll have an email client, which will be interesting to use, but how about also having an office client, file storage client, etc.?
That's an interesting idea - but assuming by "file storage client" you mean a cloud service, that's going to take considerable server space on Vivaldi's end, and I just don't see it happening in the near future. I would love to see these added to Vivaldi's arsenal, though. Give it even more of an edge over other browsers.
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To close this post, I am going to enclose several things you said that I agree with and would like to eventually see added in a spoiler.
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@D0J0P:
! > The ability to use keyboard commands to move tabs left and right of the tab bar, so I don't have to use the mouse to do that.Pair that with being able to right click a tab for the option "close tabs to the right", and it would make it easier to close links I had opened temporarily.
Actually closing the edge of the tabs in a maximized and minimized window, both with the tabs set on top and on the bottom of the screen.
Being able to remove extension buttons set beside the search bar. I want the stock UI but without the uBlock Origin ad blocker button stuck there.
Improve the Speed Dial.
[…] Turbo mode […]
The option to have tabs stay the same size, and have you scroll through them instead like Firefox.
Create a "Reader Mode" […]
It would be great to right click on a page and have a personalized click menu pop up […]
Another thing would be great is Vivaldi's own dictionary in the browser. […]
Have the title of the website show on the menu bar for all websites.
An option to delay tab loading in background when you first open up the browser, like Firefox. I sometimes have multiple YouTube videos in different tabs and I wish I didn't have to stop each video after I open Vivaldi.
Basically come up with lots of keyboard commands to add to the list so we can set them and be much less dependent on the mouse/trackpad. I want to use the keyboard much more.
Make the browser lighter, take up less CPU like it currently promises.
I know you'll have an email client, which will be interesting to use, but how about also having an office client, file storage client, etc.?
[…] have all the features you used to have with Opera, and the features of other browsers, make it better, faster […] Vivaldi seems to be much more interested in giving a great browser for the user rather than for the interests of it's organization.
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oh, and one thing more: ability to use two sidebars and put any sidebar content to any of them, so I'd be able to have two webpanels displayed at the same time for example
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Actually, at this point I would be happy if they would just a) fix tab pinning and stacking; b) fix the thumbnails for stacked tabs for speed dial and for bookmarks; and c) introduce email. That's all.
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Actually, at this point I would be happy if they would just a) fix tab pinning and stacking; b) fix the thumbnails for stacked tabs for speed dial and for bookmarks; and c) introduce email. That's all.
+1 to all of this. I miss all of these things.
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If I walked away from this thread without pointing out that Edge and Safari didn't do this first and are not the only browsers with this feature, it would bother me. I'd like to say Opera was the first browser with reading mode, but I can't. Mostly because I don't remember Opera having a reading mode
Opera had various viewing modes (similar to the "page actions" menu in Vivaldi) since … uhhh... forever, I think. One of these was to switch between the website's own style and user-preference style - which (in case you hadn't guessed) was by default a plain black-on-white page with typical word-processing headline styles, list and table layouts. I haven't used reading mode, but I'm guessing that it's pretty much the same thing.
Then some time before 2004 (since that's when I used it for my final dissertation presentation) they introduced a presentation mode - where a few tweaks in the HTML meant that your lengthy online document could be reduced into a pithy slideshow complete with bullet points to replace all the paragraphs of explanation...
Also, just before the death of Presto, I remember there was a build which was presented with a demonstration page where navigation was "book style" - i.e. you had pages which were turned by swiping left and right rather than scrolling down. I'm guessing that's another feature that may be in the reading mode of the big two being discussed.
So in short, I imagine that there is indeed nothing remotely original in the implementation of IE and Chrome which wasn't already in old Opera many moons ago.
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customize mouse gestures, not editing the js file. Check how mouse gestures plugin does it.
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Opera had various viewing modes (similar to the "page actions" menu in Vivaldi) since … uhhh... forever, I think. One of these was to switch between the website's own style and user-preference style - which (in case you hadn't guessed) was by default a plain black-on-white page with typical word-processing headline styles, list and table layouts. I haven't used reading mode, but I'm guessing that it's pretty much the same thing.
Then some time before 2004 (since that's when I used it for my final dissertation presentation) they introduced a presentation mode - where a few tweaks in the HTML meant that your lengthy online document could be reduced into a pithy slideshow complete with bullet points to replace all the paragraphs of explanation...
Also, just before the death of Presto, I remember there was a build which was presented with a demonstration page where navigation was "book style" - i.e. you had pages which were turned by swiping left and right rather than scrolling down. I'm guessing that's another feature that may be in the reading mode of the big two being discussed.
I'm typing this sentence after having already typed the following post. I'd like to apologize if it seems rambly - I woke up about 15 minutes before typing this and have not had coffee yet.
After reading what you said here, I launched my old and reliable installation of Opera 12.16 (on Linux. Just making that distinction now in case there's some inconsistency between Windows and Linux) and went through the view > style menu just to see if there was anything I had forgotten about or didn't know existed. But , even after that, I still can't say that Opera was the first browser to implement a reading mode. I really want to be able to say that, because I can already say it about so many other things that it just makes Opera come across as the most amazing browser ever to those who have never used it before. Granted, I've stopped recommending Opera to people in recent years since they dropped Presto, but when it comes up, I like to talk about how revolutionary and fantastic Opera once was - and then I talk about how great Vivaldi is and is going to be.
The "User Mode" style is pretty similar to reading mode, but, relative to traditional reading modes in other software, it's very bare and cluttered. The default User Mode just strips away the stylesheet from websites and replaces it with a user's custom made stylsesheet. So, it can be forced to look like a traditional reading mode, if the user wants to exert the effort to get there.
The two closest things I could find to a "presentation mode" and a "book style" were fullscreen and kiosk mode. It's possible I overlooked the relevant settings, but I was simply unable to find them.
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The rest of this post is in a spoiler because it's a long tangent I went on about how I hate Chrome and other software designed to limit users.
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@mossman:
! > So in short, I imagine that there is indeed nothing remotely original in the implementation of IE and Chrome which wasn't already in old Opera many moons ago.
! I'd go even further and say that there's nothing remotely original in Windows that wasn't on Macs first, and many things on both of those platforms that weren't on Linux first. (This is totally irrelevant so I'm going to jump back into talking about browsers now.)
! I hate that there's a general trend of software getting more simplistic with time. Like, I understand the appeal, because I hate clutter - but optional features aren't clutter to me - they're choices. Choice is always good. It blows my mind that Chrome is dominating the browser market when its only real features are being a browser and having extension support. Every other browser I've ever used for any amount of time had more features and was just as fast as Chrome (with some specific exceptions that were designed to be as tiny and simple as possible, like that was their reason for existing). To me, more features = better product. And I know that I'm preaching to the converted here, because I'm posting this in the support forums for a browser targeted at users who want more from the software they use.
! With few exceptions, I'm not going to use software that limits my ability to use it, my knowledge of what it's doing, and my ability to customize it. It's why I use Vivaldi and Firefox over other browsers, why I use DuckDuckGo and Searx over Google or Bing, and recently began using Linux over Windows. It's unacceptable to me, and I feel very passionately on the subject. But because this is already vastly off topic, and even very irrelevant to what you posted about in the first place, I'm going to stop now. -
Although this is not even close to being urgent, it would be nice to have an option to set the taskbar visibility of the settings/search for new versions/etc. forms to false. It is weird that every child form of the main form has a separate button on the taskbar.
Thanks in advance.
