(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

Tiamarth

Unfortunately Firefox for Linux gets stuck with an ancient version of Flash if you have sites that require it, and that won't change.

This is very true. I should have mentioned that earlier. I suppose we could use an alternative, but there's no guarantee one would even work correctly in all the places we'd need it to. There's also always the Fresh Player project - which is an effort to get PPAPI working in Firefox via a wrapper. I haven't felt like I needed to use it yet, but it's something I've been keeping an eye on. If you want, here's some information from Web Upd8 (the article is targeted to Ubuntu users, so you may need to adjust for your distro (I'm presently running Linux Lite, which is based on Ubuntu, so it would likely work for me)) on how to install Fresh Player.

@Knox:

The coloured tabs are great, it's a pity they don't remain coloured when inactive. I think it would be more intuitive and faster to be able to think of the open tabs by colour rather than name, especially as my eyesight fades.

I remember this being brought up on the forums before and I think I remember someone managing to get Vivaldi to behave like this using some custom CSS - but after searching the forums for a couple of minutes, I didn't turn anything up. It's possible that it happened somewhere in the UI customization thread, but I'm not positive about that.

Anyway, if you're more determined than me to look for anything about this in the forums, you can search them here.

Duxuforest

I would like the ability to scroll through my tabs quickly. At the moment it seems like the tab scrolling is purposely slowed down to be more accurate, but I'd like every scroll "step" on my mouse to result in a tab switch regardless of how fast I'm going.

I'm sure that some people want the tab scrolling to stay the way it is now, so it would be great if it could be an option.

XavierCLL

Hi

Please add in settings the option for set default zoom level (for new sites), without this and need to set for each new site the zoom level, this is very frustrating and this doing Vivalvi unuseful for me, and this is the only missing feature for migrate to Vivaldi!!!

Thanks

mossman

@Tiamarth:

@mossman:

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…

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.

The thing you overlooked was that I said you need to tweak the HTML of the page…

It's about making verbose webpages that can be changed into presentation slideshows when you go into full-screen mode - you had to add some stuff like this to the style data:

@media projection {
			.screen {
				display:none;
				}
			.projection {
				display: block;
				margin-top: 1.5em;
				page-break-after: always;

then separate content that you only wanted displayed on the slideshow and content you wanted to display on the webpage version:


## Abstract

*   Attempt to find better formula

## Abstract

This thesis covers work carried out as part of an attempt to find a more comprehensive and accurate formula for defining the flexibility of fasteners in metal aircraft joints. It is a continuation of earlier literature research undertaken to assess the different ways in which this parameter is defined and applied by various companies and institutions.
[… blah blah blah...]

I just went looking through the back-up of my old website and sure enough it *still* works in O12!  :woohoo:

D0J0P

Hey Tiamarth!

Sorry it took a while for me to get back to you and create a thread, but I finally created one! I included everything I said, with an emphasis on the browser itself, it's features and specs and the Chromium/Webkit/Blink engine.

So check it out!

rkzn

Always show the delete cross on the top right corner of Speed Dial thumbs. Yes, I have just accidentally deleted a folder when I meant to open it because I clicked the place where the cross appeared out of nowhere. :oops: (no problem, i recovered the backup, still…) :blink: Or in some way avoid a 1-click deletion, e.g. confirm the deletion.

In general, allow using the Speed dial as if it was the bookmarks manager. I guess the one main thing missing is the possibility to drag a thumb/link in to or out of a folder.

karthikeyan.moopanar

Opening related tabs next to each other is definitely a priority on my list. Currently, opening a link in a new tab opens it as the last tab. So, there's a bit of inconvenience.

Knox

Thanks Tiamarth, the UI Customisation thread has some good info, I might have a go at custom theme when I have more free time, however the more I think about it the less I like the coloured tabs anyway as they blur the line between what is part of the browser and what is part of the webpage. There already exists two methods of identifying the wanted tab by colour: the favicon and the thumbnail and since several colours in the tab UI are used for special features (e.g. the green for secure sites) additional colours don't do anything other than look cool.

Tiamarth

@mossman

Ah, sorry. No idea how I missed that in your post. But, in my defence, I do believe I apologized in advance for that post because I had typed it shortly after waking up :lol:

Anyway, even though we've both acknowledged it was possible to make Opera's User Mode behave like a reading mode, I don't know that I'd be willing to give Opera the credit of being the first browser to implement reading mode. Because, by default, it's not a reading mode.

@D0J0P

I've replied to the new thread and so have a couple other people.

@Knox

No worries. I agree with you, I don't use the coloured tabs unless I'm showing off Vivaldi to someone new. I tend to prefer the default theme without page colours and some minor custom modifications to the layout of the GUI.

Sten_pl

I like more and more Vivaldi browser, if just the tab stacking was the same as in Opera 12, because the present one is not convenient or practical for me. I am still using O 12 precisely because I have a dozen ore more pages open and it is all stacked in few groups, so when you want to work with one group you “open” it and when you finish with it just “close” it and move on to the next one.
The advantage of this solution is that you have ability to see titles of all the cards in the open group, so I have a better orientation. in contrast, the current solution in Vivaldi forces continually check what is on the each card in the group (can't see all tabs titles at once) …
I hope for restoration of work on 2 or more tabs side by side in one window.
Very useful future of Opera 12 !

Best Regards for team !!!

Doomer

@Sten_pl:

I hope for restoration of work on 2 or more tabs side by side in one window.

It's already here http://i.imgur.com/ndRUUmC.png. Just select more than one tab (with shift or ctrl) and right click on it. The option should be there.

Sten_pl

Thanks for info, but what about resizing of viewed tabs ?
With this I could move almost immediately from O12 to Vivaldi.
Now i just miss Opera 12 tab stacking - I mean winding and unwinding of a group of tabs and bookmarks with sorting by folders/links a-z (it doesn't work properly jet).

Doomer

I'd want a css inspector. It would make making css customizations much easier.

SanyaIV

1. Option to change tab switching behavior when closing a tab.
Current behavior: When closing a tab it goes back to the last active tab.

Suggested OPTIONAL behavior: When closing a tab it goes to the next tab to the right, if no tab exists then it goes to the next tab to the left. (For example if you already have a few tabs open and you then open several new tabs of articles etc then you want to read one and close it to then read the other, but with the current behavior when you close the article then it goes to last active tab and you have to manually switch to the next tab and then rinse repeat for all tabs… So.. yeah, it would be more logical for my usage, but perhaps not for others which is why it should be optional.

Edit: Additional Suggested OPTIONAL behavior: Another behavior could be to go to in whatever direction you are, so for example lets say you have a few tabs open and then manually go from right to left and then close a tab then it would close the tab and open the next tab to the left, if you manually went from left to right and then close a tab then it should close that tab and open the next tab to the right.

2. When you're at a tab and then hold shift and press another tab then all tabs in-between should also be selected, not just the two tabs. (To make it easier to select many tabs at once, current behavior should be moved to AltGr.

3. Add "Open in new tab stack" to the list when right-clicking folders in Bookmarks.

Kajiri

I would like to be able to set escape [ESC] as "Focus Page" keyboard shortcut. This would greatly enhance a vim-like layout.

And keybindings for scrolling half a page up and down would be nice.

Stardust

Vivaldi Feature Request

Hotkey for the tile vertically feature. When tabs are selected you only need to press hotkey, no need to move cursor to the small button and navigate to the "tile vertically" icon.

Tiamarth

@Doomer:

I'd want a css inspector. It would make making css customizations much easier.

You can do this by launching Vivaldi with the command

--remote-debugging-port=XXXX

Where "XXXX" is whatever port number you want to use. Then type localhost:XXXX in your address bar and find the page that ends with "browser.html" From there, you can inspect all the UI elements.

cwhale

I would love to see an option to remove private data older than a given lengths of time. I'm more likely to want to keep the last week than all the weeks leading up to it, which you can currently do.

c00lcurt

I'm not gonna look through most of the forum to see if similar features have been requested, so I'm gonna suggest them anyway. I use Waterfox (a 64 bit port of Firefox) and I have these two addons that I would like to see similar features implemented.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs/?src=ss
Tile Tabs - Like you would do with putting multiple browser windows on screen, this tiles tabs in the same window. I don't know, I find it useful.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-fox-only-better/?src=ss
Beyond Australis - This opens the address bar (and any bars under it) when hovering over the tab/title bar. That's all it does, but I like it. Opens up more space in the window.

Just curious if these could be implemented as actual features, or if someone wanted to make Vivaldi compatible addons doing these.

Tiamarth

@c00lcurt,

You can already tile tabs. If you can't find any of the things I'm about to mention, it's probably because you're running an older version. So, to get that out of the way right now, the most recent version of Vivaldi is 1.0.279.3 as of this post.

Select multiple open tabs by holding shift and clicking them, then right click and select "Tile Selection."
Group multiple tabs either by dragging them on top of each other or by selecting them, right clicking, and choosing "New Tab Stack with Selection." Then tile them with the Page Tiling menu in the status bar:

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You can also already toggle the UI - but with hotkeys, they don't autohide. ctrl+F11 is the default hotkey to enter no UI mode, which is essentially fullscreen without being fullscreen. For a list of things you can toggle, open quick commands by pressing F2 and then search for "Toggle." This should also show you all of the default hotkeys for those functions. You can change hotkeys by going to Vivaldi settings > Keyboard.
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