(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

Doomer

I have an idea for a feature that would probably be impossible to implement. It's called App Panels. It's basically like Web Panels but with programs. The browser wouldn't even need a mail client, you could just put Opera Mail or Thunderbird there.

Felfercab

First of all congratulations for the good work :woohoo:

I would like to have some features that I miss my ex-browser

Middle mouse button to open links in new tab folders bookmarks bar
Middle mouse button in arrows of 'Page Up' 'Page Down' opens a new tab
Middle mouse button in home opens new tab
I want to drag a tab and it becomes a new window (so I can drag one tab on my other screen)
Hiding UI with F11 or Ctrl + F11 to bring the mouse to the top of show

With this features will be a perfect browser :cheer:

(sorry for my english :silly: )

flosshatt

Here is a couple of features I would love to see in Vivaldi

1. Themes

An option to change from light to dark theme automatic when the sun goes down,
or an option to auto adjust at a certain time of the day.
It would be very useful to avoid some of the eyestrain at night.

2. Videos

They automatically play when I open the browser, it’s kind of annoying when u have multiple tabs with videos opening.

3. Panel

Rearrange icons with dragging.
Right click with option to refresh the added page.
Auto-hide panel with mouse over capabilities.

D0J0P

First off, to the person who customized their Speed Dial thumbnails to the way it looks above, how did you do that? The only reason I have stock Speed Dial thumbnails because I hate adding new ones due to how it looks(with webpages as the thumbnails), so I keep mine the way it is.

Also, some other UI stuff I want to see:

Colors of the theme transitioning as you cycle between tabs and open new links, rather than abruptly changing because you went to a new tab.
Door removed from home button/more minimalism in the icons like Edge.
Gradients flattened from folder icons of the bookmarks, the plus signs in Speed Dial page, etc.
Responsiveness of UI improved dramatically.
Transitions coming from every action and pop-up within the browser features, like the panel, tabs, etc.

Ayespy

Animations and transitions consume processor cycles and memory and slow the browser.

d.aniel

A feature I miss from the old Opera is a setting called something like "Re-use existing tab".

The effect was that when you searched, or opened a bookmark, either from the panel or from the bookmarks bar, or when you typed a url in the address bar, a new tab would be opened for that bookmark/url. The page that was already open wouldn't be lost.

Would be great if you could add this back in.

The Tab Mix Plus add-on for Firefox implements this with the option, "Open tabs from:" then there are 5 check boxes: Bookmarks, History, Groups of bookmarks/history, Address bar, Search bar.

Thanks,
Daniel

blupp

@Tiamarth:

@blupp:

I would like to see the option to turn off the visual progress bar inside the address field.

For now you can do that with some custom CSS. See the short guide below.

Windows: open directory %localappdata%\Vivaldi\Application\1.0.249.12\resources\vivaldi\style
–- Linux: open directory /opt/vivaldi-snapshot/resources/vivaldi/style/

Open "common.css"

At the very top of the file, add:```
@import "custom.css";
5) Paste this code into the file:
.pageload-indicator {
display: none !important;
}
Vivaldi will need to be restarted after changes are made to these files.

I very much hope, this will find it's way to the versions for all operating systems.

blupp

There is the status bar, where one can see the url when hovering the mouse over a link.

Now, I don't like browser status bars on my 1366x768 laptop screen. So, I remove it from view of any browser, if it ships with it.

In Firefox, Chromium and Opera (new), for example, now, when hovering over a link, the url is displayed in an opaque style field just of the size of the url text at the below border of the window on the right side. That is fine, now I can see the url (before clicking the link).

I wish that for Vivaldi, too. To make the url displayed when hovering over a link, but without needing to turn on / toggle the status bar.

Thanks in advance.

Tiamarth

@blupp

See: https://vivaldi.net/forum/all/3073-vivaldi-ui-customisations?start=100#28369
See: https://vivaldi.net/forum/all/3073-vivaldi-ui-customisations?start=180#38420

Dret

@LonM:

It would be nice to have the ability to paste from notes. If i remember correctly, you could do this from within opera.

Example Use case: Quickly pasting computer setup when reporting issues on the release blogs, rather than having to type it each time.

I agree!

The "Paste Note" feature in contextual menu was great! (in old Opera!)

Smnnmh

Full agreement with You!
HTML archive in MHT format for web pages saving for offline use are needed under File -> Save as tool.
Dear Vivaldi developers be aware of that feature request: *.mht web page saving.
Kind regards

the-trooper

Sort bookmarks folders first
Option to chose where to go after tab is closed, previous one, left of the closed, right of the closed.

FlippyDee

I would love to have a feature to disable features, because if I used this browser I would only want it for the email integration, bookmarking, and addons. I don't care much for speedial or any other features and doing this would help use up less memory and end up being less bloated.

voltball

One thing I really miss in current day browsers is Opera Presto's W3C HTML Validator integration. The ability to check a local file is quite useful for finding problems, it helps raising the quality standards and provides a sense of superiority to us developers who could actually be bothered to check our code

This is a "better than the competition" type of feature, and from what I've seen, it doesn't appear to be that difficult to implement, as it basically just posts to a form.

birdmanravo

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Option to turn off the password manager completely
Middle click options, especially horizontal and vertical panning
"Go to web address" right click option for highlighted text
Add right click to the F2 menu. Options are "edit hotkeys" and "edit gestures"
Thank you for bringing about:blank back from the previous snapshot, your efforts weren't unnoticed.
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Ayespy

Hm. Right-click for back button history? Never seen that before. I have always used long click for this. But, OK…

As to supporting extensions that create their own window, don't forget that extensions are written to interact with Chromium, including opening a new chromium window and formatting it using Chromium controls - BUT a Vivaldi window is not a Chromium window and is built out of an entirely different technology. In order for what you are asking to work, several thousand lines of code would need to be written, for Vivaldi to parse the code intended for the Chromium window, create a Vivaldi window that looks and acts like the Chromium window the extension is trying to make, and then interpreting any user interaction with that window, and parsing that back into code that the extension would understand as valid feedback, and sending that code to the extension. So while I'm not going to predict that this will NEVER happen, I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it, either.

Dovelove

Win 7 64, 8 Gig, 32 Viv 303.22

I found this again so well be posting to correct rather than team sure you will appreciate.

Would you please in panels put a permanent tab in bookmarks called Open Tabs and be able to search those open tabs with bookmark search? It wouldn't be that hard to implement or is it already a feature buried that I can't find. It would help to find a particular tab that wans already opened.

New build is VERY much improved

DriverOp

Feature request: A panel to show information about the web page like character encoding, language detected, list of CSS and JS files loaded, iframes used and (more important) information about encryption used (if aplicable).

Opera 12 used to show that info.

I'm a web developer and this a thing i really miss from Opera 12 (i give up praying for DragonFly).

Tiamarth

@birdmanravo:

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Option to turn off the password manager completely

"Go to web address" right click option for highlighted text

Add right click to the F2 menu. Options are "edit hotkeys" and "edit gestures"
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Paste " vivaldi://settings/search#a " into your address bar, find "Passwords and forms," untick "Offer to save your web passwords" and (optionally) "Enable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click."
I seem to recall this is a known bug, but it might just be a requested feature. Try searching the forums.
That's a good idea, you have my support.

@Dovelove:

Would you please in panels put a permanent tab in bookmarks called Open Tabs and be able to search those open tabs with bookmark search?

Open the Quick Commands menu (F2) and filter your tabs there.

@kliew:

Please add the ability to right click on the back button and get a history of prev pages

I've seen it requested at least once before. I honestly don't care either way since I right click/long click interchangeably in other browsers to do the same thing. Of course, the point of Vivaldi is to cater to power users who tend to like options, so including this as an option or having it behave the same way as other browsers would be ideal.

Ayespy

Why just 'OK'? Why not? I don't have to be enthusiastic about an idea that I don't find important.

As to your solution for Tabs Outliner, kewl. There's a partial solution for one kind of extension that generates one type of window.