(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

ShinOokami

Finally a new browser that understand what a Browser should contain, with just a few more feature Vivaldi will be unbeatable in my book.
What I miss though is;
Quick Preferences, giving a short list of settings (preferably from mouse-pointer location) where one can;
enable/disable JavaScript, Cookies, loading of images or auto-play of animated images, plugins, and maybe some simple pop-up settings.

-integrated RSS reader (not through the mail server as Opera 12 had)

Some more advanced settings
Particularly pertaining cookies and passwords
-for the cookies we would like to see the ability to personal accept or block every Cookie request (except third party ones that have already been filtered away if using the "block third party cookies" function)
-for passwords we would like to be able to select when to be asked to save passwords or if we want passwords to be saved at all (maybe we even want every password we write to be saved? Though I highly doubt that).
-an advanced setting on how the browser should handle different files (like when pressing a PDF file if it should use a particular program to open it use the system default, or simply opening it internally in the browser (if that is a possibility for the browser))
-it would also be great with an advanced tab under downloaded where we can chose where different file-types are downloaded to.
-setting for opening new pages from links or same domane in a stack under the current window (could be triggered by a key-binding similar to the to the standard "ctrl+mousbutton" like "ctrl+alt+mousbutton" )

-~~next I hope you can implement Google's spelling suggestion~~ found out you already have it thanks great work
-we would love to see implemented a docking of the dev-tools and console, preferably a modular one, where you can divide the browser in up to 4 parts and have a different developers tool tab in each part..
-we would also love to see some more panels for the side panel. But I guess this is on the way
-more extensions (or a better way to download and install chrome extensions)
-adding custom mouse gestures.
-removal or utilization of the 2 inch dead-space on the left of the tab bar.
-a reading view similar to the one in Microsoft edge (one of the few things they did right)
-a mobile version, I truly hope you will make a mobile version of Vivaldi some time in the future

Sincerely
Shin Ookami

Tiamarth

@praxisseizure:

1. Dragging tabs between open windows
2. Drag tab off to desktop which creates a new window
[…]
4. Remember last window size when opening new window
5. Being able to drag the window around the screen by dragging on the tabs area where it is empty. (e.g. If there aren't enough tabs open to populate the upper tab area, the empty space should act like a windows title bar and be draggable to move the window.
[…]
7. Sidebar (bookmarks, mail, etc.) dockable to the the bottom
8. Appearance - option to set custom colors as opposed to just "light" and "dark" - more fully featured customization essentially.
9. Highlight text >> right click menu search option that conforms to search engine choice (as opposed to Google)
[…]
15. Option to show installed and active extensions (such as AdBlock and Kaspersky)
16. KeepVid support (I could be wrong about this as I haven't tried yet but installing extensions is quite unintuitive at the moment)
17. Option to remove the search area and only use the address bar for search
18. CTL+ & CTL- to be zoom by default
19. Option to remove Home Icon from the Back/Forward/Refresh area
[…]
21. Sidebar Icon for Browsing History (and within, the right-click or icon option to delete it)

1&2 have been requested numerous times, and I believe I've read that the devs are planning to add this functionality.
4. Should be solved by downloading the latest snapshot at the dev blog. (If you're on TP4, you're not on the latest snapshot.)
5. See #4.
7. But then we couldn't call it a sidebar :o - Interesting idea, though.
8. See this thread.
9. See #4.
15. See #4.
16. Bookmarklets don't work right now, I've seen it discussed on the forums, I don't remember how that went. You can search the forums here.
17. Vivaldi settings > Search > untich "Display Search Field in Address Bar"
18. They're default for me. This might be another thing solved by updating to the latest snapshot. See #4.
19. Using the information from #8, add this style:

button.button-toolbar.home {
    display: none !important;
}

```21\. Add chrome://history/ as a web panel.

D0J0P

I would love to have the about:history work as a web panel, but the page it shows is a desktop version, and it looks bad and isn't very nice to use. I wish V would add their own history panel!

mrmamen

Now that the tab switching works so great I'd like to see another option:
When pressing the middle mouse button to open a tab in the background I would like it to be the "next" tab in the recently used tab-order, not the last.

blupp

I am using 3 different operating systems.

From Firefox, I am used to the very easy-to-use profilemanager, so I always can use the same profile in different OS.

How to do that in Vivaldi?

Guilimote

@sisisisi:

It would be very helpful in some cases if one could disable sounds on a tab by clicking on the speaker icon next to the tab's name.

+1 !

Automatic adverts / video playback is the plague of modern web. Being able to quickly detect which tab is playing audio is already nice; but being able to mute it quickly would be a killer feature!

Sharku

I would like to have an image properties feature, which shows dimensions, size and in case of a .gif how many frames it has.

Like in Opera:

mythra

sorry if it was already required…

it was very useful in Opera 12 the feature that allows proxies to be setted independent by the system

thank you

P.S.
I still use Opera 12 at work for this feature.... :blink:

nickji

I'd really like "View source" to open the source in my text editor (or at least for it to be an option that can be set) - it was one of the features I found most useful in the old Opera. I used it all the time for developing websites, and am still using the old opera to do that, as no other browsers seem to do that..

nickji

@Sharku:

I would like to have an image properties feature, which shows dimensions, size and in case of a .gif how many frames it has.

Like in Opera:

Me too - very useful

Viryu

@Sharku:

I would like to have an image properties feature, which shows dimensions, size and in case of a .gif how many frames it has.

Like in Opera:

Oh, same.

Plus a button near the address bar for bookmarks browsing, like in Opera 12, Maxthon, Firefox, etc.

bhelyer

I did a search for encoding and shift-jis, but I didn't find anything, so here I am. Apologies if it's been brought up.

Vivaldi has no way of changing a pages encoding that I can see, and no attempt at auto detection of non-standard (non-specified) encodings.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/gospels/thomas.html

Open this in Vivaldi (left), you'll see garbage. Firefox (right) seems to be doing some kind of magic auto-detection.

The above website does not correctly tag its encoding (Shift-JIS). This is fairly common for older/amateur Japanese websites. An 'encoding' menu would be appreciated.

D0J0P

Another UI request . . .

Remove the transparent backgrounds on favicons. I'm using Microsoft Edge and the tabs look nicer without the backgrounds on the favicons.

Match and even beat the minimalism of the icons Edge has. Have tab animations and menu animations like theirs, but more material design, and at 60fps if you can.

Edit: Extra thing Edge does better than Vivaldi is scaling. Scaling of websites is nicer. Text is sharper in Edge than Vivaldi, and the texts, pictures, windows, etc. are scaled more nicely in Edge. Like this website has slightly smaller grey area on the side than Vivaldi, and the website itself is easier to view.

someone

More granular content zoom (e.g., 95%, 105% or 115%).

someone

KoHoSo

After having used the technical previews on-and-off for several months, I am extremely pleased with the new beta version! However, for Vivaldi to become not only my personal #1 browser as well as the one I start to recommend to the many people that look to me for computer advice, these are absolute must additions.

1. Support for Xmarks and other Chrome Store extensions that require a pop-up such as Bookmark Favicon Changer. Especially where I work, we must deal with websites that absolutely require the use of Internet Explorer or Firefox. With how this works for us, having everything be the same in each browser is essential (not to mention it's just plain handy until Vivaldi offers a sync feature). That makes Xmarks invaluable. Vivaldi must eventually add support for such extensions.

2. Easy access to individual cookie control. Non-tech-savvy users need an easy button such as Google Chrome/Chromium has (or that can be added on to Mozilla Firefox) in order to allow cookies from sites that require them. Yes, they can go to chrome://settings/contentExceptions#cookies then bookmark or pin it but I find most people would rather have some sort of shortcut.

3. Make opening a tab in the background a setting option. Yes, middle-click does that but that's an Opera thing and, let's be honest. Most non-tech-savvy people have never used Opera and they're trained to right-click. If Vivaldi wants to eventually be a major player, this should be a settings option so people coming from Opera can have it the traditional way and everybody else can have it the other way.

I know I'm not the first person to make these suggestions. I also know those working on Vivaldi have a list a mile long of these suggestions plus many of their own things to add. I'm glad to be patient as I know this is a massive and complicated project. I just wanted to throw in my two cents as I'm often that guy all my friends and friends of friends come to for tech advice. With that, I'm pretty good at knowing what "regular" computer users will tolerate and what will drive them nuts.

D0J0P

Alright, I'm so happy that Vivaldi is now in Beta!

NOW this is where the development gets exciting!

Here are some things that I would like to see . . .

Make the scrollbar on the right smaller. I just came back from Edge and the scrollbar was the same style, but smaller. Other browsers might have a different style, and you can go there, but if not then at least make it smaller for more screen real estate.
If there's a way to remove the background from favicons on tabs. But it might be tricky considering the color of the tab theme would be the same as the favicon, but I would love it if somehow the favicons looked nicer.
Have the Vivaldi V at the top left go all the way to the edge of the browser as a square and remove the red in it. Make the V the color of the theme with a white square or a black or white V or something. It would look more seamless with the theme color instead of clashing with colors like a blue theme of something. It would look nicer.
Make it easier to add, remove, move, change bookmarks and folders in the bookmarks panel. It's seriously a pain to do it after every fresh install of Vivaldi, and every time I end up doing I forgot how to do it. It doesn't happen often that I forget how to do something in a UI, but if the UI is hard enough then I forget, and that's not a good sign! I think one of the difficulties I'm having is that when I add a folder or bookmark it gets assigned under a folder, and it makes it hard to move that folder outside the folder when I'm trying not to keep it in the previous folder anyway. It's just irritating and a pain.
Add a real History panel. Yes, I know you can just add a web panel with the website "about:history", but it's not the same thing. It's not even a mobile website that fits within the window seamlessly like the others. It looks horrible, both the website on the panel and the icon. Make a REAL history panel just like the bookmarks one and everything. Browsers need a good way of showing history as well.
More UI stuff: remove gradients from folders in bookmarks, gradients from all icons in the browser such as the plus sign and others, give us the option to remove icons or make the home icon doorless(I'd like it to look better than or as good as Edge in all areas). Here's what I'd like the door icon to look something like: Home Icon. I think that's more minimalistic in a way that better matches the other icons and makes it look nicer(though I'd also like to remove it for minimalism sake).
Add more keyboard shortcuts. Add keyboard shorcuts for the rewind and fast forward button.
Grey out the sub urls of websites and keep the main url look black.
Remove the line from the top UI bar separating it from the website. If you do so, websites like Facebook and others that have their theme at the top that match the favicon theme would look more awesome and seamless. (if you look closely you'll see a line separating the browser from the website).

That would be it for now. There are plenty other stuff to implement, but these UI features would all be awesome to have.

Ayespy

Beta is for debugging and performance optimizing. The next stream of Developer Snapshots will be for features. Features will be addressed in Beta if they exist but aren't working right.

D0J0P

@Ayespy:

Beta is for debugging and performance optimizing. The next stream of Developer Snapshots will be for features. Features will be addressed in Beta if they exist but aren't working right.

Are you talking about the Beta that just came out? You mean their going to continue updating that standalone Beta on the front page, while making snapshots for it on their blog, and that one will have the new features? I think that's how all software works, doesn't it?

If so, I'll still definitely go for the snapshots so I can get the new features. Where does Chromium 46 fit in? Isn't 46 the one Chrome Beta uses? So would Vivaldi Beta use it, or will that go to the snapshots?

Ayespy

No. This Beta is on Chromium 45 and will be the FIRST Stable version after it passes Beta, While it's in Beta, it will get debugs and performance tweaks only, no new features. From now to end of life, Vivaldi Stable Version 1 will receive NO new features.

A new version, based on Chromium 46 will soon enter development, and it will eventually mature into Vivaldi Stable Version #2. While #2 is under development, Stable 1 will continue in use untouched and unmodified (except for the rare security or stability update) until Version #2 is ready to replace it as the new stable.version. While Version #2 is in the Developer Snapshot stage, before it reaches Beta stage, it will receive new features and modifications. Once IT reaches Beta, it will also cease to get new features and modifications, and will get only debugs and performance enhancements until it is ready for prime time, at which time it will be released as the new Vivaldi Stable Version 2.

D0J0P

Wow Ayespy, thank you so much for taking a lot of time to answer all my questions on everything tech. Hope I'm not too overwhelming with them. I'm just interested in tech, that's all. And your new answer answered a lot for me, and also raised a lot more questions.

Now I understand the release cycle of software, which I never knew before. This means that the next snapshot that comes up is still Alpha, but Alpha for Vivaldi 2.0. Does this mean the V team is going to develop 2 release cycles at the same time, both the Beta 1 and Alpha 2? How is that going to affect the efficiency of their development, are they going to do it all at the same time or divide their teams or hire new devs? I hope they will get monetized soon so they can hire more devs. I also hope that the development will speed up now that the very basic building blocks of the browser is now put in place. Do you think it'll get faster?

And if Alpha 2 is going to be based off of Chromium 46, that would mean the next snapshot we get would have no choice but to be in Chromium 46 immediately, right? So we might actually see Chromium 46 in a week from now or whenever they release their next snapshot.

This would also mean that, somewhat sadly, Vivaldi Sync and Mail aren't going to make it at all to Vivaldi 1.0. But it should for sure make it to 2.0!

In your other comment, you said that the improvements in Chromium 46 will only be incremental. Do you say that because of Google? There was that article another user posted about what Opera is doing in the development of Chromium 46, and that sounds a little more than incremental. And eventually I bet V will lend a hand in the development of the engine. Hoping Chromium can match what Presto was and more!

So I guess this means we're gonna be not Beta testers, but Alpha testers, as I'm looking forward to new features coming.