(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

Stone-D

Hi guys! A few requests here:

tab-related context menu options for the title bar space to the RIGHT of the new tab "+", particularly Reopen Closed Tab.
Some way to re-order context menu entries. For example, I want "Open Link in Background Tab" to be first, and "Copy Link Address" second.
This has been mentioned elsewhere I think, but a way to resize the speed dial icons would be nice.
Again mentioned elsewhere, but an easy way to replace the speed dial icons with a fixed one.
I can't drag an html from my desktop to a new tab. Is this unimplmented or a bug?

Cheers!

Briarned

Open bundle.js in a text editor, replace
,e.get("active")||(t.stopPropagation(),g.openPage(e))
with
;if(e.get("active")){this.switchBackBySetting(e);}else{t.stopPropagation();g.openPage(e);}

Thank you! That's one feature that I've been waiting for. One note: in my case it had to be "m.openPage(e)" instead of "g.openPage(e)"

dsmeets

Here is my input.

Ability to set the default zoom per screen. My laptop has an insane resolution, so I need to zoom in pretty badly when Vivaldi is there, but as soon as I launch a window on the external screen, I need to zoom out.

robertbrenner

Speed dial 'return' button or shortcut: One click function to return open current tab to the speed dial

Speed dial tile themes\customization: Ability to change the look of speed dial tiles - mini-webpage tiles create a very busy look. A simpler theme or the ability to customize tile appearance would be nice

christophermh44

Hi everyone!

Some suggestions for Vivaldi about panels and tab stacks:
1- Ability to resize juxtaposed tabs views
2- Ability to pin stacked tabs
3- Ability to reorganize web panels with drag and drop
4- Ability to edit the URL of a panel
5- Ability to zoom-in/zoom-out panels
6- Ability to change the panel view (docked as now, or show it above website and hide it when the focus is given back to tab)
7- Ability to size panels individually

Other features:
8- Show/hide search engine input in the toobar
9- Auto-hide toolbar (address bar + navigation + search engine input + extensions) "inside" tab (like Chrome tried to implement a few years ago: http://media.askvg.com/articles/images2/Auto-hide_Google_Chrome_Addressbar.png)
10- Drag the tab away from window to create a new window
11- Right click on extension button shows up the extension menu (currently, we can only access it by right clicking on website frame)
12- Ability to pin stacked tabs

pozxc

If you expand the panel section while viewing a responsive web page, the page is re-rendered because of the viewport size (width) change. It is an unpleasant experience to wait for things to return to normal only bacause you clicked on a download link or wanted to have a look at the bookmarks, etc. If, instead, the viewport size change becomes optional, this won't happen. (When the panel section is expanded, horizontal scrollbars will be displayed inside the page.)

Engelium

@pozxc:

If you expand the panel section while viewing a responsive web page, the page is re-rendered because of the viewport size (width) change. It is an unpleasant experience to wait for things to return to normal only bacause you clicked on a download link or wanted to have a look at the bookmarks, etc. If, instead, the viewport size change becomes optional, this won't happen. (When the panel section is expanded, horizontal scrollbars will be displayed inside the page.)

Well, about the download stuff, we've to say that, simply, the way they implemented it is really (extreme ?) stupid and no one, I suppose, tested it for usability (seriously, think for example about someone who have to save lot of images from a page ) … probably they wanted only to do something different from others... and they failed ... even Opera15+ is a lot more usable in this

I really hope they:

Implement a proper download manager (IN A DAMN TAB) ... a sidebar panel is for quick access, not a substitute
copy the Firefox/Opera15+ "button" in toolbar for fast view

NarumiKazuko

I would love it if you could have the ability to hide the big Speed Dial "+" (or add) button in the new tab interface. I never use any of the Speed Dial shortcuts, so I remove them all, but it saddens me that the "+" button is still there which obstructs my background picture…

YakovL_

Ok, Dev Tools docking was asked for here and there etc, but I'll mention it because we're still there, no docking yet.

But also I'd like to mention a couple of usability features that would be nice:
1. ctrl+shift+I should toggle Dev Tools, not open them. If I press ctrl+shift+I when Dev Tools are opened, they should be closed, not open another copy.
2. The modern "dock to tab" instead of Opera-12-like "dock to window" behaviour looks better to me. This may be made configurable, but a possibility to open mulitple consoles (one per tab where Dev Tools are needed) is very nice.

Finally, there was a bug when DOM inspector showed Vivaldi UI DOM (instead of page DOM). I'd say this would be nice if this becomes a feature (with page DOM shown by default, of'course). This way it would be much easier to customize the interface.

dominicw2

The features that I would like to see implemented are:

The ability to change the size of speed dials to any size.
The ability to set the speed dials to auto-reload every so often.
The ability to create a new bookmarks folder from the folder drop down menu when creating a new bookmark.

consegui

In days like these, where we have the problem of too many certificate authorities that can offer certificates for every domain out there, i would like to request application level support for DNSSEC&DANE.
Pinned certificates provide protection against states and secret services or other adversaries with influence.
They also offer additional benefits like public keys for smime,pgp and in the future possibly more.
I'd like to see vivaldi take the lead position for browsers to support this.
Would give a nice advantage over mozilla and chrome which believe that HPKP and HSTS preloading scale well enough and do not suffer enough from trust on first use issues.

I also hope that Vivaldi has a light footprint and a focus on privacy.
There is no reason to reveal browserversion, operating system and wether it is a 32bit or 64bit system.
It should also be inspired by the torbrowser projects attempts to protect the users.
Especially limiting the list of fonts that a website can read from the browser.

ExcelKobayashi

The main thing that drives me crazy is the inability to middle-click on the tab well to open a new tab

markman

Any chance of this becoming a Windows 10 "Modern UI" app?

I really like what you're doing with this browser; it could be brilliant as a tablet-mode browser on my Surface Pro. There aren't any good touch-friendly browsers for Win10; this browser seems to be on the right track- but unless it's a true "Modern UI" app, touch keyboard typing suggestions and autocorrect don't work, which is a major bummer with Win10. A lot of us Surface users are dying for a great touch-friendly browser with extension support and full touch keyboard functionality.

vivaldi-user

Right-click on tab/Reopen Closed tab: Only the very last closed tab will be reopened. If you want to reopen a more ancient tab, one has to reopen all other intermediate tabs as well.

Make the tab to be reopened a choice. Opera v12 used to have it and it would be great to enhance the current feature in Vivaldi.

Pesala

@vivaldi-user:

Right-click on tab/Reopen Closed tab: Only the very last closed tab will be reopened. If you want to reopen a more ancient tab, one has to reopen all other intermediate tabs as well.

Try Left Click on the Trash Icon.
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GuyFar

Been using Vivaldi for about 2 months, so far everything has gone well. But two things are driving me crazy, the first is how the address bar seems to remember everything you put in, with no sense of priority.

For instance when I type "goog", I don't want to see google.com/express, which I typed in maybe once a long time ago. I want to see Google.com. It should only remember repeat addresses, otherwise it's not intuitive at all.

Secondly I'd like to see a disable all shortcuts option, because even with single-button shortcuts off, I find that I'm still inadvertently hitting shortcuts I didn't know about. As someone who doesn't use them, it interferes with certain web applications.

Thanks

vivaldi-user

Tnx much. Didn't know about this.

baryluk

Ok,

most of that was probably requested in few first posts, but I will repeat what is important for me:

All of these features where present in Opera 12:

Ability to select multiple tabs (With mouse and Shift and Ctrl) in the tabs view, and move them around, reload all of them, close them all, or copy URLs of them.
Links menu, listing all the links on current webpage, with ability to select multiple links (with mouse and Shift and Ctrl), copy them all to clipboard, or open them all at once, or download them all.
Ability to remove "X" (close button) from every tab. I just use middle mouse button or Ctrl-W for that, "X" is just waste of space.
Ability to remove "+" from the tab bar. I am just using Ctrl-N, or other method of opening new tabs.
Pasting (using middle button under Linux) into free area of tab bar, should automatically open new tab with the URL from the clipboard. No need to open new tab, and then do paste & go.
With tab grouping, is should be possible to represent groups as a 2-level tree on a tab bar, or some other panel is on a right or left side of the browser. It should be possible to collapse or expand a group, and or select many tabs (potentially from different groups), or entire groups, and do group operations on them, like move, close, reload, freeze, copy URLs, etc.

Very important:

Option to open new tab, right next to the current one, or the group of currently (in progress opening) open ones, (before switch to it, and making a new current one), instead always at the end. Just like Opera 12.

Few that would be useful additionally:

Be able to paste multiple URLs (one by line, with with empty lines ignored) into address bar, using Paste&Go, or using middle click into empty tab bar space, or into Download manager, to open multiple new tabs, or queue multiple URLs for download.

Few other pieces I do not like:

Long progress bar. I do not like very wide progress bar, that make things move quickly from left to right. I would prefer, a shorter progress bar, at most 200px, at the right side of the address bar, with resource counter, and speed and download size, instead. Just like in old opera.

Laurman

Some things I miss:

speed dial should have more customization in terms of website pictures. I would like to have an option to display a website logo or simply text with it's name (just like on Opera) or at least option to add my own picture there. I have multiple forums pinned to the speed dial and they look kind of the same.
option to customize how links are opened. 90% of the time I open links in background tabs and I rarely need them open in active window. So I would like to remove or rearrange options I don't use.
new links opening behaviour options - so I would have option to choose where my new tab will be opened - to the next of the active tab or as a last tab.
options to customize smooth scrolling behaviour.
button to recall recently closed tabs.

intermax

I stopped at Opera 12 as it was the last version to render WAP sites. Where they still exist, they are very efficient for information eg wap.nationalrail.co.uk - especially on mobile devices. Now, not even the Android stock browser renders wap.

I like Vivaldi but i had hoped it would do WAP.