(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

Thalon

Hi, I'm new to vivaldi and testing it beside my regular browser Sleipnir.

I do like especially the Web-Paneel and the stacked tabs, but I'd like to suggest the following features which make Sleipnir very unique atm:

I like to have my tabs as pictures, without title. Sleipnir has a very fine solution for this (see attachments).
It takes a minimum of vertical space and lets move through a huge amount of tabs in a short time
I'm often using a laptop with a cumbersome right click with the touchpad. Sleipnir lets you open a link in a new tab with long-clicking it with the left mouse –> perfect for fast tab opening on a notebook!
I'd like to change the zoom of the web-paneel, too.
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AJ292

Loooong time Opera user and now a long time Vivaldi user (it's been my main browser for quite a while now). I know back in Opera's heyday, the huge amount of features was one of the main attractions of the browser, but my browsing habits and desires these days have been pared right back - personally, the more minimal my browser, the better. As such, I would love if Vivaldi had the option to use a Chrome-style Download dropdown, rather than the Vivaldi side panel. I keep the panel off entirely and don't really like how it turns itself on every time I download something. I know I can stop it from doing that, but it means that the browser has no real visual way of tracking downloads while they're going. A Chrome-style dropdown accessed from the extensions section gives me a really quick method of checking all my downloads without getting in the way of the rest of the interface.

Random example of the dropdown in Chrome.

D0J0P

I have a little idea, but I'm not a developer, so correct me if it won't work.

But I prefer the way that browsers like Firefox and Opera display the address bar text much better than Vivaldi. It's thicker, smoother, bigger, more accurate fonts, and just looks more professional. As Firefox is open-source, can Vivaldi use the source code of Firefox to make the text on the address/search bar look just like firefox's until they can make their own or fork it?

On that note, can Vivaldi also grab FF's font rendering and use that until they can make their own or fork it? What would be the possibilities of that?

And how long would it take to do this? Is it a one hour job, two-three hours, a copy-paste job with some slight editing, and is it worth it?

Stardust

@AJ292:

Loooong time Opera user and now a long time Vivaldi user (it's been my main browser for quite a while now). I know back in Opera's heyday, the huge amount of features was one of the main attractions of the browser, but my browsing habits and desires these days have been pared right back - personally, the more minimal my browser, the better. As such, I would love if Vivaldi had the option to use a Chrome-style Download dropdown, rather than the Vivaldi side panel. I keep the panel off entirely and don't really like how it turns itself on every time I download something. I know I can stop it from doing that, but it means that the browser has no real visual way of tracking downloads while they're going. A Chrome-style dropdown accessed from the extensions section gives me a really quick method of checking all my downloads without getting in the way of the rest of the interface.

Random example of the dropdown in Chrome.

+1 with some indicator. Firefox-style:

Dayanto

After a number of disappointing changes in Chrome recently, I've been on the lookout for a new browser. I'm rather impressed with Vivaldi, but I feel like it's not quite there yet. Here are a number of suggestions from my first hours using the browser.

Tabs

Drag & drop tabs to create new windows or to move them between windows (Current: Right-click option)
Ability to move multiple tabs at once. (Current: Limited to one at a time) For me, lacking an efficient way of merging windows is unfortunately a dealbreaker
Select a range of tabs using Shift-click. (Current: Shift duplicates the ctrl-click behaviour, i.e. toggle selection)
When windows are not maximized, add an extra margin above tabs for grabbing, similar to Chrome. (Current: No margin, which sometimes leaves the window ungrabbable when partially off screen)
Ability to close last tab to close a window

General

Drag text to tab bar to open new tab based on text content (like Chrome does).
Add "Restart" menu option
Dynamic bookmarks bar, visible only in new tabs. (Current: Always on or off)
Faster tab group preview, or at least an option to lower the delay.
Option to disable the ability to resize the tab bar. It easily happens by mistake and is annoying to have to restore.
Remove the Vivaldi button from the tab bar, similar to what Chrome and Firefox have done. (Hamburger button parhaps?)
Don't bury New window/tab two levels deep in a menu.
Hotkey to toggle the panel
Redirect the prefix "about:" to "vivaldi://" (i.e. about:flags -> vivaldi://flags, etc.)

Cosmetic

Add tab-opened / tab-closed animations
Provide support for Windows start-menu tiles by adding a visualelements.xml file

Lastly, a bit of a rant

Dropping a tab directly on top of another tab should intuitively create / add tabs to a tab group, however currently at that point, it's already beyond the point where the tabs are instead moved past each other (and not merged). This makes tab grouping difficult to do intentionally. At the same time, if you move a tab towards another tab and then back, it triggers grouping even when there's barely any overlap at all, making it easy to do by mistake when you think it shouldn't. This combination of being difficult to do intentionally while easy to do by mistake is very frustrating.

kshun

About Keyboard Shortcut

It would be great if the shortcut function is invalid on specific URL.
For example I wanna use shortcut of Google Spreadsheet but Vivaldi's shortcut get priority and it bothers me.

Sincerely

ad3pinto

Yes ++++1. A visual organizer for tab groups is necessary for the feature to work in a 'power user' scenario. The save feature in the current beta is a bit disappointing…have to create a new save as each time even if you're just adding a single tab to an existing set of tabs (so i quickly ended up with a V1 V2 V3 V4 of the same group). That and it saves the ENTIRE SESSION not just per-window -- figured that out the hard way when I opened a saved session, got my secondary window of the tabs i wanted, but also in my main window all of a sudden my baseline pinned tabs doubled in number and some old articles from yesterday appeared in my main window. Tab groups a la the firefox add-on fixes all of these problems.

ad3pinto

Toggle tab bar location:

I like my tab bar on the left when widescreen, but on top when on laptop screen or when doing side-by-side windows on the widescreen. It'd be a nice feature to snap to change location on keystroke or even better to recognize a change in viewport ratio and snap into place automatically

Also i posted the following as a reply to someone else's topic but I'm not sure it was categorized properly, and anyway bears repeating because I think it's the single most important feature for me:

A visual organizer for tab groups is necessary for the feature to work in a 'power user' scenario. The save feature in the current beta is a bit disappointing…have to save "as" each time even if you're just adding a single tab to an existing set of tabs (so i quickly ended up with a V1 V2 V3 V4 of essentially the same group). That, and it saves the ENTIRE SESSION not just per-window -- figured that out the hard way when I opened a saved session, got my secondary window of the tabs I was looking for in addition to a bunch of tabs in my primary window I didn't want.

Grimmoth

I recently installed Vivaldi on Mac, Linux and Windows and I really like what I've seen.
Besides the good performance, I especially appreciate the nice keyboard controls, the quick commands and the dark themes.

But some features would be really nice in the future: (edited)

• copy the current url through quick commands (f2 -> "copy url" for example)
• click to play
• support for services like amazon video (got an error message that I'll post soon)
• making the tab bar narrower

In the case that I just haven't found a feature that's already available, I'm sorry.
Keep up the good work, I don't want to go back to one of those boring browsers again.

Pesala

@Grimmoth:

Google (or else) search through quick commands (something like f2 -> "google: gulo gulo" for example)

Type the search engine's keyword first, e.g. type "w <search string="">" to search Wikipedia, or "G <search string="">to search with Google if your default search engine is Bing or Yahoo

Automatic notification of updates is already available.

Take a look at Chromeless mode or set keyboard shortcuts in Settings, Keyboard to view/hide various elements.</search></search>

ousr

Like it was in Opera 12 - make speed dial bookmarks to be centered horizontally and add an option to zoom the thumbnails.
Make an option to dock Developer Tools, like it is in Chrome and other browsers. Also, it's much better when Styles are on the right side, next to HTML.

Naitsu

Opera always had the best download manager.

What I would like to see on Vivaldi download manager is a checksum verification tool! You could copy & paste a hash directly into the downloads window to check the recently downloaded file.

Jagwar

"Freeze Panes"

Not sure if this one is even possible, but I'd love to see something like this:

Like in excel you can freeze panes so when you scroll down/right some panes are always visible, that we could "freeze" some part of the window (i.e. the top bar in a website) so it's always visible even if we scroll down. Maybe it's more like "split" the screen, but I don't know, I'd just want a feature like that.

dkshumake

The new feature in Opera developer that incorporates ad block and shows how much time is saved by removing ads.

Boonie

I would really like to see an option to enable smoothing & anti-aliasing on fonts. I use firefox currently, and it uses smoothing & anti-aliasing, chrome does and it makes fonts look very thin and not as dark (harder to read in my opinion).

You can disable the anti-aliasing with an extension but it would be nice to have it built in.

ehume

First of all, thank you for having a "Reply Topic" function.

I am extremely happy to see extensions that allow me to increase and decease font size with on-screen buttons. I am happy to see that these extensions produce a wider range than in Chrome, since I am old and need to read large letters.

I am very happy that there is a Minimum Font Size function in the browser. However, because some web pages do not accommodate larger and readable fonts, I would like to see an on-screen button that temporarily disables and re-enables this function, returning the page to a no-minimum-font-size state. A toggle, if you will.

I would like to see a "open link tab in background" option. I can make this happen in the user.js file in Firefox. This allows me to open a bunch of webmail items and read them after looking through my mail.

Great browser.

liminggang

An easy way to change the encoding of current page like opera.
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avelev

To Vivaldi Dev Team: keep this up and you will be the #1 browser.

Best feature is NATIVE VERTICAL tabs.

If you can, copy more features from this great Firefox addon:
Tab Utilities

It has a great feature set but the code is poorly written and not maintained.

There is a reason Chrome and Opera would not do vertical tabs. They are cowards who refuse to accommodate users who want to keep dozens of tabs open and invite crashes and performance/resource issues. So what! We understand the downside of many open tabs. Today's browser is more than a lookup tool. It is a professional tool for many and does not need to be dumbed down.

When you have a lot of tabs open the need to search across ALL open tabs becomes obvious. Here is a great addon in Firefox that does that beautifully and the code is superbly written and maintained:
FindBar Tweak

Some people like Tree Style Tab
I think it creates too many hierrachical levels not logically related and makes a mess. However just ONE LEVEL grouping is a good idea with an expand/collapse or accordion (one group expanded at a time) functionality. A great feature is the ability to give the tab header of the group a custom name. It is easy to do a right-click-rename functionality to any tab. But renaming the header tab of the group is very useful. Closing the header tab (toggler/expander tab) should close the entire group with all its child tabs, and dispose of the custom name.

The VERTICAL TABS feature is a real winner for Vivaldi. Please make it more robust and ride that winning pony as far as you can.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Angel

CannarWilm

Hi,

I was told that this is the appropriate place to put down my thoughts regarding features for the Vivaldi mail client that is coming to the browser.

Firstly, thank you for this. I think those of us that like to use a local email client as opposed to a web based solution (gmail etc) really appreciate another company producing something new. There seems to be a huge lack of innovation on this front.

I am a big fan of Opera Mail and still use it as the way it deals with emails, especially the lack of folders preferring to use better search functions instead, is certainly the way I like to work.

What I would like to see if more of a revolution on the contacts side of software. I'd like to see this operate much more like Facebook/What's App etc preferably with email and IM integration. Even better would be the ability to link to Facebook IM and What's App so that all of that functionality could be integrated into one place. Being able to see all my messages appear in one inbox would be amazing. It would also be great to be able to 'download' your facebook contacts, linking them to existing email contacts in the same way that a mobile does.

Also, with the email, I would like to see it include some more 'business' orientated functions that were lacking in Opera Mail. For example, being able to set an 'I am away' message to operate for a period of time. Also, better manipulation of the signature. Features here could include, repeating the sig only once per thread instead of being copied multiple times, putting the whole message (inc sig) above the quoted reply and possibly some more fun features like a change aspect to your signature. A long time ago I used a programme that added random quotes to my signature. I would like to be able to do that again with the software.

I hope those suggestions prove useful.

Cheers
Glen

Polisson

@caladis:

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I'm also a big fan of TreeStyleTab which was already discussed in another thread. With TreeStyleTab all new tabs are openend as subtabs of the current tab if they have been createy by a click on a link.

Yes! That's last one feature which keeping me stuck to FF.
BTW Mozilla going to drop support for their addons….