Sync custom Speed Dial thumbnails

winstondared

Yes this would be really useful.

nomadic

When I was using Opera as my primary browser, I needed a way to add custom speed dial thumbnails because they didn't include that as an option. Opera has a file called BookmarkExtras that is a json that contains all the thumbnails in Base64.

Vivaldi could convert all custom thumbnails to Base64 and sync that fairly easily. This would mean dropping support for moving GIFs as thumbnails, but how many people actually make use of that functionality? They could exclude GIFs from the conversion or from sync altogether to still accommodate the few that use GIFs.

Edit: You actually can encode moving GIFs with Base64, who knew.

Onweerwolf

I would love to see this implemented as well.

breadoflife

@Onweerwolf Yeah, seems like it would be quite simple, too.

ivan.a.petkov

3 years later it is still in the pipeline and nothing changes...

luetage

@ivan-a-petkov I think the issue is the additional amount of data this request would cause on Vivaldi’s servers. For the same reasons image sync is disabled for notes. Background pictures don’t sync either and I wouldn’t expect this to change.

ivan.a.petkov

@luetage I used to use an add-on for Firefox that synchronized all custom thumbnails and I doubt that the independent developer had the server resources to sync all the custom thumbnails... Maybe there are some sort of solution of the problem, I don't know.

Onweerwolf

Come on guys, make this happen please. This is the kind of thing that shifts software from great to perfect.

rodndtube

Please implement synching of custom icons in Speed Dial.

samtrois

yet another vote... pls

Jathys

And another upvote. Honestly, Vivaldi should just make copies of your custom thumbnails instead of referring to the original files. Due to the larger amount of data to be synced, just have the user have to manually sync the thumbnails if some have been changed.

Onweerwolf

So, now we have synching of 'reading lists'. I can't imagine anyone using something like that in this day and age, but whatever. Now, it's time to finally add custom thumbnails to the sync. Come on, Vivaldi.

rcreel

I would also like syncing speed dial images! Especially across PC and Android.

scottmckellam

So silly that every machine needs to have its own speed dial bookmark images... especially when there is already a sync function.

mib2berlin

@scottmckellam
Hi, I guess it is not to silly or hard to implement, it is more a resource problem.
I copied my customized icon setting to another system and had about 130 files to copy but only 30 MB at size.
Hm, 500000 user need a lot of space and traffic, too.

If you need this you can copy:
Bookmarks
Favicons
file_mapping.json
And the Folder VivaldiThumbnails

To a new install, it is not synced but save a lot of work.

Cheers, mib

Ayespy

@scottmckellam The sync "function" requires that all sync'ed data be stored on a server farm at Vivaldi. History to the beginning of time, web page images (as note attachments) and custom speed dial images are examples of kinds of data which, for "cloud" storage, would require the purchase of multiple additional physical servers. I'm not sure that's easy for Vivaldi at this stage of the game.

Pesala

I have an archive of 3.82 Mbytes containing all of my custom speed dial thumbnails, start page backgrounds, theme backups, blog backup, and custom css. It is not a lot of data, but other users may have a lot more.

If I need to transfer that data to another PC, I could simply email the archive to myself, or download it from DropBox (where I keep it for offline backup).

I see that this thread is tagged as Pipeline, not as Will not do, so perhaps we will get it eventually. Meanwhile, as with most other outstanding feature requests, users should look for workarounds.

Ayespy

Mine's about 6.5 MB. I figure that to be sure all user data can fit, a safe number at the outset would be about 15TB of additional storage, just to ensure that all users could store their custom speed dial icons on sync servers. That's nothing earth-shaking, but it is a noticeable amount of additional hardware.

Franswoua

This is a feature I would really like to see implemented too.

macadoum

I agree that this feature would be nice to have. It is extremely annoying to have differents thumbnails across devices for a same speed dial