Web Panels: what are your must-haves?

[fred8615]

I have 26 Web Panels. Wikipedia and Vivaldi Social, The Weather Channel, and the remaining 23 (including YouTube) are for live streaming while I'm browsing. I've got nature and spaceflight, sports, music, and news.

[Catweazle]

@fred8615, I have certain qualms with weather apps, I don't like when they only offer local weather using GPS. I recommend using these apps from the country's official meteorological institutes and configuring them by manually entering an approximate location. Exact GPS Data are not needed, less in apps from private companies.

[WildEnte]

I realize that at work, I use web panels completely different than with the home setup I described above. I can't use Vivaldi Mail there, instead I use the Outlook web interface. Also, I have three email accounts that need checking in Outlook (joint accounts).

I have my panel bar on the right at work, and my panels are:
Outlook main email address, Outlook calendar, Outlook second email address, Feeds, Jira, LinkedIn, Deepl.com translator (those are just the ones I remember without firing up my work laptop).

Since I use the Outlook web interface in a specific workspace, the panels allow me to keep an eye on my calendar and email regardless of what workspace I'm working in.

EDIT: also, I'd welcome to have two panels left and right at the same time, so that I don't have to choose between the mail panel and my (at work almost always open) calendar panel.

[Catweazle]

@WildEnte, Deepl is a good translator, but it's paid proprietary soft. The free version is limited, with this, page translations got expensive very fast. Apart the Privacy in its free version is somewhat fishy.
For translations I use the Linhguist Extension, FOSS, very handy, multiengine and fast, good and reliable translations, IMHO the best you can use.

[stardepp]

I really like web panels, I use DeepL translator, password manager, Stylus extension, MediathekView, Vivaldi Status, Last.fm, and others, all linked in the panel.

These are my important web panels, and because the panel could be longer, I use this .css modification:

/* Scroll WebPanel - made by joao.rossa on the Vivaldi Forums  */

#panels-container #switch {
  overflow: scroll;
}
#panels-container #switch::-webkit-scrollbar {
  display: none;
}

#panels-container #switch .addwebpanel-wrapper {
  order: 1;

}
.addwebpanel-wrapper .addwebpanelcallout {
  bottom: 12px;
}

.addwebpanel-wrapper .addwebpanelcallout:, after
.addwebpanel-wrapper .addwebpanelcallout:before {
 bottom : 8px;
}

[wintercoast]

Mostly Gen AI tools at the moment.

[ybjrepnfr]

i have numerous web-panels, like local weather, rain radar, dictionary, ookla speedtest, browserleaks dns. Two valuable others in my fav default daily browser are:

• https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp so i can keep an eye on commits prior to each new update
• https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/issues for self-apparent reasons

So, they're my "Web Panels must-haves". I think that WPs are a marvellous thing to have, in my fav browser.

Oh that's right, i also have https://browserleaks.com/canvas, so i can keep being assured that my html5 canvas fingerprint is still being successfully spoofed, in my fav browser.

[jofazepa]

Socials (mastodon, Reddit), Spotify, Work mail (as Vivaldi mail can't fetch it's emails), work chat/Collab, proton mail and calendar.

[mikeyb2001]

@wintercoast mind listing and linking them I recognize some but not all the favicons

[wintercoast]

@mikeyb2001

In order:

Copilot (Microsoft)
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Perplexity
Andi Search
Gemini (Google)
You Chat
GPTGO (GPT combined with Google Search)
Phind
Claude (Anthropic)
Codeium (AI Coding helper)
Venice AI (described as private, permissionless - I only discovered this one last week)

[npro]

@ybjrepnfr said in Web Panels: what are your must-haves?:

i also have https://browserleaks.com/canvas, so i can keep being assured

I don't use Web Panels but I added that to see what I am missing, I click on that reload icon but the contents don't change. Seems Web Panels don't work and I just wasted my time, thanks never again...

[mib2berlin]

@npro
It seems they for for all other user, no idea for a usage of https://browserleaks.com/canvas as web panel, what should change there?

[npro]

@mib2berlin said in Web Panels: what are your must-haves?:

what should change there?

The content of the page, for example you should see a different Signature with each reload.

/edit: oh I forgot to tell you (in case you've missed) that you need to use some canvas blocker extension for it to be different.

[mib2berlin]

@npro
Hm, shows the same in a tab too with Ctrl+F5.
Anyway, maybe panels are not for you but I think it is one of the major feature in Vivaldi.

[npro]

@mib2berlin

shows the same in a tab too with Ctrl+F5.

I don't know about the tab, but if you would read the post I referred to, it says "so i can keep being assured that my html5 canvas fingerprint is still being successfully spoofed", I didn't include the full details of that post, so you need to install an anti-tracking extension like this one https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/canvas-fingerprint-defend/lanfdkkpgfjfdikkncbnojekcppdebfp , then the Signature should change in the Window Panel but it's not.

[mib2berlin]

@npro
This is a bit to much for me.
All I know is that panels are not fully accessible via extensions. I guess you found a case where this happens.

[ybjrepnfr]

@npro well. two points... for both of which it was important for readers of my OP to recognise specifically which browser i was writing about, ahem.

1. in my fav browser [ahem, again] the behaviour i described does occur, once this is installed; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/. I cheekily deliberately chose to omit that detail, above, to see who was really paying attention... answer, nobody.
2. in a prior fav browser, with https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/canvas-blocker-fingerprin/nomnklagbgmgghhjidfhnoelnjfndfpd installed, it also worked fine for years... until it broke back in 2023 or possibly year/s before, per https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/90984/html5-canvas-fingerprinting-blocking-spoofing-extensions-are-now-nfg-in-vivaldi, whence i began reporting it, but like so much else important around here, it was officially ignored.

that which was once my fav browser, shall never be again, for this & so many more accumulating problems. thank goodness there's another browser with web-panels... my fav browser.