Feature requests for 1.7
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Relocate browser notifications.
The little "x" to close the browser notifications and the "x" to close the entire browser are sometimes too close together.
Which means it's easier than you'd expect to accidentally close your entire browser when you're just trying to dismiss a notification.
Even just moving them slightly down would be nice.
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Add the possibility to catch and move the icons on Web Pages panels.
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Option to disable animated images.
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Add option to lock the notes. To prevent against accidental erasure.
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Option to persist UI customization between Vivaldi updates.
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More options for Web panels (show adress, set zoom, set value of separate wide, etc.).
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Some extensions also make available for Web pages located on Web panel (block advertisements in YT videos for example).
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@Tyrmyk - Standalone is not portable.
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Notifications upon various events within the browser, like eg. finished download or page notifications
...or received e-mails (once the e-mail client for Vivaldi is ready). These sound effects should be customizable. Opera 12 have notifications for "program startup / exit, page loaded, failure, follow link", but I never used them. I don't mind seeing them in Vivaldi though...
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Confirm exit
(I know it was suggested here already, but I'd like to extend that idea a little bit).
I'd like to see the prompt (available as an option) to confirm closing the browser (like in Opera 12).
Adding different, configurable scenarios for the prompt to appear could be handful, for example:
- when there are downloads in progress (with additional option to close the browser automatically once the downloads are completed and yes, I'm aware of the Chromium's ability to complete tasks in the background);
- when there are 2 or more tabs opened and the "Startup with" option in Settings is set to anything else than "Last Session";
- when there is some unsaved work on any of the opened tabs (like eg. unsent form fields with user's input);
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Bookmarks / Notes Separators
Ability to separate bookmarks / notes with a single, horizontal line, just like in Opera 12.
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Ability to use the "back button" on vivaldi://startpage (after entering a folder).*
We should be able to quickly move between folders on our Speed Dial pages. Currently the only way to go to the previous folder (after entering one), is to click on a tiny button placed above the Speed Dial items. It's inconvenient.
* By the "back button" I mean the following:
- Go to previous page button
[<]
on the navigation panel; - Keyboard shortcuts (
[β Backspace]
,[CTRL]
+[β]
or custom ones); - The built-in "Back" button that some mouses have;
- Mouse gesture "History back";
- Rocker gestures.
- Go to previous page button
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Ability to drag & drop bookmarks and folders into other folders on the Speed Dial page.
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Follower Tab
Once created, every link opened from within the page for which the "Follower Tab" has been created, should open in that newly created tab. This should override the
target
attribute in links.This feature is present in Opera 12 and I find it especially useful for e-mails. I hope that it will be implemented at some point, especially when the Vivaldi Mail client is finally released.
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Add "Open Link" option to the context menu.
The purpose of this would be to override the
target="_blank"
attribute in links, so that it would open every link using the current tab (regardless of thetarget
attribute). It is already available on the Speed Dial page. You can also see how it works in Opera 12: -
Switch the cursor to
pointer
when hovering over BookmarksBut only when the "Open Bookmark Panel Items with Single Click" option in vivaldi://settings/bookmarks/ is checked. It'll be more intuitive...
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Open Bookmarks / Notes folders with single click
That is especially required when the "Open Bookmark Panel Items with Single Click" option in vivaldi://settings/bookmarks/ is checked. Right now the only way to open bookmarks / notes folder with single click is to aim the small triangle-shaped "expand" icon.
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Make the User Interface Zoom affect context menus
It would be handy for touch screen devices. At least increase the spacing between context menu items (as an option), just like it happens with the File Explorer context menu on Windows 10, after switching on the Tablet Mode.
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Override the default Chromium blank page with a customizable one...
... in order to avoid flashes of white, while browsing dark themed websites. From what I've learned on the Internet it's not quite possible in Chromium, so it would be nice to have some kind of a workaround for this in Vivaldi.
Another way to achieve that could be to delay displaying web page contents by a certain (user-specified) amount of time or until the page finishes loading. Opera 12 had such feature, though it didn't always work as expected...
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Reuse already existing Private Window when opening links in private window (if there is one opened aleady).
Something like this:
function ContextMenuClicked("Open Link in Private Window") { if (PrivateWindowsOpened==0) { Open(NewPrivateWindow); } else { Select(NextPrivateWindow); //or last used private window } GoToURL(); }
You can check how it works in Opera 15+ (currently it's above 40, but I'm not keeping up with them anymore).