Feature requests for 1.7
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@Pesala Supporting an External Feed Reader would be great too just in case you don't want to use the built-in one.
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Hello.
Can you make option to put opened tabs next to address bar like in IE11? I asked about it on twitter.
Thanks to that we will delete one bar and have more space for sites content.
So there will be only:
buttons (vivaldi/back/forward/refresh/main site), ADRESS BAR, OPENED TABS, min/max/close buttons
Favourite sites bar.You can ckeck my visualisation in attachment.
And I'm still waiting for e-mail client builded to this web browser.! -
I'd like to propose to change the tab menu entry for 'Clone Tab' to 'Duplicate Tab' - more similar to Chrome (where I guess lots of people are coming from), but most importantly, vastly different to 'Close Tab' - a very different operation.
On opening the menu, I'm scanning for the word 'Duplicate', but can't find it. Then I see 'Close Tab' and remember it's 'Clone Tab', and then dither and squint to see if I've got the right one.
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Search bar for tabs when tabs are in vertical mode(when the tab bar is positioned left or right on the window) like it was in old Opera or like it is in modern extensions, e.g. Vertical Tabs. Of course F2 can be used to search through the tabs, but it is much more comfortable to have a dedicated search bar somewhere above the tab column, like on the screenshot below.
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Ability to remember to open specific file types by specific applications. This is especially useful to pass data to other applications when you want to skip manual opening of the file, for example when you are adding new downloads to your torrent client(via torrent files) or when you want all your pdf files to be opened in external viewer.
Afaik there is such a feature in Chrome and it definitely was in the old Opera. -
Thumbnail view for bookmarks, like it is made in current Opera.
In a lot of cases it is easier to navigate and find the necessary bookmark using visual representation than just text.
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@smallboobslover people's screen resolutions get bigger and bigger, so why not. I support this.
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@Stardust
In terms of ergonomics this is a very bad idea, because when you really have a lot of opened tabs scrolling them back and forth consumes a vast amount of time. Far more efficient is to use vertical tabs with active text search or compressed but easily distinguishable horizontal tabs with pop up thumbnails as they are now. -
Often I got as much as 50-70 tabs open at once and the tabs becomes very small. If I was able to set a minimum size for tabs and instead was allowed to scroll to those tabs not visible on the screen, it would be great. Firefox got something like that.
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I agree, that is the main reason I haven't made a full switch from Opera to Vivaldi.
Opera indisputably has the best bookmark management and preview.
Also the fact that you can choose the thumbnail for the bookmark and even zoom the screencap of the page makes it that more convenient and easier to use. -
Web Panel Notifications
There is already notifications for tabs, so why not for web panels.
I would love to have something like this, specially for Twitter. -
@AltCode - Notification is enabled for web panels. However, due to the fact that panels are recognized as "mobile" format by servers, the same type of notification that is used for tabs, is not sent by most websites.
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@Stormtalons uhm... this feature is already implemented
The only problem I can see is that search works with all of the settings mixed together... -
@ROTFL "Crtl+F1" shows the cheat-sheet where you can search exclusively through the shortcuts - only downside I see so far is that there is no option via this menu to change any shortcut
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Include a reminder system in Notes. Set a specific time/date or a countdown timer. Also as a future feture to this, link the note/reminder to a tab and highlight the tab when the time is over.
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@HaaEnn
Trust me, horizontal tab scrolling is a really bad way to organize you workflow in the browser. I am so strongly against it because I don't want developers to waste their precious time on a nice looking but useless things. Take a closer look at how much info can be stored per display length when tabs are stacked in horizontal row(with minor to none size compression) and when they are stacked in vertical column. It is obvious that you can get many times more tabs per display length when they are in form of vertical column, furthermore it is easier to access them, meaning that you have to do less mouse movements. Of course tabs in form of vertical column eat some screen width, but it can be neglected because we are leaving in the era of widescreen displays and majority of web pages are vertically oriented(in other words they are adapted for vertical scroling).
Also there is a simple maths behind why horizontal scrolling is useless. Imagine that you have 100 cells(tabs in this case) with data placed in one line, you are on the 99th and you want to open the 1st, in order to do so you have to parse(scroll through) all data cells from the 98th to the 2nd. Now imagine that you have the same 100 cells with data but they are arranged as as 2 dimensional table with a side of 10 cells. Now you have to parse only 8 cells to access the 1st cell, when you are on the 99th - 89th,78th,67th,56th,45th,34th,28th,12th in particular. This is a huge difference . And that is why even vertical tab column(which is way more ergonomic than horizontal row when a lot of tabs are involved) is often combined with tab search, or developers use two dimensional tab table, like it was in old Opera(I mean Ctrl+Tab). -
@Stardust Stack tabs by domain, and enable Popup Thumbnails in Settings, Tabs, Tab Display. Grouping tabs is automatic, and finding tabs from their thumbnail is efficient provided the stack is not ridiculously large.
In my opinion, opening more than 20 tabs is a poor workflow, but if you think you need 100 tabs, at least divide them into 10 stacks of 10 tabs each.
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@Pesala
I wouldn't call opening more than 20|30|30 etc tabs a poor workflow, it solely depends on what exactly you are using browser for. If it is a professional tool, then it is relatively easy to end up with several hundreds opened tabs. -
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Option to disable refresh of speed dial thumbs at start
to get rid of unwanted cookies stored by sites.