Meanwhile, as a workaround, you can add the website that you want to play audio (in the background) as a web panel.

@zeiglerxz That is a great idea! The android smartphone has a similar feature: When it's playing music, the usual set of buttons (previous song, stop, next song) is displayed on the lock screen and on the notification bar (I don't know what it's called). On the web browser, I'm often annoyed by how cumbersome it is to stop the sound from a tab when I have many tabs: Brows the tabbar to determine which tab is making the sound. Activate the tab and hit the stop button. You could say that I could hit the loud-speaker icon on the tab instead of step 2, but that would just shut the sound up without stopping the playing, which wastes some CPU resource.

@zdm Unfortunately, you can't set this as a default style. You could add it to it's own file under resources/vivaldi/user_files, then every time you come across this, open page actions and turn it on.

@ryanjohnjackson said in Slacking on standard features and bug response: The forum tends to hint that these issues either don't exist or no one will ever change them which makes me feel like I'm making a bad decision. The forum, understandably, tends to reflect people defending something they like when they get the feeling it's being devalued. But Vivaldi philosophy is to take user feedback into account and try to offer what's wanted - most popular first. But the reason for the existence of Vivaldi is new features, not copying other browsers. It is born out of a dissatisfaction with the mainstream, and it attracts new users only through its differences. Time spent aping the mainstream is time spent failing to attract eyeballs, and thus failing to ultimately have enough users to pay for itself. That said, there is also the effort afoot to keep from losing users because something new users would take for granted is not yet ready. The Team can't afford to short change either effort in pursuit of the other. It can't be either/or. It has to be both. There is in fact no slacking on "standard" features, and between five and fifty bugs are fixed every day. There are thousands to work through, and regressions are introduced weekly by changes in Chromium. And Vivaldi has to intake Chromium updates or risk both security holes and becoming incompatible with its own rendering engine. You're saying these things are on an official list that I missed somewhere? No official list. Just discussions with the Team. Why I want open in background as a default option: If I'm reading an article and the article references another link, I open that tab in the background as I read the article and keep reading. This is my default way of not getting distracted by new info. Having it as a secondary function takes me out of my reading every time. For now, it might help you to build a new habit with middle-click -I feel I need to shout about the default of background tab because it feels like it's part of the vivaldi culture No, no need to shout. Just upvote the existing feature request. Since there are already four ways to do it, it's not yet a priority to introduce an option to modify that menu. Bookmarks "with the unfinished Bookmarks Bar" I'm guessing you're saying it's not complete? That's correct. The bookmark icons issue exists for me in win 10 and mac 10.12 after importing from chrome Favicons aren't imported. They are fetched when sites are visited. Due to a difference in database structures, they can't be imported presently. But they are synced. To end, for me the browser is 95% to perfect. Once vid is fixed on mac and bookmarks bar behaves normally it's like 98%. That last 2% is my frustration with background tabs. I love all the other options, felt like this is left out on purpose since it's standard most the time. Video has been fixed on Mac more than once. Chromium and Mac OS updates keep breaking it. Hopefully a durable fix can be designed. Hope this isn't tl;dr lol Yeah, really, it was.

I moved it back now.

I would really like this feature. I would have a ton of websites in the Web Panel if they were persistent across all my windows. As a multi-window user, the current limitation makes the Web Panels nearly useless for me.

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You are right. The "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" extension is installed. Thanks a lot for your help.

@pedestrian Tell them that Vivaldi is a Chromium browser and that they should better fix it or you won't continue using their services. After all you are a paying customer.

I don't think this would affect the panel, but under tab settings there is an option for tab muting. You might check and see what that is set to.

BUMP! Chrome autoplay behavior isn't good enough. We need the real On-Demand Click to Play function for ALL media player.

This userscript can stop some video buffering, not perfect but better than nothing: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=viewtube

@zaibon Yes, I know. But actually, finding the tab is not the point. Usually, I know where the tab is and where to click.

With so much stuff into context menu (I think you're are talking about this one of the page area), the menu should be a more compact solution to keep it useful : playing with icons instead of text may be a solution like does this suggestion.