@vishstampede Please, vote for this request: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/27343/sidebar-extension-api This is the official way, mentioned above, to create sidebar panels via extensions either using the chrome.* or the webExtension APIs.

@tbgbe Thanks for responding. Maybe i explained about the "close button" on panel bad. Those two first options you mentioned and the small icon on the edge wouldn´t work in this case since I prefer to have the Panel Toolbar visible and ready. "Floating Panel": Overlays the website. I tried clicking outside it but it didn´t do anything unless i activate "Auto-Close Inactive Panel". "Auto-Close Inactive Panel": Closes the panel as soon i switch tab. I didn´t like how it overlay the website and that the panels closed when i switch tab. I decided to disable both "Floating Panel" and "Auto-Close Inactive Panel" However with the "close button" on panel: Example Vivaldi: You can click on Notes panel icon to open and close the panel. The Panel Toolbar will always stay there. Opera 12: You can click on Notes panel icon to open. However there is two way to close the Notes panel in Opera 12. 1) Click on Notes panel icon to close the panel 2) Click on the "close button"(image is in my first post above marked with red arrow and circle on it") to close the panel. The Panel Toolbar will always stay there What i´m trying to say it´s just another way to close Notes panel or Bookmark panel,Download panel, History panel, Window panel etc... while the toolbar panel is always there like in Opera 12. Since i use this alot in Opera 12 it´s kinda a bit frustrating in Vivaldi because i have to think twice so i don´t accidently click on the wrong icon to close the panel.

@potmeklecbohdan Yes, currently there's only the button on the panel toolbar. Please vote for the existing feature requests. Full Context Menu in Panels Enable Mouse Gestures to Work in Panels Back/Forward Mouse Buttons to Work in Panels I could not find one to allow shortcuts to work in panels so I renamed your thread title to that. Not only Reload (Ctrl+R or F5) would be useful, but also Home, Alt+Left, Alt+Right, 1,2, etc.

Thanks for making this as a feature. Before it is a feature, this was a comment from this other feature Pocket for Vivaldi where the aim is to keep links for further reading without making them as bookmarks. The main ambiguity is that a note is first a text, that you can comment with image or link. Or in this special case, you want to keep a link for further reading. That means, this is not a text, but a special link object that you can comment with text or an image. Maybe note should categorize two kinds of object explicitly or implicitly ? This subtlety becomes important when you have opened a page, that you haven't enough time for read it then : in this case, you want to keep this easily and quickly : in this case pinning tabs could mess uselessly tabs whereas a link not, but you need clearly and automaticaly stuff from the browser. I mean you click over a button, a submenu into tabs contextmenu, or simply you move tab object into notes, and a link note is made with link bold, with special icon to distinguish it from others notes or other links (that's why favicon is usefull).

@pesala said in Add Location Switcher to Downloads Panel: How about, instead of a button to reset the default download folder, have a drop list showing recently used destinations (with the default at the top) so that users can pick any folder as the current destination? Yes that sounds even better. And at the end of the drop list maybe a 'select folder' item.

I ran into the same problem. I added Bitwarden (password manager like lastpass) to web panel and it looks perfect there. Much more useful than before. I checked "Allow in incognito" in extension settings. But in private mode this web panel does not work. In the header i see "Aborted". Developer console shows (blocked:other) status. Please fix this or add an option to enable this. Maybe you can allow to share a context for extensions with checked "Allow in incognito".

I develop the search engines case but this could be also for panel calls, commonly or even like a contextual window as I suggest here, please have a look to Unanchor panel / Free floating panel / Pop-up panel.

I added a link to this suggestion that could be related or also this one. Unanchored panel would be called/showed from context menu call or a more developped solution for me like a selection bubble like this : Panel may have added dynamic search capability commanded from word selection...

@huguesmoisy said in Option to Position Panels on Top: on some sites it becomes automatically «mobile first» Ah, so you're talking about the web pages inside the web panels. I was talking about the pages in tabs. I guess it all depends on what kind of pages you use in panels. In my case, I use web panels very rarely - mainly because I'm using Stable as my main browser and I hate the content repositioning while using panels. I'm glad the floating panels are coming to the Stable stream soon. @huguesmoisy said in Option to Position Panels on Top: You should try to rotate your monitor 90° to get an idea (I did by a mistaken combination of keys so I got in this configuration). I feel it's a very pleasant experience. It makes me think it would be a very good option for windows tablets I beg to differ. Well, call me old-fashioned, but I have two rotatable monitors and a Win 10 tablet and I use them all in landscape mode. I tried portrait mode, but it's not my thing. The only use I find for the portrait mode is to watch vertical videos in full screen... 😆 (Yet still it's a bit of inconvenience to rotate the monitor since I have to adjust its height first and once I'm done I have to align both of the monitors again - therefore I prefer not to move them).

@aminought I modified the thread title because panels and the tab bar can also be placed on the right. While you're waiting for an option, you could try the Tab Bar one the left and the panels on the right. The panels can also be made to float over the page in the latest Snapshots, in which case you may find it workable with the Vertical Tab Bar and Panels on the same side of the Window. Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit • Snapshot 2.0.1296.4 (64-bit)

@pesala said in Detach Panel in its own Window and Pin it on Top: @peefy You can already open a Web Panel in a New Window. Thank you @Pesala, I know that, but then you get a full blown browser window with all toolbars etc... that is not what i suggest. Moreover your suggestion only works for websites, not for notes etc. I want the webpanel to retain its size and everything else, but it should be detachable from the browser window, and appear as a FLOATING bare bones window (that only has the extra option of being "always on top" for videos etc.) Not only websites should open this way , but all other panels, like notes, etc. In this case, this can be a nice alternative for the video pop-out problem, while adding a lot of other use cases! Thanks!

@cheve11e_191 There is no need for an option. Just remove the width restriction if the Floating Panel is enabled (or perhaps if it is not too). I think right-click, open in new tab is best if you want to view a panel in fullscreen mode.

@lonm PDF viewers usually have a simple Find in Page popup or dialogue like Vivaldi, but also a side panel for more complex searches, e.g. finding content in other files.

@dannyromano Thanks and done!

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.

@pesala the alignment of address bar start with site content would im my opinion also be needed to consistently allow the feature position of address bar for tiled tabs.

@rojaviv You can driectly compare the use of ram when you open vivaldis own taskmanager (hit "Shift+Esc"). So just open a tab and a panel with the same url and see if it makes a difference. Of course you can browse with tiled tabs all the time but you constantly dedicate some of your monitor space to the hangout tab, while the sidepanel can be opened and closed via shortcuts like "F4" (and other shortcuts) pretty fast and only when you need it. On a related note you might want to try out the following setting while using the panels "Settings-->Panel-->Floating Panel" As for Panels vs. Bookmarks - I think this really is something you must figure out for yourself as this heavily depends on your workflow (more mouse or keyboard? do you use the quickcommand menu ("F2") to speed things up or not? do you have 20 bm's or more like 20 gazillion? etc)

@pafflick I'm just laughing like a kid in front of my computer due to your response. Thanks for that!