Feature requests for 1.6

[RammsteinAM]

@U.F.U.K said in Feature requests for 1.6:

Right click function for ''mute tab'' : Mute Tab And Add Black List

I think it would be better to upvote the existing request than post the same request again.

[ghpy]

@kniemaszyk said in Feature requests for 1.6:

Works just like it should. And since disabling autoplay is possible right now, maybe it would be better if more dev effort would be put on things not possible to do in other ways, or on internal Vivaldi affairs.

I disagree. You dont know how long this extension works and who is behind it. I used Magic Actions for YouTube to stop html5-autoplay. Youtube changed something a few days (or hours) ago, it doesn't work anymore, thus renders Vivaldi unusable unless you have unlimited bandwidth and download volume.
The option to disable autoplay from within Vivaldi in indispensable. Every important feature should be in Vivaldi not in some questionable third party extension.

Edit: I installed the extension you mentioned (Disable HTML5 Autoplay). It doesn't prevent autoplay on Youtube, at least on my system it doesn't.

[Stardust]

@ghpy said in Feature requests for 1.6:

Every important feature should be in Vivaldi not in some questionable third party extension.

+1

Edit: I installed the extension you mentioned (Disable HTML5 Autoplay). It doesn't prevent autoplay on Youtube, at least on my system it doesn't.

YouTube Plus by Particle works fine
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-plus/nkdalpbojfdilmiboaiedicdbigdabpb

[ghpy]

@Stardust
YouTube Plus doesn't work for me either. It is integrated into YouTube and wants a Google Account for the settings. I don't have and I don't want an account with Google.
In the meantime: Opera 12 doesn't know html5. Almost perfect to browse YouTube (and download the really interesting videos with youtube-dl).

[Stardust]

@ghpy said in Feature requests for 1.6:

@Stardust
YouTube Plus doesn't work for me either. It is integrated into YouTube and wants a Google Account for the settings. I don't have and I don't want an account with Google.

It works for me without Google Account in Vivaldi and Firefox.
Vivaldi 1.6.682.3 (Official Build) (64-bit)
YouTube Plus 1.7.2

[kniemaszyk]

@ghpy said in Feature requests for 1.6:

I disagree. You dont know how long this extension works and who is behind it.

Yes, that's right, but just to be fair, chrome extensions are distributed under the same (at least in parts relevant here) conditions as Vivaldi itself (free software, no guarantees, and so on) (I hope I'm not wrong here ).
And please don't think I'm comparing here V creators/community with developers of small chrome extensions. That's not the case, those are only official conditions. I'm writing about it just because this sentence of yours also sounds like it was more about official problems.
What's more I'm not saying to abandon this feature completely, I just suggest that there may be some more urgent problems than moving "stop autoplay" feature support from "chrome extension level" to "Vivaldi community level". However, I did very important assumption there, that extension works with no problems. Apparently that's not true for everyone.

Anyway, i wrote that only to "defend my way of thinking", I'm not going to argue about that, or convince anybody to think the same. As i wrote earlier, its only my thought, and since there wasn't here any similar-meaning post to vote on, I wrote one myself just for devs to consider.

Every important feature should be in Vivaldi not in some questionable third party extension.

Definitely agreed, but for me higher priority should have features missing completely (in general, because as it turns out this particular one is somehow in between). That was the whole point of my post.

[jplanvers]

Chrome is intended to be a general-purpose browser. Its developers do not prize configurability or customization. As such, any features that >75% of its users wouldn't care about weren't included in the browser and were instead relegated to extensions.

Vivaldi is supposed to be exactly the opposite-- it is the spiritual successor to Opera, which embraced and encouraged user customization. It's a power-user's browser.

That's why "there's an extension that does that already" isn't a worthy response. Even if the extension exists and works (and it seems in this case, it doesn't work), something like a switch to stop auto-playing media is still worth having built-in to the browser.

[ghpy]

@Stardust
I tried again and can get to the settings now. Maybe after installing the extension it needs a restart of Vivaldi to work.
Thanks.

[ghpy]

@kniemaszyk said in Feature requests for 1.6:

Yes, that's right, but just to be fair, chrome extensions are distributed under the same (at least in parts relevant here) conditions as Vivaldi itself (free software, no guarantees, and so on) (I hope I'm not wrong here ).

Don't confuse free software (you don't have to pay for using it) with open source (everyone can read the source code to check for malicious code). But even supposing the extensions were open source this doesn't help unless someone really checks the code. I for sure can't do this, so I have to rely on other people to do that. With a browser and its wide distribution there is a higher probability of someone checking the code than with an extension.

It probably did not make it to international news, but in Germany we recently had the situation of browser add-ons (at least one called Web of Trust) spying on users with the data being sold. The data contained the complete browser history which in a lot of cases made it possible to connect it to an individual with everything connected. This in some cases included health data, confidential data of police investigations and it also enabled the buyer to access cloud services of the user and all the files stored there.
[http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/Nackt-im-Netz-Millionen-Nutzer-ausgespaeht,nacktimnetz100.html]

[kniemaszyk]

@ghpy
Oh, ok, so actually I was wrong about licence-I was't aware that chrome extensions have closed source. Thanks for clarification.

Still, I wrote my opinion as an end-user looking for feature full browser after old Opera became unusable (even though I'm developer myself and see differences here), and as this, I hold on to it. Maybe I should care a little more about protecting from malicious code ;d

Despite that, you're of course right in everything you've wrote.
And since I had expressed my opinion, this looks like becoming a little OT, so I'd like to end here

[ghpy]

@kniemaszyk said in Feature requests for 1.6:

@ghpy
Oh, ok, so actually I was wrong about licence-I was't aware that chrome extensions have closed source.
[...]
And since I had expressed my opinion, this looks like becoming a little OT, so I'd like to end here

I don't know about the licence of extensions. Most probably there are various depending on the developer. Chrome and Vivaldi as far as I know are both freeware with partly open-source, partly proprietary code.
I don't think this is OT. We are talking about the reasons to request a feature in Vivaldi, a feature that can already be had using an extension (in my case it can't because all those extension don't work or work for some sites only).
If I use a browser that is not completely open source I have to trust the browser's developer. If the browser is completely open source I have to have faith in there being some person on earth curious enough to check the browser and honest enough to alert the public in case of malicious code.
If I add a dozen extensions to the browser I have to trust the extensions' developers as well. But they might not be trustworthy. The extension I mentioned had been installed by 140 million users world wide
http://thehackernews.com/2016/11/web-of-trust-addon.html

[happydemic]

Highlight when tabs are duplicates of each other.

Bonus points for a 'cleanup tabs' right-click option which deletes n-1 out of n copies of the same page. Even better if duplicate cleanup leaves a tab in place if it's a form with data already inputted into it.

[ozoratsubasa]

@taravasya it's done https://vivaldi.net/en-US/teamblog/186-named-tab-stacks-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1-6-682-3

[U.F.U.K]

Switch speed dial tabs with mouse scroll or keyboard shortcuts.

[taravasya]

In Chrome if I have selected on page some stuff, and then go to print dialog, I can choose, as option, print only selected items... This very handy in some cases.... In Vivaldi, which have mostly identical print dialog as in Chrome, curently this option not exist...
So.. let us print only selected.
Thanks.

[Pesala]

@taravasya said in Feature requests for 1.6:

So.. let us print only selected.

You can already do this. Use the System Print Dialogue. To get there, use shortcut Ctrl + Shift + P. You cannot choose "selection" if you go via the Vivaldi Print Dialogue.

[CheVe11e_191]

Please add the following functions:

• Downloading:

1. View the download speed, add sound or other indication when the download is complete.
2. Better Download manager (something like Bookmarks manager) inside Speed dial's top bar.
3. Warning when you try to close the browser when is running download on background.

• Panels:

4. The option to customize webpanel icons field (background color, size, etc.).
5. Add the possibility to catch and move the icons on Webpages panels and extension icons.
6. The possibility of placing the panels up and down, not just left and right.
7. More options for Web panels (show adress, set zoom, set value of separate wide).
8. Some extensions also make available for web pages located on Web panel (block advertisements in YT videos for example).
9. Add Sesion manager to the panel.
10. Add History manager to the panel.

• Extensions:

11. More option for right click on Extension icons, not only Hide button.
12. The option to customize icon extension field (background color, size, etc.).
13. Add the possibility to catch and move the extension icons.
    Speed Dial:
14. Make controls (mouse gestures) for folders fast access (currently for the return of the folder you need to click on <<*Name Floder).
15. Customize speed dial Thumbnails and Folders.

• Security:

16. Export complete user profile (settings, bookmarks, webpages in panels, themes, background pictures, notes, paswords etc.) It would also as a backup. (I do not think the synchronization feature, because not everyone wants to keep their data on servers, but a full backup of your profile).
17. Hotkey or mouse gesture to Hide or Minimize browser.
18. Better History manager (something like Bookmarks manager) inside Speed dial's top bar.
19. Portable version.
20. Add option to lock the notes. To prevent against accidental erasure.
21. Possibility to mark all items at once, for cleaning private data

• Pages:

22. In Tile pages concurrently scrolling of all pages in the keeping of certain keyboards etc.
23. Add controls +/- on zoom in status bar (by moving the slider to set the desired values it is not as accurate and fast).

• Other:

24. Supplement icons such as cut, paste, copy, zoom in, zoom out, clear private data etc.
25. Pop-up windows for YouTube videos

[burnout426]

@Pesala On Windows at least, "Selection only" is under "More settings" if you right-click on the page and choose "print". It's even already checked (if you made a selection on the page). It doesn't show up though when using ctrl + p though. Some context must get lost when using the keyboard shortcut. Ctrl + shift + p just opens the system print dialog (where "selection" is of course there).

[Stardust]

Middle click scrolling improvements
(Because Firefox has superior middle click scrolling)

[Stardust]

Middle click scrolling for Linux version