Feature requests for 1.7
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Auto-pin tabs based on URL match; either full URL or using wildcards.
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Have autocomplete of URL offer the root directory of each website.
For example, although I may have visited
http://www.sephora.com/color-lip-last-lipstick-P313004?skuId=1389030&icid2=products grid%3Ap313004, I also want to be offered the choice of
http://www.sephora.com/ -- in addition to that product-specific URL. -
It is hard to understand why anyone would vote down an option.
Switching tabs with RMB + Scrollwheel is awkward, or requires the user to change finger positions.
- Use the ring finger on RMB and middle finger on the scrollwheel (I find this awkward), or
- Move the middle finger to RMB and use the index finger on the scrollwheel.
With the option to switch, one does not have to move any fingers to scroll tabs, but uses the index finger on LMB and middle finger on the scrollwheel.
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@Pesala Downvoting any idea (even the ones that seem stupid) is kind of redundant since they're certainly not going to implement every single feature that the users proposed here (especially those "stupid" ones). But as for the LMB + scroll wheel shortcut - perhaps it's the design of your mouse or your customs that you find this combination more convenient - I don't know. For me it's very inconvenient since I alway use the middle finger for RMB and the index finger for both LMB and the scroll wheel. Perhaps the majority of users do that too and thus this is the default combination since the "old" Opera.
But I don't understand how is it possible to use LMB and scroll wheel without moving any fingers. Do you keep your middle finger on the scroll wheel at all times?
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@pafflick said in Feature requests for 1.7:
I don't understand how is it possible to use LMB and scroll wheel without moving any fingers.
Why on earth not? The Index finger is for the LMB, the middle-finger for the middle button scrollwheel, and the ring finger for the RMB. Why does anyone need to move any fingers, except due to the default method of fast tab switching? If I try to hold RMB with the ring finger and use middle finger for scrolling, it's awkward so I have to move my fingers, but I do neither. I prefer to use Ctrl Tab because using the RMB and scrollwheel for this is so badly designed and awkward.
If you had to change your fingering for typing text, like if you had to switch between Qwerty and Azerty keyboards on two different computers you would find it pretty difficult to adjust. Why should one have to adjust fingering for tab switching?
Do you keep your middle finger on the scroll wheel at all times?
When the index finger is usually on the LBM where else are you going to put the middle finger but rest it on the MMB even when not scrolling, which is also something one does very frequently?
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@pafflick said in Feature requests for 1.7:
But as for the LMB + scroll wheel shortcut - perhaps it's the design of your mouse or your customs that you find this combination more convenient - I don't know. For me it's very inconvenient since I alway use the middle finger for RMB and the index finger for both LMB and the scroll wheel. Perhaps the majority of users do that too and thus this is the default combination since the "old" Opera.
Yes, LMB + scroll wheel is inconvenient for me too.
Side Buttons + scroll wheel is a good alternative -
Afaik majority of people use index finger for lmb and middle finger for rmb. Also if you change to lmb+scroll to switch tabs then you cannot select long texts which require scrolling the page.
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When the address bar is hidden, let Ctrl-L/F8 activate it temporarily.
I've been trying to declutter my browser UI, and realized that I don't really have that big of a need for the address bar, which I suspect is the case for many people who are using some combination of mouse gestures, speed dial, quick actions, or the bookmarks panel. The thing that stands in the way of completely getting rid of the address bar, however, is those infrequent instances in which you do need it: to copy the URL, or to go to a different site on the same tab, etc. So adding an "address bar on demand" facility with Ctrl-L/F8 would solve this quite elegantly, similar to how the "Show status info overlay" option elegantly allows folks to completely disable the status bar without any major downsides.
Also note that I'm not asking for a shortcut to simply toggle the address bar (which is already possible). That still requires you to perform 3 KB shortcuts whenever you need to focus on the address bar (enable the AB, Ctrl-L, then disable the AB).
This issue was brought up previously here, here, here and here as far as I'm aware.
I would really appreciate it if the team considered this. This would not affect the everyday user's life in any way whatsoever, and would be a delightful convenience for people looking into de-cluttering their browser
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@Xan_ No problem, drag to select the start, shift + click to select the end. Far easier and less error prone than extending long selections with the scroll wheel while holding down the LMB
Afaik majority of people use index finger for lmb and middle finger for rmb.
They would have to always move one or other finger to scroll. With three fingers and three buttons, why would anyone use only two fingers?
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Hi @Pesala, it seems like this is in response to a different feature request?
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@Pesala I must admit I also find your mouse-handling a little unusual.
Myself, and I think most people (I will try to observe this now! ), use the index finger for left button and middle button / click-wheel. My middle finger is always resting on the right button. The ring-finger is used in opposition to the thumb to grip the mouse.
Before you say it must be hard to switch between left click and middle/wheel... it isn't - it feels completely natural on most mouses (mice?) since it's just a couple of millimetres between the two.
Edit: and I've just tried the three-finger way and on this mouse it is actually much more awkward to scroll with the middle-finger than with the index finger. The position is just "wrong" for that movement of my middle finger, while I can scroll further, quicker and more accurately with my index finger.
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Incognito Windows Included in Sessions
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The option to right click on an active or inactive tab and to be able to mute it before video/sound is even started.
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Schedule tabs to open (in certain states) and close/hibernate
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@mossman said in Feature requests for 1.7:
it's just a couple of millimetres
It's actually more than a centimetre. My mouse is 5cm wide with 4 cms between LMB and RMB.
I can scroll further with the middle-finger than with the index finger - it is 1 cm longer. I grip the mouse between thumb and little finger. A light grip makes mouse gestures easier. The index finger is already over-used for left-click, which is far more commonly used than right-click or middle-click.I understand why it's hard for users to change the habits of a life-time, which is why this should be an option. If it's hard for you to adapt, then it's also hard for me to adapt to a different fingering method.
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@Pesala Now it's all clear. You hold your mouse in a quite unusual way. I don't know any person who would use three fingers for each basic mouse button. As I said - perhaps the design of your mouse makes it easier for you to hold it this way. On my mouse, it would be rather inconvenient.
Now if you take a look at pictures of people holding mouses, you'll find that the vast majority of them uses only two fingers for clicking the basic mouse buttons. I think that's the main reason behind designing the "switching tabs with scroll wheel" feature this way. Actually, I don't know of any software to require using LMB and the scroll wheel (or MMB) simultaneously, because for the majority of people it would be impossible.
Additionally, using the "hold LMB" + "do something" combination creates more issues on the technical side since it could interfere with selecting the text, as @greenenemy pointed out. I don't know how hard it would be to implement this feature though, maybe we're just exaggerating...
But I'm afraid that due to the fact that your habit of holding the mouse is very unusual, your chances of getting such feature are pretty low...
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@dLeon
Because sometimes You can change Your mind and decide that things You do in a Incognito mode should stay longer...
I have similar problem really frequent... For example I have to suddenly restart my PC and have 80 tabs in Incognito window... and I hate that I have to bookmark them to restart PC / update Vivaldi / ...This feature could be very useful and sounds reasonable to me
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@ROTFL said in Feature requests for 1.7:
@dLeon
Because sometimes You can change Your mind and decide that things You do in a Incognito mode should stay longer...
I have similar problem really frequent... For example I have to suddenly restart my PC and have 80 tabs in Incognito window... and I hate that I have to bookmark them to restart PC / update Vivaldi / ...This feature could be very useful and sounds reasonable to me
It also sounds like a very odd request to me - you want to save a record of a page which has deliberately not been keeping a record.
If it is saved in the session then it is by definition not incognito.
I was thinking about suggesting options like migrating pages into/out-of incognito mode - but that simply blurs the line of private/public and renders the whole concept pointless (since any migration means data is getting stored somewhere and it would get very messy trying to delete things like cookies which have been used in an incognito session but which might also be valid for normal sessions!).
I think the only way round it is to have the option to save only the addresses of open incognito tabs (presumably encrypted but still with a BIG warning that doing this is insecure). Then when you open the session you can be prompted to open those addresses again in new incognito tabs or delete them from the session file.
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@mossman The other thing I'm wondering - why would you have 80 incognito tabs open in the first place?!? For banking, legal, work stuff etc. I can't imagine you'd need to keep lots of tabs open all the time. There's only one other thing I can think of where you might open several at once (pr0n) - but would you really need to keep all those tabs intact at the next restart...?
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If a URL is typed in a pinned tab a new tab will be opened instead of loading the url in the pinned tab.