Feature requests for 1.8 / 1.9

Pesala

Settings Dialogue Should Remember it's Size and Active Tab

If the UI Zoom is anything other than 100% the dialogue is always the wrong size on opening. This causes problems at > 100% because not all keyboard shortcuts are visible until the dialogue is enlarged.

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Sound notifications upon various events within the browser, like eg., finished download or page notifications

...or received e-mails (once the e-mail client for Vivaldi is ready). These sound effects should be customizable. Opera 12 have notifications for "program startup/exit, page loaded, failure, follow link", but I never used them. I don't mind seeing them in Vivaldi though...

Pesala

Allow Resizing of Tiled Tabs

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Ability to re-order / remove various UI elements

First of all: Extension icons and panel icons. But the ability to re-order or remove some of the UI elements would be greatly appreciated. (I'd like to get rid of the Home button for example).

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Private Tabs

Just like in Opera 12. I haven't seen this in any Chromium-based browser, so I'm not sure if it's even possible (or if it's not too hard to implement)?

Usually opening a new tab is much quicker than launching a new window, so this could be a great feature.

Pesala

Support Animated PNG Images

Pesala

Boss Key Shortcut to Hide/Minimize Vivaldi

Pesala

List Existing Sessions on Save Session

To easily update existing sessions by overwriting them.

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Prevent media (audio/video) from auto-playing as a website permission

It could be achieved by blocking all flash content (already possible) and preventing HTML5 audio & video from launching without user's action (click-to-play).

With this feature, we would be able to blacklist/whitelist websites for playing media, just like we could do it with Notifications, Popups, Plugins, Location, Camera & other website permissions.

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An option to reload the page after a certain amount of time

Pesala

Move Hide/Show Panel Button to Right

If the panels are on the right, the button should be on the right.
The default is only good if the panels are on the left.

Pesala

Allow Editing of Menus

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Ability to re-order Search Engines

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Follower Tab

Once created, every link opened from within the page for which the "Follower Tab" has been created, should open in that newly created tab. This should override the target attribute in links.

This feature is present in Opera 12 and I find it especially useful for e-mails. I hope that it will be implemented at some point, especially when the Vivaldi Mail client is finally released.

Pesala

Do Not Show Find Toolbar with Find Next/Previous

F3 and Shift F3 should find the next/previous occurrence of an existing text string on any tab without showing the toolbar. The Find Toolbar should, however, be shown if the search string is empty.

Ctrl F should always show the Find Toolbar.

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Lazy load tabs opened in the background (as an option)

Sometimes it would be handy to be able to open multiple tabs in the background without loading their contents right away and thus slowing down your network and computer. This should also apply (optionally) to opening multiple links at once from the bookmarks menu.

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Reuse already existing Private Window when opening links in private window (if there is one opened already).

Something like this:

function ContextMenuClicked("Open Link in Private Window") {
	if (PrivateWindowsOpened==0) {
		Open(NewPrivateWindow);
	}
	else {
		Select(NextPrivateWindow); //or last used private window
	}
	GoToURL();
}

You can check how it works in Opera 15+ (currently it's above 40, but I'm not keeping up with them anymore).

Pesala

Proximity Search to Find Two or More Words

E.g. Typing "Show Toolbar" would find this instance.

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Override the default Chromium blank page with a customizable one...

... in order to avoid flashes of white, while browsing dark themed websites. From what I've learned on the Internet it's not quite possible in Chromium, so it would be nice to have some kind of a workaround for this in Vivaldi.

Another way to achieve that could be to delay displaying web page contents by a certain (user-specified) amount of time or until the page finishes loading. Opera 12 had such feature, though it didn't always work as expected...

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PageBar Open URL On MiddleClick

Like in Opera 12.17 Paste and Go in a new tab with the clipboard contents. If it's a URL go to that site, if it's plain text, do a default search for that text.