Feature requests for 1.9 / 1.10
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Ability to re-order Search Engines
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Bookmark Menu
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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.
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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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Option to Disable Animated Images
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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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Links Panel
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Ability to remove downloaded files from the hard drive (directly from the download panel or
vivaldi://downloads
page) -
Windows Panel
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Collapse/Expand Bookmark Tree with FlipBack/FlipForward
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Allow turning on full-screen mode as a website permission
With this feature, we would be able to blacklist/whitelist websites for turning on full-screen mode automatically (like eg. opening video in full-screen mode), just like we could do it with Notifications, Popups, Plugins, Location, Camera & other website permissions. Global setting to allow/disallow full-screen on all websites by default would be welcomed too. Some browsers - like IE for example - ask you to allow the site to run in the full-screen mode.
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File-sharing like Opera Unite
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Ability to drag & drop bookmarks and folders into other folders on the Speed Dial page.
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More Space Above Tabs in if not Maximized
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Collapse/Expand Bookmark Tree with FlipBack/FlipForward
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Allow resizing Speed Dial items to fit more than 6 columns (and also more rows) of them
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Ability to use the "back button" on vivaldi://startpage (after entering a folder).*
We should be able to quickly move between folders on our Speed Dial pages. Currently the only way to go to the previous folder (after entering one), is to click on a tiny button placed above the Speed Dial items. It's inconvenient.
* By the "back button" I mean the following:
- Go to previous page button
[<]
on the navigation panel; - Keyboard shortcuts (
[← Backspace]
,[CTRL]
+[←]
or custom ones); - The built-in "Back" button that some mouses have;
- Mouse gesture "History back";
- Rocker gestures.
- Go to previous page button
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Open Bookmarks / Notes folders with single click
That is especially needed when the "Open Bookmark Panel Items with Single Click" option in vivaldi://settings/bookmarks/ is checked. Right now the only way to open bookmarks/notes folder with a single click is to aim the small triangle-shaped "expand" icon.
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Switch the cursor to
pointer
when hovering over BookmarksBut only when the "Open Bookmark Panel Items with Single Click" option in vivaldi://settings/bookmarks/ is checked. It'll be more intuitive...
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Bookmarks / Notes Separators
Ability to separate bookmarks/notes with a single, horizontal line, just like in Opera 12.