Feature requests for Vivaldi 1.14
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Option to have background color highlighting on the current window in the Window panel
At this time (version 1.13), the current window is indeed highlighted but only by a bolder font, which makes it difficult to quickly see which is the current window. Let the selection background color (orange when using the "Human" theme) follow the currently active window.
Combined with the Activate with Single Click option ticked, this new Highlighting follows the current window will effectively allow me to get rid of the tab bar, all the more since the Window panel supports tab stacking.
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@olgaa I would really like a Scrapbook (as in Firefox) for Vivaldi. What this does is save an exact as is image (html) of a web page locally (as in Firefox, in the user's profile) OR MUCH BETTER, since you do provide webmail, a cloud based location for the scrapbook. Pages are organized in folders, can have notes and separators, and the original URL can also be invoked. Sort of a personal Web Archive.
I think this should be given priority, because it is something that would set apart Vivaldi from all other browsers. The alternative is using either Microsoft Notes or Evernote, which is not as simple as Scrapbook.
And additional encryption feature would be icing on the cake, but this would be better addressed separately.
FYI - the original Scrapbook author Gomita seem to have abandoned updates, but another author has developed an enhanced version, called Scrapbook X. Maybe he could be interested in developing that application for Vivaldi. It would be an especially good time to do this as Firefox's Scrapbook extension does not work with their new Quantum upgrade, only for their Long Term 54.x version which will stop being updated in a year.
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Automatic saving (backup) of session history. I wish Vivaldi saved the current session periodically as a backup, say at every 6 hours. That backup would be available from "File" > "Open Saved Session" as, for example, "Auto-saved 2018-01-08 16:23:54".
There are two potential uses:
- Crash, either of Vivaldi or of the OS.
- You have closed the "main" Vivaldi window, forgetting there is another "minor" Vivaldi window open.
(Case 2 is currently covered by recovering the tabs from the tab trash.)
Of course, you can save the current session manually, but it's more cumbersome because you have to go to the menu (there is no shortcut) and because you have to manually give the snapshot a name. For this reason, lazy as I am, I end up not taking backups frequently enough and suffer when Vivaldi crashes. (As you can see, this [user laziness] is the very reason why macOS and Windows come with a facility to automate backing-up.)
I found basically the same request in
Thread: "Feature requests for 1.9 / 1.10" Title: "Reliable Session Backup & Recovery"(Sorry I don't know how to quote or link to an existing posting.)
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@luetage I second that! In addition, Official method to restore the saved customizations piece by piece.
This would be extremely useful, as I have to erase my user profile from time to time (say, once in half a year) to solve an obscure problem.
A long-time user would have noticed that when an obscure problem hits a user, she or he asks a question about it here in the forum and often the suggestion given by other seasoned users is to delete the user profile or disable add-ons or both---that does often solve the problem.
But, because of the lack of an easy facility to restore my customizations piece by piece, I just start over from a fresh profile. For this reason, I'm very reluctant to customize Vivaldi and this deprives Vivaldi of half its charm!
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Profile BackUp
As said, the backup for Sessions and Custom Tweaks, would be nice an option to auto back up the profile to "My Documents".
At least for the most important data, some of it could be dispensable but the enough to run again in a System partition problem and to do not spend too much time doing the back up.
If I'm not wrong, some systems starts with the user documents on another partition, otherwise would be configured or asked at the very first time.
If not,
Next post
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Help article / SpeedDial bookmark to do a Profile BackUp
A Help article with the warning and the steps to do a Profile BackUp.
Current article Help > Full reset of Vivaldi would
be revised to add the Copy/Rename folder - and any other needed data - and tobe used as a SpeedDial bookmark- or a new one specified for that -.Not necessary to say that will prevent many problems.
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Option: Do not keep opened files in private windows
While in a private window, if you select "open" in the save dialog I want it to 1) open the file and delete it after it has run or 2) deletes the file once you exit the private window. 1) seems preferable, but I don't know which is the best option.
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specify multiple parameters for search engines
The use case for me would be:
Type in to address bar "
train liverpool 1600"I would have a search engine set up with nickname "train" and location:
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/MCO/%s{1}/today/%s{2}/dep(%s{0} would be "train", %s would contain all arguments still)Vivaldi would be lovely and take me to
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/MCO/liverpool/today/1600/dep(afterthought: you'd need to allow defaults for those parameters somehow, ie so that it gracefully handled cases where someone typed "
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Ability to combine domain and keyword filter in vivaldi://history
The Vivaldi "advanced" history is a powerful tool, and yet I use it very rarely. I think it misses a "simple" functionality to be genuinely useful in real life.
Currently, it looks nice and cool, and is efficient to check our browsing habits. However, I don't think it is a real help to look for something (meaning we can do it otherwise):
- If I only need a simple keyword research, I can use the history panel.
- If I need to filter the dates, 90% of the time the history panel is enough again (using the "last XX days" filter)
However, if the search is complex (ie the usecase when History tab should be useful), I want to be able to progress step by step: I remember it was that day, then this website, then this keyword, and so on...
The 2 ways I see to implement it (it may be done otherwise):
- Either: do not use the search field to filter by domain. Limit the search field to keywords, and use an other field or item to filter the domains.
- Or: Allow multiple words in the search field, connected by OR or AND logical syntax (or "|", "&", ...)
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Option to Lock/Protect pinned tabs.
I am tired of finding that some site that I had pinned is now a multitude of links in the past because I didn't remember to open a new tab to launch an entered url. We need a way to protect tabbed sites from drifting away to other sites.
An option to force entered url's or clicked links to open in new tabs.
In fact, this would be a valuable option for all links. Force them to open in new tabs.
I know it is my fault for not taking the time to open a new tab or not using some special mouse gesture or key combination. Sorry, I had been using a browser for years that didn't have this issue. I am now trained to expect tabs to automatically behave the way I want them to. -
Import/Export vivaldi://flags
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Option to close tab by using history back command?
When clicking a link that opens in a new tab, it would be nice that you can use the History Back command to close this tab and go back to the previous tab with the link you clicked.
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Is it possible to create tab thumbnails based on screen size?
Since tab thumbnails seems to be approximately 4x3 while screens are now all at least 16x9, thumbnails cannot show some contents, mostly in screen width.
It will be great if thumbnails could show all contents in page width.Best wishes
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Add option for tab cycling with mouse wheel : Wrap or No Wrap.
It stand for stopping wrapping around tabs when it reach the top left or top right tab (as Firefox, Linux etc).It would make the behavior useable.
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Search in page <CTRL-F> / <F3> : findbar is an overlay (it's displayed in front of the page)
Interesting for people that come from Firefox with Findbar Tweak : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/
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Search in page <CTRL-F> / <F3> : - Ctrl+F (Command+F on Mac) toggles the FindBar (close it too)
-- Optionally only close it if the FindBar already has focus; otherwise it will move focus to the FindBar instead of closing it, and will fill it with the selected text again (if that preference is enabled)Interesting for people that come from Firefox with Findbar Tweak : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/
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Search in page <CTRL-F> / <F3> : - Enable/Disable "QuickFind" so you can search for text immediately by typing anywhere in the webpage
Interesting for people that come from Firefox with Findbar Tweak : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/
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Search in page <CTRL-F> / <F3> : - Selecting text on a webpage immediately copies the selected text to the findbar and searches for it (optional of course)
Interesting for people that come from Firefox with Findbar Tweak : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/
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Search in page <CTRL-F> / <F3> : Keep highlight when closing findbar. Remove highlight by pressing <ESC>
Interesting for people that come from Firefox with Findbar Tweak : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/
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[Linux] Use system desktop notification
instead of chromium built in.
