Solved Drag and Drop in Download Panel
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I really do hope this gets addressed soon, as it's my only consistent annoyance with Vivaldi at the moment. I remember when I first got Vivaldi and discovered I couldn't drag & drop from the downloads panel, I was really surprised and it almost turned me off of the browser entirely. It just felt so unpolished (completely unlike the rest of the experience, as I soon found) and it made me worried that the rest of the browser would lack basic features like this. I seriously think this could make new users give up on Vivaldi before experiencing all the other great things it can do.
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Since this incarnation of the feature requests forum opened and even before that, I have been following the implementation of feature requests closely. People often ask, “Why hasn't this been done yet? It is so basic in a browser.”
I asked Jón about their decision making process in this live chat not long ago.
It is not just a matter of votes, and what seems useless to some users is regarded as essential to others.
The way I see it, there is no benefit at all in getting frustrated by the lack of some feature that you want. One must be pragmatic and use a workaround until it is implemented. As users, all we can do is suggest workarounds. This is not an attempt to fob off any request; it is just a reality check.
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@Pesala Problem is if too may features are implemented then an accusation of bloat and feature creep would ensue..catch-22 situation really.
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I really do hope this gets implemented sometime. It's the only reason we still use google chrome for some tasks.
As an example: We use woocommerce as a store, gmail, whatsapp and telegram for most communication. Several times a day we have to download order pdf's/csv's, reports, etc from woocommerce and attach them to email or send via whatsapp/telegram web. In Chrome this is as simple and download, switch the tab, drag what you just download into the email/chat.
While the workaround for Vivaldi to open explorer works: 1) it's an extra unnecessary step (imo), 2) the explorer window often pops up right in the way of where you need to drag the file to. 3) as we download so many files and need to keep copies, we archive our downloads folders monthly, but from mid to the end of the month with so many files in the downloads folder, windows always takes a few seconds to reorder the files after the folder opens. So you can't just click and drag the file as it suddenly jumps from being at the bottom to being at the top, so you have to wait for it to move position before grabbing it. It's another delay.I love Vivaldi but this is the only thing that keeps us using chrome. To put into some form of how much time would be wasted: 20 downloads per day (probably far more, depends what orders are in) x (2 seconds to open explorer + 3 seconds for it to reorganise + 3 seconds to move the explorer window) = 160 seconds a day. This gives us 2 mins 40 secs per day x 20 working days in a month = 53 mins 20 secs per month, per employee that would be wasted. It may seem like a simple thing to just use a workaround, but for us the workaround is a browser that allows drag and drop downloads.
(I've ignored the time to drag the file, switch tabs, etc as this has to happen anyway).This isn't meant as a negative towards those who've suggested the workaround (I'm glad it works for some) or those who advise it's low priority for the devs. It's just an explanation on why the workaround isn't a good fit for us and why we still use another browser until it's implement in Vivaldi.
So we're back to: I do hope this get implment in the future.
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@BH9 said in Drag and Drop in Download Panel:
This gives us 2 mins 40 secs per day
Your employees spend more time per day spacing out staring at the downloads list. Do you really think you're optimizing your employees work habits on the order of 160 seconds per day, 3 seconds at a time? They kill more of the company's time playing games on their phones in the bathroom, or smoking a cigarette. If a product was truly the best option for the staff due to other efficiencies, and there was one issue which cost less than 11 hours per year, that's a very minor cost.
Thank you for the math demonstrating just how trivial an issue this is. I use Vivaldi because it's best for me. It's not best for everybody, no browser is. For me, the myriad workflows that Vivaldi enables that Chrome does not saves me far more than 11 hours per year. If Vivaldi doesn't provide the same benefits to your employees, I would question the idea of putting them on the browser in the first place. Really, I'd let them use whatever browser they were most comfortable with, and the whole concept of compounding the time becomes irrelevant.
If you're standardizing your workforce to all use the same browser, then what are the reasons for choosing Vivaldi in the first place? Presumably because it enables far more efficient workflows, and I would hope the gains are far in excess of 11 hours per year if you're making people use a niche browser that the vast majority of them have probably never even heard of.
If it's just some tasks that you use Chrome for, but generally prefer Vivaldi, I think you're in the majority. Most of us probably have several browsers on our systems & we reach for the tool that suits the job at the time. I've got half a dozen browsers on my workstation. Vivaldi is my daily driver because, as I mentioned above, it's more efficient for the ways I like to work -- much more efficient. The ways are too numerous to list. But there are some things I pull up either Chrome, Firefox or Edge to do.
I spend more than 11 hours per year taking naps in the office.
Decades ago when I tracked time for billing purposes the smallest increment was 6 minutes. 160 seconds isn't even half of that. We literally couldn't even track a loss of time that small, and that's after you've compounded many many multiples of less time than a sip of water takes. No business is tracking human efficiencies that tiny.
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Wait in 2025.
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Agreed, as an email marketer, it's a hassle to have to go looking for images in the windows explorer when other browsers provide this feature...
I didn't want to abandon Vivaldi, It might seem like such a worthless feature from afar, but it's a critical functionality that saves us a hella time!
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Just registered to vote this feature up! Finally found a modern browser after palemoon and its missing such a simple feature!
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That's so ridiculous that Vivaldi does not support this (simple) function. I install The Browser, do long-time setup all settings, bookmarks, logins, etc... Getting to work and find out this function doesn't work!
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@Pesala Oh there was magnifying glass icon! Thank you. (I clicked right button and "show in file manager")
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@lonm this is a pretty good workaround. Feature would still be useful though.
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waiting !
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Still nothing on this? Honestly this feature is truly needed, especially for developers
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I would like this feature too. I use WordPress and with Chrome, Opera, Firefox etc., it's easy to download an image then go to WP, drag the image I've downloaded and drop it into the blog post I've just written. But with Vivaldi, I have to fiddle around more than I like.
I still choose Vivaldi over other browsers, but I do agree with what one person above said, it's such a basic feature that by not having it, Vivaldi could be putting off new users... Vivaldi should definitely add this!
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Just trying to find out how to do the drag and drop from download panel and found this topic in support instead. I would like to upvote the feature. There's workaround but the implement of this function will be a good improvement to user experience. All these small conveniency adds a little bonus in user heart.
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@bqqlmkr2qqr2fusv Vote for the first post if you haven't already done so. (Voting again will remove your vote).
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They have lost more time trying show workarounds and to excuse the no implementation of this feature than it would have taken to go ahead and code it.
The reason to code it is simple. The other browsers have it, and we need it badly enough to write here.
When I discovered Vivaldi, I was happy since I though this would be the browser to replace them all. Because of this feature I still have to keep using firefox.
I am getting tired of working with two browsers. Having two browsers opened is inefficient, it is a real pain in the neck, and causes me to make mistakes. I use the abovementioned feature so many times in a day than I find myself using firefox way more than I would like.
When I get finally get fed up with all the window switching I cannot guarantee you that Vivaldi will be the chosen browser.
Just for this one unimportant feature according to you.
Last time I abandoned firefox it took me more than 10 years to even bother installing it again.
It has todo with usability and efficiency. Without it, Vivaldy is much less usable and efficient than the alternatives for the people who like myself do use dragging from the download panel
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@jespin40 said in Drag and Drop in Download Panel:
They have lost more time trying show workarounds and to excuse the non-implementation of this feature than it would have taken to go ahead and code it.
The developers have not wasted much time on it at all. Only other users and volunteers like myself have spent some of our free time trying to help users come to terms with the way things are.
Although this is an old request, with lots of votes, it is not yet tagged as In Progress, Pipeline, or even as Nice to Have.
I have no idea how much time it would take to code, and to keep up to date with each change to the underlying Chromium code, but I do know that it is very easy to work around it.
On 16 Jan 2019, Community Manager @OlgA said:
Have pinged the devs again though.
Maybe it is time to ping them again, but please don't hold your breath waiting for this feature. Try the workaround offered.
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On looking through the most upvoted feature requests, I see that this is currently twelfth on the list, but is not even tagged as Pipeline yet. Is it a bug or a missing feature?
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I first time try Vivaldi some days ago. Overall - very good browser, BUT... There is no drag'n'drop from downloads? Are you kidding me? That's.. basic, as said before other users. BASIC!
Option to use webpanel with internal browser address is piece of...
I hope this (I say it again) basis feature will be added asap!
