Speed Dial Generator
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I've created a Speed Dial generator for Vivaldi. Just install it and reload your Speed Dial.
The quality is obviously inferior than a manually created Speed Dial but it's faster and easier.
The generation may fail at first because it may take a little longer than the time Vivaldi grabs the screen, so try again one or two times when the site is already cached. If it still does not work then it's because the site doesn't offer the resources the extension looks for.
There's no need to allow it on private browsing because Speed Dial generation never runs in private browsing.
Apparently this has changed, when you reload a speed dial thumbnail from a private window now the grabber process runs in private mode as well. This is actually good as you can generate thumbnails for sites you don't want any cache. But for this to work you'll need to allow the extension to run in private mode. -
@gwen-dragon Try again
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@an_dz In order to utilise Vivaldi Sync - do all instances of Vivaldi need this generator, or is the info/icon stored under bookmarks (and so synced automatically)?
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@gwen-dragon That's why I asked (bookmarks/speeddial is synced), so it depends where the data for this generator is stored.
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@gwen-dragon said in Speed Dial Generator:
You forget to add a link at Github readme to the latest crx.
Thanks for the tip, will do.
Q: Fetches the largest icon file?
Yes, first tries SVG files and then move to other meta/link until one is found.
@tbgbe said in Speed Dial Generator:
@an_dz In order to utilise Vivaldi Sync - do all instances of Vivaldi need this generator, or is the info/icon stored under bookmarks (and so synced automatically)?
All instances need this generator as Speed Dial thumbs are not synced.
@gwen-dragon said in Speed Dial Generator:
@tbgbe The sync of extension data is not implemented yet in Vivaldi, that will come.
This extension has no preferences thus nothing to sync.
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@an_dz Sometimes this 3rd party returns nicer images.
There was some thread with Python script utilising this service. -
@rotfl Closed source, uses user data for ads. No thanks.
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@an_dz I am fully aware of this.
I mentioned about it just as a point of reference - I hope it was not lethal -
@rotfl It does manage to get logos for sites like Microsoft, which my extension fails. It probably uses the favicon for this but I don't know how to work with .ico files with JavaScript.
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@an_dz Yup, looks like favicon.
They also mentioned something about utilisation ofog:logo
tag.If only Vivaldi could sync thumbnails life will be much easier...
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@rotfl
og:logo
is not defined by OpenGraph so I doubt anyone uses that.I have found out a way to check the favicon size but it's very slow, the code checks all resources even before the favicon size is checked. So now I managed to put it as a fallback icon if nothing is found, but the icon still needs to be bigger than 48px.
So here's the first update, v1.1 bringing compatibility to more sites.
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Awesome, I'll wish that this extensión was native and that the thumbs will saved in some directory.
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Sorry, but how to install it? I donwloaded the Generator and the crx file, I read the readme, did all the steps, but it does not install.
How to install extentions from a local files / folders?
Thank you
Edit: DEVELOPER MODE ON is needed
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@burbuja Thanks for the info, added it in the readme.
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In case anyone is/was using this extension I've updated it to work with the latest version of Vivaldi. It stopped working at some time.
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Great extension! I love it!
I have some quesitons though.
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What wrong with some Google services? Some of it are great, some - generating preivew, but google docs shows unknown dialog box.
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Some thumbnails don't fit very well:
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The generator looks on multiple places for an image but not all sites offer one and so it shows the preview. Sometimes it can be that the extension was too slow, in this case a reload should fix it as now things will be in cache.
As for Chrome Web Store, no extension is allowed to run on it for security reasons.
Google Docs is a bug as I did not expect the site would show a popup, this can be easily fixed, I'll put an updated version later tonight.
Ebay is another bug that I'll have to investigate on how to fix it without breaking others.
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@An_dz I haven’t seen this before. Doesn’t work on all pages but produces satisfying results when successful. Good job, I’ll be using this from now on.
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New release, fixes some of the issues @phanex pointed out and also hardly fails now.
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Why would i use an extension when vivaldi has a speed dial pre-installed.
Whatever rocks your boat i suppose.