Assign Shortcuts to Speed Dials

Darth904

Ability to assign shortcuts to the speed dial items. For me, the best thing of the Speed Dial I used in Firefox is to have the items with a shortcut so I can easily visit each without the need to open a new tab or go to the speed dial tab. That is speed. If I have to open a new tab and then look for the square for it I can as well start typing the address and let the suggestion bring the page I want out of it being used so frequently.

An option so when I open a new tab the focus is in the address bar, so I can type or paste an address right away without having to click on the address bar.
That when I close a window with one tab, undoing it restores the window with the one tab.
That when I maximize and then click again to return to the non-maximized window, it remembers the size it was before maximizing.

Pesala

Please post only one feature request in a thread.

I changed the thread title to the only one that is valid.

See settings, Tabs, Tab-handling, and disable "Focus page content on new tab"
This is the default behaviour
This is the default behaviour

Glenn9K

Bumping this thread. This feature would be highly appreciated and would boost browsing speed significantly by further improving the keyboard shortcut system.

Opera 12 had a feature like this in place, where you could press CTRL+number to get to the corresponding speed dial entry.

Pressing CTRL+3 for example, either from a new tab/speed dial, or from a random webpage, always would get me to my 3rd speed dial, in this case Ebay UK.

CTRL is now taken by default in Vivaldi, so we'd have to use another modifier key though.

Pesala

@glenn9k Users could always assign their own preferred shortcuts.

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Glenn9K

@pesala Of course, but the default values should stay as they are now even if/when the new feature is implemented, so people who are currently using the tab switching keys won't be confused.

A suggestion for the new feature would be to use this default mapping:

Ctrl+T Alt+T
Alt+1
Alt+2
Alt+3
Alt+4
Alt+5
Alt+6
Alt+7
Alt+8
Alt+9
Alt+0

The added Alt+T default secondary mapping for "New tab" so that you don't have to lift your "modifier finger" of the first key if opening a new tab and going to one of your speed dials directly with the keyboard.

dalinar

this would be awesome

opera6rules

Also requesting this and adding a rather specific, but also easy to do detail:
Allow use of Ctrl as the modifier (either standard or by making it selectable).

Reason: As a heavy multitabber I do not care for tab-1-to-9 hotkeys anyway, but have already mapped some numbers for tab cycling to my mouse. And I also got Ctrl for zooming. In Opera 12 the combination of both gives me on mouse shortcuts to my major bookmarks without needing any additional keys and I am really missing this in Vivaldi.

Opera12

Yes, please add the option to assign shortcut keys to the speeddials.
I wish Opera12 returned... (Just a bit updated, security, etc.). It is still better than all modern browsers, in many regards.
I think it is because Vivaldi isn't closer to Opera12, many users don't wanna use Vivaldi.

(Why are there more than 20 different browsers? Because the major and majority of browsers aren't easily configurable, if at all. For example, it should be very easy to edit the context/rightclick menu's. There are ten's of rightclick options which are never used, and the good ones aren't selectable by key or aren't available at all.)

jumpsq

A bit confused that this is not possible since I felt it was essential in presto. I'd like to go with @Glenn9K's approach and assign Alt+Number to spead dials / bookmarks on shortcut.

brimwats

definitely in favor of this, tried to get it set up today with autohotkey, but a native solution would be best

ryukusu

Please, add this feature to Vivaldi!
When Opera 12 was abandoned, I switched to Firefox. There, I had to find separate addons to have the same features. For example, mouse gestures, undo closed tabs and speed dial. Unfortunately, I can only assign shortcuts in an old "Fast Dial" version, that works only in Palemoon and Firefox.

I was forced to switch to a modern browser at work. So, I had to install an extension and write a Javascript code to make a keyboard shortcut just to open a page in a new tab! And it doesn't work everywhere.
At home, I use more keyboard shortcuts to open bookmarks.
I understand, that some extensions enhanced Opera 12 features, so I don't expect unlimited shortcuts. But please, add at least add a way to use Control+1..9 shortcuts for bookmarks. I've been using this feature for more than a decade!

ryukusu

Maybe it will be useful for someone.
To use Javascript for custom URL shortcuts, I added the "SmartKeyShortcuts" extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smartkey-shortcuts/aogbgmnbacmlobiajlmjhmbecjohglnl
Then I added this script to open URL in a new tab:

window.open("http://mail.yandex.ru", '_blank');
window.focus();

Here is the screenshot with the settings:

Unfortunately, it doesn't work with the Numpad, in the future, I will try to find a better extension. For now, it is part of the migration from Waterfox and old addons.

TyrionLannister

We do need to have feature for applying shortcuts to speeddial:

for changing from tabs to tabs speedial-tabs
for changing from one speeddial-tab to exact speeddial-tab
for going to exact links inside current speeddial tab.

Why don't we still don't have it?

Pesala

@TyrionLannister said in Assign Shortcuts to Speed Dials:

Why don't we still don't have it?

Probably because there are existing workarounds, this request has only 18 upvotes, and there are well over 5,000 feature requests.

Assign a nickname to each speed dial. Enter the nickname in the URL field and press Enter, or Shift Enter to open it in a new tab.

You could simply assign numbers, or mnemonic nicknames, e.g. vb for the Vivaldi Bug Reports form, BBC for the BBC website etc.

TyrionLannister

I missed this feature! needs to have shortcuts

for speeddials on the page
for tabs of speeddials

I hate to do this many years with an ugly mouse