When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?
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@BoneTone
I luuuuuurve reading stuff like this! What a really well-considered passionate post -- fabbo, teehee.@BoneTone said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
tabs & tab stacks - I put the tab bar on the left and the panel on the right
Oh noooo, now you've done it [now i might need to play around all over again]! That used to be my arrangement too [& its reverse], but for a comparatively long time now i have them both on the rhs.
Since my recent discovery of the mod to reduce pinned tabs to an iconised grid, my panel is [mostly] closed [but visible], & my adjacent tab-column [at max default width] has static thumbnails off but hover thumbnails on. Prior to my discovery of that mod, i kept the panel open all the time, displaying the Window Panel which i used as a defacto TreeStyleTab functionality, & i kept the tabs-column minimised.
My primary reason for the decision to place both those features on the same side was ergonomic; to minimise the amount of trans-screen mousing i needed [my original placement was one on each side, for a sense of aesthetic balance, but soon enough the ergonomics won out].
@BoneTone said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
custom search engines - ... Being able to access pretty much any search tool on the internet through the search field in the address bar definitely saves time. The more you define, the more time you save
This is a magnificent feature, without which i could not have created this essential one: http://www.montypython.net/search/search.php?q=%s
And there was much rejoicing...
@Catweazle said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
tremendously addictive ... any other browser seems Tatty
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@Steffie But he's doing it backwards. Panel goes on the left, and tabs on the right.
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@Ayespy Haaaaaaaaaaaaa -- you're both doing it wrong!
:face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:
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@Ayespy said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
@Steffie But he's doing it backwards. Panel goes on the left, and tabs on the right.
You'd hate where my start menu & task bar are in Windows then... task bar on the right, puts the start menu in the top right -- caddycorner to where it is by default. In Linux I don't use a start menu, and task bars, though I have two of them, are off by default and rarely ever turned on. To get a start menu, I just right- click anywhere on the desktop or hit the context menu key with the desktop in focus.
@Steffie Thanks for the kind words. Centering the content on screen is the most ergonomic part of having the tab bar & panel on opposite sides. I don't see tab tiles unless I hover, but I didn't use a mod for that, it's just Vivaldi settings. I don't interact much with the tab bar directly, however, mostly I use the window panel to manage my tabs. The panel is always showing, but I've got a few dozen panels created, of which I probably use ~8-12 most frequently.
Hiding the tab bar or panel, or making any of my most used panels appear is just a mouse gesture or keyboard shortcut away. Same with focusing either, or activating(/moving/selecting) up/down the panels(/tabs). All of the shortcuts & gestures are closely related for similar actions, those semantic schemes I talking about. I plan to publish a blog post(s) on that, I just need to find the time.
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My another favourite feature was added recently - Speed Dial navigation with arrow keys. Very useful when using Vivaldi on the big TV display.
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@Stardust I thought this had always been possible, or maybe it was the tab key. But somehow I was navigating the speed dial in our TV with the keyboard.
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@BoneTone I don't remember when exactly this feature was added but it wasn't available at the beginning. BTW I made a Feature Request https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/30277/speed-dial-navigation-using-arrow-keys
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The thing I really like about Vivaldi is the theming. I can change some of the colours.
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Nearly since the first moment. Came from Opera as it dies. Loved it!
(Use the Mail-/Feed-Client since today)First I was a bit afraid. But new is new. So I started to arrange with the new setup. And what should I say? It´s good. Only that you need an addon for everything - in this point Opera was better!
Last but not least: The comunity is fantastic. If you don´t know - there is one who knows.
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Vivaldi 2 point something.
Quick commands is my favourite feature. Now, every time, I use another browser, I keep thinking "The only way is to Ctrl+T?"
I mostly use Quick Commands for bookmarks and searching but never for finding a tab. -
@aqm said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
for finding a tab
To find tabs in a long list of them, I just use the search feature of the window panel.
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@Stardust said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
My another favourite feature was added recently - Speed Dial navigation with arrow keys. Very useful when using Vivaldi on the big TV display.
Is this a setting that has to be enabled? It doesn't work for me out of the box, and I can't find a setting that would seem to enable the feature you describe.
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I started using Vivaldi at around 1997 I think (<presto era). Then after some 15+ years I took a break while it was taking its break, then back with it again. My favourite feature is JvT.
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@purgat0ri said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
Is this a setting that has to be enabled? It doesn't work for me out of the box, and I can't find a setting that would seem to enable the feature you describe.
Try to enable this setting: Focus Page Content on New Tab
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@npro said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
started using Vivaldi at around 1997
Um, huh? I'm certain that you're making some cunning reference here, but i'm too dimwitted to grasp it. V TP1 was Jan/Feb 2015, so...
Yes yes, i know i'll be embarrassed once you let me know what you actually meant there.
I wondered if you simply meant Opera Presto, but that can't be it either, because you also said
<presto era
. Did Opera have a pre-Presto version?From the Likes, obviously three other people do understand your clever ruse. I wish i didn't have to ask.
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@Steffie c'mon, you are so clever you eat those (/edit: this kind of writing I mean) for breakfast!
Did Opera have a pre-Presto version?
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@Steffie said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
Opera
yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
I only started appreciating and using Opera as main browser from v6.0 to its end at 12.x -
Presto was the browser engine of the Opera web browser from the release of Opera 7 on 28 January 2003, until the release of Opera 15 on 2 July 2013
Well well, how cool, i truly had no inkling at all that there were Opera versions pre-Presto, so now your cryptic post makes sense. I can no longer recall & this might be out by a number or two, but afaik i only discovered Opera around v9. It never crossed my mind that Presto had not always, at that time, been its engine. Ta both of you for elucidating!
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@npro I had known and used Opera off & on since the late 90s, probably first used it in late 97 or early 98. I can't recall exactly, but I know where I was living so it had to be in that range. IE was definitely my primary browser in those years. I began using Opera more in late 2003, again I know where I was living & working and why so I can date that to the month, November. It's harder to date when it became my primary browser though, it was a gradual transition that occurred in the range of 2004-2006. For my work, I pretty much had to all the popular browsers, so I had a rather complex data model and had all my data stored in several browsers. From late 2003 through 2009 I used them all, but the UI of Opera was my favorite. Unfortunately, unlike Vivaldi, there were a significant number of sites that didn't work well in Opera, so even if it was my preferred primary, I still needed to keep other browsers configured as I liked them to use on a regular basis. My primary browser didn't mean as much a it does now. After the debacle of dumping Presto I tried Raju hard to give Opera a chance, but their lack of support for bookmarks lasting ridiculously long drove me away for good. When they finally brought back bookmarks I tried again, but the love was gone and it didn't offer significant advantages. I bounced between Chrom(e/ium) & Fx, depending on whether excessive CPU or memory consumption was annoying me most in the moment. When Vivaldi appeared on the scene, I knew I had found the browser that suited my needs, and despite its rough edges early on, the pace of development was impressive & encouraged me to stick with it. I joined the forum back then, but dropped off as I switched careers and when I came back I couldn't recall my username or email address that I had used, so I eventually have trying to find it and just created a new one, then I moved, got a new job, feel off again, and the same stupid thing happened. Now I keep better track of my registrations and I shouldn't suffer that loss again.
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@BoneTone said in When did you start using Vivaldi and what’s your favourite feature?:
Now I keep better track of my registrations and I shouldn't suffer that loss again.
Like my sister-in-law, in a post-it next to the screen