(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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- An easy way to install Chrome extensions.
It should already be easy to install Chrome extensions. Here are some methods that have helped people who had problems with this in the past:
- Make sure you're on the the latest Vivaldi snapshot. (TP4 is not the latest release.)
- Navigate to vivaldi://extensions > click "Get more extensions" and try again.
- Sign-in to Vivaldi by using the internal page, vivaldi://chrome-signin and try again
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Active tab is not highlighted properly on some pages (Wikipedia inactive tabs have gray text on black background and the active tab is white on black, hard to distinguish).
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Web Panels being able to format RSS feeds into a readable form would be great.
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Opera user since v5 here. I'm glad to have found Vivaldi! There's still hope for an awesome browser. A couple things I have really been missing are:
- Keyboard shortcut action to clear text from text box/form on page and also the address bar and other interface text inputs. Being a Linux user I always used the keyboard shortcut CTRL+U for the clear action in Opera.
- Fast Forward (next page) upon mouse flip forward.
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Make browsing via the TOR network an option.
It would be great to be able to enable/disable anonymously browsing via TOR proxy in vivaldi. -
Some features that I personally loved in that other browser and would love to see again:
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- find in hyperlink text only
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- select part of hyperlink text with the mouse (instead of dragging the whole link)
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- customisable mouse gestures
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- links panel, showing all the hyperlinks on the page
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- user mode (the page actions menu is a good start)
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- an option to stop automatically playing sound/video when loading a page (try starting a browser with 30 tabs, 4 of which immediately start playing music…)
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- the option to have a window without tabs
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- smaller UI elements
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- smaller UI elements
I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but those would already be great
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select part of hyperlink text with the mouse (instead of dragging the whole link)
Already possible, and not particularly difficult once you know the technique.
Start dragging just above the linked text at the point where you want the selection to begin, then drag to the end of the selection.
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Start dragging just above the linked text at the point where you want the selection to begin, then drag to the end of the selection.
Thanks I did not know that. This works nicely for links without too much around them, but not for a link inside a text paragraph: you'll instead select part of the line above/below.
Still, good to know.
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I am really waiting for a nice Opera-12-function:
Press CTRL+[1-9] to open the website on position 1-9 on speed dial page.Really safes a lot of time
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Some things I'd like to have:
1 Drag a link into the bookmarks panel to create a new bookmark (or right click - add link to bookmarks). At present, you have to open the link first.
Say, you are watching a youtube video. On the right, there is a list of related videos, some of which seem interesting. So I'd just drag them to my "Read Later" folder in the Bookmarks.
2 Option to store the Notes and Bookmarks in a synchronized folder like Dropbox or Yandex Disk. -
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- the option to have a window without tabs
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- smaller UI elements
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- smaller UI elements
You can toggle the tab bar a few different ways:
1. Press F2, type "toggle tab bar," select the corresponding menu entry, hit enter.
2. Open settings > Tabs > "Show Tab Bar"
3. Open settings > Keyboard > View > Toggle Tab Bar > set a shortcut for toggling the tab bar.You can also toggle the whole UI a few different ways:
1. Press F2, type "toggle UI," select the corresponding menu entry, hit enter.
2. Open settings > Appearance > Show UI
3. Press ctrl + F11You can adjust the size of the UI by going to the Vivaldi settings > Appearance > User Interface Scale
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Yup I just installed the snapshot and it works.
You can't manually select a Firefox profile, "Firefox" option is invisible because I'm using a portable Firefox.
I don't want to hide whole, I want to hide certain buttons on the left panel.
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One feature from Firefox that I really miss is what Locationbar² provides: linkified URL segments. With this the URL bar basically becomes a breadcrumbs menu. There is no Chrome extension that does this well (I think extensions can't really access the content of the omnibar). It would be great if this could be added to Vivaldi.
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Iterface related: Open new tab next to active. Like in real Opera.
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When you open a new tab with middle click or whatever, it should open next to which tab it is called from.
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You can toggle the tab bar a few different ways:
Thanks, but that is not what I meant. I meant a window with no tabs open - i.e. no speed dial, just an empty window. Currently when you close the last tab, a new one automatically opens. In Opera 12 there was an option for this (Preferences - Advanced - Tabs - Additional tab options… - Allow window with no tabs).
You can adjust the size of the UI by going to the Vivaldi settings > Appearance > User Interface Scale
Somehow I completely overlooked that, thank you!
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Iterface related: Open new tab next to active. Like in real Opera.
But make it optional, please, I like my tabs to go to the "end of the line" (To keep unrelated stuff apart I use more than one window in more than one workspaces)
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I wish I could have a address bar on full-screen mode. Probably not there all the time - or it would be a not-so-full-screen-ish mode
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I wish I could have a address bar on full-screen mode. Probably not there all the time - or it would be a not-so-full-screen-ish mode
- but make it pop up with a keyboard short-cut (e.g. alt-D).The Go To Page dialogue in Opera 12.17 (F2 shortcut) was sometimes useful for browing in fullscreen mode.
If you assign a shortcut to toggle the address bar, you can show it in Chromeless mode (Ctrl F11), but not in fullscreen mode. The panels can be shown in fullscreen mode, so you can access your bookmarks.
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I wish I could have a address bar on full-screen mode.[…]
The Go To Page dialogue in Opera 12.17 (F2 shortcut) was sometimes useful for browing in fullscreen mode.
Exactly. That's it (I have 12.16 and it works both with F2 or Alt+D)
you can show it in Chromeless mode (Ctrl F11), […] The panels can be shown in fullscreen mode […]
Nice, I haven't thought of no-UI mode, I guess it is a new concept to me
That is something already, might even get better, than full-screen, if customisable.I note that I seem to be unable to get the address bar in either mode, no-UI mode included; and the panels do not show on full-screen. (1.0.283 @ linux)
