(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

rkzn

Oh! Got it, at last. They all work as you (both) say. Thank you

I must have done something wrong when replacing vivaldi by chrome… or changed the wrong one.

Any link without the "#a"? Just in case there is a odd setting without an 'a'.

Ayespy

Doesn't seem to work without at least some search syntax, ON THIS PARTICULAR PAGE for some reason. I don't really know why. If your desired internal page should also require a search term and there (unaccountably) is no "a" in it, you could always try "e" because it is the most commonly used letter in the entire English language.

TbGbe · Win: Snapshot Vivaldi 7.4.3671.3

Of course, if you know what you are looking for - then you also know the appropriate search term!
e.g you could have used vivaldi://chrome/settings/search#pass
for password settings.

greybeard

Well on my MacBook I get the following results (Vivaldi 1.0.303.32):

On OS X 10.11:

vivaldi://settings takes me to the Vivaldi settings dialogue.
vivaldi://chrome/settings routes me to #1(vivaldi://settings) but displays a blank white page the Vivaldi at the top left, NOT expected
Ayespy's variant, chrome://settings/search#a, (or any variation) takes me to the same page as #2

:unsure:

There is also the page: vivaldi://vivaldi-urls which displays but not all the links work on this system. Perhaps not yet implemented(?).

greybeard

A "Sticky" post on page one (spreadsheet-like) showing what requests are proposed and their status.

Could also show a proposed timeline for the feature to be implemented or if it is not possible to implement.

Would save time searching so as not to make duplicate posts.

Tiamarth

I've never used a Mac, so any advice I give you would be based on my experience with other platforms and things I've seen on the forums.
To that end, I've read about people having issues on the Mac version that either don't exist for other platforms or are a lot less common.

I can also say that the internal links from vivaldi://vivaldi-urls don't do anything for me on Linux (more accurately, they ask permission to run the application "xdg-open" and then don't do anything regardless of what I choose), and haven't done anything for the last several versions. It was even brought up in the Linux subforum some time ago, and no one's mentioned it since - at least, not that I've seen or remember seeing.

Also, " vivaldi://chrome/settings " acts as you described for me as well. You need to add a query to the end, so: vivaldi://chrome/settings/search#a

ShinOokami

Finally a new browser that understand what a Browser should contain, with just a few more feature Vivaldi will be unbeatable in my book.
What I miss though is;
Quick Preferences, giving a short list of settings (preferably from mouse-pointer location) where one can;
enable/disable JavaScript, Cookies, loading of images or auto-play of animated images, plugins, and maybe some simple pop-up settings.

-integrated RSS reader (not through the mail server as Opera 12 had)

Some more advanced settings
Particularly pertaining cookies and passwords
-for the cookies we would like to see the ability to personal accept or block every Cookie request (except third party ones that have already been filtered away if using the "block third party cookies" function)
-for passwords we would like to be able to select when to be asked to save passwords or if we want passwords to be saved at all (maybe we even want every password we write to be saved? Though I highly doubt that).
-an advanced setting on how the browser should handle different files (like when pressing a PDF file if it should use a particular program to open it use the system default, or simply opening it internally in the browser (if that is a possibility for the browser))
-it would also be great with an advanced tab under downloaded where we can chose where different file-types are downloaded to.
-setting for opening new pages from links or same domane in a stack under the current window (could be triggered by a key-binding similar to the to the standard "ctrl+mousbutton" like "ctrl+alt+mousbutton" )

-~~next I hope you can implement Google's spelling suggestion~~ found out you already have it thanks great work
-we would love to see implemented a docking of the dev-tools and console, preferably a modular one, where you can divide the browser in up to 4 parts and have a different developers tool tab in each part..
-we would also love to see some more panels for the side panel. But I guess this is on the way
-more extensions (or a better way to download and install chrome extensions)
-adding custom mouse gestures.
-removal or utilization of the 2 inch dead-space on the left of the tab bar.
-a reading view similar to the one in Microsoft edge (one of the few things they did right)
-a mobile version, I truly hope you will make a mobile version of Vivaldi some time in the future

Sincerely
Shin Ookami

Tiamarth

@praxisseizure:

1. Dragging tabs between open windows
2. Drag tab off to desktop which creates a new window
[…]
4. Remember last window size when opening new window
5. Being able to drag the window around the screen by dragging on the tabs area where it is empty. (e.g. If there aren't enough tabs open to populate the upper tab area, the empty space should act like a windows title bar and be draggable to move the window.
[…]
7. Sidebar (bookmarks, mail, etc.) dockable to the the bottom
8. Appearance - option to set custom colors as opposed to just "light" and "dark" - more fully featured customization essentially.
9. Highlight text >> right click menu search option that conforms to search engine choice (as opposed to Google)
[…]
15. Option to show installed and active extensions (such as AdBlock and Kaspersky)
16. KeepVid support (I could be wrong about this as I haven't tried yet but installing extensions is quite unintuitive at the moment)
17. Option to remove the search area and only use the address bar for search
18. CTL+ & CTL- to be zoom by default
19. Option to remove Home Icon from the Back/Forward/Refresh area
[…]
21. Sidebar Icon for Browsing History (and within, the right-click or icon option to delete it)

1&2 have been requested numerous times, and I believe I've read that the devs are planning to add this functionality.
4. Should be solved by downloading the latest snapshot at the dev blog. (If you're on TP4, you're not on the latest snapshot.)
5. See #4.
7. But then we couldn't call it a sidebar :o - Interesting idea, though.
8. See this thread.
9. See #4.
15. See #4.
16. Bookmarklets don't work right now, I've seen it discussed on the forums, I don't remember how that went. You can search the forums here.
17. Vivaldi settings > Search > untich "Display Search Field in Address Bar"
18. They're default for me. This might be another thing solved by updating to the latest snapshot. See #4.
19. Using the information from #8, add this style:

button.button-toolbar.home {
    display: none !important;
}

```21\. Add chrome://history/ as a web panel.

D0J0P

I would love to have the about:history work as a web panel, but the page it shows is a desktop version, and it looks bad and isn't very nice to use. I wish V would add their own history panel!

mrmamen

Now that the tab switching works so great I'd like to see another option:
When pressing the middle mouse button to open a tab in the background I would like it to be the "next" tab in the recently used tab-order, not the last.

blupp

I am using 3 different operating systems.

From Firefox, I am used to the very easy-to-use profilemanager, so I always can use the same profile in different OS.

How to do that in Vivaldi?

Guilimote

@sisisisi:

It would be very helpful in some cases if one could disable sounds on a tab by clicking on the speaker icon next to the tab's name.

+1 !

Automatic adverts / video playback is the plague of modern web. Being able to quickly detect which tab is playing audio is already nice; but being able to mute it quickly would be a killer feature!

Sharku

I would like to have an image properties feature, which shows dimensions, size and in case of a .gif how many frames it has.

Like in Opera:

mythra

sorry if it was already required…

it was very useful in Opera 12 the feature that allows proxies to be setted independent by the system

thank you

P.S.
I still use Opera 12 at work for this feature.... :blink:

nickji

I'd really like "View source" to open the source in my text editor (or at least for it to be an option that can be set) - it was one of the features I found most useful in the old Opera. I used it all the time for developing websites, and am still using the old opera to do that, as no other browsers seem to do that..

nickji

@Sharku:

I would like to have an image properties feature, which shows dimensions, size and in case of a .gif how many frames it has.

Like in Opera:

Me too - very useful

Viryu

@Sharku:

I would like to have an image properties feature, which shows dimensions, size and in case of a .gif how many frames it has.

Like in Opera:

Oh, same.

Plus a button near the address bar for bookmarks browsing, like in Opera 12, Maxthon, Firefox, etc.

bhelyer

I did a search for encoding and shift-jis, but I didn't find anything, so here I am. Apologies if it's been brought up.

Vivaldi has no way of changing a pages encoding that I can see, and no attempt at auto detection of non-standard (non-specified) encodings.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/gospels/thomas.html

Open this in Vivaldi (left), you'll see garbage. Firefox (right) seems to be doing some kind of magic auto-detection.

The above website does not correctly tag its encoding (Shift-JIS). This is fairly common for older/amateur Japanese websites. An 'encoding' menu would be appreciated.

D0J0P

Another UI request . . .

Remove the transparent backgrounds on favicons. I'm using Microsoft Edge and the tabs look nicer without the backgrounds on the favicons.

Match and even beat the minimalism of the icons Edge has. Have tab animations and menu animations like theirs, but more material design, and at 60fps if you can.

Edit: Extra thing Edge does better than Vivaldi is scaling. Scaling of websites is nicer. Text is sharper in Edge than Vivaldi, and the texts, pictures, windows, etc. are scaled more nicely in Edge. Like this website has slightly smaller grey area on the side than Vivaldi, and the website itself is easier to view.

someone

More granular content zoom (e.g., 95%, 105% or 115%).

someone