(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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I really love this so far, and I'd like to see it catch on. That said, there are really three things that I don't think I live without after having used Maxthon and Chrome for a while.
- Tab pushing between devices (Similar to Opera Unite). http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/414493-maxthon-cloud-push.jpg?thumb=y
- Ripping out tabs to new windows OR split-screen tabs. http://www.micromart.co.uk/sites/micromart/files/maxthon_split_screen.jpg
- Pop-out video and fast-forwarding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjtcknDiY7Q
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I think there are some really good ideas on here, here is my two cents.
I saw further up the post a suggestion for themes to further differentiate the menu bar from the navigation window, I think this would be a great idea, would also help to give the browser a little flair.
A way to turn off the "Remember Password" feature is a must for me. I never want my browser to remember any of my passwords and the constant "Should we remember this for you?" Question gets a little heavy handed.Other than that I am pretty pleased about the development. I can't wait to see the finished product!
Thanks for giving me an alternative to Chrome!
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- Possibility drag bookmarks on second monitor (as in chrome) - in particular, the e-mail client in the future
- Mouse gesture to return to the top of the page as home button
Thank You:)
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Hmmmm…. Since this is build via web technologies, I'd love a way to directly tweak the CSS to my liking.
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Hmmmm…. Since this is build via web technologies, I'd love a way to directly tweak the CSS to my liking.
People are doing it. If you know how to tweak CSS, you can do your own tweaks. You'll just have to save a backup of the file, as your changes will not be saved (at THIS stage of development) from one version to the next.
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Just discovered Vivaldi and am very pleased to find something like this is happening.
My wishlist so far:
Extensions (you can't - and it wouldn't be a good thing to - anticipate everything someone might need - that leads to bloatware). I have figured out how to use vivaldi:extensions - but it would be nice to have this implimented properly and extension buttons displayed where they should be on the interface.
Here's a more unusual usability wish - In the old versions of Opera dragging and dropping an image from the browser to my email program resulted in the image being attached to the email I was writing. I really liked this. Vivaldi has now gone back to what every other browser does - which is when I drag and drop an image onto an email it pastes the URL of the image into the email. I really miss that feature as it was so useful at times.
Keep up the good work - and please don't put tons of bloat into the browser. We have plenty of other browsers that do that. I don't want my browser to do everything (Mail, Torrent etc). I have good lean and mean apps that do those things. I just want my browser to be a fast lean and mean browser and THATS ALL.
Thanks!
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_"I don't want my browser to do everything (Mail, Torrent etc). I have good lean and mean apps that do those things. I just want my browser to be a fast lean and mean browser and THATS ALL.
Thanks!"_
Vivaldi's reason for existence is to include tons of features, including mail. Whatever you don't want to use, don't turn on, and it won't be in your way, and won't affect your browsing experience - just like in old Opera. Everything came with the install package, but it was possible to run it as simple and lean, or as baroque as you wanted. That's what no longer exists in the browser market, and what Vivaldi was envisioned to remedy.
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That's fine if those additional modules are implemented as loadable DLL's (or equivalent on OS's other than Windows) which do not load if you don't want to use them. What I'd like to avoid is the browser becoming a massive memory footprint using up a ton of RAM even if these things are not turned on. I know GB of RAM are not that expensive nowadays but that RAM is still used and if you have other applications running that also need a lot of RAM it can become problematical (not to mention it slows things down - loading etc).
This approach can also cause other issues - a) compromising the browser interface because of the needs of these other modules and b) spending loads of time on irrelevant (to those who just want a browser) functionality which could otherwise be spent on making the browser a lot better.
Implimenting mail/torrent and more takes a lot of resource and time. I hope that the team will not spread themselves too thin and so end up doing none of these things really well. I'd rather have one thing that is really really good than half a dozen things that are mediocre and done better by other applications.
But my negativity comes from years spent in development teams building large products and making these mistakes over and over again. As a result although I may sound negative - I am not really. If the team think they can do it all then whatever - let them try and I wish them well.
I will watch with interest what happens and hope we end up with something good at the end and I am 100% behind the effort.
Given the fact I have been using Vivaldi as it is currently all evening without feeling the need to go back to Firefox that is a pretty awesome start in my book
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just started using vivaldi yesterday. i feel like i missed something from chrome
Grouped tabs.
In chrome, when you open a new tab from a link in a certain website, that new tab will appear next to the source tab, or next to tabs from the same source
in vivaldi, when you open a new tab, regardless of which tab is the source, it will always open it at the right most tab.
sometime, the little touch to details is what make it excellent.
plz add
thanks!Edit : also, can we use chrome's colored tabs HTML tags? that would be sick.
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That's fine if those additional modules are implemented as loadable DLL's which do not load if you don't want to use them. What I'd like to avoid is the browser becoming a massive memory footprint using up a ton of RAM even if these things are not turned on. I know GB of RAM are not that expensive nowadays but that RAM is still used and if you have other applications running that also need a lot of RAM it can become problematical (not to mention it slows things down - loading etc).
This approach can also cause other issues - a) compromising the browser interface because of the needs of these other modules and b) spending loads of time on irrelevant (to those who just want a browser) functionality which could otherwise be spent on making the browser a lot better.
Implimenting mail/torrent and more takes a lot of resource and time. I hope that the team will not spread themselves too thin and so end up doing none of these things really well. I'd rather have one thing that is really really good than half a dozen things that are mediocre and done better by other applications.
But my negativity comes from years spent in development teams building large products and making these mistakes over and over again. As a result although I may sound negative - I am not really. If the team think they can do it all then whatever - let them try and I wish them well.
I will watch with interest what happens and hope we end up with something good at the end and I am 100% behind the effort.
Given the fact I have been using Vivaldi as it is currently all evening without feeling the need to go back to Firefox that is a pretty awesome start in my book
Jesus. H. Christ. Why does everyone have to know more about the business a guy is in, than the guy himself? And what is all this paranoia about "I'm extremely worried that a product I have never seen, used or heard about before, might turn out not to optimally conform to my standards, so that I can abandon what I'm ALREADY using, and switch to it?"
" What I'd like to avoid is the browser becoming a massive memory footprint using up a ton of RAM even if these things are not turned on." There is no danger of this. What on earth makes you think there might be? Did you never use Classic Opera back in the day? Do you not get why this is not going to happen?
"This approach can also cause other issues - a) compromising the browser interface… b) spending loads of time on irrelevant (to those who just want a browser) functionality...Implimenting mail/torrent and more takes a lot of resource and time."
Jon, the founder of Vivaldi, wanted a browser with all of the old Opera capabilities, INCLUDING MAIL, and so did several of his friends. It's Jon's money. It's his resources. It's his friends and employees, and it's his risk. Should he not build what HE wants? Do you understand the motto: "A new browser for our friends?" Those who "just want a browser" and are terrified of the implications of the inclusion of features, including mail, should "just adopt a browser" and stay a way from internet suites. This project is to fill a specific hole in the market - advanced browsers with mail and tons of configurability - not the already-glutted portion of the market, things that are "just browsers." No one is holding a gun to your head, saying you must use a free product developed by and for a clearly-defined market segment, which you may or may not fit into.
I'm sure you commented only out of an abundance of concern that someone you never met might be PURPOSELY embarked on a project that you feel does not have merit, but you have to also understand that folks crowding around this project to declare it's a bad idea is getting (more than) a little old. From the moment he announced to the world this is what he was doing, people have been posting here saying he ought to be doing something else, because they don't want what he's producing. As it happens, some millions DO want what he's producing, and it's for them that the project exists.
And, oh yeah, mail is nearly finished, apparently, (working versions have been seen) so it's a bit late to complain the devs should not waste time on it.
I don't mean to be irritable about this, but FGFS - if guys like you were at Kittyhawk, planes would not fly, but would rather drive on the ground.
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The main thing I want is the ability to have hundreds of tabs open without requiring gigabytes of memory. It seems to me any reasonable design would involve caching tabs to disk.
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I routinely have hundreds of tabs open, which means that there needs to be some means of organizing them. I find the Tab Groups and Tab Groups Menu add-ons to be a very good solution to this problem. Missing is only the ability to save my tab groups to disk and restore from disk. A couple times it has happened that FireFox got confused, and I lost all my tab groups, which was catastrophic. Tab stacking doesn't float my boat because pictures of the pages scales poorly, and I need several levels.
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I never want to remember site passwords, but that doesn't seem to be an option. How did that get left out?
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I never want to remember site passwords, but that doesn't seem to be an option. How did that get left out?
This is pre- pre- pre-alpha software. It wasn't left out, because nothing is finished. It just hasn't made it in YET.
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My wishlist.
When will be the geolocation feature implemented? I guess this feature others can lack.
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I wish there were a way to avoid speed dial entirely.
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Thanks, I'm gratified to hear that it is in the offing.
I must say, for pre-alpha software, it performs admirably.
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I'll second that. Recent FF have this too.
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I would like the app/window title to reflect the current tab's page title instead of just "vivaldi". Partially so I can look at the task bar and see what is actually present there, and also to support integration with a password manager (KeePass) which uses the window title to look up an entry in its database.
For example, if I'm at google.com, the taskbar title would indicate "Google", instead of "Vivaldi".Thanks!
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Ayespy wrote:
_Jesus. H. Christ. Why does everyone have to know more about the business a guy is in, than the guy himself? And what is all this paranoia about "I'm extremely worried that a product I have never seen, used or heard about before, might turn out not to optimally conform to my standards, so that I can abandon what I'm ALREADY using, and switch to it?"
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Calm down! I thought we were being asked for our opinions and feature requests. So far I think the browser is great. I am delighted it's happening. I have already said both these things - something you seem to have ignored in your rush to brand me a "hater". My post was opinion/concern and a few feature requests. You talk as though I'm the f***ing gestapo kicking down Jon's door and telling him how it's going to be. Do what you like I don't care. I just thought feature requests/opinions were being solicited. If that's not the case - or if you only want approved opinions/requests then I will leave you and your "friends" get on with it and refrain from upsetting you further.
