(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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I'm a computer technician mate.. It's overwhelming how many people run pirate windows and other software.
BTW. I'm in Australia.. Where you get your info from is completely wrong. Piracy is not only a problem in china
and Russia. Try world wide. I've been running forums for wow 20 years now and i see how many people download
software. I'm not immune to it.Well I download all my T.v. shows and watch them when I please. If you say you don't pirate anything there is a 99.99%
chance you are a lair, Dishonest, and full of ( ) well you can fill in the blanks.Have you put some words in my mouth? I think so. Your opinion of my integrity reveals more about you than it does me. "Mate."
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Features that I want
- can disable search field between address field
- can disable bottom bar
- can disable left buttons between address field (back, forward, reaload, homepage - never used them, for this is mouse gestures)
- keystroke Ctrl+B for Paste&Go
- finding text on page via only writing or via only button key (".")
- old Opera WAND features (login via Ctrl+Enter, pressing mouse left+right button, pressing right mouse button and mode to right)
- edit SpeedDial look (better 16:9 like images than thi 4:3 like )
- feature for manually add informations for offering this in text fields (e-mail addresses, addresses, phone numbers etc. - also like old Opera, not like new Opera, Chrome…)
Thanks for considering that
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My requests
- Disable tab bar's top spacing when browser window is maximized (at least for us who don't use tab stacking)
- Find in page field in status bar.
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In case if developers use this thread for priorities:
Primary:
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- option to remove "X" from tabs
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- fix: tab preview above the tab when tab bar at bottom
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- extensions panel
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- Ctrl-Tab with tabs preview
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- essentional shortcuts: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/nomouse/#essential
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- bookmark menu
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- private Tab
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Secondary:
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- private Tab
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- double click on free space in tabs panel -> open new tab
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- add MDI behavior and buttons with "X" for tab
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- option to remove "rewind" and combine "forward" with "fast forward" (use "fast forward" when "forward" history is empty)
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- option to remove home button
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- better preview resize, as in Opera Classic. Current version in speeddial out/hover statuses is bad
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- text selection inside links
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- Trash list item hover output address in status bar
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- page loading statistic in status bar or separately
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Additional:
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- page loading statistic in status bar or separately
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- clean the code. 150MB for browser is too much
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- minimize memory usage
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- speed up work with many tabs and history navigation
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- native UI
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- tabs list in system task bar hover
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- view page local source with modify capability
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- feeds viewer/reader
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- skins
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- lossless UI/keyboard customize (your styles/settings -> user styles/settings -> result). Upgrades never change user styles/settings - only yours
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- split screen. On many sites while playing some video I want read comments under it
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- Vivaldi Turbo - as proxy solution (test page from different IP)
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- partially outsource tasks about required libraries. Some programmers can take some part of work (partially open source).
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- partially outsource tasks about required libraries. Some programmers can take some part of work (partially open source).
thank you.
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Please add the option to save and store tab sessions. I don't like it every time I open the browser a load of tabs from my last session is opened. I want the option to just re-open my tab sessions when I need them, let's say from the menu bar like with Opera 12.
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Can we receive some info in status bar like in Maxthon - CPU usage, Up/Download speed,available memory, local IP and option to toggle them?
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Can we receive some info in status bar like in Maxthon - CPU usage, Up/Download speed,available memory, local IP and option to toggle them?
+1 I'd like some of this info displayed somehow.
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SECURITY
I suggest an amendment to be able to run the browser fully sandboxed, that you can make available on all OS - but Windows will not be able to support it fully.
1. A Group - "Internet" is made that a regular user / staff equivalent - not the same group as current user that launch Vivaldi.
2. A User "Vivaldi" is created as a no-login and with "Home" location set to "$HOME/Vivaldi" - inside current user file hierarchy.
3 . Vivaldi is set up to default start as this user, in this group and with no access to any files except those made by the browser.
Vivaldi has to be able to intercept requests to the file system (ENOACCESS) on dialogues, and prompt the user for password that is not stored
únless the user asks for it to be stored. You can make the file operations as a service from the launching process, but every time a script make a
search for something, this fails - finds nothing - no address book, no photo files, no iTunes, nothing unless it asks for a file to be transferred.
This makes it impossible to read the keychain, impossible with a number of extensions, unless a bridge is made where this is imported to the special address space that has been created for Vivaldi.
The Email client can use another userid with the same group - or run as the user - and access the files.The user determines access rights to the new group and the user ids - which can be definitely no access except for the browser and email client´s own files.
You can start "Flash" as another user, and "Java" as yet another user of the "Internet" group, and bluntly, also open for site-specific user-id to allow Java and Flash that has been downloaded to execute in its very tiny contained area that can be monitored and managed.This is some steps further than the changes Google has made on Android, but is what I find a reasonable and safe way to run code that has been downloaded without further tests. It is also a mechanism that can be turned on and off easily - but will require "root" access for the user to alter the set-up.
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Can we receive some info in status bar like in Maxthon - CPU usage, Up/Download speed,available memory, local IP and option to toggle them?
+1 I'd like some of this info displayed somehow.
This is available on other platforms, such as Linux and MacOS.
Just open the Activity Monitor, and look at the resources Vivaldi use. I see the point in network usage e.g. at download, and they can get these fields easily,
CPU will be highly misleading the way Maxthon does it, since here they have the HTML code that may be standing still, while Flash code may be jamming the system completely and is run in another process - "Helper".
It should be easy to write a Java screen that samples all the processes, shows the IP address - all what you ask for as an applet. This may already be available somewhere - but with the problem of hiding who is bogging down the flash and javascript helpers - these are singlethreaded!. -
SECURITY - DNS Cache
Is it possible to flush local DNS cache and ask Vivaldi to use one (1) or (2) alternative DNS that you trust?
This will make it much more difficult for code to play with the local DNS and insert wrongful IP addresses, redirecting the browser to a site of their choosing and not the correct site ("Phishing"). Yahoo and Google allows others to use theirs - what about Vivaldi? -
Several suggestions that I have. Most of them are relatively minor changes, but they would increase the usability of Vivaldi.
1. I would really like it if you would implement a unibar/omnibar as seen in Safari and Chrome.
2. There are a lot of features that are different from other browsers (panels, trash can icon, etc), that are never explained. The only way to find out what they do is to experiment. User on boarding could be a lot better.
3. Include an setting to customize the tab colors. I don't know what the colors are taken from and the randomness is slightly irritating.
4. The browser window is automatically smaller than the size of the screen. It should be full window size by default.
5. If I have a Gmail window open and someone sends me a hangout message, Safari will toggle the tab name from "Inbox" to "_______ says…." This isn't a major thing but it's slightly useful and increases the polish of a browser.
6. The homepage is vivaldi.com by default. That website is primarily for people who aren't already using Vivaldi (the download link is front and center). It would be helpful to make a separate website or subpage that is for people who have just started using Vivaldi (i.e. Getting Started).
Other than these small points, I am really liking Vivaldi so far. It definitely has the potential to turn into my #1 browser once everything is smoothed out
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4. The browser window is automatically smaller than the size of the screen. It should be full window size by default.
By this do you mean Vivaldi is not maximized upon launch? If Vivaldi is maximized when it is closed it should open maximized.
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Waiting for integration of mail in Vivaldi
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I don't know if it has been written (I read about 7 pages).
Things i would like to have:- Fully portable (every file (history, cache, …) will save to install folder, no files on computer's local disk)
- Cleaning history, cache, cookies OLDER than (automatic)
2.1) If it will be possible - more customizable cleaning system (history from youtube clean immediately, searching history remove after week
This is probably all i can't find in one browser together.
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**Participate to the poll, that you'll find on the Vivaldi Browser development team blog: Vivaldi's asking what they should implement, first!
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Add my separate feature request to this longer thread cos I didn't see it in the poll! :ohmy:
Feature request: Start bar!
This was amazing in Opera and saved so much time. It's also something which I've never seen in any other browser.
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Can we receive some info in status bar like in Maxthon - CPU usage, Up/Download speed,available memory, local IP and option to toggle them?
+1 would be useful to have this info in-browser.
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4. The browser window is automatically smaller than the size of the screen. It should be full window size by default.
By this do you mean Vivaldi is not maximized upon launch? If Vivaldi is maximized when it is closed it should open maximized.
This is what it looks like when I open a new window.
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4. The browser window is automatically smaller than the size of the screen. It should be full window size by default.
By this do you mean Vivaldi is not maximized upon launch? If Vivaldi is maximized when it is closed it should open maximized.
This is what it looks like when I open a new window.
Weird. On my Lubuntu, it STARTS to do that, but by the time it finishes opening, it jumps to fully-expanded size. Perhaps it's your windows manager, or the way Vivaldi reacts specifically with it?
