(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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Add text to speed dial (at least page title)]
The speed dial title can be edited just by clicking on it
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I'll write some things I would really love to see in the somewhat near future, some before final and some after:
Tabs
- The ability to set custom keyboard shortcuts for the tab cycler. The reason for this is because I would love to be able to go left and right through tabs in display order like I do now, but without having to activate hibernated tabs and skip them to go to the active tabs that I want. This would be really neat. Either this or you could give us a shadow selection box for each tab going to next and previous kind of like spatial navigation, but I'm just brainstorming here.
- The ability to hibernate tab stacks, and to hibernate individual tabs within tab stacks. Maybe for the latter, you could have it as a context menu button where the tab thumbnails are, where you select a tab thumbnail within a tab stack for the option to hibernate that specific tab.
- The option to open new tab next to active, and the options to go to tab on the right upon closing current tab, and to go to tab on the left upon closing current tab. Not sure why you guys removed the open new tab next to active instead of just providing options, and to not at least put it back in the next snapshot after that when the code for it was already written from before, but who knows(I'm no dev).
- Option in the context menu Close Tabs > Close Tabs on the Left - Close Tabs on the Right - Close Tabs from Current Domain - Close Tabs from Other Domain as options. Obviously as a separate option as Close Tab and Close Other Tabs, so a different naming scheme would probably be needed.
- To set tabs that go past the tab bar to have a scroll view like Firefox, and to be able to use the scroll wheel on my mouse to move left and right.
Panel
- A light theme would be awesome.
- A thinner panel would be great too. It's possible to fit those icons into a slightly thinner panel, taking up less screen real estate.
- An option to have a panel that changes color according the the website's theme would be awesome. It would blend into some websites really well, and would look cool.
- A History panel.
Address Bar
- I want the address bar to behave like Opera 35. I want it to autosuggest the main domain site of the frequently visited sites only, and then if you start typing beyond that with a /, then it should suggest the most frequently visited sub-domain site. I think most people want this. Vivaldi has progressed quite well already when it comes to the address bar autosuggestion, but there's more room for improvement, but I applaud you guys so far on the progress.
- To have the main domain text of the URL to be black, and the / and sub-domain URL to be grayed out like every other browser.
- The ability to move and remove buttons.
- I would love it if the V logo's background were to change color with the website theme or just be a plain white V. Would make tabs at the bottom thing I have look better and more seamless with more websites.
- To have a Bug Report option in the menu under Help.
Search Bar
- The option to have my search input be erased after entering it in the search bar, so that once I entered it, there's no text still there. This means I can continue entering things away without having to backspace my last search, and even if I didn't have to search for more things, it would be nice to not have to backspace my text after entering it in anyway. I'm not sure why every browser has gone years without thinking of doing this, because it would be very convenient and it's one of the biggest things stopping me from using the search bar.
- The option to have all my searches be entered into a new tab, not the current one. This and my first request on the search bar would make me use the search bar ALL the time! That would be awesome, and I would love it if that was possible to add before the final.
- Eventually an autosuggestion for different search engines. I can't imagine this being easy or quick to implement, so I won't make it an urgent request, and it's not super important, but would be amazing.
- Instead of typing g dogs to search for dogs in Google(I think that's how you do it), I would like the behavior to change to me clicking down to see the list of search engines, typing the nickname letter for the selected search engine, have the list pop back up and the search engine focused and ready to search in my selected search engine.
Speed Dial
- To have more websites with Vivaldi's Speed Dial aesthetics: Gmail, Reddit, Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon, YouTube(I know they have a thumbnail but I can't set it), Netflix, Soundcloud, etc. etc. Any popular site, basically.
- To have non-Vivaldi aesthetic thumbnails be generated with some complimentary design text like Opera does, and even give the option to have the non-Vivaldi aesthetic thumbnails be generated with just the favicon plus a background color that compliments that favicon(kind of like the website theme).
Session Manager
- The ability to pick and choose certain tabs from a saved session to open, and to add selected current tabs to a saved session.
- Someday, a session manager panel.
Settings
- Sometimes when I want to assign a new keyboard shortcut, but it's already taken, it would be nice if there was a prompt asking me if I want to replace the taken keyboard shortcut and assign it to the action I'm trying to assign it to. Opera 35 does this and it would be awesome if Vivaldi did so as well. It's very convenient and I wouldn't have to manually change the taken keyboard shortcut myself.
- To have a preview text laid out beside the font selection under Webpages, just like Opera 35 does.
- To have a hardware acceleration setting.
Misc.
- For different :about pages( about:flags, about:downloads, etc. etc.) that are usually used by a lot of users to be redesigned with Vivaldi's design.
- Better font rendering someday.
- To replace the garbage can icon in the notes and bookmarks panel to the same one the tab bar uses for the garbage can icon. That one just looks so much better, and it would improve design consistency.
- I would like the mouse cursor to disappear during fullscreen videos, and for fullscreen video toggle animations to be not so laggy, like Opera 35 does it, to be able to enjoy videos much better.
- More animations, like when opening new tabs, and maybe when closing tabs. When I was playing with Opera 35 for a while and came back to Vivaldi, I noticed it didn't have as many tab animations like this as Opera.
- Reader mode like Firefox(never tried Safari's), and would be an awesome reader mode. FF's is open source so maybe you can fork it.
- To have a preview display of zoom level when using keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out, especially when you don't have the status bar on.
- A vertical tab list preview as an option separate from the tab cycler preview we currently have. Also, maybe an option for both vertical tab list and a tab preview beside it.
Thanks guys! And I'm looking forward to seeing how things are polished up for the first version of the browser, and the continuation of features and design progression!
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Close all tabs to the right
I've been using Vivaldi as my main browser for a few weeks now, and I'm happy with it. There's just one thing I miss - and I think because it's a browser for powerusers I won't be the only one: the ability to close all tabs to the right of the tab you're on. I have five tabs I always keep open, but when I've been surfing for some time and I have twelve tabs opened after a while, I'd like to be able to close all tabs except those five.
Keep up the good work!
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A few thing I'm missing from the browser:
[ul]- 16:9 images in speed dial and tab preview
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- 16:9 images in speed dial and tab preview
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I'd like to be able to set [ESC] as the focus page keyboard shortcut as well, to get the same vim-like layout.
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I'd love to see:
- ability to choose if newly opened tabs should be at the end or next to current active tab
- ability to click-drag text into tabs to automatically open a tab and search google for it (same as RMB->Search for 'TEXT') or drag it into specific tab to search in it without opening new tab
- ability to click-drag tab/tabs to open a new window and drag them between windows (same as RMB->Move to)
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@B.Jay:
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3. Ability to launch a new tab (i.e. middle-click) into the foreground instead of the background.
"Tabs to the Front" works fine as a solution to the "problem", but it would be awesome if "Open new tabs: Foreground / Background" could be incorporated into the browser (my biggest pet-peeve with Chrome/Chromium).
...this is already available by shift clicking on a link
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Thanks for all the work you put in this browser. I'm using it for a few weeks now and it feels great.
A few suggestions of my own:
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web panel: when loading a youtube page, because of the small width the mobile version is loaded instead and the video is no longer flash, it's 3gp and vivaldi tries to open it with the external video player
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stacked tabs: it would be great to have an option to show/hide all the tab buttons in a stack, like in opera 12, (they should remain part of a group, but be all visible). I have put the tab bar at the bottom and the small stack indicator is not visible at all, I cannot tell which tabs are stacked and which not.
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delayed loading for open tabs: I often open the browser for just a quick look at something, I don't need to burden the internet connection with all other tabs from the previous browsing session. It would be nice if the unfocused tabs would only load their content when they are activated or when the active tab is idle (finished loading)
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looking forward for the mail/rss client
Keep up the good work!
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Opera 12 had a nice feature: it allowed you to seamlessly select text which is as link as if it was just normal text.
Chromium-based browsers has huge problems with it: selecting text is a tricky task. Very often you have to find a perfect pixel to start with. Otherwise, link starts being dragged (never ever used this feature) or half a page is selected. -
Hi,
because I went to this site (for the first time) via a link https://vivaldi.net/en-US/forum/all , I'm now not able to go to vivaldi.net without deleting the rest of the suggested link (…/en-US/forum/all) every time, when I type it into address bar.This is common behaviour for all sites. Is there a way around it? When I'm typing into the address bar, I would like to be offered homepage of the typed-in web first.
It would save me some time.
Thank you.
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Allow "back" mouse gesture in Speed Dial folders to go up one level, instead of having to click on the back arrow in the upper left corner.
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I feel like the color change of the address bar isn't enough of an indicator that the browser is currently loading something. It even took me a while to notice it at all. I first thought it doesn't have any indication.
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tabs starting on the right side!
this is totally logical, when you have the side panel on the right side, so you dont have to move the mouse across the whole screen, to choose another tab..
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Without reading this monster topic - here is what I miss at Vivaldi until now :
1 ) It should be possible to change the skin . I downloaded a theme from Chrome store installed it , but nothing changed. There is no possibilty to Change the skin.
2) It should be possible to use Java.
3) It should be possible to change the behavior of the tabs - like tab mix plus at Firefox.
4) It should be possible to brin the tab bar over the window unter the addressbar.
5) It should be possible to create bookmark groups so you can load a Group of sites at the same time.
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Hi,
I read the "monster topic" and it's very good! I will translate both of your posts into feature requests we can process internally. We are making this browser for you guys, remember?
//Christian - Vivaldi Technologies
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- It should be possible to create bookmark groups so you can load a Group of sites at the same time.
Saving and loading of sessions is already possible. You can also load a bookmark folder of up to 20 tabs at once time.
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There should be an option to place the bookmark bar vertically on the left or right side and not only horizontally on top or below.
I really loved that feature of my old opera browser.
Every favorite page is just one click away without loosing height of my browser window. -
Any chance for FIDO/U2F protocol implementation on future Vivaldi?
That would be great!I second this request. Even Firefox has a working extension that supports this important authentication feature. For Vivaldi to not have it would be a grave mistake.
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Thank You Pesala - the newest version has a session manager.
Here some new proposals :
Bookmarks should be opened with one click not a double click.
A new tabwindow should be able to open by click on a bookmark , address, history and a link in a side. -
The possibility to change the position of the webpanels. Also, the webpanels only be open when I start the Vivaldi when I use them (because I note in Task Manager they are active already when the browser is started.)
