(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

Tomczykolacz

That's not what I mean. I know you can do all those things, but I mean a REAL History panel, that I can go to on the panel and check my history. I know you can make a History panel, but it's just the desktop webpage of the history page that tries to fit in the small space beside the panel, and I don't like that either. I just want a real History panel, but thanks for the ctrl + H thing, I didn't know that. Now that's one less step to having a real History panel, and I know Vivaldi will probably add it on as they had one for O12.

OK, I got it now. Yeah, there is no real history panel at this moment. It may be uncomfortable. But for me everything is good. The current way to reach the history section is good enought.

D0J0P

One other UI request: I find the scrollbar in Vivaldi too thick. In Windows 10, it's the stock Windows scrollbar, which is fine, but it's thicker than the one on Microsoft Edge. At the very minimum, at least imitate the one on Edge, if not create a better one, like the one on Safari, which looks very nice, but don't make it an overlay scrollbar.

waterside

1. I would like to set Speed Dial as Homepage.
2. It would be convenient to show panel by clicking the left edge (like the old Opera does).
3. I would like to see the old Opera "Notes" function back (be able to copy/insert notes in the right click menu).
4. It would be great if users are able to DIY the right click menu and assign functions to different mouse keys.

Thank you for bringing us this browser.

Ayespy

@waterside:

1. I would like to set Speed Dial as Homepage.
2. It would be convenient to show panel by clicking the left edge (like the old Opera does).
3. I would like to see the old Opera "Notes" function back (be able to copy/insert notes in the right click menu).
4. It would be great if users are able to DIY the right click menu and assign functions to different mouse keys.

Thank you for bringing us this browser.

Set your home page to Chrome://dummystartpage
Go into settings and activate the panel toggle
Notes will be improved
Menu options will be improved.

rkzn

Sort bookmarks by last date visited. (by folder, and all)
Open random bookmark. Possibly with some simple algorithm given a higher probability for bookmarks visited longer ago. (e.g., pick two or three by random, then open the one with the oldest visit)

I tend to collect a lot of bookmarks, these would be useful to review older, possibly dead or now not needed, pages. Any tool for easier book mark organization (which is still quite poor) would probably be welcome.

roomunho

I apologise if it's already been mentioned here, but please add ability to open links from folders on bookmarks panel in new page. this feature is working for links placed directly on bookmarks panel, but not when they are in folder.

Thanky You

Stone-D

Hi guys! A few requests here:

tab-related context menu options for the title bar space to the RIGHT of the new tab "+", particularly Reopen Closed Tab.
Some way to re-order context menu entries. For example, I want "Open Link in Background Tab" to be first, and "Copy Link Address" second.
This has been mentioned elsewhere I think, but a way to resize the speed dial icons would be nice.
Again mentioned elsewhere, but an easy way to replace the speed dial icons with a fixed one.
I can't drag an html from my desktop to a new tab. Is this unimplmented or a bug?

Cheers!

Briarned

@den_po:

Open bundle.js in a text editor, replace
,e.get("active")||(t.stopPropagation(),g.openPage(e))
with
;if(e.get("active")){this.switchBackBySetting(e);}else{t.stopPropagation();g.openPage(e);}

Thank you! That's one feature that I've been waiting for. One note: in my case it had to be "m.openPage(e)" instead of "g.openPage(e)"

dsmeets

Here is my input.

Ability to set the default zoom per screen. My laptop has an insane resolution, so I need to zoom in pretty badly when Vivaldi is there, but as soon as I launch a window on the external screen, I need to zoom out.

robertbrenner

Speed dial 'return' button or shortcut: One click function to return open current tab to the speed dial

Speed dial tile themes\customization: Ability to change the look of speed dial tiles - mini-webpage tiles create a very busy look. A simpler theme or the ability to customize tile appearance would be nice

christophermh44

Hi everyone!

Some suggestions for Vivaldi about panels and tab stacks:
1- Ability to resize juxtaposed tabs views
2- Ability to pin stacked tabs
3- Ability to reorganize web panels with drag and drop
4- Ability to edit the URL of a panel
5- Ability to zoom-in/zoom-out panels
6- Ability to change the panel view (docked as now, or show it above website and hide it when the focus is given back to tab)
7- Ability to size panels individually

Other features:
8- Show/hide search engine input in the toobar
9- Auto-hide toolbar (address bar + navigation + search engine input + extensions) "inside" tab (like Chrome tried to implement a few years ago: http://media.askvg.com/articles/images2/Auto-hide_Google_Chrome_Addressbar.png)
10- Drag the tab away from window to create a new window
11- Right click on extension button shows up the extension menu (currently, we can only access it by right clicking on website frame)
12- Ability to pin stacked tabs

pozxc

If you expand the panel section while viewing a responsive web page, the page is re-rendered because of the viewport size (width) change. It is an unpleasant experience to wait for things to return to normal only bacause you clicked on a download link or wanted to have a look at the bookmarks, etc. If, instead, the viewport size change becomes optional, this won't happen. (When the panel section is expanded, horizontal scrollbars will be displayed inside the page.)

Engelium

@pozxc:

If you expand the panel section while viewing a responsive web page, the page is re-rendered because of the viewport size (width) change. It is an unpleasant experience to wait for things to return to normal only bacause you clicked on a download link or wanted to have a look at the bookmarks, etc. If, instead, the viewport size change becomes optional, this won't happen. (When the panel section is expanded, horizontal scrollbars will be displayed inside the page.)

Well, about the download stuff, we've to say that, simply, the way they implemented it is really (extreme ?) stupid and no one, I suppose, tested it for usability (seriously, think for example about someone who have to save lot of images from a page ) … probably they wanted only to do something different from others... and they failed ... even Opera15+ is a lot more usable in this

I really hope they:

Implement a proper download manager (IN A DAMN TAB) ... a sidebar panel is for quick access, not a substitute
copy the Firefox/Opera15+ "button" in toolbar for fast view

NarumiKazuko

I would love it if you could have the ability to hide the big Speed Dial "+" (or add) button in the new tab interface. I never use any of the Speed Dial shortcuts, so I remove them all, but it saddens me that the "+" button is still there which obstructs my background picture…

YakovL_

Ok, Dev Tools docking was asked for here and there etc, but I'll mention it because we're still there, no docking yet.

But also I'd like to mention a couple of usability features that would be nice:
1. ctrl+shift+I should toggle Dev Tools, not open them. If I press ctrl+shift+I when Dev Tools are opened, they should be closed, not open another copy.
2. The modern "dock to tab" instead of Opera-12-like "dock to window" behaviour looks better to me. This may be made configurable, but a possibility to open mulitple consoles (one per tab where Dev Tools are needed) is very nice.

Finally, there was a bug when DOM inspector showed Vivaldi UI DOM (instead of page DOM). I'd say this would be nice if this becomes a feature (with page DOM shown by default, of'course). This way it would be much easier to customize the interface.

dominicw2

The features that I would like to see implemented are:

The ability to change the size of speed dials to any size.
The ability to set the speed dials to auto-reload every so often.
The ability to create a new bookmarks folder from the folder drop down menu when creating a new bookmark.

consegui

In days like these, where we have the problem of too many certificate authorities that can offer certificates for every domain out there, i would like to request application level support for DNSSEC&DANE.
Pinned certificates provide protection against states and secret services or other adversaries with influence.
They also offer additional benefits like public keys for smime,pgp and in the future possibly more.
I'd like to see vivaldi take the lead position for browsers to support this.
Would give a nice advantage over mozilla and chrome which believe that HPKP and HSTS preloading scale well enough and do not suffer enough from trust on first use issues.

I also hope that Vivaldi has a light footprint and a focus on privacy.
There is no reason to reveal browserversion, operating system and wether it is a 32bit or 64bit system.
It should also be inspired by the torbrowser projects attempts to protect the users.
Especially limiting the list of fonts that a website can read from the browser.

ExcelKobayashi

The main thing that drives me crazy is the inability to middle-click on the tab well to open a new tab

markman

Any chance of this becoming a Windows 10 "Modern UI" app?

I really like what you're doing with this browser; it could be brilliant as a tablet-mode browser on my Surface Pro. There aren't any good touch-friendly browsers for Win10; this browser seems to be on the right track- but unless it's a true "Modern UI" app, touch keyboard typing suggestions and autocorrect don't work, which is a major bummer with Win10. A lot of us Surface users are dying for a great touch-friendly browser with extension support and full touch keyboard functionality.

vivaldi-user

Right-click on tab/Reopen Closed tab: Only the very last closed tab will be reopened. If you want to reopen a more ancient tab, one has to reopen all other intermediate tabs as well.

Make the tab to be reopened a choice. Opera v12 used to have it and it would be great to enhance the current feature in Vivaldi.