(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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Hi
Some features I would like to see:
[ul]- A hard one, but I would like to see synchronisation between Google Chrome and Vivaldi using a Google account. If impossible, then just synchronisation using a Google account.
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This is the one thing holding me back from switching completely. I rely too much on Chrome synchronizing bookmarks, autofills, and extensions.
If we had that capability in Vivaldi, I'd be a full-time convert.
- A hard one, but I would like to see synchronisation between Google Chrome and Vivaldi using a Google account. If impossible, then just synchronisation using a Google account.
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Often requested since v1 was released, often rebutted from old-time Opera users (like me) who want absolutely nothing like that for Google to get their grubby little hands on…
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I am a long, long time Opera user and fan and this is my first post on this forum. I consider old Opera the best browser ever developed with huge potential but buried by stubbornness in fixing the site compatibility issues especially for those essential to large mass of users.
I started using Vivaldi about 4 months ago, sporadically as it is not stable and feature full enough for me.I have a list of features I much appreciated in Opera and not present in Vivaldi - yet, or may never be implemented but here they are:
I will start with is the most important of all - Pleas do not make this browser universal. Keep separate versions for destkop and mobile/tablets as the user requirements are much different. Do not implement tablet features in the desktop version.
I wanted to emphasize this because I looked a bit through the forum and I saw many requests for features useful on tablets but annoying on a desktop.1. Extended right click menu on pages. I miss especially the "Edit site Preferences" from which most useful in business environment was "Identify as" - some internal websites only accept certain browsers.
2. Also miss the "Reload every" feature - this is especially useful for websites that should constantly updating content but intermittently fail to do so. In addition to full screen mode and tile option Opera was an excellent browser for Q monitor in support environments.
3. Password manager - I know this is in the works but wanted to mention.
4. Session manager - allow to save certain sessions.
5. History panel
5. Stability - I am a very heavy user and stable browser with 30-50 open tabs is a must for me.
8. Speed - presently the browser is too slow to "open link in new window" (approx 3 sec)The present version has many bugs and issues starting with the theme, sticky at times vertical scroll, inability to drag/drop links in bookmarks panel or on the folders in the bookmarks bar.
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disable visual tabs: a setting to disable them, i always close tabs with middle click, and end up enabling visual tabs by error while clicking on the separator.
and when i have a ton of tabs open, it gets really slow if that happens!, had to kill vivaldi process a few times because of this
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Overall I'd like to say I'm really impressed with Vivaldi!
Just a couple of issues I'm having with this relating to bookmarks.Firstly,
I'd like to request a bookmarks button in the UI, something similar to firefox - a button that drops down a list of bookmarks.Secondly,
I'm using the Vivaldi panel for bookmarks now, it's not what I want but it works.
I've added a "web panel" for whatsapp web which is an awesome feature, however re-sizing it also re-sizes the bookmarks menu.
I'd love it if each section of the panel could be independently re-sized, so my bookmarks menu doesn't need to be huge for my whatsapp panel to work! -
I want to sync bookmarks/history between devices using Vivaldi.
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- I think there should be a setting for forcing a specified font, overriding CSS of websites.
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You should introduce a setting for forcing a specified font for all websites with latin character set.
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- Pleas do not make this browser universal. Keep separate versions for destkop and mobile/tablets as the user requirements are much different. Do not implement tablet features in the desktop version.
I wanted to emphasize this because I looked a bit through the forum and I saw many requests for features useful on tablets but annoying on a desktop.I find this an odd request… surely it is much much easier to have a single package where you can either:
a) as a user simply ignore options meant for other platforms / form-factors
b) have simple switches for these options in the settings
c) have the browser recognise and adapt to whatever environment it's running inTo me this is far simpler to implement and maintain than keeping track (and debugging) different versions of the same features across multiple versions of the final package. Also as a user there will be a more cohesive experience between devices if most of the options are where you expect them to be and function as you expect them to function - just with small differences if they're (automatically) set up for different screen sizes or input devices.
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I would like more power over the hibernate tab feature. Here's the stuff I would like…
1. Tabs should automatically hibernate without manually telling them to.
2. The user should have control over the automatic hibernation process:
- Setting Vivaldi's overall memory use threshold before hibernating tabs in least recently used order (allows for a target memory footprint).
- Alternatively, setting the global memory usage before hibernating tabs in least recently used order (allows for consuming as much memory as possible, but freeing memory when other apps need it).
- Alternatively, setting the tab's maximum idle time before hibernating it (focuses on least memory use to allow other processes like file cache to fill as much as possible; e.g. allow 0-second to unload tabs as soon as possible, I'd probably pick this with a number around 2 minutes).
- Enable/Disable auto hibernation of tabs that are currently producing audio.
- Provide a whitelist/blacklist to never auto hibernate certain websites or only auto hibernate certain websites.
- Provide a whitelist/blacklist to always load a fresh copy from the web when a tab is resumed or always load a fresh copy from the web except for the specified websites. SECURITY ADVISORY bank websites and the like should never store their state on disk; I don't know how tab hibernate works with these websites currently.
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I'm pretty sure most of the stuff in this thread will fall to the deaf ears.
Even so, I'd like a checkbox in the settings to center images when viewed instead of docking them to the left top corner.
Also put in a browser auto-updater while you're at it.
Oh and don't forget to fix the weird short white flashes when you switch between tabs or close them.Ahh it feels so futile to even ask… Maybe in 2020...
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Bookmark Tagging
Another feature I am still missing is tagging for bookmarks. Current state is, that you can enter a text as a description. If you enter a sequence of words in the URL field, which is also in a description you might see that bookmark being suggested, but only if you enter the words in exactly the same order as in the description of the bookmark.
A tagging system would work even if you only enter some of the tags and if you add other words in between as well. So far I've only seen this in Firefox and I don't know if the old Opera had it or not.
Maybe it could be introduced additionally to the input fields offered when creating a bookmark.
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Hey guys, just discovered Vivaldi today. I was a huge fan of the old & true Opera and so I was pleasantly surprised.
Currently I would have 3 suggestions regarding new features:
1. For web development, I see the Developer Tools is the same as for Opera/Chromium but it currently lacks 2 very important features:
A. There is no device simulation / responsive mode available
B. There is no way to dock the window to the currently open browser window - this gives the Dev tools a really separate feeling and makes it hard to properly test websites, specially when having a lot of tabs with dev tools open.2. It would be really cool if you could allow/enable single key shortcut binding. I know this can be an invitation to some weird browsing issues, but I believe it's solely the end user's responsibility. This way we can replicate the behavior in current Opera where pressing 1 or 2 without any page element focused will navigate to previous and next tab respectively.
3. The current scroll factor feels a bit too low for me. It would nice to either increase it by a bit or even better to allow a setting slider for users to control it as they want. Another solution would be to rely on the OS scrolling coefficients (or would that be too inconsistent?)
That's it for the moment. Keep up the great work!
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Hi, before I start this request I would just like to say that being a new piece of software, the Vivaldi browser is really fluid and bug free and better than most browsers in terms of usability. But enough of that, onto the request!
Vivaldi is almost perfect to me but one this one feature would be the icing on the cake. The ability to set a custom URL to a new tab page. As most Vivaldi users are probably aware, the default page for new tab page and the startup page is the Vivaldi speed dial. Don't get me wrong if you like and find the speed dial useful then this is great but I think that for some people they would like to see a way to change the URL of this. This feature has already been implemented into the startup page and I think it would be really great to be able to change on the new tab page.
I have also spoken to some of my friends who have recently found and been familiarising themselves with the browser and they have also agreed with this idea.Thanks for reading this, Alfie Fogg
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There should be an export bookmarks to html feature in the bookmarks panel. Preferably by right clicking on the map. If there already is, it should be easier to locate. It's not in the bookmarks tab in settings and there's no option for it when right-clicking a bookmarks folder.
It would also be great if there is a way to immediately save bookmarks to a certain folder. The only bookmarks tab I use is the bookmarks toolbar I used in Firefox. I really don't care about any other way of saving my bookmarks. The bookmark system works waaaay to complicated at the moment.
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There should be an export bookmarks to html feature in the bookmarks panel. Preferably by right clicking on the map. If there already is, it should be easier to locate. It's not in the bookmarks tab in settings and there's no option for it when right-clicking a bookmarks folder.
It would also be great if there is a way to immediately save bookmarks to a certain folder. The only bookmarks tab I use is the bookmarks toolbar I used in Firefox. I really don't care about any other way of saving my bookmarks. The bookmark system works waaaay to complicated at the moment.
Menu/File/Export Bookmarks. How tough is that?
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It would nice to see the developer tool be dock in the main browser window in both vertically and horizontally orientation.
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One of the things I'd really love to see in Vivaldi is a key-bindable function to turn javascript on and off, or switch the current tab between "Web 1.0" and "Web 2.0" client modes. In case anyone else is interested in this or would like to discuss it, I made a thread for the idea, and it has more detail about what this would be used for:
https://vivaldi.net/forum/all/10837-hotkey-to-toggle-javascript
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Hi there,
Awesome Browser, but a little request to cookie management. Like in chrome if you are blocking third party cookies, you get a little googling blocking logo in the right side of the search field, where you can manually allow particulate third party cookies. I wish for that to be added
Also another thing, I would like to manage my saved passwords in settings. All I can do is see my username and email, but I can not edit old passwords.
Other then that, awesome browser and keep up the awesome work!
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In the settings, please make search engines added sorted alphabetically by default, or provide an option to do so.
