(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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I would like a more robust browsing history view like Firefox provides, with the ability to sort and view by different criteria, rather than the 'chromey' one in place now. Similar sorting options for bookmarks would be great too.
For example, I recently wanted to find something in my history from a couple months ago in the current Opera. With the Opera/Chrome view, you have to either know what to search for, or continue clicking previous history until you get to that time period. That's not possible for me with huge amounts of history because the page gets too laggy to use. Thanks!
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I would love following features:
1. Ad-block
2. Fullscreen adress bar that slides up and down and if you press CTRL + L it would come down and let you type.
3. That start page can be speed dial. Rright now always goes to vivaldi.net website, I tried change to another website but didn't work maybe I'm not doing it correctly.
4. When opening new window it opens as a small window instead of same as previous one.
5. Can set your own default download folder.
6. Change your own background and theme completely, maybe some program possibly to make your own theme instead of just having background as "new theme".I hope these things will be added to the features, I know some things are already written.
Best of luck! Hope this will be my default browser when it's more stable, loving the look of it. -
- Option for another Design (GTK design?).
- I missed the windows border from my Linux WM.
- POP3 support; SMTP is not enough.
- Trash folder in bookmarks
- Bookmark import from Opera Blink-Browser…
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First, I'm glad to see this project underway and especially delighted that you have the understanding from the get-go to include tab positioning. Now, for some things I'd be looking for…
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Main toolbars:
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combine url and search fields
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be able to modify main toolbar and use text along with symbol
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Speed Dial:
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be nice to be able to import Opera's Speed Dial file
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be able to configure and size SD thumbnails
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move the buttons up top off the to side or include in a menu to save space
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Extensions - the two I use above all...:
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To-read
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Ad Block (what is your ad revenue policy?)
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Panel:
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move Settings off the panel for easier access (in Opera, I use the panel only for downloads that aren't handled by IDM)
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be able to eliminate everything but what's desired, i.e., Downloads, and only shows when left position arrow is clicked on
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Print/Print Preview (when you get around to it):
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WYSIWYG
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on the fly scaling
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History/closed tabs:
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Opera 12's closed tabs button at bottom right is invaluable
Thanks!
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One feature I would like is to have text expenders work inside of Vivaldi. I can't get my favorite TE's (such as phaseexpress) to work in it.
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My most missed feature from old Opera that just hadn't been implented the same by any addon is the Notes. Glad to see that back, but it seems there's no option to right-click and paste a note as there was in the past. Would love to see that added back.
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sorry if it is already said but
- I really miss the CTRL+intro to add "www." and ".com" in the url bar
- The preloaded bookmarks (50!) are very annoying. Everyone has its own preference and that's the whole point of the bookmarks concept.
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Two things that I miss from other navigatos in Vivaldi: Pin tabs (Tweetdeck and GMail, for example) and desktop notifications.
I already love the project! ^^
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maybe it helps you: I use my.xmarks.com in other browsers and here too. so I can see/add new/edit all my bookmarks here in a web page. and the changes sync whit another browsers by xmarks addon
see the screenshot
[attachment=378]Sinttulo.jpg[/attachment]
Regards
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Good stuff!
Mail (the way M2 used to do it)
Better Contact organization (creating a mailing list was a pain in Opera)
Calendar with syncing capabilitiesFor the business plan, I suggest to target small businesses (~20 people) by adding something similar as Opera Unite to the entire thing: essentially have a server (sort-of-like-unite-was) sit on a company computer, and the other vivaldi browsers can access it. Create plugins that give folks a group calendar, and some time monitoring, a simple internal wiki, … I just think that small business (where, say, one employee with limited computer knowledge suddenly is the guy responsible for IT) are having a hard time finding solutions to the challenges that come with growing past a critical point.
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I would put 1Password support at the top of my list of important features, whether by extensions or as an integrated feature. Without it, switching to Vivaldi will be a challenge.
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F12 (or any) - JavaScript ON/OFF
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First, I like that the layout is uncluttered and not visually overwhelming.
I recall that older Opera version had the option of NOT having icons, but simply text (words - no pictures) on all the buttons. It'd be great were that an option on Vivaldi as well. I'm probably in the minority, but I can't be the only person who finds icons to be frequently UNintuitive.
My main concern is about themes and skins as they relate to ease of reading. For example, the screen I'm looking at (screenshot attached) has light blue and grey text on backgrounds that are various shades of light blue and grey. One's eyes become tired rather quickly because of the lack of contrast. Is there a way for the browser to change the color scheme of each site when the browser displays it. Opera and FireFox offer such extentions although their modifications are not always successful.
For example, when the browser renders a page it 'sees' mid-grey text on a light blue background. could there then be a trigger of "insufficient contrast" and change the text to black? Or the reverse: mid-green text on a dark green background becomes LIGHT green or tan text on the dark green background.
Regarding skins: I miss skins. On older Opera versions one could change skins very quickly and have a much more pleasant browsing experience.
I apologize for my clumsy language in describing the technical features I am requesting. I'm an interpreter and do not have a technical background.
Thank you. Dziekuje.
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Ohh, why another search bar? It has a much better and yet working and configurable feature:
g something (search on google)
y something (search on youtube for 'something! You must add this, but it is easy)
w something (wikipedia)
Lots of possibilities amazon, ebay, anything…
For youtube:
Tools->Settings->All->Search engines
ADD:
ULR: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
Descripion: youtube (or anything)
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Is it true I didn't really searched a lot for it, but for the "Import bookmarks and settings", adding Chrome to it would certainly help.
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My absolute number one desired feature is right click + scroll wheel to cycle through tabs in most recently used order. Pretty much like how Opera 12 does it. I like to use a lot of tabs and switch between them pretty frequently and quickly and it makes a huge improvement on browser usability for me.
Currently, Opera 12 is the only browser that can do that, even with all the addons available for all other browsers it's still just Opera 12, so that's what I'm using. But I'd really like to be able to switch to something a bit more up to date, so I hope you put this feature in soon.
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Yes - allow us to set speed dial as our home page.
AT LEAST, publish its address (I'm so far unable to discover it), so that I can enter it into the blank where homepage can be assigned in Settings.
Edit: OK - the startpage address is vivaldi://startpage - but when you assign the home page to this address, you get the "This web page is not available" error window (with vivaldi://startpage in the address bar) but then if you click in the address window and press "enter," BANG - you get speed dial. There has to be a way to make this work.
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Thank you Vivaldi folks! This is the perfect cure for "the only good browser left in the world just turned into Chrome-with-mouse-gestures" depression.
I had a quick lookaround, and here's my feature wishlist (apart from "make it like O12" :p). Several of these may have been mentioned already, but just in case this is a democracy I'll repeat them.
- Click on tab to minimize
- Hotkey for reopening closed tabs
- Hotkey for "reset zoom to 100%" (was * in Opera 12)
- Paste & go, both via r-click in adress field and global (was ctrl-B in O12)
- Proper implementation of "copy to note" and "insert note" as in opera 12
- Bookmarks: should be sorted folders first, then by name
- Also bookmarks: one-click opening of folders/bookmarks as in O12, currently needs double-clicks
- Bookmarks should open in new tab by default (or at least an option to choose behaviour should exist)
- Speed dial shortcuts, both 1,2 etc in menu bar ("1","2",etc. opens first/second etc thing on sd) and ctrl+1, ctrl+2 globally
- Private tabs
- Support for add-ons/extensions (e.g. adblock etc)
- Option to restore last session as in O12 [EDIT: oh, how'bout that, this already works. Got misled by previous posts :D]
Hope you can make it!
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I was a pretty huge fan of Opera during the pre-Chromium days, and wish I could say the same about the Chromium-based version. It just feels… wrong. I've been using Chrome as a stopgap while waiting for Opera to regain their original focus, but it's been years. I've barely used Vivaldi and it's just a technical preview now, but I feel at home already.
I would like to see extension support, the customizable interface of Opera 12.x and private tabs/windows. Those were the features I loved the most about Opera, aside from tab stacking, which is already there, and would love to see them come back.
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Paste and go
Edit Speed Dial, and thumbnail selection. Create folders moving one speed dial on another.
When I change default search, right click on selected word still show: "Search Google for:". It should search with my default search engine.
Bugs:
When you write 0 in some text boxes, it starting to zoom in. There is some other numbers and letters with same problem.