(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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(I dont want to use addons who will "probably" also be maintained in the future)
- Open blocked Popups in "real time"
old_opera:
Old opera had a built-in popup-blocker (for firefox there are addons). If a popup got blocked a little notifier would slide in at the bottom of the window to notify me about the blocked popup. And then, if i click on the notifier, the popup would actually open. THATS USEFUL, because its realtime. There are webpages i only visit once and i only want one popup to be opened!firefox:
With firefox the only option i have is to change the configuration for that website i actually probably visit just one time in my life. Maybe its possible to add that feature to firefox by searching one hour for the right addon. but i guess it doesnt exist after all.
Firefox-Addon for actual effective blocking: "Strict Pop-up Blocker 0.2"- Speed dial
old_opera:
Of course, by defailt opera has a good working speed dial.firefox:
The developers of Firefox have the nerve to replace the speed dial with some kind of "history log". How useful is that!? Do i always click on webpages who i was visiting yesterday? if i do so, i could just add them to a common speed dial. "Sometimes" i need to look for history-log…
However, for firefox there is an addon called "Speed Dial" (current version 0.9.6.16) and it works.- "click to play" for one element only
Face it, flash is a security hole. It must be a basic feature to block that.
old_opera:
With opera "click to play" worked just fine, i could enable just one flash-app on the webpage if wanted so. If there would have been any hidden flash-app on the webpage, it would not have been activated with Old opera.firefox:
For firefox that doesnt exist. If i click on a flash-app, ALL flash-elements on the webpage are starting. Thats not good enough, it is not secure. (and of course, again, i have to spend time looking for a good addon. Click-to-Play Manager 1.3.1)- Adblocker
old_opera:
Was built-in and did what it had to do.firefox:
Adblock Plus 2.6.7 that addon is an exception, it will be supported in the future, too. for sure- Sessions
old_opera:
opening a certain list of websites i stored in the sessions-menufirefox:
i dont know, if it exists. im not in the mood looking for another addon- "Edit Site Preferences..."
old_opera:
Right-click on a webpage and then click "Edit site Preferences". I get a set of useful options who overwrite global options.firefox:
Firefox only cares for security/permission-issues there. There isnt one addon to fix that lack.Okay, thats it, these are the missing features i was most angry about. Maybe they will exist in vivaldi after two years of development
But having addons is also nice:
More firefox-addons i am using: "YouTube ALL HTML5 2.1.3", "RightToClick 2.9.5", "Flash and Video Download 1.65" -
I'd second the request for profiles. Very useful when you have multiple logins for a site (e.g. Google - I have two work and two personal logins there).
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what I think:
good, what opera 15 should have been.
like that tab grouping and mail will be integrated.what I would like :
-ctrl+shift+t to restore closed tabs
-better tab grouping, do not close all of the group when clicking the close button, be able to extend the group as in O12,
-private tabs that you can restore for a limited time (user setting) to prevent accidental closing
-key button to automatically fill forms
-save the forms being filled and restore it when the page is loaded (tried the view in 3D button, lost what I had written)
-a dark theme
-integrated rss reader
-good and innovative features that I don't know I need yet. -
I'm impressed by how stable and polished is the tech preview.
Keep up the good work!
Here is my feature wishlist (not sure is some of these are already there and I missed them so… sorry if I did
):- Option to skip reloading old pages when opening the browser. I find it really annoying that I have to close all the tabs before closing the browser if I want to avoid them to be loaded again next time I start the browser!!!!!!
- Keyboard shortcuts to alter the zoom level of the current page (REALLY miss these! using the zoom slider it's not easy at all to achieve the desired zoom level since the slider is so small).
- Option to automatically switch to a page when opened in a new tab.
- Option to let me configure the downloaded files folder.
- Option to let me choose a fixed color scheme for the interface.
- Show download speed in real time for each download.
- Java plugin to use the latest JRE (unluckily, bank websites and such do require this to always be up-to-date).
Hope to see these features in the final version.
Thanks!
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The "pin tab" function, to make the tab at the tab bar smaller and moved to the left (like in Chrome).
If there is already a function for this, please put it in the right-click menu at the tab bar.
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I'm missing Private Navigation.
Tks. -
Keyboard shortcuts in the bookmark menu would be nice. In O12, I frequently go e.g. Alt+B (bookmarks) -> D (opens folder "daily") -> O ("open all folder items") to save me a bunch of clicking.
Also, when opening a tab in the background, the tab really should go to the bottom of the stack, i.e. will be last in line for focus after closing the current tab. As-is, the opened tab goes to the top of the stack directly under the current tab, and this kind of defeats the purpose of opening tabs in the background, and also messes up the order of tabs - i.e. if you open "picture 1", "picture 2" and "picture 3" in that (the natural) order, they pop up in order 3,2,1, which is ass backwards.
Anyway, I suppose there's a valid argument whether width-first or depth-first is best, but at the very least make this behaviour an option.
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I'd like to take off the status bar and its zoom and on-off img icon in settings tab
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Hi folks,
more than 2 years, I am searching for a good replacement of Opera (as many others here - still running 12.17 since 6.*). I've found Vivaldi today and I have to say I'm really impressed by this Technology Preview - hey it's less preview than the stable opera 22 or what's the current version. Congratulations for really good work.After several hours of testing I am missing several features - most of them was already mentioned (It would be really good to have some list of features with poll and some road map for us - users - or did I missed it?):
- re-open closed tabs and windows (ctrl+z), list of closed windows
- more configurable mouse gestures (down-left, down, up-down, down-up…) for more actions (minimize/hide tab, open new tab, open tab in background)
- set download directory
- download to download directory or to selected directory
- open page in other browsers (really great for page testing)
- dragon fly or other debugger
- mail client
- rss client
- browsing history
- better vivadi:cache
- list of links on active page
- even better customization :evil:
But thanks for my new browser - I think I've found what I was looking for.
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I'm not sure how necessary this feature is for me, but the Opera cache viewer was really nice to have.
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It would be nice if there was an option to open new tab links in the background.
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for the "Import bookmarks and settings", adding Chrome to it would certainly help.
Context Menu:
"Search with" and "Go to address" would be nice to have as well. Particularly it would be great if you could allow us to reorder the search engines in the context menu (something people wanted for a long time but didn't get in Opera <=12)@many:
Merge address and search bars
That last one definitely makes a lot of sense since people set keywords to search engines when they set them up, they are then accessible from the address bar already so the separate search bar is redundant and unnecessary.
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Thanks! (just for the idea of making something with the REAL Opera in mind and not the fake mistake done after…).
I've tried to read all the feature requests, but I'm sure that some of mine have already been claimed.[ol]
- RSS integrated with advanced filtering and smart filters/folder (improved version of old Opera one)
- visual tabs/session organizer (support for multiple session has been requested already). Something similar to PANORAMA of Firefox: http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/08/24/firefox-panorama.jpg might also be included with bookmars…
- support/import for the old M2 Rss Database!!! (really important to me, I'm still using it)
- support for hundreds tabs… (old opera supported more than 300 at the same time, still able to perform pretty well!)
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If you would like to, feel free to contact me for these ideas, if I can help to have a better Opera, I'm IN!
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Full Imaging support
What would make Vivaldi stand out from the pack is more complete imaging support. The useful feature that is missing on pretty much every web browser is the ability to view TIFF images. Companies have dedicated tons of resources to writing ActiveX, NaCL, Java applets, HTML5 client/server solutions and even uglier tools which send TIFF pages as GIF or JPEG images. All of these are just hacks instead of addressing the real issue of having a good multi-page TIFF viewer built into the browser.I would like to help the Vivaldi team integrate a highly optimized TIFF solution into their browser that would obviate the need for plug-in hacks. I created my own imaging codecs that are optimized for desktop and mobile and would be a perfect fit to run inside a web browser. Please contact me for more details.
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Two things:
I want to use my standard OS theme with vivaldi. I like all of my windows looking consistent. Chrome and Steam both seem to like implementing their own top bar that the OS usually handles, and therefore look very different from the rest of the windows on my screen. This, personally, drives me crazy. At least make this optional, even if it isn't the default. It would make me very happy. Just for the top bar, the tabs and everything can look exactly as they do.
Also, keyboard scrolling. I use the command-line only browser Links more than a sane person should simply because it allows me to browse the web without taking my hands away from the keyboard. Emacs key-bindings are out of the question, I know, but I'm hoping the upcoming spatial navigation is awesome, because ctrl+n to scroll down a page is so comfortable and lets me rest my hands in one place while reading. If a fully functional browser such as this one let me at least set such key-bindings for scrolling and selecting links, I would die of happiness.
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The ability to toggle whether to automatically switch to new tab (or remain in current tab) when I open a new tab.
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Nice work, thank you!
Some suggestions:
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- Make a centralized list of suggestions so users can opt in/out for each of them. A kind of Community Designed Browser
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Keep browser small. On my Win7/32, just after start:
[OL]- K-Meleon (Gecko): 45.000 K
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SlimBoat (WebKit): 60.000 K
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Vivaldi: 258.000 K (75.000 + 80.000 + 71.000 + 32.000)
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Add bookmarks also in main menu
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In Bookmarks Panel, popup menu->Open: ask before opening folder (try to open a folder with over 70 links)
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Don't empty trash at exit, make it persistent
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Site preferences like Opera 12 plus link blocker
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"Block site/domain" option: do not open pages from specified site/domain and remove it from search results
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Customizable context menu
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Line bookmarks for web pages, useful for long pages
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Detached download manager: allow browser to close while keeping downloads active
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Don't bloat the browser with third party services (Facebook, Skipe, etc…). If needed, make them available via extensions
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Same about Mail and News, make them external
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Do not use separate "update service" as Google, Opera does
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Wolf
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I noticed that I asked myself "when did you reload that site the last time" (for example the forum-site to look for new entries).
So a "site reloaded last: XXXXX" in the status bar would be useful. -
I hope more languages will become available. I use UK English as default and hope Vivaldi will include this.
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I hope more languages will become available. I use UK English as default and hope Vivaldi will include this.
I spent maybe one hour to have a an Italian translation in a reasonably good state. I believe that "translating" from American to British English, should be matter of less than 10 minutes.
