(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

Celeblhach

OK, after playing with the browser for two days (tried to use it as the main browser as much as possible), here's one more thing.

PLEASE, make the tab colour change optional. Not all sites have friendly colours, that sometimes causes a terrible high-contrast, eye raping situation.

My vision of ideal settings would be:

as is
same as Windows window colour (especially in Windows 8 where the colour can change automatically depending on the wallpaper)
user defined colour.

capandjudy22

Support for MacBook track pad please.

siouxchief

Single click bookmarks please. I have single click for everything on my machine and Opera bookmarks activate with a single click and don't require me to double click them. Probably link this to what is the default on the persons machine.

Website favicons on the bookmarks so they are easy identifiable please like Opera 12

Drag and drop capability for buttons, panels etc facility that Opera 12 had and was what made it cool.

May have missed it but cant see the wand for passwords. Thats very important too.
Edit: Seems like it auto fills the password which is good so maybe no need for the wand button but need to use more to see…

When you right click on a file to download the option to immediately 'save to download folder' is great in Opera 12 instead of doing 'save as' and all the extra decision making.it requires

Have a place in settings where you can store regularly used form data like name, address etc like Opera 12

Thanks

DrakeXiang

The almost only thing I'm not satisfied with current opera is
"force open new tab in background"
and
"enable dragging for opening links and stuff and optional open them in background"

I've suggested in their blog but seems they don't have any plan on this, though I know little about programming, I don't think it's that complicated to add such an option for those need it, vivaldi suppose to add it right?

dmarciano

I just started using Vivaldi and I'm really liking it; I usually use Chrome exclusively. However there are a couple of things that I use/like in Chrome that I would love to see if Vivaldi:

1. With Tab Stacking, instead of having to click "Remove from tab stack" or "Dissolve tab stack" it would be nice if when you see the small preview's all of all the windows if you could simple drag-and-drop them to separate them
2. With individual tabs (or tab stack) if you could drag a tab to have it become a separate window. Related to this, would be nice if you could drag tabs between separate windows and have them attach/detach
3. Profiles - I like to have a profile for work and one for personal use that has separate settings, bookmarks, etc.

The final thing isn't a feature request, just a typo I noticed. The button to dissolve a tab stack is spelled "Disolve Tab Stack" instead of "Dissolve Tab Stack".

I think if Vivaldi has these features (or something very similar) I would consider switching to Vivaldi as my main browser for work/personal use.

Keep up the good work!

chicken

@romand:

Great TP. I'm always pleased to check new browsers aimed for power users.
After using it for a day now, and reading this topic, I do have couple of thoughts - some of them already mentioned before:
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3. Tabs to be like firefox not like chrome - meaning you see only like 10 tabs at once, and have to scroll for the others.
4. Right-click on "back" button = open history of "backs".
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6. Cache refresh on ctrl+f5
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9. I think this should be number one - Lazy Tabs - but as you implement it as a browser and not an extension, you have more options - Let's say I have 30 tabs and they take 1500MB RAM. You can allow us to set highest memory value used and then unload tabs by time of last use, to allow to have only like 10 tabs loaded ( the only ones that will stay loaded longer are the pinned tabs - like youtube ).

Welcome! Nice to know Vivaldi is tried not only by Opera (Presto) and Opera fans
Please remember that Vivaldi browser is targeted not only for general power users, but Opera Presto users. If anyone wants Chrome-like or Firefox-like features don't request them as communist and the only good way to do something! Seriously…

I will introduce you to Opera 12, hope you will download and give it a try.

@3
I think Opera Presto was before Chrome did it It's not bad, but you should try Opera 12 with a lot of tabs - hint: right click + mouse scroll, another hint: window panel. If you get used to it, you will never want firefox style again.

@4
Not right click, but left button down and hold, list of history back entries appears, then you move mouse to entry you want and do button up.

@6
Actually, it should be probably considered as a bug against some W3C recommendation.

@9
My Opera 12 with 70+ tabs opened consumes less than 1.5GB RAM and performance is very good. It runs for more than week with system hibernation for nights and everything is perfectly fine. PC is mid-class 3 years old machine (i5-3450, 8GB RAM, Win7x64). I understand some people are not willing to wait for anything to load, but my I'm patient. I prefer my browser to take up to 1 minute to load everything I had opened last time, because it's not that much time.

I checked loading time specially for this post (In background few database servers-mostly inactive but running, Visual Studio, ~20 Files in notepad++ and sublime, MS Word, Firefox-4tabs, chrome-15tabs, Vivaldi-11tabs, skype - 2accounts, vlc, database client). My results are:
It took me 7s to get Opera 12 window rendered, click new tab and click one page on speed dial.
It took me another 8 seconds to get that page loaded. Which I consider a bit slow, but very good considering given context.
When I waited to 40s mark since I started Opera I tried opening new tab and opening new page again. Now it took me only 4s.
So after less than 1min I have fully usable browser with all content I want (70+ tabs).
I understand people are not willing to wait, but I don't consider lazy tab loading as good scenario. I waited, on average, lest than 1s to load each page. Now I'm able to switch to any of them. How long will you wait to open new page? 2-3s at least. How much time would you waste in total to open unloaded tab? I'm sure it will be more in total

Opera (Presto) is the best at supporting multiple tab browsing. That's why I have 70+ tabs at once. It's not much (really!) and I can work very comfortable with them. It's hard to explain to people who prefer other browsers, because it's very hard to work this way with other browsers.

Xan_

Thanks for the great work with the TP! Here are some pieces of feedback I have after a day of use:

One point I have not seen mentioned yet: Please consider implementing "auto-stacking" as an optional feature. IIRC this was introduced in one of the development builds of O11 and some people quite liked it. There was even a hack to reenable it to some extent (ruari's post: https://web.archive.org/web/20131219053958/http://my.opera.com/ruario/blog/2011/03/16/auto-tab-stacking)
(This could automatically declutter the tab-bar for sessions where one deals with many tabs)

Tab/Window management:

Please introduce the Windows panel which essentially provided a second layer for tab-management in addition to tab stacks. Opera (<=12) was the only browser where I could comfortably deal with up to a hundred or more tabs, arranged in different windows, and different stacks in different windows, and so on. Windows panel was a huge facilitator for that

Mouse gestures:
Please work out all the kinks (I'm sure you will) in the current implementation (Down for new tab is missing, so is Down-Up on a link to open the link in a background, and Down-Up to duplicate a tab. Also gestures do not work on Speed dial).

Some basic shortcuts that are missing
Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-Z/Ctrl-Alt-Z or Ctrl-Shift-T.
Paste-and-go is missing as well.

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)

anikul

First of all, I would like to thank you guys for envisioning to recreate Old Presto Opera browser I loved the most. I'd appreciate it if you consider following features in future iterations:

1. Hyperlink text selection without help of any extension or keyboard shortcut same as like Old Opera.

2. Powerful pop up blocker on a par with Opera Presto.

3. ' Open with…' context menu option to open web pages in other browser/s. I'd suggest you to consider other programs besides browser/s and would like to have that menu in tab context menu too. I'd appreciate it if you consider support for Portable apps (browsers, other programs etc.)

siouxchief

Right clicking on a link and being able to choose 'open in background tab'. I don't want to have to click 'open in new tab' and it take me there straight away as I may want to stay on the original tab.

Thanks

IcePanther

After a few days of use, here are other suggestion feature request, that has probably already been made, but still, in that case it'll add weight to it :

Ability to start the browser on a blank page or the speed dial, and not keep the previous session. (if it's already there, sorry :oops: but I wasn't able to find it in the settings dialog… )
(more of a suggestion) Having all cookies listed in the settings is nice, but the list sure grows fast. Would it be possible to open it in another window (and hide it in the settings panel) if it exceeds a defined threshold ? It would make the settings panel more clear in my opinion.
Especially if site preferences, or at least, default content policies (JS, images, css....) get added to settings.

gabor.kovacs

remember spell checker language by site

Razorium

Open a new tab with mouse gestures, like Opera, It's very useful.

Em-a-il

I really like this new browser.
The only two things I miss:

open link in background tab
default zoom-level

freebird

How about adding bitcoin support as a native feature ? this would
1. give access to a large , young, very tech-savvy & loyal user-base to help kickstart vivaldi adoption
2. also gives a very important competitive advantage against other browsers since its clear that digital payments infrastructure will get built onto the WWW & Internet much much sooner rather than later

exact platform/protocol to be supported ( bitcoin or ethereum or ripple) can be studied/observed for a while and then decided, but putting the foundations in place at this stage, and signalling the intent to have this feature in vivaldi will be a key win !

@vivaldi team / fellow forum users : please do let me know your thoughts/views on this !

kudo

Mouse gestures are one of the most imporant aspect of browsing for me, current ones are OK but what I miss is the Right-click+Scroll wheel Tab-switching!
Please add this so I can switch to Vivaldi when it goes stable, thank you!

btabke

Thank you to Jon Von T!

This thing is an awesome start. Congrats to the entire team.

Wish list:

Ability to install in dropbox so that it stays updated across many computers. I currently have O12 in dropbox (with cache outside on c drive). love it - a few sync issues, but i can deal with it.
Download byte indicator, txt and images
Ability to put address bar at bottom of screen.
Use external editor/src viewer.
A high quality bookmark manager
Quick list bookmarks. something that could lock to a toolbar.
Bing as a default search engine. (yes, I know the MS and O history
An toolbar. I love O12's. I use it constantly. Chrome/Opera 20-whatever, is like throwing out the anchor to slow down.
Make tabs lager for bigger screens (wider)
Ability to change browser settings on a per site basis (cookies, agent, referers etc)
Disable animated gifs on a page basis.
A full blown password manager. (like keepass or something - include sites that are ajax/etc that dont work. So that I don't have to use an external pass manager any more)
click on tab to minimize or switch to last tab.
re-load page after x minutes
speed dial - meh, never ever liked it. I know i am in minority.
Lazy tab loading
block content (ad blocker)
page size in title bar.
CTRL-Z - reload last closed tab.
Ability to remove search bar.
Native look-n-feel to whatever system platform it's on.

dvorapa

For Ubuntu 14.04 I miss these things:

Selecting multiple bookmarks (e.g. to update their previews or e.g. move them between folders)
Shortcut for cloning a tab
Customizable background of Speed Dial
Selecting multiple tabs (e.g. to close them at once)
Address bar autocomplete function
Better czech localization (I could help with translation)
Ctrl + Shift + T (opens last closed tab) function
Extensions
Option to hide search bar
Newer version of Flash (v11 is too much buggy to be safe to use)
Page translation option
Option to disable remembering passwords
And finally garbage can icon could delete history (as author of this topic mentioned)

pavlo

Here is main features I would like to see bringed back from Opera:
CTRL+Z to open last closed tab
mouse rocker gestures
RSS reader (a lot of work, I understand, but…)

P.S.: you are the best!!!

charm3d

We need to be able to change the download folder. I don't save anything to my C: Drive which is an SSD. I'm not one bit impressed there is not way to change this in your browser.
We also need a paste and go option when we paste an address in the address bar. I love this feature and can't live without it.

I would like to see a feature to easily grab items out of the cache and save them. An older version of Opera allowed this then they changed it.

I also agree a we need to option to change the skin of this browser., I find white to harsh for my eyes. "to bright"
An pop up blocker would be nice. This is one of the reasons I love FireFox. Adblck plus. awesome!

I think you need to make this browser mores customizable to the user. At the moment the options are pitiful although the use of speed dials and bookmarks was a nice touch.

Saija

Ubuntu/Linux Mint repo?

Have you planned to create a Ubuntu/Linux Mint repository so the users of this operative system could update automatically it's browser?