(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

Celeblhach

Here are my few cents, sorry if I'm repeating others' requests.

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Middle-mouse button in tab bar = open new tab.
Mouse gesture down = new tab.
Right-click on "back" button = open history of "backs".
"Back" mouse gesture in Speed Dial to leave a folder.
"Open new tab next to current tab" setting.
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That's what came to my mind after some 20 minutes with Vivaldi. Can't wait for future builds!

zakius

@Celeblhach:

Here are my few cents, sorry if I'm repeating others' requests.

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Mouse gesture down = new tab.

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hell no, just make it configurable as any sane person would
why gesture down is CLOSE tab

Iger

Hello! It's great to see the resemblance of the old Opera - I agree, even after the first couple of minutes of working with Vivaldi I feel more at home here, than in the "new Opera".

The list of my features would go as following:

Mouse gestures
Add all the gestures back
Gestures don't work in the "blank" page
The gesture detection engine doesn't seem to be as good as before (perhaps because the browser is not too responsive?)
Optional: Customizable mouse gesture
Tab switching
I yearn for the old-opera-style tab list: ctrl+tab, ctrl+shift+tab, AND rmb+scrollwheel
If you could, please, hide the pixel on top of the tabs which makes you miss the click on the tab if you get the mouse all the way up
Custom proxies would be nice (<cough>SOCKS</cough>)
find links in page (,)

Keep up the good work and thanks for the preview!

Celeblhach

" just make it configurable as any sane person would"

Oh, well, seing how you can configure all keyboard shortcuts, I didn't even think this wouldn't be a feature for mouse gestures in the future.

I just want this one gesture back ASAP co I can dump Firefox and start using Vivaldi more.

Revan

Customizable Interface
Customizable mouse gestures

zerodburn

When clicking between tabs, I would like an option to disable the bit of space that allows the entire program window to be draggable, so that clicking on the top of a tab activates that tab. Its how I change tabs and is the one thing that has stopped me from ever using Opera.
Thread here https://vivaldi.net/forum/vivaldi-browser/747-one-thing-i-have-never-understood#9279

HiDPI / Scaling support would be nice too. I run my windows 8.1 at 150% scaled (2250 x 1440p on a 13.5 inch screen, my eyes need it!)

DanielHendrycks

Obviously, I think that this project has a future if I'm taking time to submit feature requests. I'm excited for the things to come.

Requests:
-Make it possible to remove buttons like "Home" or "Rewind"; let me remove the bottom bar, search bar; let me remove "contacts," etc.
-Pinned tabs
-Order search engines
-Don't make me restart to see ordering changes of my folders reflected on Speed Dial
-Option for speed dial thumbnails like Opera 26's experimental speed dial
-Expand the "hitbox" of the new tab button even more
-Make non-essential parts of the URL grey
-Let the tab hover preview work for tabs I haven't clicked on but are loaded (e.g., tabs from CTRL + Click)
-Different backgrounds for Speed Dial
-Let opening a new tab have Speed Dial present me with dials from the last folder I visited, not necessarily from the first folder in the list
-Let me remove the + dial when I want

Suggestion: Put the Vivaldi menu on the right like in Chrome. There's no need to take up my tab space when there's plenty of room in the bar below. Don't be different if the cost is greater than the benefit.
Comment: The inclusion of visual tabs doesn't seem justified considering its lack of use. Although you've developed it, keeping it around seems like not ignoring sunk costs. If the memory/speed impact is negligible, then ignore this comment.
Comment: Don't neglect Fitts' law for a nice effect when tabs are stacked.

Christoph142

The two most important things for me (already mentioned above):

private tabs
pinned tabs

carmag

Really like this browser! Will the perfect replacement for Opera 12 when adblocker and eMail is provided.

I always was a fan of the vertical layout of the tabs (on the left or right side).

Is it possible to move the adress bar (with all buttons) upwards between the "vivaldi"- and the minimize button??

Mendoza

fit to widh
"search image by Google" in context menu

yosemity

Please add support for unattended (silent) installation with custom options. This feature is very usefull for corporate users.
it'd be great if you could create it alongside of the installation package in msi format

Also I'd like to have the "reload every…" option for automatical page reloading with a specified amount of time

Akbalder

Vivaldi is already quite good but it still needs some new features: :cheer:

Full mouse gesture (ie: new tab)
Ctrl+Enter in the adress field to add www. and .com
Right click + scroll to see tab list
Private tab
Pinned tab
Sync
Content blocker
Plugin on demand
Site preferences
Information about size, servers in the load page progress bar

Walker

This browser is off to a great start! It's more or less what Opera 15 should have been.
My requests (and my apologies if they're already there):
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Ability to pin tabs
Option to show the full URL
Ability to adjust typeface and color on the tabs (at the moment, the tab names are too faint)
Choice of search engines
Integration of menus with Ubuntu Unity
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Thanks for your consideration of these!

acidhax

Wish:::

Please use NPM as an extension repository, and allow extensions to be written in nodejs. This would allow for extremely powerful extensions to be brought into the browser.

Taurus

The sidebar within the panel is something I really use everyday, so I can get the latest news from my favorite newsportals while working at the same time.
IIRC only Firefox / Seamonkey still have this very handy feature.

exstreme

Allow block content

piotrehogarth

First of all, Vivaldi is awesome news. I've been stuck with Opera 12.16 for so long… Can't wait to switch.

My suggestions:

1. Must-have

CTRL-Z for re-opening of closed tabs

2. Would be great

developer tools: JavaScript/HTML/CSS error console
~~developer tools: code inspector (DragonFly/FireFly equivalent)~~ - just found the 'Inspect element' option, please add link in the main menu

3. Would be nice

RSS reader
new incognito tab

KimmoJ

Not sure if this is an official thread, but…:

Please make it possible to drag and drop a speed dial box directly up onto another speed dial folder and sort them that way. RIght now you can drag them up, but they slide under the speed dial button(s) and not over.

bionioncle

Hi, I just try Vivaldi as a Opera Presto user because new opera don't have something I need. I would like Vivaldi have some feature of opera 12

Mouse gesture: Vivaldi have some implemented mouse gesture like Down - Right = Close Tab but still lack of many essential gesture like Down = open new tab. Down-Up = open in background tab or clone tab. I also like to have visual hint
Download setting: There is no download setting, somethings like "always ask for folder to save before download" option and change the default download folder. Although nowadays many people use download manager software like internet download manager instead of browser download manager but it's not the reason to not care about browser download manager
Speed-dial: I tried to add some more speed-dial and I found out that when I add more there is scroll bar. I think it's not bad but I prefer to have speed-dial like old opera that will add more column and more row while the speed-dial thumbnail become smaller to be all fit in my screen without the need to scroll. This require zoom in and out on speed-dial page which now isn't available so I would like to make it so in the near future
Speed-dial Folder visual view: Being able to create folder in speed-dial is a huge step but visual view need to be improve. http://i.imgur.com/mWBBV1L.jpg the button is black and the background is dark that make it hard to locate its location. and I think it would be better it would be like this http://i.imgur.com/efkBN1t.jpg or just replace the world up with some arrow icon for better visual.

Additionally, I think the folder icon http://i.imgur.com/jqv3eEw.jpg should be replace by some sites on it. That'll help me know the content in a folder better than clicking it

Bookmark-tab, note-tab, download-tab: It's good to know there are panel which I longed for but sometime, I need things like note, download are available to be opened in tab too. It's because when they are opened in panel. the space is sometime too small in some work. For bookmark tab, I can open it through speed-dial by bookmark button but can't find anyway to open it by Vivaldi button on top left. I also prefer to manager them in tab like this http://i.imgur.com/uhQEtYH.jpg because it's easier to see on wide screen. Just imagine that I have 2 folder with each has about 100 bookmarked sites.
if I open it like this http://i.imgur.com/Nm7XYxo.jpg I must scroll very much to get to a site I don't remember its name and then scroll upward to put it in another folder while with the old one I just need to click to each folder, find the sites and then click and move it to the left where there's folder tree. The former ones look more like an explorer than the latter when the folder is put into the tree and sites is treated as a program

I don't mean that bookmark panel isn't necessary, It's very good for me when I need to quickly find a page that I bookmarked or access my bookmark more quickly

Tab-stack: It's seems like I can add tab to a stack but can take a tab out of stack while keep other tabs remain in the stack. Also, double left-mouse click doesn't expand the stack. It seems like Vivaldi doesn't have close stack and expand stack. I would like to have this feature as soon as possible
Tab bar and address bar space: The tab bar and address bar take more space than opera 12 which I think unneeded. If it's possible. I would like to be able to resize them to be smaller
space between search bar and address bar can't be change manually: I can't change them like this in Vivaldi
Private tab: changing window take more time than changing tab as well as changing between normal window and private window so I would like to have private tab. You can make it with different color or icon so user can differentiate it from other tabs easily
Pop-up blocker: One of the things I wanted most. It'll be the best if it have block all pop-up like old opera ( http://i.imgur.com/qJ8Tr6Y.jpg ) whether they are un-wanted ad or not be cause I like to open it manually by my self
Visual Color and Icon: I think this is on of Vivaldi problem here is some example. Can you tell where is the border of the tab at the fist glance?

Can you tell where is the space between 2 tabs at a quick look?

Don't you think it's good for eyes if the icon and background colors are organized like this. The color is quite different that's better to reconized

Instead of this

Backward and Forward button: I think there is a problem. In old opera, when I hold left mouse on Backward or Forward button it will show a list like this

I tried the same with Vivaldi but there is no result, nothing show up. Also, I think that these 2 button aren't necessary

That's my first impression on Vivaldi. It have some feature I need but still need to improve alot

seth102304

First off, I want to congratulate the developers at Vivaldi for their excellent work. The browser is very fast, has a clean user interface, and includes a lot of the features that I loved about the old Opera browsers (the utility panel on the left size, page notes, etc.) I'm very excited to see what new capabilities will be added to the software over time, and I am glad to have the opportunity to provide feedback in the project's early phases.

Here are my suggestions:

(1) Give users the ability to increase user interface font size and button size (including text in the URL bar) so that users with poor eyesight can see the browser more easily. This includes the ability to adjust font sizes in the note panel as well. It's astounding how many browsers seem to neglect the needs of physically disabled users. I can't use Chrome regularly because its interface is just too small, and Firefox allows most UI size adjustments to be done only through the installation of extensions. It would be nice if these adjustments could be made within the browser natively.

(2) In the same vein, add a high-contrast color option so that users who have poor eyesight can distinguish the browser's sections and buttons more easily.

(3) The ability to assign keyboard combinations for zooming in and out on a webpage (i.e. Ctrl+ or Ctrl-), so that zooming can be accomplished more quickly and accurately.

(4) "Copy as Plain Text" option when text is selected on a page, so that the user doesn't have to use Notepad as an intermediary before pasting text into another program.

(5) A stand-alone bookmark manager that allows you to select and manipulate multiple bookmarks at once, so as to make moving, duplicating, and deleting bookmarks more efficient.