(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests
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SECURITY
I suggest an amendment to be able to run the browser fully sandboxed, that you can make available on all OS - but Windows will not be able to support it fully.
1. A Group - "Internet" is made that a regular user / staff equivalent - not the same group as current user that launch Vivaldi.
2. A User "Vivaldi" is created as a no-login and with "Home" location set to "$HOME/Vivaldi" - inside current user file hierarchy.
3 . Vivaldi is set up to default start as this user, in this group and with no access to any files except those made by the browser.
Vivaldi has to be able to intercept requests to the file system (ENOACCESS) on dialogues, and prompt the user for password that is not stored
únless the user asks for it to be stored. You can make the file operations as a service from the launching process, but every time a script make a
search for something, this fails - finds nothing - no address book, no photo files, no iTunes, nothing unless it asks for a file to be transferred.
This makes it impossible to read the keychain, impossible with a number of extensions, unless a bridge is made where this is imported to the special address space that has been created for Vivaldi.
The Email client can use another userid with the same group - or run as the user - and access the files.The user determines access rights to the new group and the user ids - which can be definitely no access except for the browser and email client´s own files.
You can start "Flash" as another user, and "Java" as yet another user of the "Internet" group, and bluntly, also open for site-specific user-id to allow Java and Flash that has been downloaded to execute in its very tiny contained area that can be monitored and managed.This is some steps further than the changes Google has made on Android, but is what I find a reasonable and safe way to run code that has been downloaded without further tests. It is also a mechanism that can be turned on and off easily - but will require "root" access for the user to alter the set-up.
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Can we receive some info in status bar like in Maxthon - CPU usage, Up/Download speed,available memory, local IP and option to toggle them?
+1 I'd like some of this info displayed somehow.
This is available on other platforms, such as Linux and MacOS.
Just open the Activity Monitor, and look at the resources Vivaldi use. I see the point in network usage e.g. at download, and they can get these fields easily,
CPU will be highly misleading the way Maxthon does it, since here they have the HTML code that may be standing still, while Flash code may be jamming the system completely and is run in another process - "Helper".
It should be easy to write a Java screen that samples all the processes, shows the IP address - all what you ask for as an applet. This may already be available somewhere - but with the problem of hiding who is bogging down the flash and javascript helpers - these are singlethreaded!. -
SECURITY - DNS Cache
Is it possible to flush local DNS cache and ask Vivaldi to use one (1) or (2) alternative DNS that you trust?
This will make it much more difficult for code to play with the local DNS and insert wrongful IP addresses, redirecting the browser to a site of their choosing and not the correct site ("Phishing"). Yahoo and Google allows others to use theirs - what about Vivaldi? -
Several suggestions that I have. Most of them are relatively minor changes, but they would increase the usability of Vivaldi.
1. I would really like it if you would implement a unibar/omnibar as seen in Safari and Chrome.
2. There are a lot of features that are different from other browsers (panels, trash can icon, etc), that are never explained. The only way to find out what they do is to experiment. User on boarding could be a lot better.
3. Include an setting to customize the tab colors. I don't know what the colors are taken from and the randomness is slightly irritating.
4. The browser window is automatically smaller than the size of the screen. It should be full window size by default.
5. If I have a Gmail window open and someone sends me a hangout message, Safari will toggle the tab name from "Inbox" to "_______ says…." This isn't a major thing but it's slightly useful and increases the polish of a browser.
6. The homepage is vivaldi.com by default. That website is primarily for people who aren't already using Vivaldi (the download link is front and center). It would be helpful to make a separate website or subpage that is for people who have just started using Vivaldi (i.e. Getting Started).
Other than these small points, I am really liking Vivaldi so far. It definitely has the potential to turn into my #1 browser once everything is smoothed out
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4. The browser window is automatically smaller than the size of the screen. It should be full window size by default.
By this do you mean Vivaldi is not maximized upon launch? If Vivaldi is maximized when it is closed it should open maximized.
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Waiting for integration of mail in Vivaldi
Would have been nice with received and read confirmation of sent mail. -
I don't know if it has been written (I read about 7 pages).
Things i would like to have:- Fully portable (every file (history, cache, …) will save to install folder, no files on computer's local disk)
- Cleaning history, cache, cookies OLDER than (automatic)
2.1) If it will be possible - more customizable cleaning system (history from youtube clean immediately, searching history remove after week
This is probably all i can't find in one browser together.
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**Participate to the poll, that you'll find on the Vivaldi Browser development team blog: Vivaldi's asking what they should implement, first!
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Add my separate feature request to this longer thread cos I didn't see it in the poll! :ohmy:
Feature request: Start bar!
This was amazing in Opera and saved so much time. It's also something which I've never seen in any other browser.
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Can we receive some info in status bar like in Maxthon - CPU usage, Up/Download speed,available memory, local IP and option to toggle them?
+1 would be useful to have this info in-browser.
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4. The browser window is automatically smaller than the size of the screen. It should be full window size by default.
By this do you mean Vivaldi is not maximized upon launch? If Vivaldi is maximized when it is closed it should open maximized.
This is what it looks like when I open a new window.
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4. The browser window is automatically smaller than the size of the screen. It should be full window size by default.
By this do you mean Vivaldi is not maximized upon launch? If Vivaldi is maximized when it is closed it should open maximized.
This is what it looks like when I open a new window.
Weird. On my Lubuntu, it STARTS to do that, but by the time it finishes opening, it jumps to fully-expanded size. Perhaps it's your windows manager, or the way Vivaldi reacts specifically with it?
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Instead of fancy speed dial with big preview pictures, why we cant have just a simple vertical text list with icons of our favourite pages? It would be a lot better. We know how our favourite pages looks anyway.
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Instead of fancy speed dial with big preview pictures, why we cant have just a simple vertical text list with icons of our favourite pages? It would be a lot better. We know how our favourite pages looks anyway.
Vivaldi has that. It's called the "Bookmark Panel."
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Sorry, i was totally blind. The function of bookmarks in speed dial is already there.
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I would like named tab groups, and a mode like Pentadactyl for Firefox. I find that Pentadactyl's mode of navigation is generally more useful with a lot of tabs or on a laptop.
While this is less of an issue for most people it would also be nice if when the developer console was opened it would be useful if we could turn on a setting that would display the boxes around elements without having to select an element.
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Sup, as opera user for the past 15 years with no proper web browser to use currently I'm more than excited about Vivaldi and I can't wait to have a beta or a version with autoupdate to switch to it so I created an account to leave some of the features I loved in opera and I will love to have in Vivaldi
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RSS reader (pretty much I use opera 12 only for it now)
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Being able to auto open certain extensions like .torrent and have them in a temp folder that cleans itself
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Contextual menu in downloads (to read a .rar in CDdisplay instead of open it, or just delete it, for example)
Being able to move the hide images button or at least a option to have it at top with adress bar -
Change the maximum of connections to a server since in chrome/chropera/chromium it kill the loading of a lot of pics/webms when 3-4 of them are stuck
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A button to open panels near the adress bar too
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Being able to change the scale/columns/stuff of speed dial
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Click to change/minimize a tab
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Right click to edit site options to clean cookies/content/identity and all the opera 12 stuff
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Being able to edit mouse gestures and keybinds
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Links (in panel)
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Auto status bar
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Private tabs
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Auto reload
Thats pretty much everything, keep the good work as you are the only hope for proper web browsing in the future
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Very Easy, Get Opera 11 or Classic 12 and add all the features it has. it is smart to use the whole existing recommendation history that Opera has for over many years.
