(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

TheStagesmith

One thing that would be great to see is being able to drag tabs between windows (or drag a tab out to create a new window). When I'm working on two monitors, I frequently will move tabs back and forth between the two depending on what I'm doing at the moment. Having to create a new window and then re-open a page in it whenever I want to split things up or move things around is a gigantic pain, and one of the main reasons I'm still using Chrome/Firefox day-to-day.

mechagorgon5000

Hi! I am a recent convert too. Vivaldi has helped me to use my browser in new ways and I'd like to put in a couple of requests.

I love the hide the UI mode! It's my default setting now, and I love all that I can do from my keyboard!

But sometimes I need to use the address and tab bars. I found and set a keyboard shortcut to toggle the address bar, but it would be great to have a shortcut that could be set to toggle and focus the address bar and separately, the tab bar.

Alternately

I am a big fan of the quick commands menu. It would be nice if there were a way to use it to execute web searches. Maybe something like:

search: <search terms="" here=""></search>
```or just:

: <search terms="" here=""></search>

Keep up the great work!

Pakirava.Datsuma

While we have to use third party mail clients it would be great to make "share by email" button.

tjdfkgklhjgbh54

-Tabs don't touch the top border of the screen, meaning if you push your mouse all the way to the top to click on a tab you have to scoot down about 2 mm to actually click on the tab (ie compare vivaldi to chrome)
-I'd love a confirmation dialog before closing the window if I have multiple tabs open. In fact, any attempt to close more than 1 tab should have an optional dialog (like firefox, like what chrome has refused to add ever).
-Icon in the top left doesn't behave like a standard windows window. Normally double-clicking in the top left icon closes the window. This is handy because if you have two screens, its easiest to go to either the far top left or the far top right to close a window (same usability issue as item 1, you require too much precision of your users).
-Middle clicking doesn't work as expected. Most of them I'm sure you know but one I would say is probably weird enough to be a bug is that if you middle click anywhere on the screen and then let the button go over a tab, it closes the tab. IE the tab close should respond to a full mouse-down, mouse-up sequence, right now it responds to any mouse-up event regardless of where the mouse-down occurred. Its really easy to scroll up and down a page and end up closing one.

Freezee

Hello, I have a few suggestions
First, sorry if my english is a bit bad, it's because I'm not english

1- Smaller top-bar
For example, with Chrome, the top Windows bar disappeared, and it's a cool thing because it makes space for the top-bar of the browser (with the URL, tabs, …). So why don't you just delete the "Windows bar" to make more space for the webpage ? And add default buttons (minimize, close, ...) next to the tabs ? I think this would look better, because this is a huge and useless bar (if you put buttons somewhere else)

2- YouTube and sound control
A very cool feature, you could have a YouTube support in the tab. For example, you have a YouTube tab, you're in a playlist, and you want to go to the next music in your playlist. So you must open the tab, click the "next" button, and go to your previous tab. It's quick, but it could be quicker
You could have an official support for it. When you hover the tab, you would have a few options for YouTube, like sound control, playlist control, time control, and a small preview of the video. So you don't have to open the full webpage to control it
I also had the idea of a sound control. On twitter.com, the sound of videos/Vines are extremely loud. It would be a cool thing if you could control the sound of a specific tab, because it's still not loud at all on other websites, and if I change the sound of Vivaldi, if I play music on YouTube for example, it became very low and I must change again the volume of Vivaldi. But the volume is loud on Twitter, so I always need to change the volume to keep my ears (because I like them)

atmouse

Copy table columns(with Ctrl and drag) like firefox do

chrisi

As an longtime opera-user (since v3) i would like to see :woohoo: :

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Boss mode aka hide browser to taskbar to use with the new customizable mouse-guestures.
Single left-click on bookmarks to open link or folders (i know middle works for creating a background tab).
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Congrats to the team of vivaldi, i switched completely from opera v12 to Vivaldi.

edgalves

One feature i really miss from Chrome is the fuzzy search in address bar.
For example if i want to revisit the Vivaldi forum i only needed to type "viv forum" in the address bar and it suggested all the links in the forum that i visited.

Having that feature in the Command pallete would also be great.

suricactus

1. Drag&Drop text on Tab bar is the same as Paste&Go the same text on new tab in Chrome. I really miss this feature.
2. Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown to switch between pages. If I set it as custom shortcut, the whole current page is bouncing up and down before switching to adjacent tab.
3. Middle click on NewTab Button behaves as Paste&Go from clipboard.

Pesala

@emilcabaj:

Could you add notification when start I download something?
Maybe something like Firefox have.

You can set the panel to open automatically on starting a download in Settings, Downloads.

alexwallsr

Hello!

It would be great if the downloads sidebar could have draggable elements, like in chrome or firefox. That way you can easily move downloads to other folders, or drag a download to an upload form(facebook picture for example).

Thanks!

SpectralKH

See other browsers' bookmarks in Vivaldi's bookmarks panel, and interact with them and add them to the bookmarks bar (= Synced bookmarks)

brunocalou

Hello

It would be very desirable that when holding the Control Key and clicking on the "Go to the next / previous page", the page opens on a new tab. You could also implement it when clicking the middle mouse button

I would appreciate if the window close button (x) appeared on the left on linux

I noticed there is a bug when adding bookmarks. Sometimes when adding a page, it doesn't show on the bookmarks tab and I have to close and reopen the browser to fix it.

WirierChalice34

I would like to be able to set the StartPage to a custom page, and not just speed dial.

jplanvers

I have three requests, all related to control and mouse gestures. If all of them were added, Vivaldi would equal the best mouse gesture implementation currently available, the Firegestures extension on Firefox.

Please allow the user to customize rocker gestures. I want to set FlipBack to "close current tab" and FlipForward to "reopen closed tab". The current implementation is only valuable for people running 2-button mice, which are not very common in 2016!
Please add Wheel Gestures as a feature. Wheel Gestures are activated by scrolling on the mousewheel while holding the right mouse button.
This one is getting REALLY techie, but it's a feature I actually use and love on Firegestures. Please allow users to add their own actions that can be mapped to mouse gestures, mouse chords, or wheel gestures as userscripts. For example, I have Wheel Gestures mapped to Zoom In On Image / Zoom Out On Image in Firegestures with the custom userscript below.

const SCALE = 1.15;

var node = FireGestures.sourceNode;
if (!(node instanceof HTMLImageElement))
  return;
if (!node.hasAttribute("width"))
  node.setAttribute("width", node.naturalWidth);
if (!node.hasAttribute("height"))
  node.setAttribute("height", node.naturalHeight);
if (!node.hasAttribute("originalWidth")) {
  node.setAttribute("originalWidth", node.width);
  node.setAttribute("originalHeight", node.height);
}
node.width = node.width * SCALE;
node.height = node.height * SCALE;

If you decide not to do #3 (and I can't really blame you, this level of customization is a tough sell for default UI!) please add new actions for Zoom In On Image and Zoom Out on Image.

Pesala

@jplanvers:

If you decide not to do #3 (and I can't really blame you, this level of customization is a tough sell for default UI!) please add new actions for Zoom In On Image and Zoom Out on Image.

I don't think it's too much to ask, but it may take a while. The stated aim is to make something as good as Old Opera. That allows me to assign mouse gestures like this to show the bookmarks bar for 5 seconds — just long enough to click a bookmark.

GestureUp, GestuerDown = Set alignment, "personalbar inline", 6 & Delay, 5000 & Set alignment, "personalbar inline", 0

One can even use mouse gestures to launch applications with the "Execute program" command, e.g. this will open a text file in NotePad2 (which is my default program for editing text files):

GestureUp Alt = Execute program, "O:/Documents/ToDo.txt"

twinscull

Just 2 minor things i would enjoy being added.

1. The option to remove the top right search bar. I pretty much use the address bar for this function now.
Also it would be nice if when using the address bar for a google search, if it would autocomplete as if your using google itself.

2. The possibility to customise mouse gestures. I dont know how difficult this would be but if you could create custom gestures or even slightly remap existing ones or even better to allow multiple gestures for the same thing.

P.S Great browser, been using for over a month and no issues. Its been great out of the box

elgigantor

Love the program….

i use an extension called Gmail Notifier and the sound notification on it does NOT work in Vivaldi. The extension people tell me that Vivaldi doesn't offer that feature yet. will this be added anytime soon??

thanks.

jplanvers

@twinscull:

Just 2 minor things i would enjoy being added.

1. The option to remove the top right search bar. I pretty much use the address bar for this function now.
Also it would be nice if when using the address bar for a google search, if it would autocomplete as if your using google itself.

2. The possibility to customise mouse gestures. I dont know how difficult this would be but if you could create custom gestures or even slightly remap existing ones or even better to allow multiple gestures for the same thing.

You can remove the search bar in settings|search.
The latest snapshot release allows gesture customization!

Pesala

@twinscull:

Just 2 minor things i would enjoy being added.

1. Settings, Search, Search field in address bar, disable
2. Settings, Mouse, Edit (Get the latest snapshot)