(History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests

Team_Vivaldi

Thanks for your requests, we read them and our UI team has the following replies to some of your UI questions:

Q: Could you stop animating things please?
A: We have added a setting that removes all animations and transitions from the browser.

Q: You should use FreeType on Linux (and maybe everywhere)?
A: Swapping font rendering libraries is a big task. If you feel strongly about this, please file a bug report/feature request.

Q: New tab button must not move!
A: We plan to add more extensive customization options, where you could place buttons where you want. There is currently no plan to change the default.

Q: Could you please add a Bookmarks menu?
A: Absolutely. We are working on this.

Q: I would like to close speed dial folders with "Escape".
A: That sounds reasonable. Please file a bug report/feature request.

Q: I made a design proposal (Vivaldi button to the right, trash next to URL, navigation buttons smaller, tabs to the very left)
A: Wow, nice! We love seeing users both tinkering with the raw files and sketching things out. That being said, there are reasons for having the UI the way it is. Many of those are quite boring. But watch out for coming customisation options, which will let you make money of these changes.

Q: Thumbnails are sometimes not there?
A: Thumbnail generation is tricky, and there are still some holes like the one you found. Please file a bug report.

Q: My mouse cursor disappears in fullscreen?
A: This is likely due to the video overlay being drawn on top of the mouse cursor. This could be a driver or plugin(Flash?) issue. If you think this is Vivaldi causing trouble, please file a bug report.

Q: Will you support themes and skins?
A: We have top men working on it right now.

Q: Can you make animations 60 fps please?
A: Our current priorities has been getting features in, sometimes at the expense of performance and fluidity. High-quality animations is an ongoing task. You can see some of our latest work when dragging tabs.

Q: Could you please make the panel animation less jumpy?
A: We would very much like to. We have improved on it several times, but the crux of the problem is crossprocess communication and that is tricky. We will keep working on this.

Q: Can you let us remove some buttons please?
A: Yes. Eventually you will be able to move buttons where you please.

Q: Could we get icons in the context menus?
A: This is up for discussion. We don't want to end up in a situation where we have icons everywhere.

Q: Could you add a link to the bug report webpage from the UI?
A: Maybe—file a bug report for it.

Q: Could you display page load speed as well as bytes and elements in the address bar?
A: We probably could, please make a bug report/feature request.

Q: Consider adding smooth transitions for opening and closing tabs?
A: Already on our list!

Q: Add support for animated Speed dial backgrounds?
A: We allready support GIF and WEBP animations on the Speed Dial. If you want other formats please make a bug report/feature request.

Q: How can webmasters set the Vivaldi's GUI color?
A: By using the META tag theme-color you can specify this directly.

Team_Vivaldi

Thanks for your request.
1 & 2 are in the pipeline but they take time.
3. we'll look into it.

D0J0P

Hi Team_Vivaldi,

You guys already know you got my UI requests that I've sent a few times. I have a few new ones.

In this new snapshot that came out today, there is now a message when you toggle fullscreen for a video that says "Vivaldi is now showing in fullscreen. Press F11 to exit". It's really annoying. One of the things I loved about Vivaldi is that it never showed a message when I go fullscreen, and I would love the ability to turn that off. I hate having to wait 5 long seconds for the message to get off a person's face in the video before I can start enjoying the video. Even Safari I think doesn't do this because it's probably bad from a design standpoint.

I did try to type chrome://settings/contentExceptions#fullscreen, but nothing even pops up when I do that to change one of the sites. Try it. If there's a workaround, let me know.

This is a minuscule detail, but the menu for the menu button and for every button is not lined up with the highlighted area around the button that shows that you clicked it. eg. the context menu for the back button isn't up against the edge of the screen where the highlighted area around the back button would be, and is spaced away from the edge of the screen. Same with the menu button menu, it's not touching the edge of the screen. Such a minuscule detail, but I noticed it and wanted to mention it to help give Vivaldi the utmost polish.
Not sure how I feel about the loading bar. Not sure what I could say that would be better and nicer looking though. Maybe it's because it doesn't move as fluidly or it moves too slowly.
Not sure if I said this, but make change the garbage can icon in the bookmarks/notes panel to the same one as the garbage can icon on the tab bar. The one on the tab bar is so much nicer looking.
A history panel.
There was a regression a snapshot or two ago where the transparent background tabs has those bottom right indicators back on them. If you're going to keep that, make it lighter-colored, and maybe even give us the option to disable it.
Add back the open tab next to active one for a new tab. And while you're at it, put in the option to go to the left tab or right tab after closing a tab. But don't remove any current tab features. This way, you have options for everything.
The ability to discard tab stacks and individual tabs within tab stacks without having to click on them first.
To have the main part of the website(the root URL) on the address bar in black, and the rest of the website sub-address in grey. Firefox does this and it looks nice. But if others don't like it, put it up as an option.

D0J0P

For some reason, my reply isn't showing up.

Benguin

In regards to the new tab opening behaviour: I really love it. One suggestion though. I noticed that if you have a vivaldi tab active, and you open a link from another application (therefore not related to the active tab) it'll still open it to the right of the active tab. I think it should, in this case, open a new tab at the right-most position.

Thanks for all your hard work guys, keep it up!

denilsonsa

A way to have a user-defined custom CSS on the user data directory, to allow UI customizations without having to edit system-wide files.

For instance, changing browser.html or chrome.css requires root permissions (on Linux), and may be overwritten on any update. If Vivaldi itself already looked inside ~/.config/vivaldi/, then the user customizations are easier to change and won't be lost after updates.

D0J0P

One more UI request: to move the status bar overlay to the bottom left edge of the browser, without any space in between. I have my tabs at the bottom, and I notice that the status bar overlay has some space in between it and the bottom left edge of the browser where the tabs are. If this gap could be removed to look like other browsers(and it would also help the visual contrast of the overlay), then that would be great!

Bristolian

I apologise if it's already been mentioned here, but it would be really useful to be able to import from the latest Opera incarnations Speed Dials, Bookmarks (in their folders), cookies and Passwords e.t.c.

Tomczykolacz

@D0J0P:

Hi Team_Vivaldi,

In this new snapshot that came out today, there is now a message when you toggle fullscreen for a video that says "Vivaldi is now showing in fullscreen. Press F11 to exit". It's really annoying. One of the things I loved about Vivaldi is that it never showed a message when I go fullscreen, and I would love the ability to turn that off. I hate having to wait 5 long seconds for the message to get off a person's face in the video before I can start enjoying the video. Even Safari I think doesn't do this because it's probably bad from a design standpoint.

U can do it alredy. Seek the right options in tools -> Options -> Apperance. U can switch if fullscreen notifications are show or not.

@D0J0P:

A history panel.

This function also alredy exist. Open new tab and then you have a history subtab. You can also press Ctrl + H or go to Vivaldi Button -> Tools -> Manage History, or press F2 and find the History on quick command menu.

LordHorst

It worked like this in old Opera: I click the scroll wheel and can scroll around a web page by moving the mouse. Scrolling the scroll wheel changed the mouse cursor and mouse behaviour back to normal.

However, in Vivaldi the scrolling continues, I have to either click the scroll wheel again or a mouse button to change the mouse cursor back to normal (btw. this also happens in new Opera, I guess it's a chromium related thing?).

I really wish it would work like in old Opera, or at least give us an option to change it, if it is possible.

D0J0P

@Tomczykolacz:

@D0J0P:

Hi Team_Vivaldi,

In this new snapshot that came out today, there is now a message when you toggle fullscreen for a video that says "Vivaldi is now showing in fullscreen. Press F11 to exit". It's really annoying. One of the things I loved about Vivaldi is that it never showed a message when I go fullscreen, and I would love the ability to turn that off. I hate having to wait 5 long seconds for the message to get off a person's face in the video before I can start enjoying the video. Even Safari I think doesn't do this because it's probably bad from a design standpoint.

U can do it alredy. Seek the right options in tools -> Options -> Apperance. U can switch if fullscreen notifications are show or not.

Yes, I just found out how to do it. Thanks.

@D0J0P:

A history panel.

This function also alredy exist. Open new tab and then you have a history subtab. You can also press Ctrl + H or go to Vivaldi Button -> Tools -> Manage History, or press F2 and find the History on quick command menu.

That's not what I mean. I know you can do all those things, but I mean a REAL History panel, that I can go to on the panel and check my history. I know you can make a History panel, but it's just the desktop webpage of the history page that tries to fit in the small space beside the panel, and I don't like that either. I just want a real History panel, but thanks for the ctrl + H thing, I didn't know that. Now that's one less step to having a real History panel, and I know Vivaldi will probably add it on as they had one for O12.

Benguin

Another request. I'd love to be able to disable how pressing the alt button brings up the file, edit, view.. menu when vivaldi is set to use a vivaldi button instead of horizontal menu. I have to use alt for several non-vivaldi things such as push-to-talk, and it conflicts with this functionality in a particularly annoying way.

Benjamin.

Joggl

@LordHorst:

It worked like this in old Opera: I click the scroll wheel and can scroll around a web page by moving the mouse. Scrolling the scroll wheel changed the mouse cursor and mouse behaviour back to normal.

However, in Vivaldi the scrolling continues, I have to either click the scroll wheel again or a mouse button to change the mouse cursor back to normal (btw. this also happens in new Opera, I guess it's a chromium related thing?).

I really wish it would work like in old Opera, or at least give us an option to change it, if it is possible.

I miss this behavior so much.
Please Vivaldi, implement it.

hixaxon

Is there a possibility that vivaldi would offer main domain while writing in the address bar?

One example:

I copy a link to address bar, for example:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/12/einstein-predicted-gravitational-waves-100-years-ago-heres-what-it-took-to-prove-him-right/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_gravitaionalwaves_740am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
hit enter and go there
after reading clik on link to go to main page - https://www.washingtonpost.com
close the tab
remember that i would like to go to washingtonpost.com again
now I'm offered the first long link by Vivaldi and I have to delete the rest after *.com/ every time i go there

Is there a way to go to just to domain's main homepage after visiting a "deeper, longer link" on that domain in the first place? Ideally to by adjustable separately for any domain from the default behaviour.

Thanks for your time.

Tomczykolacz

@D0J0P:

That's not what I mean. I know you can do all those things, but I mean a REAL History panel, that I can go to on the panel and check my history. I know you can make a History panel, but it's just the desktop webpage of the history page that tries to fit in the small space beside the panel, and I don't like that either. I just want a real History panel, but thanks for the ctrl + H thing, I didn't know that. Now that's one less step to having a real History panel, and I know Vivaldi will probably add it on as they had one for O12.

OK, I got it now. Yeah, there is no real history panel at this moment. It may be uncomfortable. But for me everything is good. The current way to reach the history section is good enought.

D0J0P

One other UI request: I find the scrollbar in Vivaldi too thick. In Windows 10, it's the stock Windows scrollbar, which is fine, but it's thicker than the one on Microsoft Edge. At the very minimum, at least imitate the one on Edge, if not create a better one, like the one on Safari, which looks very nice, but don't make it an overlay scrollbar.

waterside

1. I would like to set Speed Dial as Homepage.
2. It would be convenient to show panel by clicking the left edge (like the old Opera does).
3. I would like to see the old Opera "Notes" function back (be able to copy/insert notes in the right click menu).
4. It would be great if users are able to DIY the right click menu and assign functions to different mouse keys.

Thank you for bringing us this browser.

Ayespy

@waterside:

1. I would like to set Speed Dial as Homepage.
2. It would be convenient to show panel by clicking the left edge (like the old Opera does).
3. I would like to see the old Opera "Notes" function back (be able to copy/insert notes in the right click menu).
4. It would be great if users are able to DIY the right click menu and assign functions to different mouse keys.

Thank you for bringing us this browser.

Set your home page to Chrome://dummystartpage
Go into settings and activate the panel toggle
Notes will be improved
Menu options will be improved.

rkzn

Sort bookmarks by last date visited. (by folder, and all)
Open random bookmark. Possibly with some simple algorithm given a higher probability for bookmarks visited longer ago. (e.g., pick two or three by random, then open the one with the oldest visit)

I tend to collect a lot of bookmarks, these would be useful to review older, possibly dead or now not needed, pages. Any tool for easier book mark organization (which is still quite poor) would probably be welcome.

roomunho

I apologise if it's already been mentioned here, but please add ability to open links from folders on bookmarks panel in new page. this feature is working for links placed directly on bookmarks panel, but not when they are in folder.

Thanky You