Help us create a better address bar experience

[luca786toni]

luca786toni last edited by

Allow some bookmarks to be placed there?
I've wanted auto-hide bookmarks bar for a while. It saves the extra click or mouse gesture to open a new tab - besides, the speed dial can get too crowded. You can also use JavaScript shortcuts from the bookmarks bar, unlike from the speed dial.
If you add bookmarks to the address bar (bookmark bar style) then it solves both matters.

Or allowing to select search engine from a scrollable list - having to remember every unique keyword to trigger the engine can get bothersome.

[firuz-u7]

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[andrew84]

andrew84 last edited by andrew84

As was suggested earlier (here is September's post https://forums.opera.com/post/225261) you could add all the Opera tools shortcuts from the sidebar (not so good that it will duplicate sidebar but it will be useful for those users who don't like the always visible sidebar) and place them horizontally on the bottom of the BABE popup (+ quick buttons on top, of course). If using only icons for Opera tools like on the sidebar (without titles), there will be quite a lot of space for the user defined shortcuts. Also, as described in the suggestion above (see link) there should be a separate section on the browser Setting page where the BABE pane will have customizable portions.
*Quick actions buttons have a high priority for me because, as I already mentioned above, it directly refers to the currently opened page/address.
Other shortcuts are not so important but maybe can be useful too.
I'm also confident that shortcuts must be user defined (in BABE's settiings) to exclude future request. You can even add a poll in the blog and get some most frequently used options/features now. But maybe you will add the same poll again (2 months later for example) and you will get different results. And the second reason (why shortcuts must be user defined) is that not too much users here in the blog (why.. I remember there were a lot of users and comments previously in the blog. Now maybe half of that or even less. Maybe worse commenting system is guilty or poor feedback and ignoring, maybe Edge/Vivaldi is guilty) and our opinions can reflect not the real picture of other users wishes

[wbtmagnum]

wbtmagnum @oskarwik last edited by

@oskarwik: ctrl+1 still working for me (Opera dev/Ubuntu). Maybe the shortcut is disabled in your settings?

[wbtmagnum]

wbtmagnum last edited by leocg

i have to confess, I prefer it clean and simply: No address bar dropdown! So as long as I can disable it, it's fine with me :-).

[stolis]

stolis last edited by

The only thing i need is disabling options for whatever you 're thinking. Just be careful while you keep adding new stuff not to end with a heavy (cpu & memory eating) browser.

[A Former User]

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[acryion]

acryion last edited by

Address bar dropdown:
Make it work with touch

[gcg1000]

gcg1000 last edited by

Frame the address bar using a physical frame, or gradient, so its easy to focus on and make button icons within the optional inclusions that are user-selectable. Thank you.

[kamil7165]

kamil7165 last edited by

BTW, Opera has a bug in URL bar list which annoys me quite a bit when I'm using browser a little bit faster. When you click the URL bar, the addresses from history and prompts appear and then, when you hover over the list, then you have to sometimes hover over multiple times as at first it doesn't recognize properly the position of cursor and highlights bad addressess.

[voyager75000]

voyager75000 @acryion last edited by

@acryion: +1 (and another +1 from my wife)

[voyager75000]

voyager75000 last edited by

When you first introuced the enhanced address bar, it was basically a speed-dial-pop-up. I really liked it that way and would love the option, to return it to that state. (Use case: replace current tab with a speed dial entry)

[mmichel]

mmichel last edited by

Top sites are sometimes useful but should never suggest URLs from an existing tab (maybe filtered on current workspace, to be defined).
Since thumbnails are not always accurate, I suggest to always provide the title.

Recent bookmarks are definitely useful
Maybe suggest a built link to search the last copied text with default engine: like the Search tool on selection, but asynchronous

In the beta, I have links to bookmarks & history, which I find useful, although I have them in the sidebar.
Speed dials are useless here, IMO. If I want them I ask for the home page instead of focusing the address field. Recent ones would be in recent bookmarks also.

[kyu3]

kyu3 last edited by

I hope Speed-dial webpage will be added to pulldown of addressbar like Opera 12. I liked this feature. Useful!

[herrpietrus]

herrpietrus last edited by

Actually I don't need shortcuts in address bar, because I have sidebar and toolbar buttons.
I'm not even sure whether SD pages should be there but if you want to add them, add only the most-visited SD pages.

I'd to see in the drop-down sidebar bigger section with recently closed pages - at least six. So there could be six recently closed, three "Visit Again" and three shortcuts.