Add Signal to the sidebar

[home-world]

home-world @leocg last edited by

@leocg

Currently only Android, Apple, and Desktop app support

https://signal.org

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @home-world last edited by

@home-world Then you first need to ask them to create a web version.

[mlemanczyk]

mlemanczyk last edited by

Since millions of people are moving away from Whatsapp, many of which migrate to Signal, would you please review this feature once again, please? It would be great to have it integrated into Opera, like Whatsapp is.

[AnthG]

AnthG @leocg last edited by

@leocg Just bumping this topic. Opera would be the heros of the Browser community if you added Signal to the sidebar. I do not like the direction Whatsapp is going in at all. Signal is the future and Opera should realize that.

[goranmatic]

goranmatic last edited by

bump.... signal in opera please.

[claymorwan]

claymorwan last edited by

We already have WhatsApp in the sidebar, but we doesn't have Signal and this is sad

[Hadschigudu]

Hadschigudu last edited by

+1, the topic is still open and needed...

[SimonSays]

SimonSays last edited by

Yes please! Definietly needed.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I don't think this is an Opera issue Signal - the company/app doesn't have a browser-based version of the service. You must install a desktop app.

[snusmumeriken]

snusmumeriken last edited by

bump bump yes, please add Signal!!

[rdaamorth]

rdaamorth last edited by

Yes! Please add Signal to the side bar. I have it as desktop version, but an integrationin Opera would be way more convenient since Whatsapp is there as well.

[KuSi833]

KuSi833 last edited by

I would love to see this added.

[ioah]

ioah last edited by

Also would like to add my voice here: I really love the side-bar, and the support for different messengers is just superb. Please add signal and telegram

[Hadschigudu]

Hadschigudu @ioah last edited by

@ioah Telegram is already supported

[Bolli]

Bolli last edited by

please, add Signal to the sidebar

[pookatron]

pookatron last edited by

A bump and a vote for Signal. It's a great messenger and getting more and more popular as people migrate away from Meta products.

[fairhsa12]

fairhsa12 last edited by leocg

Crazy this is not already done. Please add signal. I was Stoked I could add whatsapp - saves me the memory of having the app open!

[aaxreek]

aaxreek last edited by

Yes please, Signal is a great messenger and I was also confused why it's not in the messenger list yet

[Lifecrane]

Lifecrane last edited by

yep, signal needs a sidebar shortcut.

telegram is ok, but i lost all my chats a couple of times, and I receive no support , tbh. So I want to start to use Signal instead, and opera should consider adding to sidebar.

[xb70]

xb70 last edited by xb70

The issue seems to be that Opera the browser can only have a sidebar link to a web- based app, as it is a browser, and Signal doesn't support that, rather Signal does have a Windows app, which can be installed, if one has a phone-based account, already. The next question I suppose is how to add a link to a Windows app? But I don't think that Opera does that, allows placing a link to a Windows app, only to web pages, essentially. No? So this thread becomes mute, no? Aside from a popularity measure of Signal vs. other messenger apps that are represented as available to the sidebar.
Hm, what about Google Messages? No idea if that is available as a "web app." Yes, it is! Where is Google Messages then? Not saying that it is anything akin to Signal with respect to privacy, but it does both SMS/MMS and encrypted RCS, allowing RCS with Samsung Messages (assuming both have it enabled), and being compatible with SMS/MMS, it communicates with most devices/open messenger apps, aside from the "user-only" type, like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, on and on.