Vivaldi 3.4: add custom links to menus
Vivaldi Technologies improved the customization options regarding the browser's main menus and context menus further in the latest Vivaldi 3.4 snapshot; this time, the company's developers added an option to create custom links in the browser and place them in any of the menus that users can edit.
You may remember that Vivaldi 3.1 Stable introduced support for editing the main menu of the browser that is displayed when you activate the menu button at the top. You could remove any of the items displayed in the menu and add new ones from the settings.
The functionality will be enhanced in the upcoming Vivaldi 3.4 by unlocking support for editing the main (right-click) menus as well. In fact, the only menu that you cannot edit right now is the right-click menu on webpages.
The latest browser snapshot added another useful option to the menu editing functionality: the ability to add your own custom links to Vivaldi menus.
You may use it to add internal, e.g. vivaldi://flags, local or Internet links to Vivaldi menus to load these links directly. The screenshot below shows two custom links added to the Special menu of the main Vivaldi menu.
The first link opens the Ghacks website, the second the vivaldi://flags page with experimental options. Adding links is relatively easy, and the main issue that you experience is that it may be difficult to figure out where exactly you add these links.
Here is how you do it:
- Select Vivaldi > Tools > Settings, or use Ctrl-F12 to open the Settings.
- Switch to Appearance and scroll down to Menu Customization.
- Select the menu that you want to edit, e.g. Vivaldi Button Menu.
- Scroll down the commands list until you find "Open Link".
- Drag & drop Open Link to the desired location in the selected menu under Content.
- Vivaldi displays the configuration automatically.
- Change the link name from Open Link to a descriptive title.
- Edit the link target to a local or remote address.
- Hit the Enter-key to save the custom link.
You can access the link from the menu then at any time.
I ran into a bit of trouble after adding two custom links, as the commands listing would not let me add more commands, regardless of selection, to Vivaldi menus. A restart resolved this. The browser version is a development build and bugs like this are to be expected.
Closing Words
The option to add any link to any of the editable Vivaldi menus is a welcome addition. You can use it to add internal Vivaldi resource links, e.g. vivaldi://flags, vivaldi://extensions, vivaldi://downloads, or vivaldi://history, local links, e.g. to a router's administration interface or network resources, or remote links, e.g. to websites. One of the last things to do for the developers is to enable webpage element context menu edits as well.
Now You: What is your take on editable menus?
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.