@DV20Katana said in Drag and drop the URL in Bookmark Bar folders AND subfolders menus, and tranform the link into an ACTUAL bookmark:
it was just something I had gotten used to in Chrome and old habits die hard
I believe there is a mod to make the bookmarks bar have auto-hide functionality. If you're not familiar with it already, give the Modifications category a browse. I don't really like autohide functionality, so I just use keyboard shortcuts & mouse gestures to hide/show various elements of the UI when I want to use them or reclaim the space. There are a ton of actions, far more than most if not all other browsers, that can have whatever keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures assigned to them in the settings.
There are a few mods, however, that might be exactly what you want. Give them a look and try them out, mods aren't difficult to install, just read the pinned thread in the category.
Auto hide bookmark bar ※
Autohide address bar transition
Addressbar top autohide bookmarks
※ I haven't used or even really looked into these mods, but I'd start with this one probably.
I agree, I will learn to use a new workflow in Vivaldi. Admittedly I do find the Bookmarks Panel very busy and a little clunky to use vs the Bar but the more I use it the faster I'll get. Will also experiment with using other methods.
I find the Bookmarks Panel to be fundamental to my bookmark management workflow, and part of what makes Vivaldi superior to other browsers for that task. With the Bookmarks Manager in a tab & the Bookmarks Panel open, I've got two independent views into my bookmarks library which can be scrolled to different locations with different parts of the treeview expanded, different searches, etc.
You can customize the panel to make it cleaner of course. You may not realize that the bookmark details pane at the bottom of the panel can be resized & even hidden simply by dragging the dividing bar between it and the treeview. Just be aware that if you completely hide it, when you create a new folder it will not automatically be in a state where you can edit the folders name simply by typing -- that only happens if you have enough of the details pane displayed to see the title. It's not a problem, it just means you need to hit the edit keyboard shortcut (F2) before typing the new folder's name, but something to be aware of to avoid confusion.
Aside from that, I actually find the panel to be less busy than the manager. But everything is highly configurable: you can get rid of columns you don't want in the manager with a right-click, things that aren't directly exposed through options & menus can usually be changed through a mod. I used to mod the panel a bit until Vivaldi made what I was doing possible through the UI.
Just an additional, somewhat related thought. Modern displays are typically widescreen, while the content we consume is portrait in orientation, and extremely tall portrait dimensions when you scroll. Vertical screen real estate is a premium because of this, while horizontal real estate is often wasted. I typically hide the Bookmarks Bar (and some other toolbars) to reclaim the real estate for the content, and put my tabs bar on the left & panel on the right making use of otherwise wasted space. You can still have a persistent view into you bookmarks that way, and having the tabs & panel on opposite sides helps to center the content on screen.
Hope all that helps.
Happy Surfing,
BoneTone
