This feature absolutely doesn’t work because it’s broken or Vivaldi have tried to reinvent a feature all other browsers nailed years ago.

The only sites I’ve seen this work on are Vivaldi websites.

Otherwise it never works. Works perfect in Safari, Chrome, Brave, Arc and many others.

Vivaldi it never works outside of Vivaldi websites. Dark or light mode, it only works on Vivaldi websites.

Thanks.
It does seem to be working well with 18.0.1

I hope this can be fixed because once there is a probability of something going wrong with a feature, people are hesitant to use it. Or replace the dropdown with something else (like sliding in from a corner) to trigger the list used to select subsequent actions.

😁

Have you guys checked out the latest update for Vivaldi on iOS? A setting to display the full URL was added to Vivaldi 6.9. 🥳

@jane-n Yes, that did it. Thanks!

Can I suggest that having the drop down appear when I start typing makes more sense than having it appear immediately, or rather it does for people who have the Speed Dial page set up and use it regularly.

Having said that, now that I have switched off "Focus Address Bar on New Tab" the popup doesn't show when the new page opens but does show as soon as I press in the address bar to begin typing - which makes everything make perfect sense, at least in my use case.

So I think that disabling the setting does what I want with no inconvenience at all. I had just misunderstood the implications of switching it on!

Thanks once again!

@zeke365 never mind found it it’s reorder tabs nifty feature kind tucked away but here you go https://help.vivaldi.com/ios/ios-browse/tabs-on-ios/

@jane-n

I may have some helpful info that might help you with this bug.
So on the cruise blog website I went random blog and noticed when you swipe your thumb or figure sideways that it will cause the website glitch out like that but if your careful not to do it sideways then you should be fine.
This something that never really occurred to me before but true sometimes we move our thumbs or fingers sideways when getting out of an app or in the browser going back and forth.
I hope this helps you narrow down the bug which seems to be from gestures of moving left and right but gets confused going sideways.
Thanks for reading.

Did you try the long press option?
Alternatively, you could try opening a link from another app, that usually triggers the browser to open.