History Panel enabling 1.7
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I enabled History in Making and restarted Vivaldi. The panel will not display despite try to tick it. In does show up in the content pane. New profile.
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Mine is still going strong here, teehee. Advice only - not gloating*
*A shocking lie by me; i am gloating bigtime, but quietly, keeping it just to myself... oh, whoops.
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Tower & Lappy = Maui Linux 2.1 "Blue Tang" x64 Plasma 5.8.4. -
@sUsH667 Are you on the latest snapshot, or final? Did you by any chance update from snapshot to final? Currently I don't have the exact file that causes the issue, so if you want an instant fix refreshing the profile is one way(always back up the profile folder incase a fresh profile does not work). Remember that you don't have to fully clean it tho! https://help.vivaldi.com/article/full-reset-of-vivaldi/ shows what each file contains, so in case you do want to fresh out the profile, you can grab the essentials with it. When doing this, its best to do it 1 file at a time, restart Vivaldi and check that the history panel still works. If you copy over the file that does hinder it from working, but copied over a bulk of files, you won't know what caused it, and what to remove! If you do find the file that causes it, feel free to pm me what you found, or just add it to the thread here.
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@Aronand
I tested it out. The problem occurs when you copy over "Local App Settings". Deleting this folder did the trick for me in the end. -
@luetage Thank you!
Now i only have to find out what causes Flash do get reenabled after every vivaldi restart
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@sophos02 I've blocked the Flash content internally (on chrome://settings/content) and added only a few exceptions to the white-list so that disabling the plugin doesn't really bother me...
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So I'm reading through trying to figure out what the trick is to getting the History Panel to show. I updated Vivaldi using the check for updates version, I'm running only official stable releases. I heard about this History Panel and thought that would be extremely useful as I keep my Bookmarks Panel open pretty much always. I went to the experiments page, checked the box, closed Vivaldi, and launched it again. I can see both the History and History in the Making Pages when I create a new tab. If I right click the Panel I can see History in the list, but clicking it does nothing. I have spent a lot of time tweaking my settings, so this whole, refresh your profile thing isn't exactly appealing to me, I'm not sure precisely what happens or how to do it, but if I lose a lot of my custom settings I'm probably going to have to wait it out. History in the Making looks sweet though.
But is there anything else I should look into in order to get the History Panel working? What all is involved in refreshing my profile?
System info:
Vivaldi 1.7.735.46 (Stable channel) (32-bit)
Revision b5bc5a3efa32f49a389ebf766e3aa3c5215b6a20
OS Windows
JavaScript V8 5.6.329
Flash 24.0.0.194 C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer32_24_0_0_194.dll
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.88 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.7.735.46
Command Line "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --process-per-site --always-authorize-plugins --disable-translate --enable-blink-features=ResizeObserver --mark-non-secure-as=show-non-secure-passwords-cc-chip-and-form-warning --ppapi-flash-path="C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer32_24_0_0_194.dll" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path C:\Program Files (x86)\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
Profile Path C:\Users\private\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default
Compiler MSVC 2015 -
@craftbrewmaster: To enable it, you have to use the Snapshots channel for now, available at the Blog. The Stable version won't do it. It will enable History in the Making, but not the Panel. In the latest snapshot, if you enable History in the Making and then restart the browser, you will have the panel.
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@Aronand said in History Panel enabling 1.7:
@sUsH667 The history panel and History in the making is currently under the same feature in experiments yes This is done because 1 does not work without the other, most likely
Are you sure about this? Since the two features are enabled by the same checkbox in experiments, this would be indicative of the history panel being available in stable.
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@luetage - Or not.
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@Ayespy said in History Panel enabling 1.7:
@craftbrewmaster: To enable it, you have to use the Snapshots channel for now, available at the Blog. The Stable version won't do it. It will enable History in the Making, but not the Panel. In the latest snapshot, if you enable History in the Making and then restart the browser, you will have the panel.
Ok, thank you for clearing up my misunderstanding. I look forward to when it hits the stable branch. I'd rather just keep using the stable branch all the time for right now. Vivaldi has very quickly become my default browser used for almost all my daily work. Y'all are doing great stuff and I have no doubt that it will very useful when it gets merged into the stable branch. I appreciate the clarification.
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@luetage said in History Panel enabling 1.7:
@Aronand said in History Panel enabling 1.7:
@sUsH667 The history panel and History in the making is currently under the same feature in experiments yes This is done because 1 does not work without the other, most likely
Are you sure about this? Since the two features are enabled by the same checkbox in experiments, this would be indicative of the history panel being available in stable.
Well, wait, dang! I wish I knew why the panel isn't working on my system then. I should have read all the replies before posting. But yeah, it shows in the context menu when I right click the panel, but clicking it does nothing. It doesn't put a checkmark next to History, nor enable it. Hmmm.
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@craftbrewmaster: for most cases, @luetage is mistaken. To enable "History in the Making" you have to go to vivaldi://experiments , check it, and then re-start the browser. In the Stable, this will NOT enable the history panel (unless you clean your profile first) - it will just give you History in the Making on your Speed Dial page. In the Snapshot stream, that procedure WILL enable the history panel whether using a clean profile or not. Hope that's clear.
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I made a standalone installation of Vivaldi 1.7 stable to test this out. First I enabled "new history page" in experiments, then restarted, and I got a working history panel. This means with a clean profile the history panel works on Vivaldi stable, just as in the latest snapshot.
@craftbrewmaster If it doesn't work for you (because you don't have a clean profile), you can try and delete the "Local App Settings" folder in vivaldi/default. This did the trick for me in the snapshot.
Edit: Screenshot for proof
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@luetage said in History Panel enabling 1.7:
I made a standalone installation of Vivaldi 1.7 stable to test this out. First I enabled "new history page" in experiments, then restarted, and I got a working history panel. This means with a clean profile the history panel works on Vivaldi stable, just as in the latest snapshot.
@craftbrewmaster If it doesn't work for you (because you don't have a clean profile), you can try and delete the "Local App Settings" folder in vivaldi/default. This did the trick for me in the snapshot.
Edit: Screenshot for proof
So I'm guessing that when I delete the Local App Settings, I'm going to lose not only all the settings that I've modified, but, like all the cookie exceptions I've created as well as the custom theme.
Honestly, it's not the redoing of the Vivaldi settings that is a major issue for me. But I have Vivaldi set to not accept any cookies, but I have gone through and created ~300-400 domain level exceptions where cookies are accepted. I also have javascript turned off, with another ~100 exceptions for javascript. Since there isn't a UI for easily exporting and importing those settings, blowing away my local profile isn't something I really want to do just to get the History Panel. I mean, I want it, it sounds great. But that's a lot of work to back through and enter all the [*.]domain.com cookie exceptions by hand.
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@luetage - I see. I will not be recommending to folks that they clean their profile, in order to get access to a feature which is not yet ready for prime time. Folks can do it if they wish, but I won't recommend it.
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@pafflick said in History Panel enabling 1.7:
@sophos02 I've blocked the Flash content internally (on chrome://settings/content) and added only a few exceptions to the white-list so that disabling the plugin doesn't really bother me...
That's what i also normally do but after talking to some tech support i found that there is at least one website where HTML5 is only exposed when flash is deactivated completely. Otherwise it will ask for flash to be activated...
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@luetage exact same issues here (Win10).
After reading the thread, I deleted the local app settings directory - history panel appears. Then I restored the old settings again since I didn't fancy re-doing all the UI tweaks etc. - history panel disappears.
Hopefully this is something that will self-update in a later release without having to delete any settings files!
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@mossman History panel appeared after installing snapshot 1.8.755.3...
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@mossman Yeah, it's only an issue for people on stable at this point, guess they have to wait for a month if it doesn't work out of the box for them (and they don't want to meddle with it).