Spinner Favicon when a Tab is Loading

Pesala

@burbuja The favicon is displayed on each tab, so if you're reloading multiple tabs, you can see at a glance if the background tabs have loaded or not. The change from the reload icon to the stop icon is often missed, but an animated icon is hard to miss.

Compare to Firefox.

burbuja

I dont care about Firefox or Chrome, I care about Vivaldi

I see the number of loaded elements in the address bar, thats enough for me and good visible for everyone thought.

brook

@neltherion
More then a year ago @Isildur made the favicons on tabs to spin. It was very nice while it worked.
Unfortunately, it stopped working for me at some point

Hadden89

@brook I've never seen .progressing inspecting the UI.
Maybe is the key. Or maybe the tab favicon could be spinned instead. But I've never really tried that mod.
Old mods from that thread - if still working/fixed - should be posted again (as the code is a mess there)
I still keep the vivaldi "shake mod" which is not a functional mod but is more like a fun april fool
And a lot of other micro-mods still use code/inspiration taken from there

brook

@hadden89 I'm not an expert in css and I don't know what .progressing is or does, or did. All I know the code was working, the tab favicons were spinning on reload and it was nice to have it.
Hope somebody could fix the code and at some point Vivaldi will implement it.

burbuja

Tha favicon seems to be background image, thats why it probably cannot be spinned like before

neltherion

@burbuja This is not only about the current tab you are visiting but all the rest of them...

Imagine you have more than 20 tabs open and their size has gotten to the same size of pinned tabs... now the progress bar on them doesn't help you to know if those tabs are loaded or not... Now the only thing you can see to make sure the tab has been loaded is the favicon, and right now the favicons are static and don't show anything when they're loading...

The problem is worsened when you are opening multiple tabs in the background and waiting for them to finish loading...

Azenix

Optional if you guys add it please, I don't want this.

Pesala

There is now an animation when a background tab is loading. Unless the tab is tiny, it works well enough. See the little line below the Vivaldi Icon, which expands to the full width of the tab as it is loaded.

Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit • Snapshot 2.0.1306.3 (64-bit)

neltherion

@pesala Thanks for the tip... But I asked for this feature specifically because of tiny tabs... It's rare for me to have less than 20 tabs open and having a progress animation does not help when the width of the tabs are equal to the favicon. Thanks again.

pauloaguia

@neltherion
In the Tab settings there is an option to mark the unread settings with a small triangle. I have that option checked, and all the tabs that I have not visited since I opened them will have that icon in the top right of the tab as you can see in this screenshot (I often open tabs in the background, so that might work well for my use case but not necessarily for yours)
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rsiera

I'm a new user, but I noticed this missing feature immediately. I even know of others who dumped Vivaldi for it.

However, I think we should stress that fact that it is especially needed for the "loading of slow DNS or WWW servers".
It is for those pages that your eyes have to do too much work to determine if the page is loading (or if your missed hitting the ENTER key instead)

Gaëlle

Great news, someone from the team is working on it
Keep an eye on VB-46130 in the future snapshot and/or stable changelog.

neltherion

@gaelle YESSSSSSS! Thanks for informing us on the progress... It's a good thing to know that a feature request is in the pipeline...

rsiera

@gaelle said in Spinner Favicon when a Tab is Loading:

Great news, someone from the team is working on it
Keep an eye on VB-46130 in the future snapshot and/or stable changelog.

Hi @gaelle, do you have any update on this?

Pesala

@rsiera There won't be any updates until after the holidays now.

gworboys

Great to see this is in progress (I came here to report it). As a user coming from Firefox, and having been reviewing most other browsers right now, it was very obvious to me that Vivaldi was missing this important visual feedback.

Important because: At the moment when I type an URL and hit enter, if the response isn't fast I start to wonder whether I actually hit enter and may hit enter again which just makes things worse. I am now learning to drag my eyes across to the far right had side of the address bar to see whether the load numbers are there - but as a new user I didn't immediately realise this was necessary (it wasn't with any other browser). Also, if a server is off/not-responding then these numbers are sitting static at 0/0 for a long time with no indication whether Vivaldi is actually doing anything. Users like to know that the computer is doing something, even when it's just waiting .

Ruarí

@neltherion Available now in the Snapshot

Pesala

Available now in Vivaldi 2.3 Stable, but note that you have to enable two settings:–

Settings, Tabs, Tab Display, Favicon Spinner
Settings, Appearance, Use Animation

joshstrike

The spinner is helfpful, but there needs to be a way to re-enable HTTP status in the bottom address bar (where Chromium usually shows it if you're not hovering over a link).

Here's why. As a developer, when I'm loading a page I need to know at a glance what phase of the connection I'm in. I need to know whether the status is "Establishing Connection", "Waiting for" or "Transferring Data from". This is the fastest way to tell whether I have a connection problem, whether server-side code is taking too long to execute or whether elements are taking too long to load.

Not every web page loads instantly. Let's say I'm testing a report that chews through a few million lines of a database and takes ten seconds to generate. Later I might package that report into an AJAX request but right now I'm loading a raw PHP page. I need to know whether I've connected to the server and am waiting for it, or whether I'm sitting here for ten seconds while I forgot to hit "enter" or for some reason the DNS lookup is taking forever.

Please, please bring back an option to flash those updates to the lower status bar the way all other Chromium builds do, and the way every other browser does. This is a bad design decision and extremely frustrating for web development.