Tab management for wizards
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@zaibon: You could also move the Screen Capture button to the Address Bar
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@zaibon When i recently revised & optimised my workflow, i changed my ages-old paradigm of always wanting/needing to see stuff, to instead hiding it by default & only showing on-demand via MGs...
So now when i need to see my Status Bar [bottom] i MG it on then MG it off again... for BM Bar [top] i MG it on then MG it off again... for Tabs Bar i only rarely MG it off again but i can anytime i need more space temporarily.The flexibility at our fingertips is just astounding. Yay V.
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I guess I'm one of those with less than 10 tabs open. Anything more and I start to get "information overload" syndrome. I guess I don't really understand why anyone would want a lot of tabs open - after all you can only browse one page at a time. But I still love that you offer so many options for heavy tab-users, as these are usually the most advanced web users.
I'd like to turn off the tab bar completely, if it was replaceable by the Window panel for instance. The only thing stopping it for me is that the panel toggle stays up when I toggle the Window panel with Ctrl+Shift+W, and I have to press F4 to hide it again. If the panel toggle also went back to hidden it would be much better.
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@Pathduck Tab-hogging has various degrees:
- 1-10 is quite common;
- 11-20 is useful to check various sources to see what is the more reliable (check and close > repeat);
- 21-30 start to easily become "overload syndrome";
- 30+ could be used, but start to become less practical - for several reasons (I hate tab discarding, so it's off).
Usually tab-hoggers also use vertical tabs, as it takes less width (if resized) and is more practical to click than an horizontal tab bar which have to be scrolled - especially for the lack, at the moment, of multirow tabs.
For me: 3 and 10 are common; 20 can happen; 30 or 50 are less common.
Only use two gestures: close active tab; reopen last closed tab. Late adopter of them, Vivaldi 1.9.
Ctrl+X/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V
are also widely used (cut|copy|paste).About the request, I asked something similar,
but I "lost" my request somewhere//edit: 8 tabs now. 6 are Vivaldi, 1 is Fb, 1 is background music
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@Steffie The real question is how much of my workflow I'd like to dedicate to my mouse and how much should be done by keyboard. At the moment I tend to do a lot with my keyboard as it is a new one and I fell in love with it ^^
But for the capture thing I need the mouse anyway to select the area I'd like to have shot - so a gesture makes sense in this case or as @OlgaA suggested I could of course paste the button for this to the address bar.I really start to get the feeling that this day will be a "flip-a-coin-day". xD
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As a convicted tab hoarder I couldn't live without tab hibernation, or else my RAM would explode, but I always forget to to click. So I made my own extension which automates the process. It auto-hibernates all tabs after a certain time of inactivity apart from the active, pinned, white-listed and audio playing tabs.
Additionally, with that many tabs open, tab stacking does not make sense to me because it takes way more time to hover over the stack, wait for the thumbnails to appear, and then click on them.
It would be nice if the sorting of the window panel would influence that, but until we have that, I use another self written extension to keep my tabs tidy, which sorts my tabs by domain.This allows me to rapid fire the mouse button to close tabs (Align next close button)
I love the page notifications (Detect Page Title Notifications), because they draw my extensions in an unobtrusive way to to pages I need need my attention, I only wish more pages had that in the title.
Otherwise I am quite conventional with the tab bar at the top and only occasionally using the window bar because other panels need my attention.
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Fun thing: Chrome is experimenting with tab stacking: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chrome-canary-tab-grouping/
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@QuHno Cool, would you mind sharing these extensions somewhere?
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You're a wizard Vivaldi
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@stbvf said:
@QuHno Cool, would you mind sharing these extensions somewhere?
... here you are: https://quhno.vivaldi.net/2019/04/10/auto-discard-and-tab-sorter-and-duplicate-remover/
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Again, Tab Stacking would be much more comfortable and usable if you would give us the option to expand/collapse Tab Stacks, like it was in the old Opera Classic (Opera 12).
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@zaibon: Answering your first question - the pinned tabs are at the top and, since I don't have that many pinned tabs, I know which ones they are and where they end
Personally I would prefer them to show as an icon (like when you have the tabs at the top), to save some vertical space and make them more distinguishable than the others (I believe there's already a feature request for this).
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Great Article.
My only problem with Tab Cycling is that is follows the rules set for "Ctrl + Tab" and this makes using Tab Cycling by Mouse weird and hard for me.
My "Ctrl + Tab" uses the "Cycle in Recently Used Order" option which has been the best option for "Ctrl + Tab" since Opera days but when using the Tab Cycler with Mouse I really like the order to be from Left to Right (Like in Firefox or Chrome).
This is because if I use the "Right Click + Mouse Scroll" for Tab Cycling the Tabs switch haphazardly in the Recently used order style and this makes it really hard for me to keep track of the cycling since the tabs keep jumping in weird orders (based on my last visits to these tabs) and I can't control it.
If I wanted to Cycle Tabs with the Mouse and move to the third tab from the current one, I couldn't do it easily! This can be achieved Only by changing the Tab Cycling option from "Recently Used Order" to "Tab Order" But then I don't want to do that since it affect my "Alt + Tab" behavior.
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Wow. Somehow I overlooked tab pinning. The two webmail tabs just got 'buttonized' with that.
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