Support gestures on touchscreen
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There are no Touch friendly browsers available and with the number of Windows 10 tablets/convertibles in use now it seems an obvious gap in the market. Swipe left/right for forward/back,pinch support and larger finger friendly targets would be a start.
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I was surprised when I figured out that I can't use gestures with touchscreen...
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@rotfl hi, I'm really surprised by the same thing... is there any development in this topic? is it already among requested features? could anybody explain to me why is it not working by default - whats the technical glitch? thanks!
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@mattea The technical glitch is that the Vivaldi UI is not a Chrome/Chromium interface. It is its own entity, programmed completely differently from Chromium (It's what makes all of the Vivaldi features and options possible). And every time the Vivaldi developers get touch/stylus interfaces working better, Chromium changes something to break it again.
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@Ayespy That's really google playing Bad. I am finding more and more reasons to hate google daily.....
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@yashpalgoyal1304 Oh come on, that's really not fair. No browser is being forced to use Chromium. The chromium team can and should make changes as they see fit to drive forward development. It's Vivaldi's responsibility to fix whatever breaks on update, but this downside is outweighed by the advantage to have access to a free and open source rendering engine.
If you don't like the fact Vivaldi is based on Chromium – a Google project, it's probably time to switch to Firefox – an open source browser with its own rendering engine.
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Would really like to see some progress on this one!
Right now Vivaldi is useless on my Lenovo Yoga in tablet mode. Which is really sad...
We need some handy feature for navigating fullscreen by touch. -
@aBjelke
And when you think it can't get any weirder:- Opera NEON Concept (Discontinued) has the most pleasing swipe support I've ever seen
- Opera Beta, Developer won't even think of providing that feature
- Even on Android iOS NOT working
- MS Edge does it
- Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera: Just do it!
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@luetage I dont think that they do it to drive development forward. Otherwise edge developers won't be complaining that youtube got changed just after the stats showed that edge is giving better battery life while playing videos. Agree or not, google isssss.... (i won't say any titles).
and as u have said that switch to firefox, yeah thats very good suggestion of u. My mind didn't considered that. Many thanks.
Peace.
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Was missing that feature for a while now. Found a software to do touchscreen gestures. Not only in Vivaldi but everywhere on Windows.
It's called GestureSign http://gesturesign.win -
a friend of mine is using a surface tablet and she brought something up with me today: that vivaldi doesn't have gestures for going forward/back in webpages! i actually remember experiencing this issue with my own X201 Tablet but i forgot about it x.x
she currently uses microsoft edge and windows 10 and to her this is a pretty big deal breaker in using vivaldi and i don't blame her!
she asked me to bring this up in the forums for her since she doesn't have an account and she doesn't want to uninstall it just yet
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@lukadevnull +1
I have a surface 3 and that is one reason to switch back and forth between Edge and Vivaldi.
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@lukadevnull @Turambar I have a surface as well, and really want to use Vivaldi as my primary browser. But the lack of touchscreen support has me switching back and forth too.
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I would suggest voting for TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation so this capability will be added.
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As a browser working across many operating systems and hardware, we are definitely missing touchscreen gesture.
I have Vivaldi on regular desktop, touchscreen laptop, tablet and phone. But I can't really use Vivaldi on a tablet because it is missing this feature. Similarly on an hybrid laptop, I have to make sure I plug a mouse and use it in laptop mode rather than tablet mode... Vivaldi is really behind the trend of hybrid form factor, not talking of tablets.
This all the more surprising as basic backward and forward swipe gesture do not work on Vivaldi and gestures are a prominent feature of Vivaldi making people switch to Vivaldi.
