Ctrl+Enter for adding .com not working in Address Bar. Searches instead.
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I would hope that it would take longer to answer @jsfritz's questions than actually fix the issue. If that's not the case, then I'd appreciate the dev(s) taking the time to answer them.
The fact is they are reasonable questions and points. They do a good job of clarifying why some with software engineering backgrounds would expect this to either be something quite easy to fix, or imply that development has made some exceedingly questionable choices in their customization/modification of the chromium engine.
Development seems to be claiming the former is not the case, which for many of us implies the latter must be. We all want to give devs the benefit of the doubt. But in the absence of answers or source code, we're kind of forced to choose between doubting Devs' competence or their word. Neither of which is pleasant.
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@scotta The recent re-write of the address bar is unrelated to the Chromium engine. It's completely to do with the proprietary Vivaldi UI. It's not complete. When it is, one ought to expect (i'm pretty sure) that ctrl-enter will be working as expected again.
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Hey just chiming in here, I'm a big fan of Vivaldi and don't really intend on switching over this, however it is a huge headache since it has been my primary way of opening non bookmarked websites for well over a decade. I'm fine if that functionality isn't enabled by default, but if it is just gone forever I will be very disappointed.
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Any vivaldi developer here? Any technical explanations on this issue?
I believe a not small ratio of vivaldi users are also software developers and saying that "appending a string with 'www.' and '.com' and loading the result string as url" is "complex" to implement only brings doubts in the code quality.
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@diogin for the record, ctrl-enter didn't prepend www to the url string typed in the address field, it only cycled the TLDs listed in the TLD expansion field you had in settings, which is (ok, was) editable. If the field started with ".com", you would get .com added first, and a ctrl-enter on a url already ending with .com would get it replaced with the next tld in the list, f.e. .net, etc.
By clearing the TLD field text, ctrl-enter would get you nothing as it would have disabled the feature altogether like it is now.
In any case, if you saw the www added, it's only because there is a redirection on the sitename.com -
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Hi, Vivaldi developer don´t read forum often may you report the bug again.
I guess it will be rejected as duplicate but if 100´s of reports come in they may spend more man power in it.
By the way I don´t even know the command after 25 years of surfing the web starting with Netscape Navigator.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Ctrl+Enter for adding .com not working in Address Bar. Searches instead.:
report the bug again.
No need. The developers are aware, and there are many duplicates already!
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So in looking at the Snapshot releases and the impending final stable release of 2019, no where in the changelogs on any of the blog posts mention this error/regression being fixed (unless I missed something).
Does that mean we're going to have another stable release without this fix? IMO, having this bug does not make it a stable release. It is getting harder to use Vivaldi personally, since I am so used to using the shortcut in literally every other browser, and the functionality was taken away rather unexpectedly.
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@spencerh It is not a bug. It is a missing feature. I am sure that it is a major issue for those who use the feature, but for those who do not it is of no consequence.
From what the developers have said previously it may take some time to rewrite the code to re-implement this feature in a way that is reliable enough to include in a stable release. On average, there is about six weeks between stable releases, so check the Snapshots or ask again in the middle of January if there is any progress.
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@Jx3oMeW2A The crew will proof you otherwise that they can and will do outstanding things. As @Pesala has said, the feature is under supervision. If you wish to move on using Chrome or any other browser you feel better with, go.
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@Jx3oMeW2A said in Ctrl+Enter for adding .com not working in Address Bar. Searches instead.:
The developers in their incredible lack of wisdom decided to remove a core function
They removed nothing. It's a part of the proprietary VIvaldi UI, and has to be written from scratch. It is not inherited from Chromium.
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@Ayespy said in Ctrl+Enter for adding .com not working in Address Bar. Searches instead.:
They removed nothing. It's a part of the proprietary VIvaldi UI, and has to be written from scratch. It is not inherited from Chromium.
It existed in every version of Vivaldi I'd used until recently (apparently the last version with it was 2.8.1664.44). It doesn't exist in versions after that. If they didn't remove it, who did?
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@Jx3oMeW2A said in Ctrl+Enter for adding .com not working in Address Bar. Searches instead.:
... Sorry, I disagree. Its a bug. It was and has been a function of every major browser forever. The developers in their incredible lack of wisdom decided to remove a core function that has been around forever. ... I am giving it another month and if its not fixed, I will be moving on and forgetting about vivaldi. I have lost all faith in this crew and feel there is no security or stability and these guys are just living on a limb hoping nothing bad happens.
Au contraire, a bug is an unintended error in coding and its resultant functional operation. You can't have it both ways: it can't be a bug and yet also be the 'result of a decision to remove' the function. Moreover, it's already been explained that the code involved has been (and continues to be) written from scratch, since it's part of Vivaldi's own user interface... they're not directly using that part of chromium.
The functionality you describe may be simple to mentally conceive, but that does not necessarily translate into simplicity of actual coding when one has to take into account how all the other interconnected parts of the address box and related elements of the UI operate... all in code that is still being evolved. In that evolution, sometimes a behavioral/functional detail that exists at one point in time interferes with other seemingly unrelated functions and coding that are necessary to include, so for a while that detail of functionality must be abandoned or altered until a more harmonious 'whole' can be developed. It doesn't just involve some simple 'call' to a small code routine that exists in a vacuum with respect to all the other related functionality in the UI.
I'm sorry if the function is so important to you that you feel it may be necessary to abandon the many other unique features of the browser, but many of the rest of us realize that Vivaldi remains a remarkable work in progress with many other priorities and issues presented to a limited cast of developers.
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@scotta The address bar is in the process of a re-write. It's not done. During the process, things may come and go. Regressions should be reported to the bug tracker. In this case, during the re-write, it was reported, reported in duplicate twenty-three more times, and is now fixed (as of yesterday) in an internal build which is currently being tested.
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@Ayespy said in Ctrl+Enter for adding .com not working in Address Bar. Searches instead.:
@scotta The address bar is in the process of a re-write. It's not done. During the process, things may come and go. Regressions should be reported to the bug tracker. In this case, during the re-write, it was reported, reported in duplicate twenty-three more times, and is now fixed (as of yesterday) in an internal build which is currently being tested.
Thank you for this update.
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Happy to report that this issue has been fixed in version 2.10.1745.7. Be aware that you have to enable the option in the settings dialog (under the address bar section).
Thank you, Vivaldi devs.
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@Fopedush said in Ctrl+Enter for adding .com not working in Address Bar. Searches instead.:
Happy to report that this issue has been fixed in version 2.10.1745.7. Be aware that you have to enable the option in the settings dialog (under the address bar section).
Thank you, Vivaldi devs.
Should the version 2.10 be online soon, i'm still seeing 2.9 when check for updates on menu
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@datdinhquoc 2.10 is available on the blog, in the Snapshots section. It is at Release Candidate 2. Soon, it will graduate to Stable, and the main public version will be updated to 2.10.
If you update stable installation to a Snapshot, it will convert your install to Snapshot, and you will get Snapshot updates thereafter. If you install the Snapshot as a standalone, then you will have a Stable instance on your machine and a Snapshot instance, and each will update to the next version of its own stream, ongoing.
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@Ayespy said in Ctrl+Enter for adding .com not working in Address Bar. Searches instead.:
allation to a Snapshot, it will convert your install to Snapshot, and you will get Snapshot updates thereafter. If you install the Snapshot as a standalone, then you will have a Stable ins
I can update vivaldi to 2.10 now. It works after enable Ctrl+Enter in Settings>>Address Bar
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Hi,
After enabling the feature in settings, it doesn't work, though it doesn't seem as fast as the previous iteration. When this started, i was patient but moved back to Firefox about a month ago. Given this fix hasn't restored functionality to how it was prior (the www takes a few seconds), i don't think i will come back to Vivaldi, which is a shame as I've used it since the 0.x beta days when Arstechnica did an article on it.
Thanks for all the fish!