Names for Windows

yoxxx

Feature Request forum

Thanks. I thought tis is the Feature Request forum. Hm.
Not quite transparent for me.

Regards yoxxx

hackie

There's also another reason: On the task bar, it's easier to find the window I'm looking for.

Most often, I have one window (with several tabs inside) per use case, like: private, dashboard, support, current project

dconthe3

Came to the Feature Request forum to make this same request. I always have multiple windows open, each with many tabs that I'm either currently using or saving for use later that day/week. Like OP, I organize these windows & tabs by subject matter, and having a naming function would make navigating these windows and moving tabs around much easier.

I assume it eats up RAM but I still prefer this method to saving everything to a bookmark folder; I don't need to reload the site when I need it and having it open serves as a constant reminder that I need to read this still.

Not sure how to implement a simple way of adding the name, but I imagine once that's done it could be displayed in brackets ahead of the current website title?

Would love to see this implemented if possible, thank you guys

dconthe3

Just wanted to drop in two screenshots of scenarios where having named windows could be convenient

modedit removed dead image links

m4rtin195

Hi, any news about this? It would be awesome feature that any of other browsers doesnt have I think (or?)
It is difficult to implement?
Would be extremely helpful for people who have many tabs opened in more windows, divided by purpose: work window, school window, entertainment window...
PLEASE make that possible!!

Fred_M.

I am in favor of this and think that this should work as follows:

There should be a Name Current Window under the Window drop-down menu.
Windows should be identified consistently, under both the "Move Tab to" option and under the Windows menu itself.
- Explicit window names should be shown in italics while unnamed windows identified by their active tabs should be non-italicized.
- In each case, the number of open tabs should appear at the end in parenthesis.

Example:

Boating and Fishing (14 tabs)
Order confirmation (7 tabs)
Antenna Engineering (9 tabs)
Politics (11 tabs)
Review your purchases (4 tabs)

alexander.gorbovets

Can't agree more with OP. I was going to create such feature request but then found this thread.

When I started having hundreds of tabs then managing them in one window became hell. Even with the multiline tab mod it's too hard to find the tab which you are looking for in 5+ rows of tabs. So I switched to grouping tabs by windows. Now I typically having 3-5 Vivaldi windows. And then I came to this problem when it's hard to find the window which you are looking for.

Btw, another great feature request for tab management is tab colorization

@Fred_M said in Names for Windows:

Explicit window names should be shown in italics while unnamed windows identified by their active tabs should be non-italicized.

I would prefer bold text rather than italics:

Example:

Boating and Fishing (14 tabs)
Order confirmation (7 tabs)
Antenna Engineering (9 tabs)
Politics (11 tabs)
Review your purchases (4 tabs)

pepeusz

Yes, this feature is the only thing I'm missing in Vivaldi. Until recently I used OneTab and it's modern forks to bypass this gap. Unfortunately after another case of "I lost all your data, I don't care, go f* yourself", I uninstalled this crap I've been using since pre-Vivaldi times. And now, handling 8 to 12 windows in Vivaldi on a daily basis... As I see in posts above, it's more common use case. I'm sure there's tons of us, working-on-several-projects-at-the-same-time tab-hoarders

Much love, the Viv Team

m4rtin195

still praying for this

alexander.gorbovets

I thought a bit about implementation of this feature. I think it should not take much time to implement. It requires only 3 small changes:

Add the Rename Window menu item to some of menus. Maybe to the context menu of a tab or to the main menu. Clicking this item will show popup with text field where window title can be entered/edited. Since (AFAIK) Vivaldi UI is written in React, then the prompt() JS function can be used to show such popup.
Change names of menu items in the Move Tab to Window menu to show window names for windows which have names. For other windows it will be as it was before.
Change code which sets window titlebar text and window button text on the taskbar. Currently Vivaldi sets window title to the title of the active tab. After this change if window has some title specified by user, Vivaldi will use it instead of the current tab's title.

LonM

@alexander-gorbovets Developing in software as big as a browser is never easy. Some additional work I can think would be needed:

Add a property and accessors to each relevant react object that might need to use window data in the future
Introduce a storage mechanism to retain this information across restarts
Handle this in the sync system
Handle this in the session storage system
Translate feature into every language vivaldi supports, and make sure it fits in every locale's interface
Test this doesn't interfere with other features like stacking and tiling
Test you don't break anything if a user decides to type something stupid into the rename prompt

lucasko001

@LonM but because you are the best developers of best browser, we believe that you manage it easily :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
I agree its a good idea which can be very useful while using more windows opened
+1

8u5t3r

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Pesala

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mattst

This would be a brilliant feature for all the reasons mentioned so far.

What a shame that 2 years on there's no progress with having this implemented.

m4rtin195

barbudo2005

News from Chrome Canary:

"Google is adding the ability for users to name Chrome windows for easier window management and switching. The latest Chrome Canary builds now let users right-click on the title bar or on individual windows in the taskbar and choose to name the windows. The feature is not hidden behind any flags and should be available to all Chrome Canary users running the recent builds.

The feature is a nifty addition for those that separate tabs in different windows based on the contents of the tabs or to segregate between work and personal pages. Generally, browser windows with multiple tabs display the name of the currently open tab and a count of the number of other tabs, which can get confusing.

The renamed windows make it easier to ascertain which window to switch to and can be constantly tweaked depending on the requirements. This, in addition to the other tab management features recently added to Chrome, greatly improve multi-tasking and tab management on the browser, especially for power users that spend a lot of time on the web.

While the feature is already live for Windows users on Canary builds, a Chromium entry from June suggests that the feature has also been in the works for macOS for a few months now. Therefore, users should also begin seeing the feature on Apple’s desktop OS. Considering that it is just beginning to show up in the Canary builds, it could be a while before the feature makes it to the stable channel."

mauritskorse

This would be a great addition. Maybe combined with the feature request of Naming of Sessions.

@mauritskorse said in Session Management: Name of Session Somewhere Prominently on Browser:

Yep, I would like this very much as well. I usually try to have 3 windows/sessions open (work, hobbies and temp/in-between things). But stuff get's cluttered pretty quickly as visually there's no difference.

I'd love to see some features to improve the sessions:

naming/renaming sessions

showing session name

different theme per session

auto saving sessions [^1]

when starting vivaldi give the option to choose which session(s) you want to open [^2]

^1. After opening vivaldi, I always open the different windows from last time from the 'closed tabs' to make sure the I do not lose them. If I forgot and restart Vivaldi I have lost them all.
^2. Ideally, just open a empty window and on the Start page there is (next to the bookmarks) an overview of last sessions that can be opened.

peachscissors

This would be a hugely useful feature for me as well. I usually have a window open for each project I'm researching, plus tabs for general purpose research, and not being able to title them is almost a dealbreaker. Given the whole schtick of Vivaldi is customizability it's a little sad this doesn't exist yet. It's available on Chrome/Chromium/New Edge, and there's an extension available to enable it on Firefox, which I've been using for ages.

miguelmarcos

I actually duplicated this in another topic. I figured someone already beat me to it. I would really like this as I do thematic research and have 6 different windows with a dozen or less tabs in each. Far too often, I have to exercise cognitive skills to identify which window I need to go to.

Window names would be a great productivity boost.