Address bar and tab fixes, better DRM support, plus the start of the Mail, Calendar and RSS Technical Previews – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2115.4

[Steffie]

@nocturneop15 said in Address bar and tab fixes, better DRM support, plus the start of the Mail, Calendar and RSS Technical Previews – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2115.4:

Packing browser with random stuff never was...

...a fact. Instead, it is FUD.

[sjudenim]

@jon

The thing is that I want to use it though.

Many mods have been made to streamline the interface which usually means unifying functions to a single bar. Having those functions all accessible within a single bar really improves workflow (for me at least). This implementation goes against that philosophy and requires jumping back and forth between tabs. That's why I'd much rather have the mail toolbar positioned in the mail view like the navigation bar is inside the speed dial. That way we can still have accessibility to most browser functions within a single view/tab/window.

[wpcoe]

Here's how my typed-URL drop-down used to look: https://www.wpcoe.com/images/old-vivaldi.gif (In Dark Mode hard to see, but there is a vertical scroll bar for the drop-down list.)

Here's how my typed-URL drop-down looks now: https://www.wpcoe.com/images/new-vivaldi.gif (With this "new & improved" drop-down list, if I delete an entry, it simply reduces the number of items displayed. With the old version, if I deleted an entry, an additional one from the undisplayed bottom part of the list would become visible.)

[jon]

@sjudenim , I do understand. Again, we will gather feedback and we will try to provide flexibility to the extent possible. In the meantime I would recommend you to try things like they are. You may well find that it works out nicely.

In any case : We aim to give as much flexibility on every part of Vivaldi as we can.

[zoli62]

The sync status icon has disappeared from the bottom left corner of the browser.

[newscpq]

@jon: I would add a category: "Notification Emails" that are personally sent to me, but are automated, thus, usually of no importance (e.g. "you appear to be logged from another device", "someone answered to your post in facebook", "your github pull request was trashed and caused illness to the development team", "your password has been changed by you, but if it's not you, tell us", ...).

They are hundreds, personal messages, of no importance. Wouldn't you add a filter on those?

1bis. Notification e-mails

[newscpq]

...the additional category is needed, because those notifications may be meaningful and, very rarely, very important: if they were put into the mass mailings, or in the spam, they would be lost forever, while they have some importance, or a very high importance, very rarely, but ususally are just a waste of pixels on the screen.

So, I'd really add that fourth category: it's not spam, it may be important

[newscpq]

[BUG?] URL SHARING icon is missing, into the address bar

I can't see the QR code icon into the address bar, anymore, since I upgraded to this new version...

I had dark theme in private mode, now I changed it, to a new theme, but the icon is missing...

Any clues?

Thank you,
newscpq

[Hadden89]

@newscpq Now is an opt-in feature. You can bring it back enabling in urlbar settings.
(you won't find it with searchbox, known issue).
(bigger qr box also could be consider a known issue).

[Hadden89]

@wpcoe Always been ~16 here. Dunno what criteria V uses for deciding the number. You can do a request for custom entries or a bug. Or both. I think is actually in the middle but would be treated as a feature request. But I rarely remove entries

[jon]

@newscpq , a lot of these do have list ids, but you are right that recognizing some common ones has value. Please note that you can mark any mail address as a mailing list and thus lead to it being filtered.

[jon]

@newscpq , this is the reason we have the important section for mailing lists...

[zoli62]

@Gwen-Dragon said in Address bar and tab fixes, better DRM support, plus the start of the Mail, Calendar and RSS Technical Previews – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2115.4:

hover the icons in status bar, open context menu and select Customize → Reset Toolbar to Default
Same can be done in Vivaldi Settings → Appearance

Thank you for your reply. Probably the status bar was made hidden by default during development.

[Ruarí]

@newscpq In the text of the previous snapshot, i.e. the part that nobody apparently reads

[Ruarí]

@gwen-dragon: The size is related to the size of the URL. Go to elg.no and you will get a smaller one (see also: VB-73363)

[Hadden89]

@Ruarí Because such infos must be written with HTCPCP protocol and not on a mere HTTPS snapshot blog post

[Ruarí]

@ornorm: As mentioned would happen in the blog post that introduced it

[iAN CooG]

@Ruarí said in Address bar and tab fixes, better DRM support, plus the start of the Mail, Calendar and RSS Technical Previews – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2115.4:

@newscpq In the text of the previous snapshot, i.e. the part that nobody apparently reads

To my defense I can barely remember what I just read in the current changelog, past changelogs text gets wiped and replaced immediately from my brain. Too bad I can't upgrade my RAM :p
Anyway, I think there should be a better way than disabling it to everyone if it was set previously, maybe only set it disabled on new installs where the setting was not even present?

[Hadden89]

@iAN-CooG Could be consider a very minor issue which tends to happen when a feature is re-worked.
But better leave the team to focus on M3

[A Former User]

@iAN-CooG said in Address bar and tab fixes, better DRM support, plus the start of the Mail, Calendar and RSS Technical Previews – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2115.4:

only set it disabled on new installs where the setting was not even present?

AFAIK this should be the case if you’ve already toggled it. It’ll be disabled everywhere only if they change the internal name.