How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi

lezignan

bonjour. ( w8.1 & ubuntu ) _ brave , edge et vivaldi ... avec duck duck ... et tout va bien !
pas de chrome ni de firefox... depuis très longtemps .
... et pas d'anti-virus .

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v0id

Vivaldi's tab management is lacking in so many regards. No option to open parent tab after closing tab. No silbing/child tab options. No ranking in which tab should take priority after closing. And the built-in "related tab" is pretty broken.

Pesala

@v0id said in How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi:

No ranking in which tab should take priority after closing.

See Settings, Tabs, Closed Tab Activation.

Sillvva

It would be nice if the Workona extension worked correctly with Vivaldi. However, due to pinned tabs being preserved when a window is closed, it does not. And that's an issue with Vivaldi, not the extension. Other browsers don't do that. And Vivaldi doesn't offer an option to disable that behavior.

That's why I switched to Edge. Collections replace notes. Homey extension replaces the speed dial. Auto Tab Discard extension replaces hibernating tabs (you can set up keyboard shortcuts). Workona extension works properly. Although Workona is not compatible with the experimental Tab Groups feature yet, support for it is coming.

nosmin1997

Seriously, i just try to find out how this feature works and clicked on a Text "how to use the new tab function" (just in german) and i Land here, AND NO WHERE IS EXPLAINED HOW IT WORKS, how is this even possible

mib2berlin

@nosmin1997
Hi, hitting F1 for help page and search for tab give me this: https://help.vivaldi.com/tutorials/21-ways-to-be-a-tab-master-with-vivaldi-browser/

Nice video about tab usage in Vivaldi.

Cheers, mib

nosmin1997

@mib2berlin Nope, he did not show it in that video, I had to google it until I found a proper video that explained that you first have to turn it on in the settings for what ever reason

Ayespy

@nosmin1997 It's possible because writing literature to explain new features takes a long time and there is no one specific individual assigned to it - because the team is very small and Vivaldi is not yet a profit-making concern.

Catweazle

@operafanboy , I don't think FF is dead, no, while Mozilla is still funded by Google

Catweazle

@operafanboy , and it doesn't serve much to use instead of FF some other fork, even SeaMonkey with a WebKit engine instead of Gecko, it is downloaded from Mozilla and uses the servers of this for sync.
I have no doubt that the browsers themselves are private, but they cease to be so if you use the services of Mozilla and with this of Google.
Everyone talks about avoiding Chromium and maybe using a Chromium de-googled, but nobody talks about a Mozilla de-googled.

Catweazle

@guigirl , nothing against FF, they are poor victims of their own system, apart lately they bring us new Vivaldi users.

LDMartin1959

When are we going to get some decent user profile management? Profile management in chromium-based browsers has always sucked but no one seems to care. I have posted a concept in various places on the Internet that would resolve this if someone would just implement it, but no one seems to care.

Ayespy

@ldmartin1959 Things that a lot of people care about are more likely to see the light of day with Vivaldi than things no one seems to care about. So, if "no one seems to care," and you want to know when Vivaldi will be implementing a feature about which no one cares, then it might be quite a long time.

LDMartin1959

@ayespy I’d love to be able to use Vivaldi if only the user profile management was at least equal to that in Firefox. But the horrid Chromium-based user profile management is a deal breaker for me.

Ayespy

@ldmartin1959 I understand. But the devs cannot re-code Vivaldi every time a user posts, "I would use Vivaldi if only..." because then that is all they would do, and they would still never catch up to every personal preference thus-expressed.

There are over four thousand feature requests, and each one is essential to that user's comfort.

Stardust

@guigirl said in How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi:

whereas in my Nightly it's diabolical [having once opened an alternative profile, that buggers the default

Can confirm, I borked one of my FF that way! RIP

LDMartin1959

@guigirl I use the stable release versions of FF. I can launch into whatever profile I want, not be forced into launching whichever profile(s) that were open last time I used it. And each profile can be launched as its own instance, allowing me to quickly and easily flip between profiles as if they were separate apps (because, as separate instances, they are) and have them be separate icons on the dock. Those things can’t be done in a Chromium-based browser.

LDMartin1959

@ayespy It used to be that businesses actually sought out opinions from people who didn’t use their product as to why, so they could address those reasons and to improve their products. It used to be called market research. Perhaps business has changed to where growing the customer base of your product by improving it and addressing customer and potential customer needs and desires is no longer of interest to businesses.

Pesala

@ldmartin1959 said in How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi:

Those things can’t be done in a Chromium-based browser.

Just install Vivaldi as a Standalone version for as many different users/profiles as you need.