Middle mouse button not working reliably to close tabs

nalu

Today I updated to the most recent version. I have this issue now where middle mouse button clicking does not close a tab. It is not a mouse issue. I can keep clicking the tab and just nothing happens. If I switch to another tab and then try to close it then it works. Most of the time. It is unreliable.

To reproduce the issue I have found one way to get to happen reliably. Follow the instruction precisely!

Open 3 new tabs and make sure they are next to each other on the right.
click through them from left to right to make sure they "have been read". Active tab should now be the one on right.
hover mouse button on the press middle mouse button to close a tab. It should close.
The next tab should be under your mouse cursor now. Press middle mouse button again without moving mouse. Now it should not close. Middlemouse button is not registered by vivaldi anymore.

Also it seems left button is not registered either in this state. Press left click once or twice to "activate" vivaldi again. Now middle mouse button works again. Or not. It is unreliable. The most reliable way to get middle mouse to start working again is if you move your mouse away from a tab then back on top of it and middle mouse click it.

This issue makes it impossible to quickly close multiple tabs with middle mouse button and occasionally middle mouse button doesn't close tabs even in slightly different situations. It is pretty annoying and I feel it is clearly a bug.

nalu

I don't understand how e diting post works on this forum. Numer 3 should read:
3. hover mouse cursor on the tab and press middle mouse button to close a tab. It should close.

Stardust

Yes, I was having the same problem with middle click on Linux.
But on the latest snapshot 4.1.2369.10 I can't reproduce it.

nalu

Nobody else having this issue? Also the left mouse button is affected in similar way which makes normal browsing a bit annoying as I use a lot of these consecutive clicks as I use vivaldi.

I have windows 10, updated to newest, vivaldi is 4.1.2369.11 64bit.

Pesala

@nalu To edit a post, click the three vertical dots icon at the bottom right of the post.

Middle-click to close works fine for me. Are your tabs on the top, bottom, or side? Are you using Windows Native Appearance?

In Settings, Appearance, disable:

Animations

This should fix the slow performance of closing tabs with the x button.

nalu

@pesala
The edit does not have a submit button.
Tabs are on top. Not using windows native appearance.
However turning animations off seems to have fixed it! I'm not using the x button, I'm using middle mouse button to close tabs. The issue was not slow performance though but the button just not working at all in certain situations. Now it seems to work as it did before.

Pesala

@nalu said in Middle mouse button not working reliably to close tabs:

The edit does not have a submit button.

If your Vivaldi window is narrow, or your webpage zoom is high, the submit button is the blue > at top right of the page on editing a forum post.

This forum software is a bit non-standard.

RomeroNex

I confirm the same issue for 4.1.2369.11 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) on Linux (Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon). My tabs are on top. The issue started to bother me after the last update, I didn't change any settings.

In most cases, after closing one tab, a middle button click on the next tab minimizes the Vivaldi window for me. As soon as there is a feature of minimizing the window by middle click on the title bar itself, I suppose the title bar becomes "active" (or focused) after the first tab is closed.

ntoskrnl

I can confirm this issue. The behaviour is a bit inconsistent, but it's almost always reproducible this way:

(Make sure "Use Animation" is enabled – see below.)
Open enough tabs that they fill the entire tab bar and start becoming narrower.
Close the rightmost tab (either by clicking the X or by middle clicking).

After closing the tab, you will be unable to click on the (now) rightmost tab. Nothing happens when you click it. Moving the cursor over another tab, or away from the tab bar, will always return normal behaviour.

I'm on the snapshot channel (current version 4.1.2369.10), and I've had this issue for a while now, but I'm not sure when exactly it was introduced. I didn't bother reporting it before because it's not a huge issue, but it is still annoying.

I can also confirm that disabling the "Use Animation" option in Settings > Appearance fixes (or works around) this issue. However, this is not a performance issue – this is clearly some kind of bug with the animation.

Duplicate threads:

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/64876/when-the-leftmost-tab-is-closed-the-next-tab-becomes-unresponsive (someone has reported this as VB-81954)
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/64970/bug-ui-close-tab-button-hidden-after-closing-the-rightmost-tab

Stardust

@ntoskrnl said in Middle mouse button not working reliably to close tabs:

I didn't bother reporting it before because it's not a huge issue, but it is still annoying.

Well, I think it's a big issue, because I use Middle click exclusively to close tabs. That's the core browser feature and it doesn't work reliably for a long time already

Unfortunately there are many tab related bugs in the latest snapshots...

Pesala

@stardust That is why we test Snapshots — to find and report issues so that they can be fixed. If you disable animations that should let you work around the problem until it is fixed. Settings, Appearance:

Use Animations

Stardust

@pesala said in Middle mouse button not working reliably to close tabs:

If you disable animations that should let your work around the problem until it is fixed

I will try this, thanks.

bjarteao

I can confirm that this issue is also in the current stable version, v. 4.1.2369.21 on Windows 10.

If I try to quickly close many tabs using middle-click, after one or two tabs, middle-clicking stops working.

I have a similar issue with double-clicking to quickly close many tabs. After I have closed one or two tabs, double-clicking changes functionality and maximizes the window instead of closing tabs.

Turning off animations work as a workaround.