Solved Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking
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Yes what is very puzzling is that the devs keep puting so much effort to add new features to the tab bar but not the one that is really asked by the community: a scrolling tab bar with not shrinked tabs.
This lead to what you point, some new tab bar features they add can't shine because of the shrinking of the tabs. -
@stephanea
Yep, it is crazy to think that Chrome (perhaps the most orthodox and feature-less browser out there) will implement this sooner than Vivaldi (which has been asked for such a feature for 3+ years already). -
@stephanea Exactly. Of course I might be mistaken, but the impression I have is that they keep adding stuff that looks more complex than scrollable tabs (which mind you, even a guy here managed to make a workaround)
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@longvoid This is the most obvious missing feature from Vivaldi and is an absolute deal breaker for both myself and everyone I know who is looking for an alternative to Firefox.
If they add this, and 'tabs in the logical position, against the top of active window, below all the menu stuff etc. like every other PC program uses' (also what safari uses fyi) I'll switch to Vivaldi
As is, it is unusable.
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@stephanea Exactly. Of course I might be mistaken, but the impression I have is that they keep adding stuff that looks more complex than scrollable tabs (which mind you, even a guy here managed to make a workaround)
The most frustrating thing about this feature for me now is that it has been implemented in the android version of Vivaldi.
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@ignatgrz said in Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking:
The most frustrating thing about this feature for me now is that it has been implemented in the android version of Vivaldi.
Really!?
Maybe we will see it in the desktop version soon
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@stardust I visit this thread only a couple of times a year and I wouldn't be looking out for it being implemented soon, given first mobile snapshot with a tab bar is back from March 2020, but we can still hope.
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Well, there is a PIPELINE tag, so my hopes are high. Also recently we got a Download Button on the Address Bar in the latest snapshot, the feature I was waiting for years. I believe in V-team
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@ayespy It might be good to also have a set length that they can shrink before you have to scroll.
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@thescorb0 There is already a slider to set the Active Tab Minimum Width. That could be used for scrolling tabs.
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@ignatgrz Yep, me too. So frustrating seeing how such a simple feature with such a huge QOL impact has been ignored for so long.
Vivaldi has ~2 million users, Firefox is losing >2 million users every month. They have lost ~100 million users in the time since this feature was first suggested. Vivaldi should be sweeping them up almost exclusively and this one most requested feature would go a long way to ensure that, yet it is still stuck on the back burner.
Mind boggling
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But I hope just an option. Scrolling only in Tab Bar would be a Deal Breaker for me. I need 50+ Tabs without Scrolling!
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@longvoid said in Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking:
Optional tabs scrolling like in Firefox.
This is very userful, especially with mouse supporting wheel left/right click (eg Logitech Anywhere)
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Work-Around - Put your Tab bar vertically instead of the default horizontal. It will look strange for the first few days but now I'd never switch back.
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That's it, i move back to firefox just for this.
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@slink The feature is already available in the latest Snapshot. It probably won't be long before the next Stable version 5.1 will include it.
Settings, Tab Bar:
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@slink Interesting. Vivaldi released a feature over a week ago, but now you are moving back to Firefox because Vivaldi "doesn't have" a feature it does have? OK....
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No more tab shrinking and Tab scrolling bar in Vivaldi (last snapshot version) ! At last !! Thanks !!
All is working fine.Just a little question, is there a way to custom the maximum size of tab (I see the minimum size but no max size option)
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@Pesala, great! Thank you for that info!
In the past, I would be satisfied with that feature because that is what we have in Firefox and Waterfox. But as I added a scrollbar, I guess, I will stick to it at least for some time.
I don't use the pinned tabs feature, but I report that they remain on the left side (so, they are no longer pinned), if the new feature is enabled.
