Solved Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking

CuriousD

Yes! This a huge step forward to making Vivaldi the browser of choice. Kudos to the developers and thanks to the posters here for letting us know the feature is available.

I'll be putting the latest snapshot though its paces, checking extensions etc., and on the whole I'm quite excited

pafflick

This is now possible with the Vivaldi 5.1 update:

Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Bar and check:

Enable Horizontal Scrolling

Find out more here. Hope you enjoy this new feature.

ryukusu

At last!
Thank you very much for adding this feature!!!
I think I give up on my "scrollbar for tabs" approach as there is a way to long-click on the arrow to open the tab list.

Update.
It seems I still got used to the scrollbar. After I open a new tab and don't want to switch to it immediately, I have to click on the scroll button. If I open several tabs(or too many tabs), it takes time to scroll to the last tab. Using the scrollbar seems to be more convenient.
So, at least for now, I will stick to the tab scrollbar - the feature that Vivaldi allows me to use.

slink

@pafflick Hover the mouse over the Tab Bar and use the mouse wheel. thats what you say in the instructions link you posted.
Have you tried to scroll the tabs without holding the shift? In all my laptops (3) its so glitchy that you cannot work with it. This happens when i use my mouse also and not the touch pad.
Also the minimum tab width does not exist as an option and this keeps only few tabs visible on the bar (and without scrolling).
I hope that you will fix these issues soon.

emvaized

@pafflick Thanks a lot! I'm very happy that this feature finally made it to the stable release. Works great so far.

I have a few small suggestions however, and not sure if a separate feature requests are needed to be open for them.

Option for a tiny scrollbar would be great, so that you could always see how many tabs are off-screen, and quickly scroll to the exact portion of them.
Autoscroll to make newly opened tab visible also would be great, somewhat like executing tab.scrollIntoView({inline: "nearest"}) in JavaScript after the new tab was created.

pafflick

@emvaized All follow-up requests should be added separately.

Stardust

Here is a follow-up Feature Request: Tabs should shrink until some (critical) point and then become scrollable.

bogjon

I can't believe it, it's been such a journey through these years. We all made lots of friends along the way, it's beautiful.
As some have mentioned here, there's still way for improvement but now I think it's definitely worth giving Vivaldi another shot as the main browser, even as these minor things are eventually polished.
It was a nice ride, folks.

dpn

Thanks for implementing this feature.

I have a follow-up feature request to improve the open tabs list to show tabs stacks in the list.. Show Tab Stacks in Tab Scroll arrows open tabs list