[UX] Close button should be on the right
-
The close button for tabs should be on the right. It is way to easy to close a tab by accident, especially when you have a lot of tabs open.
modedit moved from All Platforms.
-
The close button for tabs should be on the right. It is way to easy to close a tab by accident, especially when you have a lot of tabs open.
It IS on the right. What system are you on?
-
It is under the fav icon…on the left. I am on Mac OS X and I have the nightly snapshot.
-
Here is the image, I have attached it. I guess if it is moved to the right in the future, the audio animation would need to be under the right hand corner of the favico. This behavior looks great when there are a lot of tabs open.
Attachments:
-
Ahh, Mac - where all the UI controls are reversed.
Yeah - I don't know if there's an option to move the "X". I don't think so. But that will surely come…
-
Any updates on this?
-
Any updates on this?
The developers don't give updates. They fix, correct, adjust things or they don't. Having followed developments here since the browser first saw the light of day about 15 months ago, I'm going to guess that a UI preference like this will, at least for the moment, be low on their priority list. There are several regressions, like for instance broken touch functionality, that are probably near the front of the queue, and then there's the fact that they are trying to get email and sync done, etc. In fact, it may be the developers' judgment that their current placement of the close button is "correct," though the option to modify every aspect of the UI is certainly on their radar.
So when you report a bug or ask for a feature, (and you can ask for features on the bugreport page as well, BTW), there's nothing that says you can't later repeat yourself and bump your suggestions. But progress updates on bugs and features will only arrive in the form of updates in the browser.
Once in a GREAT while, a developer will mention that an item is "in the pipeline." We tend to see that on the blog when it happens, rather than in the forums.
-
The problem is not that it's on the right; the problem is that the close button is hidden until the mouse pointer is over that tab. You go to click on the tab, the close box appears right where the favicon was, and you end up closing it instead.
-
Hi there - I've been using Vivaldi for a week, and it's great. Please keep up the good work!
However, the close button being on the left of the tab on OSX is causing me a lot of frustration and lost work from accidentally closed tabs. It's almost a deal breaker. I know Safari puts close button on the left, but that's one of the reasons I don't use it - it's not intuitive. Other major browsers on OSX (e.g. Chrome, Firefox) put the close on the right. It's also confusing when I go between my Mac and Windows machines, as my windows Vivaldi has the close button on the right.
I'd very much appreciate it if you could either move the close button to be on the right, or make it a simple config setting - one of Vivali's biggest selling points is the ability to customise the UI to suit your working style, so I think this would be appropriate.
Thanks again!
-
@Ayespy said in [UX] Close button should be on the right:
Ahh, Mac - where all the UI controls are reversed.
Yeah - I don't know if there's an option to move the "X". I don't think so. But that will surely come…
In 2020, I have recently switched to Vivaldi, due to the forthcoming Mozilla shutdown, and I have been accidentally closing tabs that I wanted to focus instead, because on MacOS, the close button still appears out of nowhere when focusing on the site's favion on the left of the tab. This is very irritating and frustrating, as every other browser behaves differently.
Ditching MacOS for Linux is, sadly, not a short term option right now, but a fix to the Vivaldi UI would be. So please reconsider this bug, if possible.
-
@ingo-steinke Can you disable the close button and use a shortcut instead?
-
Hi,
Did you look at the Vivaldi Preferences for Tabs?
Go to the Tabs Display section and you will see the options there for the Close Button,
The "Display Close Button" can be checked so the Close Button will appear on the right side under the website Favicon.
You should see the option to display it "On Left Side", That option is directly underneath the Display Close Tab Button.
There is a third option, uncheck both options and NO close Button will appear on the tabs,
you will then need to right click the Tab you wish to close and use the Context Menu to close the Tab.This is not a Vivaldi bug or something that needs correcting, Vivaldi developers have taken a different approach and designed the UI in the way which they think is best.
I'm not supportive of every change they have.
There are UI changes they have made which have made Vivaldi more difficult to use in my opinion, for example they chose to remove some options in the View Titlebar for showing or NOT showing the Toolbar in Fullscreen mode.
In Chrome and also Chromium browsers if you want True Fullscreen you simply unselected the Show Toolbars in Fullscreen and when entering Fullscreen there would be NO Titlebar, Toolbar or Tabs in Fullscreen mode.
The Vivaldi developers have removed that option and now the Keyboard command options are unreliable and often don't work for unknown reasons, and if you do somehow manage persuade Vivaldi to enter True Full Screen it then is difficult to exit it.
-
Vivaldi 3.2 introduced this new option at least on Linux and Windows and not having a Mac i can't control.
- [New][Tabs] Option to change Close Tab button position (VB-7857)
The feature request is still marked as IN PROGRESS so it's not clear.
-
Hi,
I am using Vivaldi 3.2.1967.47 (Stable channel) (64-bit).
It is installed on macOS Catalina 10.15.6
Absolutely everything I described in my posting is there in the Vivaldi Preferences for Tabs.
If you are not seeing the things I have detailed, please ensure that you have updated Vivaldi and that you are using the Vivaldi 3.2.1967.47 (Stable channel) (64-bit) version.
As I don't use Windows I can not comment on the Vivaldi version for windows.
I believe that there should be quite similar options in the Vivaldi Preferences for Tabs and their Close Buttons.
There are far more Windows users than macOS users whom use Vivaldi and they would be getting the updated versions of Vivaldi far sooner than the macOS users.
On this basis if macOS users already have the options described in detail above in their Stable chanel release version of Vivaldi it would be very surprising if Windows users have not had these options added to Vivaldi.
-