Drag and Drop URL to desktop behavior changed between v2.x and 3.x
-
On my system found the behavior of drag and drop of URL lock icon to create a shortcut link on desktop or folder has changed between Vivaldi 2.x and 3.x. In v2.x dropping the URL lock icon on the desktop created a short cut link with the name taken from the website title in the tab. In v3.x dropping the URL lock icon on the desktop created a shortcut link with the name taken from the end of the URL value.
This is frustrating since some of the URL values end with just numbers. Makes it very difficult to identify the website the shortcut link refers to.
Anyone else seen this problem? Any suggestions on how to fix?
Pictures of v3.x with URL address in shortcut title
Picture of v3.x properties of shortcut. Note the shortcut title is the URL address
Picture of v2.x with website title in shortcut title
Pictures of v2.x properties of shortcut. Note the shortcut title is the same as the website title found in the Vivaldi tab.
-
Searching for a solution for the same problem (bug!).
Question to @Gwen-Dragon : what do you mean with "correct title for the shortcut"?
In my opinion the cause should not be the title tag of the HTML page...Thanks!
webaschtl -
It would be great to have this sorted. Everytime I try to make a shortcut to an youtube video it gets named "watch", this should work like all other browsers. You drag and drop the URL from the address bar onto your desktop and the resulting shortcut should get the name of the page.
Thank you.
-
I liked vivaldi untill these changes. This functionality is really sufficient. Please return at least as it was before
-
I reported this back in March 2018 in the German forum and the bug still exists in v3.6 final
-
same here does anyone knows how to fix this?.. I drag and drop my browser links to the desktop on finder all the time..
-
4th July, 2022
Looking at these posts tells me that the Good Folks at Vivaldi don't read them.I have the latest Version, freshly installed because so many things irritated me with Chrome, especially tab management. But this bug is still there. That at least works in Chrome, so I can't use just Vivaldi. Sad. Especially as there is zero information if it's in the works or not.
-
@Coolman01 Is a troubleshoot post, not a feature request or a bug report so chanches to be seen by (dev) folks are less.
By the way, some mods/dev have tagged the thread asin progess
so perhaps they are fixing it. -
@Coolman01 The forums are for users to help each other. Rarely, or for special projects, devs will engage with the forums. Otherwise, they read bug reports and try to incorporate as many of them as practicable into their work flow.
-
Thanks for the input, guys.
-
@Coolman01 said in Drag and Drop URL to desktop behavior changed between v2.x and 3.x:
4th July, 2022
Especially as there is zero information if it's in the works or not.this bug has been fixed. I had given feedback in the German forum. If you follow my link (March 2018) you will see it.
-
@Mangold
this bug has been fixed. I had given feedback in the German forum. If you follow my link (March 2018) you will see it.Hallo Mangold
Danke für den Tipp.
Leider funktioniert das "Dragging" überhaupt nicht für mich - kann nichts auf den Desktop oder irgendwo hinziehen. Also kann ich wegen inkorrekte Beschreibung nicht einmal mitredenThanks for the Tipp, sadly I can't drag any link anywhere outside Vivaldi, so regarding the correct naming, I can't even comment!
-
@Coolman01
You want to drag a link on the page, this works here with mixed results, depending on the page.
But this thread is about dragging the lock icon from the address bar and get a useful shortcut name, that works here as expected in V 5.3.2679.61 on windows.So you would have to visit the linked site first, then drag the lock icon to i.e. explorer window.
-
@bariton
Thanks for the tip. I do that, but I want to add the link outside the browser and that doesn't work. It works with Google's Chrome no problems, just not in Vivaldi. So I'm currently using both browsers: Vivaldi is great for managing sites and tabs and Chrome lets me drag links. I just would have thought that function could be used as Vivaldi uses the Chrome engine. But, apparently not. One of the threads I followed pointed out that it worked in earlier Vivaldi versions. Sad. -
@Coolman01 Have you tried if a parallel fresh portable version shows the same behavior? maybe it's due to your personal settings
-
@Coolman01 Strange, it works fine for me here using Vivaldi 5.3 Stable, Win10 21H2 x64.
Video: https://ttm.sh/wlA.mp4
Note that the icon is the Snapshot (dark) one because that's my default browser, not the Stable I'm testing with. But you get the title, not the URL - as expected.
-
I've tried using a second instance. I can now drag a link to the desktop and it is correctly named.
What I still can't do - which is what I want to do - is drag the link directly into another application, in my case Scrivener. Chrome can.But I can live with this solution.
Thanks for all the input folks - much appreciated.