Profile Icons on Taskbar.
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@dolfje No, this is not what we mean
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@nubz Have you tried that ?
@mvivg said in Profile Icons on Taskbar.:
I would like to share my current workaround:
Create profile desktop shortcut
Use created shortcut to open Vivaldi using specified profile
Pin it to taskbar
Close the browser
Right click on Desktop shortcut
Save Target to notepad (for example C:\Users%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe --profile-directory="Profile 1")
Click on Change Icon and save the path to notepad (for example: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Profile 1\Vivaldi Profile.ico)
Shift + right click on pinned taskbar icon created in step 2
Select Properties
Adjust Target to step 6
Click on Change icon and paste the path from step 7
Open Task Manager and restart Windows Explorer (Right click -> Restart) -
It is very inconvenient when there are many work profiles. What is the problem to do so that the icon remains with the avatar? Many projects, when different profiles are open, do not make out where and which one. Convenient when on the taskbar, open programs are grouped when filled. Sorry, Google Translate.
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Adding to the pile of comments on here in some hope that this will get prioritized. ANY indication would be helpful. The standard is your profile pic but even a color would be helpful. Or the ability to pin a taskbar icon to a specific profile.
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Upvote
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This workaround should be marked as a solution for better visibility
@pafflick
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I also want to express that this feature would be really great to have. Using more then one profile at once is a pain when you can't see which icon is which profile...
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I am shocked that this is not standard functionality. I expect all browsers to support this basic function. I downloaded this browser yesterday with the intent to switch over from Chrome and like its features. But I'm an avid user of profiles for work and need to see at a glance which profile to jump into. This is a show stopper for me. Heading back to Chrome. Someone ping me when this is fixed.
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Vivaldi, if you decide to bring profile icons to the Windows taskbar, please also have an option to remove them. Let it be optional.
I was looking for a browser that DOES NOT have profile icons on the taskbar. I prefer to change icon completely for each profile. The profile icon just comes in the way and is very annoying and ugly.
I found Vivaldi, the only browser that does not have profile icons on the taskbar, and I liked it. I looked for solution on Chrome but did not find anything.Looks like i'm not the only one who dislikes it:
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/17566268/the-dreaded-taskbar-icon-overlay-is-back-how-do-we-remove-it?hl=en -
at this point it is beyond embarrassing to not have this
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@lenzfliker And from my point of view, at this point it is beyond irrelevant not to have this.
Everyone's importances are not shared with everyone else.
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@LonM said in Profile Icons on Taskbar.:
If I open developer tools I get the icon, but for some reason it doesn't work with just the default browser window.
Always been that way. Profile icon shown on dev tools but not on main windows. I agree the visual cue will be nice.
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On my system, different profiles appear as a separate taskbar icon, so all I need to do to see which is which, is hover the taskbar icon.
Profile 1
Profile 2
I get that this may not be much help if a user opens dozens of different profiles (why would they?), but when there is such a simple workaround, it is hard to justify setting this as a high priority. What percentage of users are likely to open more than two or three profiles?
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@Pesala This is no help, as it is already very annoying if you are using 2 profiles at a time :D. I really like to use profiles for different areas/projects at work, as I can easily close a profile and continue where I left off the last time just by opening the profile. Or if you have different private profiles. Maybe one main one and then for some vacation planning or event planning another one.
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@Pesala Vivaldi targets power users and as such you can't equate your market's needs with those of Edge or Chrome. In your market, having multiple profile is much more common and the ability to differentiate them via their distinct profile icon in the task bar is expected.
I personally have a profile for work and for home however due to the nature of my job I have about thirty tabs open in five different windows set on three monitors.
Even though I have two profile, a boomer like me can't remember which of the six windows is my personal one...
Please flag this with the relevant product manager. As a PM myself I think this should be a P3 Epic on the board somewhere. translation: one of the things you can squeeze in at the end of the quarter...
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This is a persistent issue for me. I often have at least three profiles open and active at a time and telling which window is which is a time waster even if I use tricks like sorting the icons specifically
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i have the same issue on windows 11 actually a major problem for me, plss revamp profiles everyone that has chrome has used profiles at some point. it is sadly just garbage on vivaldi
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I'll also add my vote for this.
I have been using the workaround for a long time, but only today I realized that it only works if the profile is pinned to the task bar. Unpinning breaks it. I have now too many profiles to pin them all on the task bar, and I really need them for comfortable work .
As Vivaldi doesn't have Firefox's Multiple Account Containers feature, the only solution is to create additional profiles, if someone needs to manage many accounts.
As far I know, the taskbar profile icons work in Chrome, but I don't want to use Chrome, for a thousand reasons...
I would categorize the current behavior as a bug, not a feature request, because it is such an elementary functionality for user profiles...
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I'm also hoping this feature will be added.
@interpixels ... In my case I can't even make it work with the profile shortcut pinned. It will always create a new button on the toobar, with the generic Vivaldi icon, next to the profile one, that will be "active". It won't use the pinned icon as "active".
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@derei It is a bit tricky, but if you follow the instructions posted in this thread above, don't forget to relaunch Windows Explorer, otherwise the change will not be visible.