Tab cycling keeps malfunctioning
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Figured I'd chime in that I'm experiencing this exact same problem. Some times it switches fine to the most recently used tab. Other times it will switch to a random tab. I do the exact same thing as shown in the gif, just repeat control + tab. It should alternate between the same two, but it ends up jumping to other random tabs.
Vivaldi 6.1.3035.84 (Stable channel) (x86_64)
Revision 7c36767a3c3113596404ebc711017cc85c93a48e
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@coldkreap Hmm, I think I may have experienced this as well. But it may have been in combination with moving the mouse as well. Opera certainly had that problem in the past.
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I captured my own gif. i select the first tab and the last tab with the mouse. then pressing ctrl+tab it should alternate between tab 1 and tab 4 but you'll see the 3rd tab gets tossed in there. then it alternates between tab 3 and tab 4 before it ends up jumping to tab 1. Did this with just my left hand on the two keys. I did not touch the mouse or the touchpad.
Note, i did this in a "guest profile window" as i had seen mention somewhere about profile issues.
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@DoctorG this bug is still in Vivaldi codebase, even the today's release bring no solution. Do you have any estimates on this?
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@realscorp
VB-43529 "Not properly cycling tabs by recently used order..." - No dev assigned for a fix. -
@DoctorG @jvivaldi885 @Aelius
I've noticed that the occurrence seems to hinge on the timing of pressing and releasing the keys.For those looking to consistently reproduce the issue, consider assigning a single key, like F1, to the "Tab Cycler Forward" shortcut.
On Mac OS, while we have the default Ctrl + Tab, you can also enable "Single Key Shortcuts" and choose any single alphabet key.Once you have multiple tabs open and use the shortcut, you might see the discrepancy.
For tabs registered internally in the browser's history as A, B, C, and D, I expected them to rearrange to B, A, C, D after using the shortcut. However, they shift to B, C, D, A, which oddly seems like the "Previous Tab (Recent)" behavior.
Additionally, mapping "Tab Cycler Forward" to a mouse gesture yields the same outcome.
Hope this helps shed more light on the issue.
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6.1.3035.111 (Stable channel) （arm64） MacOS 13.4.1 -
For what it's worth, after my post I gave up and downgraded to the last known good version of Vivaldi: 5.7.2921.68
I haven't had any problems since. This works for me, although it's disappointing.
Recently, I had to wipe my Mac Mini 2018. I installed 5.7, but the latest 6.1 (6.1.3035.302 (Stable channel) (x86_64)) got installed almost immediately before I could turn off automatic updates. On a clean installation, full format, no restore of user-data, 6.1 works so far just fine; I don't know if this is because it was fixed, or because Vivaldi gets damaged during an update and that introduces this problem. It's a mystery.
Maybe deleting every single aspect of Vivaldi, then installing a new version from scratch, resolves the issue?
Once I get a working version, I'm afraid to upgrade again; It's so disruptive to have this broken. I'm now on a recent (latest) 6.1 on the Mac Mini and on a MBP 2023 (brand new Vivaldi install). So far, it seems to work. I guess I'll report back in 8-12 months if I decide to upgrade again. shrug
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@Aelius I see this was a duplicate of
VB-43529 "Not properly cycling tabs by recently used order..." - Confirmed, not dev assigned, no timeline for fix. -
@jvivaldi885 said in Tab cycling keeps malfunctioning:
downgraded to the last known good version of Vivaldi: 5.7.2921.68
Downgrade is not advised by Vivaldi team. Such can cause incompatible settings and data resulting in more unexpected issues which can not be fixed by us.
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@DoctorG said in Tab cycling keeps malfunctioning:
resulting in more unexpected issues which can not be fixed by us.
As if the current unexpected issues are fixed by them. It's been... 5 years now? Since VB-43529? A bug that makes Vivaldi nigh unusable not just for me but for the only other person I've ever gotten to switch over to Vivaldi.
Do the devs just not use their own browser, or do they click on tabs to switch them instead of Ctrl+Tabbing like God intended?
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This is still broken in 6.5. It loses the MRU tab. Happens much more rarely now, but in 5.7 it never, never, never, never happened. If I hit CTRL-Tab, I went back to my last tab. Every. Single. Time. Always.
Now it's like 1/20 that it screws up. Sad.
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For specific tasks, the workaround is probably to create new windows per tab and use the reliable, never fails, OS CMD/ALT Tab functionality, that I've never in my life seen not work. Sigh.
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It's form fields. This happens if one of my recent tabs is Bing AI, ChatGPT, AWS Athena query input, Google Ads keyword discovery. This seems to be related to active form inputs.
And the tab ends up at the bottom of the tab stack, like it's "forgotten". This seems broken consistently. I'm not sure regular web pages are affected.
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Still happens today.
6.6.3271.48 (Stable channel) (x86_64)
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@jvivaldi885
Hi, I can add your information about form inputs if you like and update the report.
I don`t know who reported VB-43529, which is the master bug.Cheers, mib
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Okay. It can't hurt. It's puzzling that only two of us have ever seen this behavior, but I get it consistently across versions and years of Vivaldi, on multiple Macs, both wiped and reinstalled completely from scratch as-if new systems, and still get this behavior.
Unfortunately it does not happen 100% of the time, so I guess no one that can fix this ever sees it happen? Puzzling. The video in the OP is exactly what happens, when it happens. The most recently used tab ends up at the bottom of the active tabs list, despite having just been the active tab one CTRL-TAB ago. This has been happening since 5.8. (And from 5.2 through 5.6.) Only <= 5.1 and 5.7 seem immune.
It's quite disruptive to be in the middle of a flow and then find my tab disappeared to the bottom of the list.
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@jvivaldi885 said in Tab cycling keeps malfunctioning:
Okay. It can't hurt. It's puzzling that only two of us have ever seen this behavior, but I get it consistently across versions and years of Vivaldi, on multiple Macs, both wiped and reinstalled completely from scratch as-if new systems, and still get this behavior.
I got a friend to try Vivaldi and he complained about this tab switching issue without me ever mentioning it. I've also had the issue on multiple systems and multiple new OS installations on those systems.
We aren't imagining this, and it's really embarrassing that no one with any power to do something about this seems to be able to even replicate it.
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@Aelius said in Tab cycling keeps malfunctioning:
@jvivaldi885 said in Tab cycling keeps malfunctioning:
Okay. It can't hurt. It's puzzling that only two of us have ever seen this behavior, but I get it consistently across versions and years of Vivaldi, on multiple Macs, both wiped and reinstalled completely from scratch as-if new systems, and still get this behavior.
I got a friend to try Vivaldi and he complained about this tab switching issue without me ever mentioning it. I've also had the issue on multiple systems and multiple new OS installations on those systems.
We aren't imagining this, and it's really embarrassing that no one with any power to do something about this seems to be able to even replicate it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one -- I honestly feel like I'm losing my mind. I'll be heads down on a task, then wham I'm staring at some random tab and need to use my mouse to track down my most recent tab because Vivaldi lost it somehow.
I just downloaded 5.7 and I'm going to downgrade and try again in 12 months. I can't really mentally deal with this right now anymore. Also experimenting with Orion, but it's beta and MacOS-only.
Take care!
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Looks like 5.7 crash loops on some web pages and in latest OS X, menu bar doesn't work. So that's increasingly hopeless.
Going to try Arc browser which has MRU tabs by default.
Since 5.7 Vivaldi has become a dumpster fire. Sad. I used to recommend it to everyone! I like speed dials, and browser tab sync. I'll never understand how things that work can't just keep working.
