Why launch a new feature without fixing the BUGS? Workspaces

Kein

@mohitmojito
I speculated here:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/86161/workspace-logic-is-not-consistent

that recent exploit forced their hand. But instead of limiting access to it or hindig behind "experimental" they went with it as full-fledged ready-for-release feature.

Hadden89

@mohitmojito Is fixed in snapshot. It seems not all the fixes went to stable yet.

lSang

@hitripley It's always better to get the functions directly into your brorwser. Besides, the more extensions you get the more RAM they'll consume. If Vivaldi didn't have the workspace function integrated, as it'd been until the update, using te extension would make sense. Now it doesn't: am I really forced to make my browser slower with an extension, bothering to install more third parties, just because the team has not fixed a bug?

jpu4

@Hadden89 still seems to be happening

Hadden89

@jpu4 Still not backported to stable.

gitmurf

I still have all the same issues as described above. Is this still really not fixed and not even an official announcement / warning by the Vivaldi team? I just switched from Edge a few days ago and this is not a good look for Vivaldi

DoctorG

@jpu4 Which Snapshot version? Or do you tell that current 6.0 Stable has no fix?

jpu4

Latest 6.0.2979.22

NA0341

tl;dr: The size of an extension doesn't make much impact if it's well coded - that also applies for performance.

@lSang I agree upon the fact that it's pointless to replace builtin features by extensions. But for what you state else you might neighter have knowledge about how this type of browser works, nor have actually looked at the extension. With literally 76KiB it consumes as much memory as the main html of most modern (larger) websites. If you have enough tabs that you need to organize them you won't even notice that little amount. Not in the slightest. As for performance: the entire UI of Vivaldi is made up of html, css & js. So if this extensions existence affects performance depends entirely on its efficiency.
As this extension only affects the main UI - it shouldn't require loading into webcontent - processes at all.

The real issue with this tool is that it requires you to create an account to be able to use it.

NA0341

This Issue is fixed in Version 6.1.3035.84!
(I don't know the exact Version it got fixed.)

Workaround (for older versions):
Assign a shortcut in Settings → Keyboard → »Tab« section to the command Save All Tabs as Session

Now you can make snapshots simply by pressing the shortcut & enter.
(Vivaldi fills in the current timestamp if no name provided.)

Make a snapshot/backup before updating!

Info for the Vivaldi - Team: This anomaly happened in the following szenarios (for me):

→ Browser Update
→ Profile launched through syscall (clicked link)
→ Browser shut down by any other means than Browser controls (including Ctrl + Q)
→ Browser crash

Im currently running V. 6.1.3035.84 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)
Updating to this version has still caused the tabs to regroup into the main workspace (~300 Tabs within 11 Workspaces).

Other than an update i tested all the above scenarios & couldn't reproduce the issue anymore. Good Job Vivaldi Devs :·)

Details: I sent SIGQUIT to the main process to close through different means - & executed chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz to simulate a crash.
~~I did not test logging out with the browser opened!~~ Works too

Sysinfo:
Manjaro Linux (up-to-date)
GNOME 44.1 Wayland
Linux 6.1.31-2-MANJARO