Color a Single Tab (or Tab Group)
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Update: although the internal report pointing to this topic was resolved as "Will not do" (and consequently marked here us as such by the moderator), we haven't ultimately decided not to find a solution for this. In order to clarify the situation, I have changed the status to "Nice to have", as it's a fairly popular request. Once we decide we want to actually implement it, we will change its status to "Pipeline".
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i'd looove this feature!
tab customization is 100% the reason I use vivaldi, and it seems chrome has a leg up right now
edit: have to make my message not hit the spam filter
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add me onto another person that would like this feature.. right click, change tab colour, choose a colour.. yeah.
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Yeah, I am looking for a tab grouping feature that is more like Chrome's. Pretty much everything else is better in Vivaldi except this one thing!
All the tab stacking options seem clunky to me. I want the colour-coded groups that don't have icons, just a name (default or given by me). And I want them to expand and minimise when I click them, as well as adjust their size based on number of tabs.
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I was using Brave browser at work and decided to give a chance to Vivaldi. I like both browsers. I am using workspaces and tab stacks to organize myself on Vivaldi, but the colors are definitely one thing I miss.
If some Vivaldi developer is reading this: colors can give a sense of importance. I used, for instance, a red tab for pages on the production websites, yellow for testing and green for my local instances. Now I use tab stacks with the names (local, testing, production) inside a Server's workspace. Still, I would feel better if I could have colors.
P. S. Yes, it'd be easy for me to add some CSS from tips I saw around, but even as a developer, I think it's a really nice to have feature for the general audience.
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I use Chrome at work and I miss how the tab groups work in it SO much. It's just vastly better to have visual cues with colour and names that are easily set. It makes a huge difference to me, perhaps because of my focus issues (ADHD). All the Vivaldi tab variants are clunky and unintuitive to me, and I literally waste a little time every single day just trying to find my way around them... I like everything else about this browser better than Chrome, but I am still considering going back... sigh
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@Rymdkejsaren said in Color a Single Tab (or Tab Group):
It's just vastly better to have visual cues with colour and names that are easily set.
Although it is true you cannot set colors, tab stacks can be given a name: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tabs/tab-stacks/#Rename_Tab_Stacks
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Although it is true you cannot set colors……..
You are wrong. You can.
Has anyone wondered why the developers included the ability to use CSS Mods in the first place?
The answer is very simple. Since they knew they would be a small group, then they needed the users themselves to help create features that they would not have the time to implement, making Vivaldi the most configurable browser in the world.
The reasoning is very logical:
CSS Mods are built-in so Tab stacks color are also built-in (the difference is that they require a little bit of work)
The Vivaldi forum is full of CSS Mods, or not?
Once they appear in the forum, they become built-in. This assertion is demonstrated by the fact that a minimal part, not to say 0% of the Mods, the development team have made them a direct part of Vivaldi.
That was the way the developers team thought Vivaldi would be the most configurable browser.
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@pauloaguia
Yep, though it requires more fiddling than in Chrome, and the icon changes based on the active tab. In Chrome, you start a new group and you pick a name and colour to identify it. The group is then made that colour and given that name... It's such a useful feature to easily organise your workspace with, and I miss it dearly here, although so much else in Vivaldi is better than Chrome. -
@barbudo2005 I see what you mean, but the point is that this feature is so mainstream that it should be part of the browser as a standard.
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...it should be part of the browser as a standard.
"208 brave users wanted it. It should be, It should be….."
How nice would this be the beginning of a song.
Look this post:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/89401/to-wait-indefinitely-or-not-to-wait-that-is-the-question
Change: "and live complaining"
For: "and saying it should be"
What kind of person are you? number one or two? I would like to know.
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I'm the type of person who wants this basic feature to be implemented, as it's something you'd expect from a browser today.
#makeVivalditabsChromeagain
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VOTE: we all need custom color for tabs and for stacks and for workspaces
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@pontisto Vote for the first post if you haven't already done so. (Voting again will remove your vote).
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I get it now. Thanks. The OP has been thumbed.
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@barbudo2005 can you do custom colors of tab stack based on the custom title of the tab stack rather than anything to do with tabs inside the tab stack?
Win 10 with latest Vivaldi snapshot, OnePlus 9 Pro Android 14 with latest regular Vivaldi update.
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It is not possible because the custom color is inside a span. This has happened to me before and it can only be done with JS code.
Compare both codes:
The original title of the tab is :
title="Color a Single Tab (or Tab Group)"The custom title is :
span class="title">COLOR</span -
The culprit is the Dev team that gives us freedom but with limitations. Deep down they want to screw us.
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Remember that you can automatically have color in a tab stack through the color of the favicon.
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A workaround not so good :
.tab-position.is-substack [id*= "tab"].tab.active:has(.title) {border: 2px red solid !important;}Of course it will give the same color to all tab stacks active that you have renamed.
It might be useful if you are working on a tab stack that you have renamed and want to highlight it.
