Solved Toolbars not hiding while scrolling

mib2berlin

@Harrisc @lfisk
Hi, today another user post this issue I test it again and woop, the bar does not disappear!
Fire up my Android 8.1 device and there it work, really strange.
I will go through the settings if I can find anything.

Cheers, mib

lfisk

@mib2berlin I tried a bunch of stuff I never mentioned later on. Like System font size and display size, misc flags in Vivaldi... tried opening it in Android split-screen mode with another app to see if my devices screen height had something to do with it. My screen is like 60 pixels taller than your Xiaomi... nothing got the bars to hide on scroll

mib2berlin

@jane-n
Hi, can you look into it again, it does not work with stable, snapshot and soprano.
I have stable and soprano as dual app, clean profile, all default.
I am not aware of any system change, update or something, really strange.

Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite
MIUI 13
Android 12

Cheers, mib

EDIT: I had to wipe soprano (Alpha) build, reinstall bring the scroll function back. I will check on Stable now.

Harrisc

I cannot get the toolbars to hide on either my Android 8 or android 11 devices!

Something is wrong. I don't know what I have done?

jane.n

Hey, sorry for not being active in this discussion.

I tested the issue again on the latest Snapshot (6.2.3110.4) and I can sort of reproduce it as well.

In my case, the toolbars remain visible while scrolling for a few seconds after the page has loaded. Then as I keep scrolling or wait a little and then scroll they disappear.

edu2703

The curious thing is that there should be a ''Always show controls'' settings in which I can choose between hiding or not the bars when scrolling.

But for me, this setting doesn't appear. Has it been removed by any chance?

EDIT: Nevermind. I just found out that this option has been renamed to ''Show toolbars while scrolling''

Although this option on or off doesn't make any difference. The toolbars stay in the same place when scrolling. Using Vivaldi Stable (6.1.3035.277)

mib2berlin

All my installs, stable, snapshot and soprano are working fine after complete remove and reinstall.
I use sync so it takes a few minutes and I am back in business.
The fine tuning need some time but I use the most settings default anyway.

lfisk

@mib2berlin That would be way too painful for me I'll live with it as is...

mib2berlin

@lfisk
As I test often I have done this several times, with sync it´s really easy .
You can try to install the Vivaldi snapshot (Beta) version, it is independent to your stable install, then you can test if it work there.

Cheers, mib

lfisk

@mib2berlin Thanks for the suggestions
My previous experience with sync wasn't good. Especially with Bookmarks. Also I've got local html files on my SD card and in Vivaldi's memory space that are hard to put there. Had to use adp tool to set permissions so Vivaldi could access the SD card. Just isn't worth the hassle of trying to put all that back in place to get this working. Easier to just live with it

edu2703

@mib2berlin Well, I use Vivaldi Stable. I wiped all data, uninstalled, installed again and the issue persists. Out of curiosity I also installed Vivaldi Snapshot and had the same problem with the toolbars not hiding while scrolling.

Interestingly, I remember installing Vivaldi on my smartphone last year and I noticed that the toolbars didn't hide when scrolling. As at the time, I had only installed Vivaldi out of curiosity, with no intention of migrating and that's why I didn't report it on the forum. In fact, I even thought it was that way by design.

So for me, it doesn't seem to be a issue that came up recently or that it was fixed and then, for some reason, came back.

jane.n

I spoke to QA and they said they've seen reports about the issue, but have never been able to reproduce it and it's near impossible to fix a bug that you can't consistently reproduce yourself.
I suggest that everyone who encounters the issue reports it on https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/. Preferably do it on the device the issue occurs on, that way the report can attach your device's info automatically. Perhaps QA notices something in common between these reports that helps to get to the root of the issue.

edu2703

I managed to fix the problem.

Searching the forum, I found an older post reporting the same issue and one of the comments mentioned a possible incompatibility of Vivaldi with smartphone accessibility tools, which could be causing this.

My smartphone is a Moto G8 Power. I went into settings -> accessibility and only one tool was on, which was relative to slide to split screen. I turned it off, checked that the other accessibility tools were turned off and to my surprise, the toolbars are now hiding when scrolling. Using Vivaldi Stable.

lfisk

@edu2703 NICE find I have two Motorola Ace 5g phones with the same feature that was enabled. Disabled it and now at least the one I tried it on hides bars on scroll. There is another option I use in that Menu which is still on called "Accessibility Menu" which doesn't seem to bother it. Not surprised that the "Swipe to split" causes woe. Description reads:

"Swipe to split helps you quickly enter split screen mode. This permission commands the system to enter split screen mode when you slide your finger back and forth on the screen. When this service is turned off. Swipe to split will also turn off."

I'd forgot how to use this anyway and if split screen doesn't work anymore no big deal. Only recently tried it for testing this problem of all things and that wasn't how I accessed it anyway...

Thank you! For posting this solution

lfisk

@lfisk Just tried "Split-screen" the Android way using the recent/running apps screen (or whatever they call it) and it still works fine. So it seems to be just the "Swipe to split" method of starting it that is disabled...

flora2023

how are u

jane.n

@edu2703 Nice find indeed and thanks for sharing.

Gregor

Thanks @edu2703 for finding the cause of the problem.
For me, the problem of the "Show toolbars while scrolling" function not working is caused by the accessibility service called "AnyDesk Control Service AD1", which is a plugin used by the AnyDesk app. I don't want to turn it off.
The question is, is it a problem with Vivaldi, with this service/app or is there something wrong with Android?

Pekster

I'm having the same problem with Motorola Edge 30. For me the accessibility service "KDE Connect" causes toolbars to stay visible while scrolling despite setting them off. Would be awesome to see this fixed since I really don't want to disable KDE Connect.

mib3berlin

@Pekster
Hi, I use KDE Connect too but I have no idea what I do with accessibility ON for it.
It's a bit of topic but could you explain for what you use it?
KDE Connect does all I need without this setting enabled.

Cheers, mib