Solved V 6.7 | Status Info Overlay shows while Status Bar set to Hide

JoeyB1

I have the same "bug". Please advise when it is debugged. It is annoying.

mib2berlin

@Onweerwolf
I guess she simply over read your bug number.

@JoeyB1
Hi, you can ask in the status thread about the bug number VB-105892.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/27450/what-is-the-status-of-vb-already-reported-bug-issue/

Cheers, mib

Onweerwolf

In the meantime is it possible to simply downgrade a Vivaldi version or will that involve me losing all of my settings?

Zalex108

@Onweerwolf said in V 6.7 | Remove link from bottom left:

In the meantime is it possibly to simply downgrade a Vivaldi version or will that involve me losing all of my settings?

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/637270

DoctorG

@Onweerwolf Not advised. Data from 6.7 is not compatible with 6.6.
Downgrade can cause strange issues which users were not able to fix.

PlayerMiller

A workaround could be using custom CSS to display: none .StatusInfo-Content, here is the tutor: Guide: Customizing Vivaldi’s UI with CSS mods

DoctorG

@PlayerMiller Nice hint to Gabe's blog article.

JoeyB1

@Zalex108

The best solution would be for Vivaldi to fix the bug and provide a new update. Quickly.

Firlej

I have never used that and now Vivaldi forces me to watch this and get piss off. How can I disable it?
How dumb anyone could be, to use that useless opportunity?

iAN CooG

@Firlej it's a bug, the setting "hide status bar" is acting as it was "Status info overlay". It needs to be fixed, or in the meantime use a CSS mod as explained few posts before yours.
Here's a rundown of the steps you need to do.
go to settings and type CSS
find the Custom UI Modification path, select a folder, for example
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\css
go there, create a text file named hide-status-overlay.css and paste in it
.StatusInfo { display: none; }
restart vivaldi and try
The status overlay will not be displayed anymore, until you show explicitly the status bar.

Firlej

@iAN-CooG Thanks, bro.

adacom

@iAN-CooG

the css needs to have !important added or it did for me

so

.StatusInfo-Content {
display: none !important;
}

iAN CooG

@adacom As long as it works, all good for me. My simpler version worked for me, I've no idea what the other version does differently.

Onweerwolf

Where do I put this ".StatusInfo { display: none; }" stuff in a portable version?

redmage

Running into an issue after updating where hovering over links shows the link address in the bottom left of the browser window. I think this behavior is the "Status Info Overlay" option in Window Appearance, but I have the Status Bar set to "Hide Status Bar" and do not want this overlay.

Changing the setting and then changing back doesn't seem to fix it. Is there another way to hide this, or is this behavior caused by a different setting that got flipped with the update?

redmage

@redmage Custom CSS fix outlined in this thread worked as holdover until an actual fix is pushed.

041744

Is there any way to turn off the url previews that appear in the bottom left corner when you hover over a link?

Pesala

@041744 Use the CSS code above.

See the Modding Forum for details of how to apply and preserve CSS and JS modifications.

luetage

This new behavior of the settings is not bugged in the way you all think it is. It’s the direct result of bug report VB-104287. Our old setup doesn’t make sense any more with the possibilities the toolbar editor introduced.

How it used to work:

The status info could only be displayed in the status bar
We had a three way settings switch between hiding the status bar, showing the status bar, or toggling the status info overlay depending on the state of the status bar.

Why the old way is faulty for the new setup:
There is no guarantee the status info element is in the status bar, it can be placed in any compatible toolbar. Let’s assume we place the status info element in the address bar. In case the address bar was hidden because we toggled it, or we opened mail, there was no way to show status info overlay because it depended solely on the visibility of the status bar, not the status info element itself!

How it works right now:
Whenever no status info element is visible in any toolbar, the status info overlay is activated automatically.

How it should work:
There should still be a way for people to both hide the status info element AND have the status info overlay disabled at the same time. This will likely require a settings change, which does not depend on a three way switch. A simple checkmark to turn the status info overlay off and on would probably be sufficient. Then the overlay would only show if both the setting is turned on and no status info element is visible in any part of the UI.

asgeirtj

Is it possible to have both status bar and info overlay at the same time with some css? (the setting is makes no sense why can't I have both, if it can be achieved through this bug then give me the bug please :D) oh the irony...