Solved V 6.7 | Context Menu | Rollback Font / Size
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@Ereshkigal I also found the context-menu change disorienting & understand your frustration.
The reason @mib2berlin would share a feature request from 2018 is because it is an existing request and doesn't require creating additional forum content that needs to be moderated.
Also I would add that Vivaldi has a much smaller development team than a company like Google. There are pros and cons to small versus large teams but, in my experience, @jon and his team are much more likely to review and take negative feedback into account when changes impact the overall user experience.
In the event that you are correct @Ereshkigal and a change to Chromium flags would revert the "Compact" settings change in
vivaldi://settingsthen I would agree with you that the development team would need to implement a fix, but for right now all of the issues I had with the context-menu are fixed, and I hope yours are as well.Thanks to everyone for contributing to the forums.
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Hi, I've been using vivaldi for years now. Suddenly today, the appearance of my UI has changed. The drop down menus when I click a folder on my bookmarks bar or when I clicked the vivaldi icon on the top left corner of my browser have a larger font and increased spacing, and the background of the drop down menus also seems like it's a different color. It's brighter than I remember and the border feels different too. For some reason it bothers my eyes and it hurts for me to look at the menus this way.
When I right click, the menu that shows up also has increased spacing, but at least it doesn't make my eyes uncomfortable.
Can anyone help me change things back to how it was before? It's weird because things haven't changed anywhere else. For example, the drop down menu from the workspace right next to the vivaldi icon is completely unchanged, and the text on the bookmarks bar itself is fine, it's only the text from the dropdown menu when I click on a folder on the bookmarks bar that's been changed. I tried changing the fonts and the font size from the settings menu, but it didn't help. On a vivaldi community post, I saw someone who seemed to have a similar problem to me, and the answer that helped them was to change the layout to classic, but I can't seem to find a way to do that. I saw on another webpage to go through the welcome tour again to do that, but I went through the welcome tour and there was no option to select a layout.
Please help.
The version number is 6.7.3329.29 (Stable channel) (64-bit), and my OS is Windows 11 Version 23H2 (Build 22631.3447)
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@WontonWang There are several threads on this tooic already, but to save you searching ...
Settings > Appearance, in the menu section enable Compact layout
Be aware, this was a change made in Chromium to have more touch-friendly menus and as such the Compact layout option may disappear in the future.
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Sorry, I missed the other threads. Thanks for your help!!!
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@HealingCross67 Or maybe they are using the flag to disable the new UI by default.
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@HealingCross67 Yes, you're right - the damned thing updated while I was checking the version and now it's on Chromium 124.0.6367.62 ...
No idea then, I guess they did something like Vivaldi has with the "Compact Menus" setting.
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I was wondering is there somewhere where complaints about this change are collected, you know kinda like a petition to revert this change?
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It's about time you used more Shortcuts, Mouse Gestures or Command Chains, instead of complaining about something that the Vivaldi Team is not to blame.
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I really really don't like how the new menu looks (the flat-earth UXers strike again) and I hope the Vivaldi devs can find a way to revert to something resembling the previous look.
Anyway, I have checked Compact Layout and restarted the browser, and the menus still look the same. Anything else I can try?
6.7.3329.31 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) on Linux
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@bityard said in V 6.7 | Context Menu | Rollback Font / Size:
Anyway, I have checked Compact Layout and restarted the browser, and the menus still look the same. Anything else I can try?
6.7.3329.31 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) on Linux
Works fine here however, the menus are back to "normal", especially without the pointless fading animation. I have exactly the same version ATM:
6.7.3329.31 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)
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I understand this big context menu is for touchscreen devices, like tablets, but the need to scroll through a context menu is rather a minor annoyance. I'd rather have cascade menus, or the context menu in multiple columns layout? A pop-up menu size itself shouldn't be an issue, because when it is shown, a user usually doesn't care what's behind it. The context menu could be as big as the entire screen, and it wouldn't be as issue as the need to scroll through a small menu, with only a handful of entries shown at once.
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Yeah, the compact setting no longer works apparently.
Using Nobara linux (Fedora), with the Flatpak version 6.7.3329.39 of Vivaldi, and compact appears to do nothing now
This is very irritating, and is the primary reason I originally eschewed Firefox a few years back and landed on Vivaldi.
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@Sareth
Hi, it's still working for me, Vivaldi 6.7.3329.39 RPM package on Opensuse.
Did you restart Vivaldi?Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I did, yep. Several times unfortunately to no avail.
Just rebooted into Win11 Pro and it's working fine still here, so it may be related to the linux build, or the flatpak version specifically. I'll have to do a bit more testing.
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I hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come. I switched to Vivaldi to get AWAY from Google's bone-headed design decisions in Chrome after a few of them upset me too many times. Now they're coming for Vivaldi. Between this and the YouTube adblock issue, it seems like my reasons for choosing Vivaldi are vanishing. Unfortunately, Firefox seems to be no more suitable for me than it was when I first switched to Vivaldi in the first place (the use of Pocket in place of a reading list is the big complaint, but the way bookmarks opened with a middle click would open a new tab in the foreground instead of the background was also a deal-breaker).
I have to admit, I was very surprised to find out that Vivaldi did not fork Chromium, but now that I know, it does explain a few things. Features like tab groups and split tabs, which seemed like they would be very useful to me at first glance, instead ended up being things I never use because they feel very much grafted on to Chrome's tab functionality, and it painfully shows in the limitations of those features that made them impractical for me to use (split tabs only works on a set number, so it's only useful between two and only two tabs (fortunately, picture in picture covers for what I needed this for, at least a lot of the time; it doesn't work on as many sites as Firefox's); tab groups are an interface convenience that essentially change no functionality, so work best if the tabs in the group are relatively constant, and break down if you're frequently opening/closing them, so I can't use it for things like browsing forums or Reddit).
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@mib2berlin thank you for helping people fight against evil
