Edge type vertical tab minimizing

[dude99]

@npro MS may be very very late to the party, but it's better to be late than never... right? LOL

The problem with Vivaldi vertical tabbar is it's design have not evolved much after the 90s. The newer features Vivaldi added into vertical tabbar are kinda buggy, half-baked, & unpractical to use in many instances. What Edge did aren't much, but at least it modernized vertical tabbar in a logical way & make it practical to use in daily basis (thus many vertical tabbar user requesting it in Vivaldi forum).

The CSS mod I hack together is only a work around & it ONLY work fine in most situation, but that's all I can do with the limitation of CSS. LSS my CSS mod is mostly just quirky hacks, it can't realized the full potential of vertical tabbar. If we want a really nice & comfortable feeling vertical tabbar (better than Edge), IMHO only V team can make it a reality IF they wanted to do that, that is...

[cgt]

Boosting for Vivaldi 5.4 development and Snapshots

[matjojo]

Would love to see this. Just like you can hide the panels with a shortcut. I also hide my tab bar with a shortcut. It would be ideal if sites didn't have to re-layout when I need to show my tabs for a moment. Floating tab bar. (And if you're busy anyways, floating address bar) would really improve my browser experience.

[Hadden89]

@dude99 Edge did a nice work taking a bit of inspiration from Vivaldi and managed to do a less ugly chromium UI addressing these few things chrome users literally asked for years: vertical tabs and sidebar.
Sadly, on Edge I can't scale down to 75%-85% nor changing things I don't like.

[dude99]

@Hadden89 Edge strategy is cloning & improve upon all popular features from competitors, & then snip good ideas or requested features from competitors' forum which the dev refused to implant...

Edge's auto shrink/expand vertical tabbar ain't new concept, I remember I did it with CSS mod a month or two before Edge did it. And then some Fx user claimed it was Firefox CSS mod did it first (but I didn't know it exist when I code mine for Vivaldi)... LOL

[Hadden89]

@dude99 But still they cripple a perfectly working start menu/taskbar Autohide mods are around here since Vivaldi 1.x
Even RibbonUI or Aero (which I both like) took a bit of inspiration ^^

[dude99]

@Hadden89 Oh yeah, now you mentioned it, I remember those obsolete code that I can't find 'em anymore... They used to use width & keyframes to animate the tabbar & causing it to stutter & freeze when there are too many tabs in the window. I guess that's why I decided to create my own version that works with hundreds of tabs.

But still they cripple a perfectly working start menu/taskbar

since win8 right? I heard those goons got fired afterward. But that doesn't stop MS from continue stuffing useless junk into the taskbar & start menu... Ads, more creepy invasive ads, that's what everyone wanted, right? right?

They surely will add Bing Chat into the taskbar to spy on better serve everyone like HAL 9000 did... LOL

took a bit of inspiration

Did I sense a great sarcasm?

[paul1149]

This would be a great improvement. Currently I am finding an increasing number of pages that have their width cut off by my double vertical tab bars on the right. My current solution is to hide all UI elements via hotkey. That works, but it is overkill. I just need the tab bars collapsed, and doing it via both hot key and mouse hover would be convenient. I did try the css mod, but it didn't work.

[chaotify]

bumping so the devs can see this

[Ayespy]

@chaotify Bumping brings nothing to the attention of the Devs. It just prompts a Moderator to look at the topic and ignore it again, because no new relevant content was added, just a bump.

[charlbur]

This would be an awesome feature. It is the one thing missing from Vivaldi that I use all of the time in Edge browser at work.

[realivanjx]

i would like this to be available too. i want the vertical tab to be icon only by default but to reorder or close the tabs i need to expand it manually.

[williamscaleba]

Arc Browser has this as well, which brought me here. Nice implementation to look at.

[cocuba]

i want to minimize vertical tab panel too

[lenfari]

I want it too!!!

[TheFlyingCelt]

@dobeye 3 years have gone by and Vivaldi's devs are not listening...

[Ayespy]

@TheFlyingCelt The devs always listen. That does not mean that they immediately implement each and every one of the thousands of outstanding feature requests.

[TheFlyingCelt]

@Ayespy you must admit 3 years is quite a lot of time to use an euphemism, therefore "immediately" is not the right word, buddy. Not to mention that making the tab bar auto-hide only takes a very short time to code.

[Ayespy]

@TheFlyingCelt It has taken up to eight years to implement a feature request, so 3 years is not remarkable. On the other hand, features that are really, actually easy to implement, and perceived as high value by the Team, have literally been implemented in a matter of days. This is quite rare. If there were a couple of hundred developers, everything would be faster. As there are fewer than two dozen, and as the browser UI is a whole separate layer with coding that is foreign to Chromium, everything takes longer than anyone believes it could.

[TheFlyingCelt]

@Ayespy alright. Then let's hope we'll see within the next 5 years what Brave (with very few devs) did in a matter of weeks..