Highlight duplicate tabs with blinking
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More or less the same request, but framed in the sense of housekeeping issues.
So my sessions will contain cruft (unused tabs) maybe 40 out of 120 pages. And it becomes worse after more tabs are added. At certain point I start creating new tab where I had an old one and so on. And more tabs makes finding the active tab also more complicating (different bug)
You can say this a end-user failure (it might be). However it would be nice to have some incentive & tool to clean up number of open tabs. It's to some extend self-inflected pain by session restoring. Which stops forcing people to 'actively' check tabs. And bookmarking the relevant ones. And you become lazy and such with tab management.
Less tabs would improve performance too (without perf tweaking). Speed drops surely noticeable after 120 tabs. Even if those tabs only restored from session and not 'activated' - reloaded - the still causing a lag. So simply the presence of session tabs will cause perf issues.
There perspectives. At the on hand duplicates to the same domain. But well, not always that helpful. I open tend to open every link in a new tab. And well, Wikipedia has lots of links. So saying you have multiple tabs to Wikipedia isn't helpful. Next comes exact path, but that less likely. But having tab pointing the text page. Can happen, but how common?
There are instances where I accidently open webmail in a new tab. Maybe I should pin that on to top. Anyhow the filter duplicates so be fine grained; ideally somehow configurable. So explicitly saying: look for tabs pointing to gmail.com. So user defined.
Another request would tool tracking unused tabs. To prevent clogging. Say al tool showing tabs not access anymore in say last 4-7 days. Which pretty obvious indicator it became irrelevant. With option to quickly close those or move them to say bookmarks.
Blinking tabs as indicator for duplicate isn't my preference, though. There must be some alternative. One problem: someone with epilepsy might have problem with that.
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This feature is so beautifully handled in chrome. When you are about to visit a url that is already open, you are presented with an option of "switch to this tab" in the address bar itself. This way of handling duplicate tabs is too clean. Vivaldi can also do the same.
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Opera does it in a way where it highlights duplicates only on hovering, so this should be more efficient compared to being always active
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@dude99 It is not that easy my friend.. Browser only checks it when new tab is opened.. and it doesnt require much computing.. it is very easy task for a low end device too..
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This feature is a MUST; I often have duplicates opened when shopping online, and I wish those tabs were highlighted somehow.
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An easy way to find and close duplicate tabs would be very useful. I did like that feature in Opera.
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That is the most important missing feature of Vivaldi. How long Opera has this for? 5 years? 10 years? I don't know...
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@leventalpsal This is still well down the list of the 5,400 other things requested. It is not even tagged yet. Try the workaround suggested in the second post above.
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@Pesala How can it become tagged? The suggested workaround is definitely not a work around. I've got maybe ~50 tabs, I can't write the title of each tab one by one to see if there are any duplicates. Switching to Opera would be a better workaround.
Duplicate tab markers feature is also a relatively easy thing to implement (educated guess of a developer), compared to some other feature requests and has a major usability / QOL improvement.
What distinguishes Vivaldi from all the other browsers? Almost all browsers use Chromium under the hood. So, there is nothing special about html / css rendering or JavaScript execution. Tab stacks, tab tiling, workspaces to organize and group dozens of tabs to different groups like work, personal, game, study etc...
What makes Vivaldi standout is how it handles tabs, better than any other browser. So, not having hint marker on duplicate tabs, is a huge blow to it's standout feature set, being the best browser to handle tabs, and I mean extreme number of tabs, which is the new default.
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Why?
Just to be clear, the suggested workaround (by @Pesala ) is this:
A workaround to find duplicates of the current tab is to open Quick Commands and start typing the title.
So what this means it that, step by step:
1- Switch to first tab
2- Open quick commands
3- Start writing the title of the tab
4- If you see that there are multiple tabs of the same name, close them, if not, then all good
5- Go to step one for the next tab and start again.Repeat this loop for ~100 tabs you have in different workspaces, different tab stacks...
This would take like an hour and I would have to repeat it once every few days, to clean up duplicates, or do it every time I open a new tab. Please note that the requirement is not checking the duplicates of just one specific tab, it is checking all the tabs for any duplicates.
It might work for someone who uses 5-10 tabs, but my usage is around ~100 tabs and this workaround wouldn't definitely work for me.
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@leventalpsal It would work fine for someone with up to 50 tabs (you don't have to switch to first tab at any point) but 50 is about the most tabs I run, and I never have duplicates because I always know what my tabs are. So I don't need such a solution. But if I click on the "windows" panel and being to enter a search term, all duplicates immediately appear.
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the suggested workaround (by @Pesala)
Sorry, my mistake.
I was referring to the solution (not workaround) that I suggested in this post:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/101407/remove-duplicate-tabs/2
And that I asked you if you had tried it in this post:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/101407/remove-duplicate-tabs/4
It works perfectly, simply if you open an existing tab it is automatically deleted.
Therefore the duplicate tabs do not exist.
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@barbudo2005 I've tried it now. Yes this is a work around, it can be a good solution for some but not for me; because :
1- I don't like extensions a lot, additional security and instability risk.
2- It doesn't clean up existing duplicate tabs, only new ones. (Minor problem)
3- I don't want my tabs to be closed automatically, sometimes I open duplicate tabs deliberately. So the promise of this extension doesn't fit me from the beginning.Thanks for the suggestion, though. Was worth a try.
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1- I don't like extensions a lot, additional security and instability risk.
Extensions : In the face of baseless ideologies, nothing can be done.
Security: The author is a former user, and ALL the extensions are open source. Just review the files that make it up on the hard disk.
Instability: No more than the bugs that appear in every Vivaldi update.
2- It doesn't clean up existing duplicate tabs, only new ones. (Minor problem)
Incorrect. Just restart Vivaldi.
3- I don't want my tabs to be closed automatically, sometimes I open duplicate tabs deliberately. So the promise of this extension doesn't fit me from the beginning.
Before to open duplicate tabs deliberately, disable the option:
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@barbudo2005 As I said, this is a valid work around, but it's obviously not as good as a native solution that highlights the duplicate tabs (at least for me). I've used this feature in Opera and it was great, far better than Otto Tabs. I don't like tabs are forced to closed because it would be duplicate. And I don't want to toggle the setting 20 times a day.
I think it can be a great solution for you and not a good solution for me at the same time. We can both be right when you say it's a good solution and I say a bad solution for ourselves (or simply agree to disagree).
Side note:
1- Why am I not using Opera now (even though I've used it more than 10 years) ? because it's tab grouping solution is collapsing and expanding grouped tabs in the same tab well and it is not as good as Vivaldi's tab stacks. Also the tiled tabs is an extra plus for Vivaldi.2- About extensions, I prefer not to use them, but still use them when I need to. For example I always use the pocket extension, but would have preferred if it was supported natively, on the browser, then I would remove it. I didn't keep otto tabs because it's solution wasn't good for me.
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I think one important information her is: How to define a duplicate tab?
I can think of three criteria which can be combined in any way depending on the website your talking about:url, tab-name and tab-content.
There is any combination of same/different that can occur in the wild.
For my personal usecase the best way would be to define a different uniqueness for each workspace.The most important one though would be the tab-name.
Finding (and closing) duplicates would then be very simple by adding a "Stack Tabs by Names" feature similar to the "Stack Tabs by Hosts".
Another Option would be a checkbox "Always open links in tabs with same name" or something like that to ensure.I think that a combination of workspaces (with open in workspace automatically) this should provide a degree of personalization that should allow a solution for most scenarios.
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Another great workaround for finding tabs with the same name is the "Window" side panel as it shows tabs sorted by name and duplicates easy to spot. -
ROTFL's original post seems to have nothing to do with the Opera tab highlighting, yet the other feature requests about that are marked as duplicates of this one. I kinda wish Vivaldi had the Opera feature where if you hover over a link it shows you if it's already open, which has nothing to do with this post but if I make a separate request I'm guessing it'll be marked as a duplicate of this one. So if a developer or someone sees this and wants to add the Opera tab highlight system, now you know that part is important too, not just duplicate tabs
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Download the latest Snapshot to try out this new feature Duplicate Tabs - New Tabs & Windows Feature.
