Incorrect URL opened from notes

czvacko

In Vivaldi 6.8 (and probably others), it very hard to open correct URL from notes (or edit such note).

Let's say you have this note:
address1.com
Some text.
Another text.
address2.com

When you open such a note and click/touch on address1, Vivaldi opens address2. This is not only confusing, but also dangerous if address2 is some risky URL.
I've noticed that it may be related to the cursor location, it's usually at the end when the note is opened. But even when I tried long-touch to move the cursor to address1, it often opened address2.

Another scenario is: When I open a note and want to edit "Some text.", I touch that area, the cursor moves there, but it also immediately opens address2, making it hard to edit that note.

Is there any way to modify this behaviour ? If there is a URL at the end of the note, it is very hard to work with it.

mib2berlin

@czvacko
Hi, I test with:

URL
Text
Text
Telephone number
Mail address
Text
URL

And I can reproduce it act strange, it is unpredictable wich URL open.
Please report it to the Vivaldi bug tracker, I can confirm your report internally.

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Cheers, mib

czvacko

@mib2berlin VAB-9745

mib2berlin

@czvacko
Thank you for the report, confirmed.

Cheers, mib

mib2berlin

@czvacko
Hi, can you still reproduce this with Vivaldi 7.0?
I cant.
I have created a note like:

welt.de
test
cnn.com
text
text
bild.de
yahoo.com

fredallas

Hello @mib2berlin and @czvacko
I have had the same issue and I found out that by adding a forward slash at the end of the URL the issue either does not happen or it happens less often. You may give that a try in case you are still having the issue.

This is an example of what I am doing:

vivaldi.net/
text
more text
vivaldi.com/
yahoo.com/
even more text

Regards,
Fred D.

czvacko

@mib2berlin The problem was solved, but now it has reappeared

I have to admit that the original solution was not ideal, because when I opened the note and wanted to scroll down, the software keyboard immediately appeared and covered half the screen and it was difficult to get to the end of the note. In my case I read notes on my phone rather than edit them (I do that on my pc), like shopping list.

mib2berlin

@czvacko
Hm, I still cant reproduce it and if I open a note the keyboard does not appear.
Do you still use the Asus Zenfone 8, Android 12?
Please add your test note if possible.

czvacko

@mib2berlin Yes, same device and os, and the latest vivaldi. The note contains sensitive information, but the end of the note is below (its block list):

anydesk.com
my.anydesk.com
www.anydesk.com
login.teamviewer.com
logmein.com

Keyboard appear when I try to scroll down (long) note.

mib2berlin

@czvacko
Hm, my note looks like this now:

welt.de
test
cnn.com
text
text
bild.de
yahoo.com
Test
vivaldi.com
Text
anydesk.com
my.anydesk.com
www.anydesk.com
login.teamviewer.com
logmein.com

The bug report is closed now, no idea if I should reopen it because one tester and a developer was not able to reproduce it.

fredallas

Hello @mib2berlin and @czvacko
I am able to reproduce the issue on my phone which is a Samsung Galaxy SM-A325M running Android 11 and Vivaldi 7.0.3505.69.

If create a note like this, when I tap at the end of any line, the URL opens in my browser right away:

yahoo.com
gmail.com
tuta.com
proton.me
vivaldi.net
vivaldi.com
microsoft.com

If I create a note like this, just the last URL opens in my browser right away:

yahoo.com/
gmail.com/
tuta.com/
proton.me/
vivaldi.net/
vivaldi.com/
microsoft.com/

If I create a note like this, none of the URLs open when I tap at the end of any line:

yahoo.com/
gmail.com/
tuta.com/
proton.me/
vivaldi.net/
vivaldi.com/
microsoft.com/
Text

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Fred D.

mib2berlin

@fredallas
Hi, thanks for testing again, it makes no difference for me.
I can open all links with your last note.

fredallas

@czvacko

I think you might be able to workaround the issue by adding a forward slash at the end of every URL plus adding some text at the very bottom of the note.
I think the last line of the note should not be an URL. That is the workaround I have been doing, and looks like it works for me.

Is there a way you may give that a try just for testing purposes?

Regards,
Fred D.

czvacko

@fredallas Yes, this workaround works.
@mib2berlin How about implementing new settings such as
"Note is read only until long touch" - In this mode, no keyboard will appear and it should be easy to scroll.
"Disable URLs in notes" - This is self-explanatory.

mib2berlin

@czvacko
You can make a feature request but I fear I would not get much attention.
You are the first user report this in the forum ever and I read all posts in the Android section.
I don't want to discourage you but the chances of this being implemented are not good.
This one from 2019 had 5 user votes.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/40244/read-only-mode-for-browsing-notes

Cheers, mib