Visual glitches, lack of polish, and unexpected behavior on iOS
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I'd really like to use Vivaldi as my daily driver... there's so much to love (amazing sync, shared history and incredible history search, little quality of life things like showing unread tabs on desktop), but on iOS there are some visual glitches and lack of polish that keep me from it.
- Opening the address bar stutters and jumps around between visual states, rather than flowing smoothly. The back, plus, and forward buttons slide up with the address bar, rather than fading away. Safari, DuckDuckGo, and Orion provide a great reference for how this can work smoothly.
- From the tabs screen– Can't swipe left on a tab to close it. Instead, you have to hunt for tiiinny X in the corner.
- On the tab bar, swiping left on the last tab doesn't create a new tab. This is pretty standard behavior (see: Safari, Orion)
Are these on your all's radar at all?
Thanks for your work on the browser! -
In fact, there are three things I dislike in the iOS app:
1 - The tabs/address bar, specially when located at the bottom of the screen (the way I prefer to use), should be configured like in safari. I would prefer not to see the list of tabs in an row and have a one-click button to check the tabs as squares. (Like when the address bar is at the top of the screen)
2 - the tabs in the squares list should allow removing tabs by sliding left.
3 - the sliding in and out of the address bar and tabs when scrolling up and down is laggy. It irritates me.Those are my three suggestions for now.
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I agree on point nr 3.
I have posted about the issue here and opened up a bug report. But appearantly it was closed as "not reproducible"..
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@Veddu @JoaoNunoAndrade, is what you're describing different than the visual lag I'm experiencing when opening the address bar?
FYI, here's what it looks like on my end: https://share.cleanshot.com/X0J9PLLJ
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I'm new to Vivaldi and have just noticed that point 1) is configurable. Solved on my side.
Number 2) is just a suggestion - not something too important. I noticed that sliding left and right in Vivaldi in the tabs view mode has other behaviors different from what I was used in Safari but I just get used to the "x" to close tabs.
Number 3) is different from what you've mentioned. At first I thought it was that the same, but no. When using Vivaldi iOS, by sliding up and down in any webpage, the address bar either appears/disappears. That animation is the one that is laggy.
