Confirm Closing Vivaldi

lamarca

That's exactly what @CheVe11e_191 said above.
"Add notification to prevent accidental exit" it's not a bug, it's a New Feature.

@Pesala Can't you remap the keyboard?

Catweazle

It may be an option, although I am already annoyed by too many pop-ups on Windows with 'Are you sure?' and other confirmations of anything. However, some may be useful, for example, the alert when Vivaldi is closed when there is a current download, which has already been added in the latest versions.

lamarca

@catweazle An option enable by the default unlike the Chinese browser.

lamarca

Good News!
The Status changed from 4 to 3.
Where 4 is Minor Loss of Function, and the status 3 means
Major Loss of Function.

It's not a Bug, it's a New Feature.

Edited:
Assigning the bug to a developer Once a bug is confirmed, we assign a priority level to it that ranges between 1 and 5, where 1 is the highest priority. At this point, it’s up to the engineer’s discretion which bugs need immediate attention and which can hold off for a bit. If an engineer feels up to the task, they’ll assign the bug to themselves to let everyone know that they are working on it. If we find a regression, which is usually caused by a previous bug fix, we assign it to the developer who caused it.

Source: https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-bugs-life/

Tweak

@lamarca

5 months have passed, any update to how far down that pipe we are talking?

Thanks.

Ayespy

@tweak That pipe is pretty long. Some things have been in it 2, 3, 4 years. The developers don't give ETA's and the testers are not allowed to offer guesses. Sorry.

Tweak

@ayespy

Thanks for letting me know. I love and have used Opera for a very long time and I really like Vivaldi but I def am missing some of the functionality it offers. (Prob still use Opera is it didn't become unstable suddenly after the most recent 2 updates).

I do appreciate you letting me know, guess I'll just wait and hope!

Ayespy

@tweak That's what I'm doing! (Except I do get to cheat by testing some things that are not publicly available...)

Tweak

@ayespy

I've been in on beta testing for companies (software and hardware) and staff of forums (still am for some) so I know what you mean and how enjoyable some perks like that can be. I'm okay with waiting, enough other stuff is right now keeping me around. Thanks again for the quick reply and info!

lamarca

@tweak said in Confirm closing Vivaldi:

5 months have passed, any update to how far down that pipe we are talking?

The status was update from 4 to 3. It's an update.

SapphireDragon

Although this was posted a long time ago, I am really hoping it gets implemented. It can be an optional feature and turned off by default, but at this point I can't go without commenting on how useful this feature would really be for those with multiple windows.

I have a cat that loves to wake me up by doing various things I dislike- some days, she will walk all over my keyboard, almost always closing my current browser window in the process. I can, of course, eventually recover the browser by using the Trash icon, but it takes hours (yes, hours, I checked) for the remaining window to transfer all my pinned tabs and register that a window was closed in its list. It has gotten to the point where it is seriously affecting my workflow, but she doesn't do it every day, so moving the keyboard before bed every day would be more cumbersome than actually just being able to prevent this loss in the first place.

I am figuring I can't be the only one who really wants this as at least some kind of option to turn on, because the restore features take much too long to work when your loss is one window in a multiwindow session that has more than 10-20 tabs. I do also use a session extension, but it autosaves sessions infrequently and also saves your most recent session after a major change, such as, say, an entire window closing.

Although I see this thread has not gotten many replies, I sincerely hope that this is at least an option in the future. Sure, make it off by default, but I believe the choice to not have your main window and important tabs gone from a single click/button is pretty important, and should be an optional core feature for this browser to really shine. As of now, I will try searching for extensions that can provide similar functionality.

Pesala

@sapphiredragon The thread has more replies than most, and 55 upvotes currently, which is also a lot more than most. That does not mean it gets done any sooner, but it might attract the attention of a developer more than a feature request with only a few votes.

If you regularly lose sessions, learn to save them from the file menu. Saved sessions will load quickly, or at least without any manual input required.

SapphireDragon

I see, I am glad it's gotten more attention than most! I do hope a developer will eventually work this feature in, it would be a wonderful addition and very welcomed by me.

Indeed, I can save them from the File menu too, but my tabs change quite a lot every day. In order for saving sessions internally to work for me, I would have to save them every day, so there would need to be some way to automatically delete older ones or else I won't be able to scroll through a list that long. That, or I could both save current session and then delete oldest one, but this is a lot of preventative maintenance for something that doesn't happen every day, or sometimes even every week. When it does, though, I'm SOL for many hours.

ROTFL

I wish Vivaldi had some minimal defence against Windows trying to restart...
Especially for Private windows...

Pathduck

@rotfl said in Confirm Closing Vivaldi:

I wish Vivaldi had some minimal defence against Windows trying to restart...

Yep. Count me in on this one.

Come on guys, this is basic functionality. Not everyone uses sessions to save every time they browse. But would still like to have a confirmation on closing the application.

Maybe stop focusing on adding multi-tab-fluff and add some proper usability...

NovaViper

Any updates on this feature? Especially since Sync has finally released for stable (I'm glad too ^_^).

Pesala

@novaviper Please see When Will Feature Requests be Implemented?

NovaViper

@pesala O.O You made me SUPER excited , as I saw that the mobile version is being worked on. The confirm on close can wait, I really want that mobile version the most.

Gregor

+1
I submit this option for 2 years.
I'd like to have two options:

confirm closure of every window
confirm closure of the browser

LonM

The latest snapshot now includes this option.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/open-related-tabs-in-a-tab-stack-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1400-4/