Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search
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Unless I'm mistaken, this feature is already implemented? I can already drag text to the tab bar to open a new tab and search for that text.
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@mib2berlin said in Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search:
Iirc the user don´t even ask for it, the same with Vivaldia Game.
That's what I wanted to point out.
Anyway, for me, the current implementation is fine in the vast majority of cases, so I can wait for a proper implementation. But I find it controversial, that every time a lack of a common feature is mentioned, the answer is the same. Not enough resources. Too much work to be done, not enough people. Yet they have time to implement features like the pomodoro timer, which was not asked by anyone.
You can only drop the text or link onto the new tab button, not everywhere on the tab bar. Take a look at how Firefox handles this issue.
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@Nekomajin said in Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search:
You can only drop the text or link onto the new tab button, not everywhere on the tab bar.
Ah, I see the problem. I use vertical tabs, which do in fact allow you to drag the text or link anywhere on the new tab bar; but I just checked and horizontal tabs do not. This seems like a bug more than anything else.
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@xandork It also works with Tabs at the top, if one enables Settings, Appearance:
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Wow. So what youre saying is they had the foresight to implement it, but didn't check if it would work in normal tabs.or... worst case scenario... it was an accidental feature of vertical tabs, and will be "patched out" in the next update so it follows the reduced functionality of horizontal tabs.
Either way, someone should start a thread and report this as a bug so that this critically missing feature gets the attention it needs. It's seriously infuriating that every other browser can do this but Vivaldi doesn't.
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@Pesala Ok yeah this confirms to me that it is indeed a bug.
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Mine stopped working after updating to 6.0, I'll try to roll back and see if it does something.
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@Aespherture Drag and drop a link into the URL field still works for me, and drag and drop to the tab bar if it is not at the top.
Rolling back to an earlier version is not recommended. It may damage your profile.
Experiment with a standalone installation where it won't use your current profile.
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I can confirm this. Links still work, but text does not. -
Drag text on Plus button in tab bar works in 6.1 Snapshot to start a search.
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@DoctorG Great to hear they solved that bug! It really broke my workflow not being able to drag-and-drop text.
@Vivaldi Team, How about the ability to drop text anywhere on the tab bar, without having to aim for the icon? This is how it works in literally any other browser, so much easier!
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@dvincent said in Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search:
How about the ability to drop text anywhere on the tab bar
The empty part i uses to drag the window, wish you want can not be done easy as the user interface of Vivaldi is not the same as Chromium.
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@DoctorG I don't see any technical reason why drag-and-drop anywhere on tab bar would be difficult to support, or conflict with any other feature.
Dropping something onto an element does not conflict with dragging the element. Those are two different actions and can perfectly co-exist, like in every other browser.
I know Vivaldi uses it's own interface engine, but I'm pretty sure current behavior is a design choice, not design limitation.
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@dvincent There was already a feature VB-47973 "Cannot drag links and text to the tab bar to open a new tab", which worked in 2022 browser and is broken now. Looks like a regression in 6.0 and 6.1.
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@DoctorG Please allow me to clear up some confusion
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In Vivaldi, drag-and-drop text only worked when dropping onto button.
Version 6.0 introduced a bug, which broke this feature.
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This forum topic is about a request to expand drag-and-drop zone to all tab-bar and tabs, like in every other browser.
Which is much more functional because you can drop text into specific tabs to perform a search or open a link. Also, you don't have to aim for the little button, as long as there is empty space on your tab bar you can use that space as a drop target or as a drag target, no conflicts there.
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@dvincent My short answers.
The first item: Yes.
The second item: broke in some version in Stable and Snapshots of 2022. Ad i can not explore when that broke.I already asked internally dev team. Stay tuned.
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@DoctorG said in Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search:
The second item: broke in some version in Stable and Snapshots of 2022. Ad i can not explore when that broke.
I already asked internally dev team. Stay tuned.
Thank you so much. Have you received any response yet?
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@dvincent No response and progress to get a fix.
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I'd still love to get this feature, I'm very used to opening links and searching in a background tab by drag and drop
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@voyager1sun Now I can drag selected text into address bar or search bar.