Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search
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@jane-n Dropping the dragged text or a link onto the [+] New Tab button is error-prone. It would be much better if dropping a link or selected text anywhere onto the page would open it or search for it.
Dropping onto the empty part of the tab bar is not easy for users who fill their tab bar with tabs, but it would work fine for me.
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@jane-n
Personally, I can live with the existing option, but Firefox has an implementation, which allows you to drop the text anywhere on the empty area or between any two tabs. The latter makes it possible to open the search page at the desired location, so you don't have to move the new tab to a new position. -
Fair points. We'll leave the feature request open.
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I vote for this feature (drag text / url between two tabs to open a new tab there).
Using context menu is really inconvenient when there are many items on it. I need to spend time for nagivating and there is possibility of mistouch.
Using mouse gesture is good idea but both context menu and mouse gesture can not meet the need of search text outside the browser.
Existing feature ofdrag into the New Tab button
is work. The New Tab button is tiny and need more precision for dragging. And I need to nagivate it too on non-fullscreen window.
Super Drag (chromium extension or Vivaldi feature on voting) meets all needs above, but another important reason of the need is I want to control where the new tab appears.
It's ok for using default search engine for me because I use user script to modify search pages for switch search engine buttons.
As @Nekomajin says, Vivaldi has done very great job on give choice for different people for now. And I hope it will do better! -
@h4m5ter said in Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search:
Using context menu is really inconvenient when there are many items on it.
The link context menu can be edited in Settings, Appearance, Menu Customisation, to remove any unused items and change the order to suit your workflow.
Super Drag and Drop would be great.
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@pesala
Thank you for the information editing the context menu.
Though Super Drag and Drop is great enough. I still have need to manage the location of new tab. Any ideas? -
@h4m5ter Settings, Tabs, New Tab Position, After Active Tab?
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I'm another Firefox user that has tried to switch to Vivaldi time and time again, but this feature holds me back.
What I want:
To be able to drag links and text to open the link if it's a fully formed URL, or start a default search if it's not
Here's how the location matters:
-On an empty spot on the tab bar: New tab with URL or search
-On an existing tab: replace tab with URL or search (maintaining history...)
-On the current tab or location bar: go to URL or search in the current tab (maintaining history...)
-Between two existing tabs: New tab with URL or search taking up position between the two existing tabsPesala seems to think this feature is of no use to anyone and easily replaced with a context menu., which seems odd in the face of all the people posting in this thread.
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@michaelknubben
Never mind what he says. He believes that everyone should use the browser as he does. -
@michaelknubben Nekomajin has a big chip on his shoulder.
Read what I actually said, before forming your opinion of what I think about this feature request. I think everyone should explore what the browser can already do while waiting (sometimes years) for a requested feature to become available.
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Your response really is 'hey, have you heard about the right mouse-button?'
Because yes, I have.And I still want this feature.
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@michaelknubben said in Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search:
hey, have you heard about the right mouse-button?
That would have been rude. I prefer to offer helpful advice. It goes without saying that you want this feature, but it is not here yet after well over three years. It is not even tagged yet as Pipeline or In Progress.
So, what will you do? Will you explore other methods, or will you revert to Chrome?
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@pesala said in Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search:
Right-click, Go to or Search is easy enough IMO
@Pesala this is a browser that prouds itself because it gives users the choice to do stuff THEIR way, each user has his own workflow, his own habits, it is the browser's job to accommodate these users.
yes it is fairly to right click and select search, but it is far from ideal as i have to aim for the field in the context menu. Dragging and dropping text on the top bar on the other hand is very easy, no extra aiming needed.
Firefox does this best, you take text drag it on top, leave it, it opens in background, you do this a few times as you read an article to leave things to research later and boom you have a couple tabs ready.
"probably easier if the selected text is far away from the URL field"
again, each user has his own preferences, the whole point is to not aim, it's easier, you can't miss, therefore you do it quicker, some extensions can add buttons in the context menu, sometimes even conditional (add row only if the text is from a field), (maybe you don't have those extensions, we do) sometimes the context menu opens up, sometimes down, it's like you have to be slow...dragging and dropping does nothing right now, i don't see why this is being pushed back.
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@bo3ou said in Drag Text to Tab Bar, Tabs to Search:
dragging and dropping does nothing right now, i don't see why this is being pushed back.
i hope you understand.Dragging the selected text and dropping it onto the New Tab button searches for the text.
Like the other 5,000+ feature requests, this is not being pushed back. There are many things that users want, but only 22 developers to add features and fix bugs, and then test new features on three different platforms.
I hope you understand.
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Seriously? How has this not been implemented yet. This is like, a basic convenience in literally every browser. Even Waterfox has it. How did vivaldi not have the foresight to have the hitbox be anything bigger than the [+] icon? Just expand all the way along the top, just like how every browser has it. There's no reason not to.
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That's stupid. It should be implemented anyway because it's easy to do and every other modern civilized browser has it and there's no drawback to it. All you'd need to do is expand the hitbox for valid drops. Like, that's intuitively a good thing to have in a browser. This makes or breaks it for me because I use it so often on waterfox, chrome, edge, brave, ghostery, etc... There's no reason why this can't just trivially be a checkbox in the options, or just on by default. It amazes me that Vivaldi is based on chrome but chose specifically to remove this one thing that was actually a good thing.
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Vivaldi add a second layer for the UI on top of the chromium UI. All features have to be developed from scratch.
Not stupid.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin
The company advertises their product as the best regarding tab handling. Yet, a common and often used feature like this has been unimplemented for years.By the way, if you cite the number of upvotes, how many users asked for a pomodoro timer?
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@Nekomajin
Iirc the user don´t even ask for it, the same with Vivaldia Game.
For me the difference is:
Vivaldi team create features the user may need/like
User show Vivaldi team what they need/likeTold Microsoft the OS xyz have a much better update system help not at all since 10 years, the don´t change it even it is completely crap.
Anyway, I hope this feature will be implemented for user need it but I cant up vote a feature I don´t need.Cheers, mib