Solved Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking
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This is not a random feature it is one of the top most asked.
I think that a road map (a trello may be) showing the features development status and some kind of schedule regulary updated would be a good thing because it seems to me that you guys are pretty in the dark too.Building a community and envolve it in the process of developpement by keeping it informed of what is coming next, why this top asked feature is not there yet, etc. , is a important key for the success of a new product and especially for a new web browser because the path between Chrome and Firefox is very narrow.
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@stephanea Did you watch Jón’s Response to my Question on this topic, which I linked to earlier, yet?
I would save us both a lot of pointless posts if you would do that.
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I did not because I didn't saw it was a link. But it doesn't change what I said, this is for the most part a general talk. But I was very pleased to learn that Vivaldi CEO is a big fan of green tea.
It is obviously complicated for a small company to put effort and ressources to communicate every minutes about what they do or add each specific requested features. But in other hand, as users, it is understandable that we would like specific answers about what is going on with a popular request.But it is as it is, and that's ok. Personnaly I will check the update time to time and if one day the devs add this feature that is essential to me I will give to Vivaldi a try because it has a bunch of interesting features.
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By the way guys, i'm trying to give vivaldi another go by using tabs vertically on the side instead. Scrolling like this does work after all. Never ever used a browser like this before. It's kinda weird but maybe i can get used to it (most likely not), worth trying.
Haven't found a way to auto hide/show (with hovering) the side tabs bar though (without using css, and doesnt even work that well apparently). Who needs 1/8th of its screen anyway. -
@daladdine Tab Bar on the side can be collapsed to an icon with one middle-click on the edge of it.
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@stephanea said in Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking:
This is not a random feature it is one of the top most asked.
I don't know what is the situation with the tabs right now, but in 2019, 80% of Vivaldi users who participated in the Poll don't use more than 50 tabs:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/tab-management-for-wizards/I think that explains why this feature may not have a higher priority.
And I expect that in other topics, people also ask to implement some feature they like. -
@ryukusu
Check by yourself the votes, you'll see that this feature is top 5 or 6 requested. -
@stephanea oh, that's the third top-voted feature in subcategories! Interesting...
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The thing it´s that I have «hundreds» of tabs on Pc Vivaldi...
I see so many tabs open on Vivaldi... tabs stay so small that hardly I can see it.
Why not a rolling tab bar like Firefox ?! -
@paulonuvem I recommend Vertical tabbar, it can handle hundreds of tab much better than top tabbar. Just set the tabbar to left or right side, then try some of my CSS mod to automate (expand & minimize) the tabbar according to your needs.
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Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking it`s cool.
And in the tab names in 2 lines, even better! -
I can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet.
The horizontal tabs thing i only use sometimes because i have to. Thus far i have gotten away with the hacks graciously provided by other desparate users but this is such a no brainer feature i wish they would just add it.
I use Vivaldi generally for videos and such but for real work i use waterfox so i can scroll my tabs and not have to open a separate panel to see past what will fit on the screen like a civilized human being Also it keeps me from upgrading so i don't break what i have and or have to spend the time trying to get it to work again. -
@mtkvii Try tab stacking. With the recently implemented accordion style tabs one can manage 100 tabs with ease on a standard landscape monitor by grouping them in ten tab stacks.
You may wait a lot longer yet to see this feature request implemented natively.
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@pesala
The Vivaldi web site : "What we’re about: A browser should adapt to you, not the other way around. We believe that many people want to customize and tweak every square inch of their browser to make it their own. A browser should adapt to you, not the other way around." -
@stephanea That is just an aspirational statement. The reality is that the Vivaldi Team is way too small to do everything that users want. They have to prioritise fixing crashes, security holes, and other serious bugs.
There are currently 33 of over 4,425 total requests with 75 votes or more, and most of those are at least three years old.
People often imagine that it would be easy to implement their own feature request, and assume that everyone else wants it as much as they do, but that is not the case. According to this poll 44% of users open ten or fewer tabs. Of what use is a scrolling horizontal tab bar to those users? Even with twice that number, shrinking tabs with a wider active tab is perfectly usable.
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Please watch Jón’s Response to my Question on this topic. -
@pesala said in Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking:
@stephanea That is just an aspirational statement.
Interesting.
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@vahiv How did you do that, or it just a mock-up ?
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@dpn This is not a mockup. This could be achieved in older versions of Firefox (not Quantum) using the Tab Tweaks add-on.
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@vahiv Already this looked like the larger tab in the new firefox : easy to see and to point with cursor. The new tab uses two lines but the second is for tab status (like reading status...)
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@seasonly Perhaps, and whether it can be used in some way.
The Tab Tweaks extension allowed to change, in particular, the tab height, font size, line spacing, and others, without using any hidden features. The number of rows was set implicitly, it was determined by these parameters. That is, it was possible to get more than 2 lines, but I was satisfied with this type of tabs (compact and informative, in my opinion).