Solved Horizontal Tab Scrolling Instead of Shrinking
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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.
Decision-making Process
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). -
Yesterday my computer updated Vivaldi to the latest version and I decided to give it another try because why not? Got all my tabby tabs copied to it through tab session manager and set it up to have them listed vertically.
I mean, it has its advantages because you can make it wide enough to see more than the minimum size on firefox but then as I was testing some sites I noticed some of them will revert to a collapsed version if you use the tab panel. Like youtube won't keep the side menu opened all times if you have the panel on, regardless of the width. What a bummer.
I also noticed that every time I open the browser, although I have the last tab loaded, the scroll is way up on the list and you have to scroll all the way down every time you fire vivaldi up again. It's also kinda inconvenient to have the new tab + icon as a part of the scrollable area buried below all the tabs instead of always showing like the trash can icon (and like it is with tabs at the top).
But one day we'll all be laughing at these trying times
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New accordeon style for tab groups brought me here.
This feature is so convenient and useful, but feels unnatural with shrinking tabs - because when there's a lot of tabs opened each stack's collapse/expand action changes widths of all other tabs in bar, which is quite confusing and bad for navigation.
And this could be avoided by having scrollable tab bar instead of collapsing one - I believe this feature is really needed to make accordeon stacks shine at it's best.