Mouse Hover on a Tab Activates it!

maxtao

I would like to activate a tab automatically by hovering on it. This is the most convenient feature. Ever! I used it a lot with TabMixPLus on Firefox before Quantum era.

Now you may test it in Cent browser https://www.centbrowser.com/. It also uses Chromium - so Vivaldi team has technical ability to implement this. We need just VOTE for this post to draw attention.

I found some topics of people asking about this feature on Vivaldi forum and It is pity that It was ignored... And they make Vivaldia game instead of useful fetures..

Pesala

@maxtao For me, this would be one of the most annoying features ever.

An Option to Display Tab Temporarily by Hovering its Thumbnail might not be too bad, but changing the active tab by accident would be all too easy with your suggestion.

maxtao

@pesala said in Mouse Hover on a Tab Activates it!:

but changing the active tab by accident would be all too easy

You may set hover delay time in milliseconds. But I get used to use it without delay.

Pesala

@maxtao I don't think that would help. If one increases the delay to 500 or 1000 ms to stop the flickering, then one can click faster than waiting for the delay.

However, the main problem for me would be having the active tab change by accident when going to select the URL or bookmarks.

maxtao

@pesala Did you use this feature? I think no. You may test it.

Install Firefox 56 https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/56.0b9/win64/en-US/
Install TabMix add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/mk/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/
Enable mouse hovering activation tab feature in add-on's options.

I and many users of Firefox with TabMix add-on use this feature for a long time and there is no problem with accident switching. And this people asking about this feature to be implemented (even on this forum there are some topics). I don't update Firefox just not to lose this feature

Also It is more convenient on Windows tablets like Microsoft Surface with stylus.

Pesala

@maxtao Yes, one user requested it for Vivaldi 1.13 some time back.

You won't convince me as I don't use a touch-pad or tablet. However, it is just my opinion. Any feature request can be made here, and everyone can see if it is popular by the number of votes it receives.

iolens

I agree with @maxtao this is an important feature and improvement. I use CentBrowser and I have the faculty to activate this feature and to set hover delay.
Who doesn't like this feature just need to not activate it

Pesala

@iolens The feature request still has zero votes after two months.

If you want it, better vote for it.

Also try Settings, Tabs, Tab Features, Minimize Active Tab. This will show the previous tab on clicking the active tab, and show the current active tab again when clicking it again.

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BSBROSWERS

pesala said:

The feature request still has zero votes after two months.
If you want it, better vote for it.

Is this how I vote? Where is the vote button, it's impossible.

Ayespy

@bsbroswers to the right of (and below) each comment are an up-caret and a down-caret. Clicking on the "up" one on the top comment of any feature request thread "votes" for it.

saqui

For desktop with high dpi mouse:
hover on another tab toggle a peek(temporary active it),then switch back when hover off the tab bar. If clicked, remove the provisionality。

Just like Opera's tab preview(vivaldi's is too small)，but this way need not thumbnails, and more clear,fast. And no mistake when cursor pass tab to address bar.

AlexSkywalker

For a long time, I also thought this feature was useless and annoying.
But after a long period of use, I found this to be a very useful and convenient function.
At least, I was able to significantly reduce the frequency of using the mouse.
I agree with @iolens,may add a feature and turn off this feature by default!

Neeo

@maxtao This was the best feature of the older Firefox and indispensable for me. Setting the delay to 150ms and no inadvertent activating. Eliminates all those mouse clicks just to view tabs. Saves a lot of time.

H0w4rd

I have just switched to Vivaldi. This seems to be the only feature I'm missing

maximwaldow

Please, please add this feature to Vivaldi. It spares so much energy via avoiding clicks and helps a bit saving the planet.

iAN CooG

@maximwaldow said in Mouse Hover on a Tab Activates it!:

it spares so much energy via avoiding clicks and helps a bit saving the planet.

LOL You are totally making this up, admit it.
If anything it's more probable that the underlying code required to detect a mouse hover uses more cpu power than a mouseclick event, hence consumes more electricity.

maxtao

English scientist have to check it. But Vivaldi team don't want to give an ability to prove - the world may be in danger.

claudio

New fantastic mod by luetage: Activate Tab On Hover / Modifications | Vivaldi Forum
vivaldi_modding/activate-tab-on-hover.js at master · luetage/vivaldi_modding · GitHub

Ananda96

I will not talk bad against Vivaldi.
It's a fantastic Browser and Project.
I started to love it but uninstalled it longer time ago because of missing hovering feature..
I just got an technically Email and i was curious about hovering feature.
Still did not happen, sad to see, it's for me the most important feature (beside of voice command and some scripts), it is very relaxing and avoids thousands of clicks, saves your time and helps to keep your Mouse alive.
(failing microswitches, no joke)

For FF users:
there is a scripting feature and you have to modifie Profile Folder and Mainfolder to activate and work with Scripts.
There's a hovering Script and it works as TabMixPlus.
ther are more replacement Scripts for TMP.

But there's even a better option to hover Tabs:
Centbrowser has features of TMP with hover Delay and hovering Tabs build-in.
Centbrowser is Chromium Based with chrome app store and doesn't get a lot of updates.
But it's very fast and hovers.

I am still using FF latest Beta and Cent for other reasons and i am glad to have same features in both browsers.
Sad to see that this simple feature isn't still available here.
Please don't delete this, it's not Propaganda - only showing some users the way for this very beloved feature.
for FF users: all scripts are on github with help how to install.
So, maybe i will take a look here next year.
Sad to see that a simple feature is not yet implemented.
But ok, i have my replacements and VIVALDI is a good and growing project.

maxtao

Good that like-minded people meet . So now it is possible to make with lastest FF (as when web-extension era came it became impossible)? Went to look the solution..

So, maybe i will take a look here next year.
Sad to see that a simple feature is not yet implemented.

I think need to check it after 5 years Vivaldi team better make Vivaldia game or something useless.

for FF users: all scripts are on github with help how to install

Please give link to the script. I can't find. Only found this extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tst-hoverswitch/ but it works only with Tree Style Tabs.

Centbrowser has features of TMP with hover Delay and hovering Tabs build-in.
Centbrowser is Chromium Based with chrome app store and doesn't get a lot of updates.
But it's very fast and hovers.

I haven't known about Cent browser before. Installed now. Tested - mouse hovering works well!
So Vivaldi team has technical ability to implement it as Cent team did it.