Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground)

Gort

@Swashbuckler Thanks for getting back. I've briefly tried out the extension, and it seems to be working without misfiring. Still, I only tried it out relatively briefly.

I'll give it more a go some other day. I would have tried it sooner, but the reviews for it gave it short shrift. Claims that it was broken, had to be disabled and enabled to work between browser restarts, and that it hasn't be updated for five years put me off.

I agree with you about the feature choices. I really like Vivaldi, think it's a great browser, used it as my main browser for a couple of years, and used it since it came out, but the continual neglect of this feature that was in Opera and is in Firefox is getting increasingly annoying to me. I know, it's a Chrome thing to not cater for configuring the middle mouse button, but seeing that extensions exist (or used to exist) that could do this, then it's well within the scope of the browser to include it.

I'll probably be seen as whingeing due to a feature I like not being included, which to be fair could well have some truth to it. As I said, I feel bad about saying all this. The wanted feature hasn't got enough support compared with other feature request, which is also true and understandable why it's not been implemented yet. But what really was the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the configurable mouse button rocker gestures feature that has recently been introduced. I thought to myself: "Well, if they can do that sort of thing, then why not also extend that to the middle button?" That annoyed me greatly.

I'll give the extension a go again later on in the week. For now I'm happy with Firefox on my Linux desktop. It hasn't been my main browser on my destkop for a couple of years. I use Vivaldi on my mobile, but being able to sync between my mobile and desktop will always be a benefit.

schreck

LOL. surely that was easier than adding a middle-click option.

megosu

@Swashbuckler I'm now following your advice and using "Tabs to the front" as "Open Tabs In Foreground 1.0.4" keeps getting disabled

Allo Vivaldi, what are you waiting for ???? This seems so basic to me, I'm still surprised it is not part of the core features.

Marrawan

They keep pumping in things nobody asked for or thought of,
It seems Vivaldi is being taylored for dev team fantasies

Totto

@Pesala Could you please explain this [procedure] in detail; Where to click (-or not?), how move, and if any modifyer [Shift/Ctrl] ?

....I don't get how mouse is able to both click al link AND move at the same time... (When I do this all I see is "a shadow" of that link following my pointer "up&down"

Pesala

@Totto See the help file on how to perform Mouse Gestures

Click the RMB over the link, then complete the gesture by move the mouse up or down, or whatever you have assigned to the command.

HanlonsRazor

Hah, I keep forgetting I already voted for this and open yet another thread.

HanlonsRazor

Okay, I made my own workaround by using Input Remapper on Linux (Manjaro). I simply remapped the mouse middle button (“Button MIDDLE”) to left shift + mouse middle button (“Shift_L + BTN_MIDDLE”).

Barruel

I upvoted this.

As a former Opera user, I am used to middle-click over a link to open it in a background tab. I don't know where I got the habit, but I am also used to middle-click in the tab itself to duplicate it in a background tab, and I keep closing them every time I do it, which is quite often. Mildly infuriating.

janiporo

I have been wanting this option since Opera-days. How do I vote on this?

mib2berlin

@janiporo
Hi, vote in the first post:

Cheers, mib

janiporo

Thanks ^~^

belenus

Hello,

is it possible to configure Vivaldi in order to middle click the new tab button (+) to have private window opened? I see that the shortcut to open private window is configurable, but it doesn't accept mouse inputs.

Pesala

@belenus Much better is to assign a mouse gesture to open a new private window, then you can open it wherever the mouse cursor is on the page, there is no need to hit the new tab button, which may be far away, and is not always in the same position.

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Mrwhite987

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Mrwhite987

@schreck Same problem here when transform from chrome to vivaldi.
I try to use chatgpt to create a extension to solve this issue and it worked.
You can get access to the extension at following url and load it into vivaldi if you want.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MK0m3CCsoiRH-4PLY6uLArgghgM_pTuO/view?usp=drive_link

stachenov

I wonder why it hasn't been implemented yet. Vivaldi poses itself as highly customizable, but this one thing is one of the first that come to mind when speaking about customization. Even Firefox has it. Is it somehow made hard to implement by the Chromium part? Because otherwise it sounds like something ridiculously easy and yet extremely useful. I can do without it, of course, I got used to this stupid way of opening tabs in Chrome, but at the same time it feels like using Chrome, that is, something uncomfortable and not customizable at all.

CasketPizza

@Mrwhite987 this works great, but the new tab doesn't open in the current tab group now , still, thanks for trying.

edit: i ran your extension through chatgpt and it fixed it . It changed background.js to this:

chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(() => {
    chrome.contextMenus.create({
        id: "openInForegroundTab",
        title: "Open in Foreground Tab",
        contexts: ["link"]
    });
});

chrome.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener((info, tab) => {
    if (info.menuItemId === "openInForegroundTab") {
        chrome.tabs.create({
            url: info.linkUrl,
            active: true,
            index: tab.index + 1,
            openerTabId: tab.id
        }, (newTab) => {
            if (tab.groupId !== chrome.tabGroups.TAB_GROUP_ID_NONE) {
                chrome.tabs.group({ groupId: tab.groupId, tabIds: newTab.id });
            }
        });
    }
});

chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((message, sender, sendResponse) => {
    if (message.action === 'openInForeground') {
        chrome.tabs.create({
            url: message.url,
            active: true,
            index: sender.tab.index + 1,
            openerTabId: sender.tab.id
        }, (newTab) => {
            if (sender.tab.groupId !== chrome.tabGroups.TAB_GROUP_ID_NONE) {
                chrome.tabs.group({ groupId: sender.tab.groupId, tabIds: newTab.id });
            }
        });
    }
});

chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener((tab) => {
    if (!tab.active) {
        chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, { active: true });
    }
});

astero

@stachenov said in Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground):

I wonder why it hasn't been implemented yet. Vivaldi poses itself as highly customizable, but this one thing is one of the first that come to mind when speaking about customization. Even Firefox has it. Is it somehow made hard to implement by the Chromium part? Because otherwise it sounds like something ridiculously easy and yet extremely useful. I can do without it, of course, I got used to this stupid way of opening tabs in Chrome, but at the same time it feels like using Chrome, that is, something uncomfortable and not customizable at all.

agree. It is weird that middle-click is not customizable in Vivaldi, yet very simple to implement.

stachenov

@astero To be honest, I barely need this anymore since I revived my old Opera instincts and started using mouse gestures. I open links in the foreground by dragging down now and open in the background by middle-clicking.

Still, more freedom to customize mouse buttons would be nice.