Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground)
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I need this feature badly!
Please add an option to open link in new tab and switch to this tab when link clicked with middle mouse button. I've used to this feature for so many years and I cannot switch to Vivaldi unless this feature is implemented.When browsing if I want to open a link in new tab its because almost always I want to switch to it and NOT open it in background, I very rarely do that, so assigning middle mouse click to something I rarely do seems very unreasonable!!, I guess this is the case for most people!
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@marrawan Use mouse gestures, e.g.
- GestureUp = Open Link in New Tab (Over a Link)
- GestureDown = Open Link in Background Tab (Over a Link)
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@pesala thank you for your suggestion
I know about gestures since the good old days of Opera and I never liked them, and had them always disabled.Holding the mouse button down and then drag down is not simple and convenient and accurate as just clicking the middle button swiftly.
I'm using WaterFox classic (+TabMix) and my experience with opening/closing tabs much better than Vivaldi.
Vivaldi has a ton of customizable configurations for almost everything, Why not the mouse buttons? at least the middle button?
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@marrawan said in Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground):
Vivaldi has a ton of customizable configurations for almost everything, Why not the mouse buttons? at least the middle button?
It comes down to the size of the Vivaldi Team. This feature request is very old, but nowhere near the most upvoted topic.
Do try the mouse gestures. You will get adjusted to them long before the customisable middle-click becomes available.
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@pesala Until they add this feature I'm sticking with WaterFox for the convenience of use.
Middle mouse click is not just for links, I need to open bookmarks from bookmarks bar in new tabs (gestures will not work in this case), This I can easily do with WaterFox but not Vivaldi which will always inconveniently open them in background tabs!.Not to mention, If the tab bar has many tabs ,Vivaldi will never give a clue of the new opened background tab by displaying it on the tab bar (shifting tabs to the left to make it visible as WaterFox does), so I need to scroll tabs to the end to see the the new tab and then click it to to bring it to foreground, Awkward!!
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@Pesala said in Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground):
@marrawan said in Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground):
Vivaldi has a ton of customizable configurations for almost everything, Why not the mouse buttons? at least the middle button?
It comes down to the size of the Vivaldi Team. This feature request is very old, but nowhere near the most upvoted topic.
Do try the mouse gestures. You will get adjusted to them long before the customisable middle-click becomes available.
Had no idea, tried it once and I'm already used to it. Thank you!
Edit: doesn't work for bookmarks though, actually gonna have to get used to shift clicking in the meantime.
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absolutely unbelievable that after 4 years there is still no option for this besides the hundreds other tab options..
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@schreck It is not hard to believe at all. Just one of 100 other popular feature requests.
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I reported this as VB-3720 myself a loooong time ago.
That bug is really old, about six years by my best estimate. The request has 214 upvotes, but is not even tagged as in the Pipeline yet.
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@schreck Yet it was in the original Opera.
I'm disappointed that it hasn't yet been included, but fortunately for me there is an extension that suffices. There is a mouse gesture in Vivaldi that does open tabs in the foreground, so why that behaviour can't be mapped to the middle button is odd to me.
Meet you again in four years...
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still no news ?
What extension are you using ? I have been using "Open Tabs In Foreground 1.0.4" but it has recently been marked as violating Google Chrome policy...
I tried another promising extension (Tab activate), but it seems to be broken with Vivaldi, it opens a blank tab instead.
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@megosu I started to use Tabs to Front V2, which is even simpler in its code than Open Tabs in Foreground. There's an issue with opening the first tab in foreground after browser startup occasionally, but it only happens once.
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are there better addons than "Open Tabs In Foreground" and TttF v2? I tried those and many similar extensions and they still "misfire" sometimes by opening a blank tab.
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@Swashbuckler I found that too with TttF V2. Initially I thought it was just the first opening of a tab, but with continued usage it did misfire occasionally to annoying levels.
Open Tabs in Foreground's developer responded to me. He did say that the reasons why it was pulled was due to not supplying a screengrab of the extension, which is quite stupid as the extension doesn't visually change anything, and the description of the extension didn't fit Google's standards. Before he could respond his extension was removed.
He did suggest that you could download the extension from his Github page and unpack it manually by enabling Developer Mode, but I haven't done that. The extension's code doesn't, to my limited amateur eyes, look malicious, but you really shouldn't take my word for that.
To be honest, I'm now back with Firefox until middle-clicking to open a tab in the foreground gets implemented. Its lacking in Vivaldi just goes against my workflow. It was there in the original Opera as an option, so it really should be in Vivaldi, too. Vivaldi is now my secondary browser on desktop (still using it on my mobile, though). I feel bad doing that.
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@Gort
I've been using the original Tabs to the front, surprisingly it works really well, so far no "misfires" regardless of my tab settings.
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@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.
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LOL. surely that was easier than adding a middle-click option. -
@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.
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They keep pumping in things nobody asked for or thought of,
It seems Vivaldi is being taylored for dev team fantasies
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@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"
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@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.
