Ability to cycle through opened tabs using right mouse button + scroll wheel
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Recently I saw Vivaldi's new visual tab cycler, which somewhat replicates the one used in Opera 12. Wouldn't it be nice and convenient to cycle through tabs the old way too? Find this gesture to be extremely missed.
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@abakhtin I don't understand the reason for your post.
The requested ability already exists, and existed before the most recent option to show tabs in a vertical list.
RMB+Scrollwheel to cycle through tabs is a bit buggy, but it works. Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab works much more reliably.
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@pesala I am aware of Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab shortcuts, but I much prefer using the scroll wheel. I apologize if I requested the existing feature though how do I enable it? Thanks.
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@abakhtin See Settings, Tabs, Tab Features.
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RMB+Wheel is not even slightly buggy here, it works very well & reliably. Maybe it's only buggy in Windoze.
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@pesala this isn't the feature I was talking about as it only works on mouse pointer hovering over the tab bar. I am talking about the ability to cycle through tabs with the Right Mouse Button pressed down + Scroll Wheel just like in Opera 12. Why has my discussion been moved from feature requests?
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@abakhtin The feature already exists, and has done for years.
If it's not working for you, make sure you enable Switch Tabs by Scrolling (and Show Tab Cycler if you want to see that).
You can then either scroll through tabs using the mouse wheel over the tabs, or with RMB+Scrollwheel over the page.
The buggy behaviour has already been reported by a few users on the latest Snapshot thread.
In the Stable Windows version the feature is not buggy at all as far as I can tell.
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@pesala oh apparently it does exist
I appreciate your patience and help. By the way, nice profile picture. Can you tell me more about it?
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@abakhtin said in Ability to cycle through opened tabs using right mouse button + scroll wheel:
By the way, nice profile picture. Can you tell me more about it?
See the Chauk Htat Gyi Reclining Buddha
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@abakhtin I fear that your "cycle through" will work on Windows only. I have Mac, and here the "gestures" does it, and is a problem. I have not used a mouse the last 10 years, and have one with a wheel somewhere. But be careful: its making code for the museum. "Gestures" are mapped to "keyboard shortcuts" - swipe left/right is Alt Tab / Tab-shift.
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@knuthf said in Ability to cycle through opened tabs using right mouse button + scroll wheel:
fear that your "cycle through" will work on Windows only
No, untrue. Tab scrolling in Linux works flawlessly for me by each of [listed in my personal preference order]:
- Mouse Gestures
- Pointer in Tabs bar whilst mouse-wheeling
- Pointer in Page whilst RMB+mouse-wheeling.
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@steffie Not buggy in Windoze... I use it without noticing anything weird.
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@ornorm Good, but it was not me who claimed it was. If you read higher up in this thread you will see who made the claim, & that person uses Windoze.
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@ornorm Not buggy on Vivaldi Final on Windows either, just on the Snapshot.
Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit • Snapshot 1.16.1246.7 (64-bit)
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@steffie Of course. My intention was just to clarify it shouldn't be related to Windows (could it be related to installed extensions that could interfere with the usage of the feature?)
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Doesn't work reliably on Windows 7. Vivaldi ver. 2.2.1388.37.
If I cycle tabs faster than about 2 switches per second, it looks like the tab switch events are buffered up somewhere, and trigger much later unpredictably. E.g.
- RMB + Scroll up 4 notches => The tabs cycle up only 1 spot
- Wait 1 second
- RMB + Scroll down 1 notch => The tabs cycle 1 down, then instantly 2 up.
This does not happen if I only use mouse wheel while cursor is over the tab bar. So it looks like an obvious race condition related to the right mouse button.
It's strange too how slow tab switching is in general. A typical latency is 100-200 ms. Opera in 2012 felt instant in comparison, guessing <50ms.
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@Steffie Having noticed the recent post/s, i have just retested it here [Snapshot, Linux], & report that it continues to work perfectly fine for me. This is not my usual method [which instead is mouse gestures], coz tbh my fingers lack sufficient dexterity for this method to be comfy... but that said, each time i do use it it just works.
