Vivaldi 2.2: Focus on details
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@nekomajin: If that is the case, I would suggest removing it entirely until Chromium is in a state to properly support it. As it is now, it will be a novelty for about 10 mins for those who aren't used to having it, and then they will realize they are actually better off just using multiple browser instances in order to navigate more easily, and to keep the video high quality, and freely manipulate it. All it's really doing is bloating the code.
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@JPlissken You seem to be confused:
- You claim to be the first to request it and love that it was added
- You then suggest removing it entirely as it does not work on sites that do not support it
- Then you claim that it just bloats the code. However, the code is built in to Chromium, so I am not sure how that could be much of an issue.
Development is a slow process. People were requesting this long before you joined the forum, and now it is here. It works on YouTube and rather better on the BBC. I suspect that there are many other sites too, but those are all that I use regularly.
YouTube Video as Picture in Picture
There is a lot more that could be done to improve it, but it's just one of over 1,400 feature requests.
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@pesala: There is no contradiction there. I requested it the day I downloaded the browser. I check the forums periodically and I haven't seen anyone else requesting it. So I had assumed I was the first to bring it up. And I do love that they added it, it shows that they are serious about modern multitasking features. However it is clearly not ready in it's current state. And if it was written into Chromium by default, I could download a vanilla Chromium, and do it the same way. But I can't. What is written into Chromium appears to be something like the ability to play videos in background tabs, and then Vivaldi has taken that and added the video into the sidebar, and somehow made it pop-out from there.
At least that's my guess. But regardless how they did it, I think it's pretty obvious that Vivaldi is not vanilla Chromium, and yet everything that is in Vivaldi you could in some way say is built into Chromium. At least the ability to modify Chromium to od all these things is built into Chromium. But you can't just take Chromium out of the box and do everything with it that Vivaldi does. If that were the case there would be no reason for Vivaldi to exist, or any of the other Chromium-based alternative. It takes layers upon layers of additional code on top of what Chromium has built in to do these things.
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@JPlissken said in Vivaldi 2.2: Focus on details:
I hate to be the downer here, but that picture-in-picture function is practically useless. And I do believe I'm the one who originally suggested it. The problem is it only works from the side panel, not in the main browser window, and the size of the popped-out video is extremely limited. On top of that, as far as I can tell it only works on Youtube.
I don't know why you are stating this, the PiP works in the main window, it can be resized and freely positioned with the mouse.
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@iAN-CooG Yup. I actually don't find this an exciting feature, but in the interests of science I just opened the news stream from the BBC website, clicked the little pop-out icon I saw on the video, pulled it outside the Vivaldi window, resized it and switched back to this forum page to write this comment.
I don't see the need for it; but it seems to work flawlessly.
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@mossman said in Vivaldi 2.2: Focus on details:
I actually don't find this an exciting feature
neither do I but seems many people can't live without it, go figure.
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@ian-coog: No it doesn't work in the main window. If it does, record a video and post it here. I already posted a video clearly showing that it doesn't. And the size is extremely limited, which my video also demonstrates. It also can't snap to edges.
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@JPlissken said in Vivaldi 2.2: Focus on details:
No it doesn't work in the main window. If it does, record a video and post it here.
you are free to believe in what you want, but I'm not wasting my time in proving that something works for pratically everyone and not just for you, and most importantly because of the way you write you seem too much self-entitled to make me bothering about you.
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@JPlissken
At the time 02:07 of your video appears the menu where you can choose the PiP on the main page but choose to add it as a Web Panel.Read this https://vivaldi.com/it/blog/snapshots/picture-in-picture-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1332-4/ so you know why he behaves that way.
Follow the tips and it also works on https://www.bitchute.com
For the size i do not understand the sense of having the video so big, but i understand that everyone has their own needs, you have to ask the Team if they implement this feature.
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SUPERB, several of “my” bugs got fixed! I love you!
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Hi,
The size of the entire browser changed for me after this update. I was already at 100% for UI and webpages, and it stayed that way in the settings, but everything is bigger now. Any idea what could cause this ? My OS display scaling settings are 100% too.
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@Gwen-Dragon The entire interface, like if I was using user interface zoom at ~110-115%
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is it possible to save all open tabs to speed dial like in opera? I don't want to save to session
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@archive1 Speed dial is not a "thing." It's just a folder of bookmarks (can be any folder) displayed in a certain way. So, since you can save all open tabs as bookmarks, it stands to reason you should be able to save them in the folder you are displaying as the Speed Dial/Start Page.
Edit: So - having tried this, I see that bookmarking all open tabs just dumps those bookmarks into one's top-level folder. Then they would have to be highlighted as a group and moved to the folder on is using as Speed Dial. So it can be done, but not as a single step. Takes two steps.
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i hope one day Vivaldi will allow to customize context menus of any kind, or at least rearrange entries in them - that would be a real Punch in customization!
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@Para-Noid upvoted both, thank you for links.
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"[Panels] Panels are hard to resize (VB-39870)" - for a moment I thought the panels individual ZOOM was adressed by this. But alas, it's just the resizing by vertical separator. Is all hope lost?
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Saving selected tabs as a named session is incredibly useful. Thanks! But the instructions were a bit garbled. Here's an edit.
- Select the tabs you’d like to include using Ctrl/⌘/Shift Left-click
- Then Right-click on any of the highlighted tabs to open the context menu
- Select “Save Selected Tabs as Session” and enter your chosen name in the box
- Click Save
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@gwen-dragon: You're reading this wrong. The PIP API provided via JavaScript allows you to have extra buttons to PIP a HTML5 video element. Standard HTML5 video elements -- and this is also true on Chrome/Chromium -- which have no modifications can be PIP'd from the right-click menu.