Ability to re-open multiple tabs, after a bulk close

ukanuk

Just submitted bug report VB-88893 about this. No guarantees it will result in any action, but at least it will raise awareness to the Vivaldi devs of this issue.

Summary
A single mis-click beside your intended menu selection can irreversibly delete your data

Describe in steps how to reproduce the bug

Open 200 tabs.
Put two of them in a tab stack.
Right click the stack, start moving your cursor to "Close Tab Stack", but overshoot and accidentally click "Close Other Tabs" instead.
Realize your mistake, use the trashcan or press Ctrl+Z to undo.
Realize only 100 tabs are restored.
Be heartbroken about all the data you have lost.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35522/ability-to-re-open-multiple-tabs-after-a-bulk-close/20?_=1651168023050

What did you expect to happen
At least one of these options:

All tabs can be restored from the trashcan, not just 100.
Add an "Are you sure" super extra confirmation dialog when "Close Other Tabs" will cause irreversible data loss (when it will close over 100 tabs)

What had actually happened
Irreversibly lost the data contained in all my tabs beyond 100.

Ishayin

Hi all,

I have been waiting so so many years now to switch to Vivaldi as my main browser, and this is the one thing that still makes it unusable for me. It's such a basic thing that I can't believe it's still missing after all this time. In Opera you press CTRL-SHIFT-T to restore either last closed tab or window. I use it all the time. It's so simple! In Vivaldi the same command will only work for a single tab window. As soon as there are two or more tabs, it just opens an empty window, and doesn't restore any of the tabs at all. It's such an unexpected pattern from a user's point of view as to be arguably a bug.

I hadn't heard of the CTRL-Z idea before, but that doesn't work either. It seems to be even more buggy in operation. The first time I tried it, it restored two of the tabs from the closed window, but none of the rest of them. The second time I tried it, it's didn't do anything at all until I clicked back and forth on some different tabs, and then finally it just opened an empty window.

The suggestion to select tabs to be restored from history is far too slow and clunky. Though this functionality could still be improved if tabs were grouped (in the panel view at least) by window, so you could simply select a whole window to restore in one go.

I love the philosophy behind Vivaldi and I always recommend it to others. It's frankly embarrassing at this stage that I still can't manage to use it myself. Please just make the CTRL-SHIFT-T functionality the same as it is in Opera.

Wingmore

Would also VERY much like the CTRL-SHIFT-T functionality

ukanuk

Just got this concerning VB-88893:

Thank you again for your feature request: A single mis-click beside your intended menu selection can irreversibly delete your data

We have just released a new version of Vivaldi that we believe implements your suggestion. To get the latest version please check for updates in your browser (in the top menu, select Vivaldi > Check for Updates) or please feel free to download the latest version and give it a try.

I tested in 5.3.2679.36 (Stable channel) (64-bit), and found that still only 100 tabs may be restored, but this popup appears when trying to close more than 100 tabs from the right-click menu.

Looks like it's the new option under Settings → Tabs → Tabs → Tab Handling → Confirm Closing Tabs over Maximum of, which is set to 10 tabs by default,

This solution seems satisfactory to me.

Ishayin

@ukanuk
It's a nice optional feature to have for sure, but doesn't help at all for me unfortunately. It's not that I tend to close down windows by mistake. It's more that after having closed a window intentionally I either change my mind, or something else crops up such that I wish to re-open the last closed window (or windows).
This is still a blocker issue for me that prevents me from using Vivaldi as my main browser. It seems like such a strange omission considering that Vivaldi otherwise has some of the best session and history management of any browser.

Pesala

@Ishayin Right-click on the Trash Can on the Window Title bar to show the list of closed tabs. If you have closed a window with many tabs you should see an option to restore all on the Window with nn tabs submenu.

This submenu can remember more than 100 tabs.

Restore Window Submenu.png

Ishayin

@Pesala
That is a useful work-around thank you! Do you know if there is any way to access that Trash Can menu from the keyboard? Because if there is I could then make an AutoHotkey keyboard shortcut for the entire operation (since you just need to send the W and R keys after opening that menu). If I could do that it would certainly be a big improvement, though still not as good as having the same native CTRL-SHIFT-T functionality as used to in other browsers.

P.S. Notifications do not appear to work for me at all on this forum.

Pesala

@Ishayin Settings, Keyboard, Tabs, Show Closed Tabs. I use Ctrl+Shift+Z. Once the menu is opened, you can use Access Keys 1-9 to reopen the nine most recently closed tabs, then the first letter of each entry to reopen any other tab, but be mindful that C will Clear the list (UK Interface).