Address bar performance improvements – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1525.4

[Pesala]

Concave corner rounding on the tabs is nice, but looks less round than the top, more like a simple bevel. This is maximum 14 pix rounding @ 100% UI Zoom

[LonM]

@Pesala I had noticed this too, but wasn't sure if it was just my display or not.

Checking again with ShareX's magnifier I can see that the rounding isn't quite as large and the edges are not quite as smoothed.

The top seems to cover 6px to change direction, the bottom only uses 4px.

[Ruarí]

@lonm: Indeed Import / Export of notes was intentionally left out. It probably should be in experiments at this stage to be honest

[Thot]

I think the new folder-content-popups when clicking on a folder in the bookmarksbar don't fit to my beloved UI of Vivaldi (extremely big and chrom'ish). Would like to have them like in previous snapshots.

[sjudenim]

@LonM

I had cobbled together code to do this very thing based off of this,
https://css-tricks.com/tabs-with-round-out-borders/

And unlike in the example link, mine didn't smooth out nicely either. Fooling around with them, it looks like Vivaldi is using a similar method.

[LonM]

@sjudenim I tried something similar a long time ago with svgs and was never very happy with the end result.

[sjudenim]

This branch of snapshots are working quite well for me, much snappier and more stable too.

Thanks team

[Hadden89]

@luetage Same here. Guess the fix is in progress.
Still force close while inspecting

I don't get any rounded tab... I'm missing some options/experiment?
Oh, obviously it follows the theme rounding

Startup is also faster. (Test version is on hdd while the main is on ssd so it's compared with previous update only).

[sjudenim]

@Pesala

Agreed. As you can see in the :after element below, increasing the height and width can fix that but even with a box-shadow the round outs are still not very smooth looking

[A Former User]

@luetage said in Address bar performance improvements – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1525.4:

And for anyone changing buttons in the address bar: the button titles seem to have been moved from the div to the button tag itself again.

Yes, but only for enabled buttons… :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: Why should we do it easily if we can difficultly

[kahukura]

@potmeklecbohdan said in Address bar performance improvements – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1525.4:

Why should we do it easily if we can difficultly

Anyone can do it simple but we want to do it right.

[killchain]

Speed Dial thumbs still fail to refresh for me until a new window is opened. Is it a known bug?

[AltCode]

@Thot They look chrome-ish because they are the exact same popups that chrome uses.

Vivaldi's Popup	Chrome's Popup

An advantage to this new popup is that the favicons load instantly.

[helsten2]

@killchain
Something is strange with thumb creation, yes. And it has been for a long time. I have reported it a couple of times before ...
Thumbs are created, but sometimes I get an intermittent thumb from a page I visited earlier in my session. This thumb is show when the new page is being loaded. When the new page has finished loading the correct thumb is shown.
I made an animated GIF where I am switching between three pages: BetaNews, MSPoweruser and Windows Central:

Sometimes you see this thumb:

which is a page I visited earlier.

Win10x64 Vx64

[darzki]

Good, address bar now is as snappy as it should be. Now time for UI.

[AltCode]

It seems like Vivaldi has adapted some of Chrome's features, like the folder popups or Hold ⌘Q to Quit; this one is a particularly annoying feature imo, and there is currently no way to disable it from vivaldi://settings, so one must go to chrome://settings to do so.

Empty favicons seem to be displaying wrong when viewed from the menu bar:

Menu Bar	Bookmarks Panel/Tab

Also the following still haven't been fixed:

• Enabling or disabling an "extension option" still hides the icon when it shouldn't (VB-51188)
• Hibernated icons are still dimming even if setting required to do so is turned off (VB-50950)
• Trash icon does nothing while in guest mode (VB-51161), not sure yet if this is intentional (If it is, why not just hide the icon?)
• I still can't open/close extension popups properly. Here are two videos that I made back in 2.4 RC 2: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/280608 (VB-51190)

[helsten2]

Cosmetic Windows Background Image bug... been there since the function was introduced:
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... depending on your image, you can see this (notice upper, right and lower, left):

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Cosmetic menu bug (been there a long time):

Win10x64 Vx64

[Thot]

@altcode: Yes I know but there is so much unused unnecessary free space which could be made more compact. Those Popups where under so many others a big reason why I ditched Chrome from my drive.

[AltCode]

@Thot I agree, the new popups are definitely taking too much space, but this is the kind of loading that I was referring to (Note: this slow loading is also prominent when right clicking the back button, and it is quite annoying there).

[Thot]

@altcode: I never had that much Sites in one Folder. This kind of loading I had after I resetted and reactivated the data on the server, so the Icons had first to be loaded from the server.