Swipes from screen edges navigate back and forward
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Swipe from screen left edge executes "Go back". Left swipe from screen right edge executes "Go forward". That's a basic iOS Safari gesture which many users will find handy.
A little demo
P.S. I'm using #overscroll-history-navigation (see one of the answers from this topic). It is not as smooth as safari navigation, still it's ok
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I would prefer if this were made a setting rather than a default feature. Many mobile sites use edge swipes to reveal navigation menus or hide or show content, for example; making this easy to trigger accidentally - as I have found to my annoyance in many other mobile browsers I have tried.
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Android 10 comes with "swipe from the edge to go back built-in". This would be in conflict with that, especially since swiping from the right edge also triggers a "back" action in Android 10 (rather than a forward action) so which one should win in that case (Android's back action for system consistency, or the browser's forward action for browser consistency?).
Also, like @Crimsonshade said, many sites use edge swipes to open menus.
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@Komposten said in Swipes from screen edges navigate back and forward:
Android 10 comes with "swipe from the edge to go back built-in". This would be in conflict with that, especially since swiping from the right edge also triggers a "back" action in Android 10 (rather than a forward action) so which one should win in that case (Android's back action for system consistency, or the browser's forward action for browser consistency?).
Also, like @Crimsonshade said, many sites use edge swipes to open menus.
On Samsung phones you can actually enable that behavior (and more) on Android 9, or perhaps earlier. I have 12 different gestures activated by swiping in from the sides... "Back" is just one of them, I also launch different programs, pull up the Recent apps screen, turn on/off my flashlight, etc. You could have a forward action if you wanted, but I don't use it. In Vivaldi, I just swipe the bottom toolbar for back & forward operations.
I would assume, if the user were to enable the option, it would try to capture the swipe before it is sent to Android and override the action. Which, honestly, may not even be necessary. If the user can have back & forward operations already when swiping in, then wouldn't that just send the operation to the current app? Capturing the swipes, Vivaldi would have to differentiate between a straight swipe, and an diagonal swipe, and also between a swipe and lift and a swipe and hold, in order to not override the swipe actions I have on my phone.
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Set chrome://flags/#overscroll-history-navigation to Enabled and restart Vivaldi.
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@madiso Confirmed. This seems to enable support. Good find!
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@madiso
Nice, working on:Xiaomi Mi 9T
MIUI 10 (Android 9)
Vivaldi 2.7.1624.207 SnapshotCheers, mib
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What about websites that have swipe gestures already hooked up to invoke some actions? Like mobile version of Vivaldi forum... wouldn't it interfere with website functionalities?
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@ROTFL
Hi.
Hm, it interfere with the Vivaldi forum so instead of use swipe I use hamburger menu.Cheers, mib
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@ROTFL This is always an issue - how to balance user experience of the browser and websites. I don't know if it will ever be solved - just think of all the sites whose keyboard shortcuts interfere with Vivaldi on desktop
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@mib2berlin said in Swipes from screen edges navigate back and forward:
Hi.
Hm, it interfere with the Vivaldi forum so instead of use swipe I use hamburger menu.Cheers, mib
I could be missing how to get to it but the hamburger menu doesn't seem to include chats. The hamburger menu is the same as swipe in from left, but chat is swipe in from right. I'm not currently using chat, but thought this worth pointing out for those that do.
@LonM said in Swipes from screen edges navigate back and forward:
This is always an issue - how to balance user experience of the browser and websites. I don't know if it will ever be solved - just think of all the sites whose keyboard shortcuts interfere with Vivaldi on desktop
Vivaldi on the desktop provides a method for accessing site specific keyboard shortcuts though... pressing Alt-Shift and then the site's keyboard shortcut will send the webpage shortcut. I'm also not certain, but I think that maybe disabling keyboard shortcuts will then pass all of them to the page, unmodified. But that last part I'm not sure of, I'd have to test to know.
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Yes, this feature will be nice
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@madiso do you now how to DISABLE this feature? It is added by default now (version 3.8.2267.25 for Android). I don't have this flag to disable
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