Profile Icons on Taskbar.
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@mvivg said in Profile Icons on Taskbar.:
I would like to share my current workaround:
- Create profile desktop shortcut
- Use created shortcut to open Vivaldi using specified profile
- Pin it to taskbar
- Close the browser
- Right click on Desktop shortcut
- Save Target to notepad (for example C:\Users%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe --profile-directory="Profile 1")
- Click on Change Icon and save the path to notepad (for example: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Profile 1\Vivaldi Profile.ico)
- Shift + right click on pinned taskbar icon created in step 2
- Select Properties
- Adjust Target to step 6
- Click on Change icon and paste the path from step 7
- Open Task Manager and restart Windows Explorer (Right click -> Restart)
I was referring to this in my last post. It didn't work for me to open the profile from the shortcut. I had to open the default vivaldi.exe and then change the profile. This should be exactly the same launcher though, lol.
I'm sorry I'm stupid.
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Please add this feature.
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@annettrothstein said in Profile Icons on Taskbar.:
@mvivg said in Profile Icons on Taskbar.:
I would like to share my current workaround:
- Create profile desktop shortcut
- Use created shortcut to open Vivaldi using specified profile
- Pin it to taskbar
- Close the browser
- Right click on Desktop shortcut
- Save Target to notepad (for example C:\Users%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe --profile-directory="Profile 1")
- Click on Change Icon and save the path to notepad (for example: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Profile 1\Vivaldi Profile.ico)
- Shift + right click on pinned taskbar icon created in step 2
- Select Properties
- Adjust Target to step 6
- Click on Change icon and paste the path from step 7
- Open Task Manager and restart Windows Explorer (Right click -> Restart)
I was referring to this in my last post. It didn't work for me to open the profile from the shortcut. I had to open the default vivaldi.exe and then change the profile. This should be exactly the same launcher though, lol.
I'm sorry I'm stupid.
This is working fine for me on Win10 21H1.
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@ujeenator said in Profile Icons on Taskbar.:
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You need to click on the "thumbs up" icon in the first post of the thread for that
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@mvivg / @AnnettRothstein method is not working for me.
Is that because i m using an other windows folder for my profiles ? i m launching the browser with a shortcut like this :
[vivaldi.exe path] --user-data-dir="C:\Users\Me\MyVivaldiData\VivaldiProfile" --profile-directory="Profile 2"Tried everything in the forum like modifying the vivaldi.ico in Profile 1\Web Applications_crx_mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli
.... but no result.Damn, that feature is so basic, while they re developing multi stacking tab levels whatever....
sometimes I really don't get what they're doing. -
Would love to see this feature added as soon as possible.
How do I rank this up in the charts. Really frustrating not having this feature makes me want to go back to Brave or Chrome browser. -
This thread is 2 years old and we still don't have profile icons in the taskbar. It can't be that hard. This is my one annoyance with the browser, can we please get it fixed?
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Not sure if this is what you mean, because it has been there for a while ...
- vivaldi://settings/addressbar/
- Manage Profiles
- Select "More Actions" on your profile
- Edit
- Create desktop shortcut
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@dolfje No, this is not what we mean
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@nubz Have you tried that ?
@mvivg said in Profile Icons on Taskbar.:
I would like to share my current workaround:
Create profile desktop shortcut
Use created shortcut to open Vivaldi using specified profile
Pin it to taskbar
Close the browser
Right click on Desktop shortcut
Save Target to notepad (for example C:\Users%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe --profile-directory="Profile 1")
Click on Change Icon and save the path to notepad (for example: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Profile 1\Vivaldi Profile.ico)
Shift + right click on pinned taskbar icon created in step 2
Select Properties
Adjust Target to step 6
Click on Change icon and paste the path from step 7
Open Task Manager and restart Windows Explorer (Right click -> Restart) -
It is very inconvenient when there are many work profiles. What is the problem to do so that the icon remains with the avatar? Many projects, when different profiles are open, do not make out where and which one. Convenient when on the taskbar, open programs are grouped when filled. Sorry, Google Translate.
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Adding to the pile of comments on here in some hope that this will get prioritized. ANY indication would be helpful. The standard is your profile pic but even a color would be helpful. Or the ability to pin a taskbar icon to a specific profile.
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I also want to express that this feature would be really great to have. Using more then one profile at once is a pain when you can't see which icon is which profile...
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I am shocked that this is not standard functionality. I expect all browsers to support this basic function. I downloaded this browser yesterday with the intent to switch over from Chrome and like its features. But I'm an avid user of profiles for work and need to see at a glance which profile to jump into. This is a show stopper for me. Heading back to Chrome. Someone ping me when this is fixed.
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Vivaldi, if you decide to bring profile icons to the Windows taskbar, please also have an option to remove them. Let it be optional.
I was looking for a browser that DOES NOT have profile icons on the taskbar. I prefer to change icon completely for each profile. The profile icon just comes in the way and is very annoying and ugly.
I found Vivaldi, the only browser that does not have profile icons on the taskbar, and I liked it. I looked for solution on Chrome but did not find anything.Looks like i'm not the only one who dislikes it:
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/17566268/the-dreaded-taskbar-icon-overlay-is-back-how-do-we-remove-it?hl=en -
at this point it is beyond embarrassing to not have this
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@lenzfliker And from my point of view, at this point it is beyond irrelevant not to have this.
Everyone's importances are not shared with everyone else.
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@LonM said in Profile Icons on Taskbar.:
If I open developer tools I get the icon, but for some reason it doesn't work with just the default browser window.
Always been that way. Profile icon shown on dev tools but not on main windows. I agree the visual cue will be nice.
