Improved Tab Mobility (Creating/Merging Windows By Dragging Tabs)

Prymz

I am very interested in Vivaldi, but the only thing stopping me from switching from Chrome is Chrome's ability to quickly create new windows by dragging tabs from the top bar and releasing them anywhere on the screen-space. Tabs can be moved to and from existing windows quickly and easily by aiming anywhere on the top bar on a window and releasing. The latter of these is possible in Vivaldi, but it provides feedback by moving the New Tab button to the right when the grabbed tab is anywhere over an existing window even though the tab doesn't actually merge unless it is over the top bar. As for creating a new window, well, it cannot be done quickly or the tab just snaps back. I can see why this would be implemented, but I'd like to see it be an option. But, what I don't get is that you need to wait even longer when trying to open a tab on a different screen or it will just open it in the first one regardless of where you release the tab. It kind of feels like its polling rate is delayed, it thinks the mouse is still on the first screen.

It also takes a tiny bit for the window to appear. Not much, but it does get annoying.

BoneTone

It's not with the mouse, but the fastest way I've found to move a tab to a new window is with the keyboard shortcut action, I've got mine assigned to Alt-N and Alt-5, either one will create a new window with the current tab.

Another useful related feature is if you right-click on a tab and choose "Move to". You can send things to a new window or any of the other existing windows. You can send an individual tab, all of the tabs you've selected, or a tab stack.

Strangely, it seems that you can drop tabs on the main part of the page to move them to that window sometimes. It depends on what that page is... I haven't fully figured out what is special about the ones that allow or don't allow it and require you to target the tab bar instead. With the tab bar on the left, it's really easy to target though. Try it by dragging a tab onto a page in this forum, that works for me. I wonder if Chrome exhibits the same behavior, some work and some don't.

One thing I really like is that if you move a tab to a new window that was in a stack, go back and move another tab from that same stack, they'll be stacked in the new window too, even though they were moved in individual steps.

Hope this helps you a workaround things a bit.

Pesala

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Please vote for Chrome-like Tab Dragging

LonM

Hi, Thanks for your feature request.

This looks like a duplicate of https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/24338/chrome-like-tab-dragging?_=1581573754995 Please vote for that instead, thank you.

You can use the forum search first to see if you can find similar requests. If that doesn't work, I've catalogued all the requests here.