Further Bottom Address Bar fixes – Vivaldi Android Browser snapshot 2028.3
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Today’s snapshot introduces further fixes to the address bar at the bottom.
Click here to see the full blog post
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First
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Distant second.
"[UI] Unify Accent color with Desktop browser VAB-2119"
I presume that this will be optional?
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Finally! Few days but I looked forward to this fix
I still have two bugs:
- Vivaldi crashes when I tap in a link to open a Custom Tab (twitter, for example). On second tap the link opens without crash.
- If Tab Bar is enabled, a white bar is shown in the Custom Tab.
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What I notice is that there’s a light border at the bottom of the bottom address bar when using light theme, no matter the accent color. Working great otherwise.
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Old bugs didn't fix
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I'm still waiting on the option to disable the tabs (works on my phone) when using bottom search bar (doesn't work on my tablet).
This is missing on tablets until now.
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I noticed that if I disabled the tabs with bottom bar, I can't swipe between tabs. It is only working with the tab bar
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@rom08 Good find, would be nice to be able to still switch tabs without going to the tab overview.
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I've noticed that swiping down from the middle of the screen while in tab overview closes the overview and goes to one of the tabs (but not always the one previously selected). It also seems to randomly close tabs sometimes. I doubt that it's intentional, can anyone confirm this?
Edit: it seems to be closing tabs 3-4 and beyond, if there are 2 tabs open, they don't close.
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I reported last time that there's a white space where the bottom address bar is supposed to be if I were to enable that and it still hasn't been fixed in this build
Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator with Android 9 (Pie).
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Vivaldi needs extension support on Android and then it will be the best mobile browser around.
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@TianlanSha That's a huge and very fraught project. It has never been done 100% successfully by any Android browser. Kiwi Browser came the closest, but it has failed, and is now an "open source" project of unknown future.
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@ayespy: Kiwi changed to focus on sharing their progress with other Chromium browsers for Android to help them implement extension support as well. Maybe Vivaldi should get in touch with them.
I'm currently using Kiwi and it works pretty OK.
At least Vivaldi's built-in Ad Block should come with more filters and better pop up blocking.
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@TianlanSha I fear they need other chromium contributors interested in extensions support to keep the project updated -- and working -- with latest chromium.
Last time I checked - Kiwi was on chromium 77. Now is probably on 80, which is still old.
