Redundant Vivaldi icon on Windows' Status bar
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Dear Sirs,
Greetings on the release of v. 3.4 of the Browser!
After updating to it however, I found out that launching it creates a 2nd icon on the Windows' status bar, besides the one already available on it as part of the Quick Launch set of icons.
Normally, when an app has a Quick Launch icon, launching the app only changes the appearance of that icon (and that was also Vivaldi's behavior until now), but does not add a further icon on the Windows' status bar (only apps without a Quick Launch icon would do that).
Would you please check? Is there a setting through which this behavior can be prevented?
Thanks in advance for your prompt & effective attention to this matter,
Sincerely,
Eric T.
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An unfortunate bug sneaked into the Stable version, where instead of opening the browser in the already pinned shortcut, it creates a new instance. Luckily it seems to be a one time thing with updating to Vivaldi 3.4.
The fix is to unpin the old task bar icon and pin the new one instead. -
Removing the old icon worked for the duplicate in the task bar, but the new icon it creates no longer has the right-click menu shortcuts for Private browser, Speed-dial shortcuts, etc. Any idea on how to restore those? Now the original icon is gone that has those and I can't seem to restore it to get that functionality back.
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@Gwen-Dragon Tried that already with no luck. I'm only having the issue on my Windows Server 2019 (build 1809) virtual desktop, but my desktop running Windows 10 (build 2004) is fine. If I have to reinstall to restore that functionality, it's not a huge deal at least.
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Same, duplicate icon and right click actions (new tab, new window) are gone.
Also when using picture-in-picture it shows a new icon on the taskbar instead of grouping it to the existing one.
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@nb623107 This appears to be the same issue I've been having, and made a different post on the forum for, which you can read here. I won't repeat that entire post here, but I've found that after updating from that new install of the older version to the most recent, I still have the icon for that old version on my task bar. This old icon still has the New Tab/New Window/New Private Window right click options, but none of the quick start links, since those were added in a later version. It appears that this version (3.4) alone lacks the right click jump menu. Funnily, it works on your virtual desktop with the older Windows version and not the regular desktop with the newest version; I have two computers, both with Windows 10 Build 2004, and it works on one but not the other. Shame the one it doesn't work on is the one I use most often...
I think I'll suffer through the duplicate icon if it means keeping the right click functionality, until this gets fixed.
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I recently updated to new version and now I get a second icon in task bar when I launch. I have tried removing the shortcut, and recreating one from the launch in Vivaldi folder, but I still have the same issue. I am not liking this at all as I already have too much stuff down there as it is. Please fix this bunk.
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I'm on v3.6.2165.36 - bug is still relevant
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@IronicBoy Don't try to create a new one from a folder-app launch. Use the toolbar launch, and while both are visible, unpin the old one and pin the new one. This has worked 100% for me so far, when I have needed it - which has been no more often than about every fifth update or so.
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I'm on 5.3.2636.3 (Official Build) (64-bit) and I have the same problem.
I can add Vivaldi icon to task bar by right clicking vivaldi.exe and choosing "Add to taskbar" from the context menu in Explorer, but when launched from taskbar, Vivaldi icon will not "dissapear" to show only the Vivaldi window task bar entries. Instead the launch icon will still sit there and even worse, all the Vivaldi windows open on the far right of the task bar, not where the Vivaldi launch icon sits (which is left).
I tried nearly an hour now (managing multiple Vivaldi standalone installations here, which I like to start separately from the taskbar). All this worked before, I only renamed folders of the Vivaldi standalone installations and wanted to re-add all the icons to the taskbar, since EXE files obviously moved and shortcuts on the taskbar went invalid.
@aye1spy
I wanted to try your solution, but what do you mean with "folder-app launch" and "toolbar launch"?Any idea greatly appreciated! o)
My taskbar is a big Vivaldi icon/window mess right now! o) Thanks! -
@tbone-15 "Folder-app launch" would be going to the physical folder on the hard drive and double-clicking" the .exe file in the application folder. "toolbar-launch" should have said "taskbar-launch." It's opening Vivaldi from its taskbar icon.
