Vivaldi pinned to the task bar doesn't offer any option (eg. open Incognito) after the latest update
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As title, with the latest update, right clicking on the pinned app in the task bar doesn't offer anymore the classic options to open a New page or a new incognito page, but only the option to remove it from the task bar.
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In my case I had Vivaldi Pinned to my Windows 10 Taskbar for quick launching. After the update I noticed that there was no bar and highlighting on it and there was a new Vivaldi Icon on the taskbar for my running instance of Vivaldi.
I use 2 monitors and use Display Fusion to run the Taskbar on the secondary monitor and it was doing the same thing too.
Without checking I deleted the old pinned Vivaldi Icons that were still showing all the actions on both monitors, then pinned Vivaldi that was running. When I went to move it is when I noticed the only action it had now was to launch Vivaldi. No "Open a New Window" or "Open a Private Window" or anything like that.
I forced the update last night when I got a notice on my AV that Google's Project Zero found a new exploit that was active in the wild for Chrome's UI Library so I updated Chrome and any Chromium Based Browser I have on my machines.
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Pretty sure the latest update fucked this functionality up. Waiting for someone to confirm or offer a solution.
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@Gwen-Dragon that workaround doesn't work, neither with the previous nor with the latest update. It only fixes the double icon on taskbar, doesn't bring back the quick actions (New window, New private window, etc)
Also when popping out videos with PiP we get another icon on the taskbar, that doesn't happen with 3.3.2022.47 and still wasn't fixed with 3.4.2066
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Vivaldi pinned to the task bar doesn't offer any option (eg. open Incognito) after the latest update:
The Actions in taskbar icon popup work for me with Vivaldi 3.4.2066.86 x64 on Windows 10 Pro (20H2).
I'm on Windows 10 Home (2004) and it doesn't work. I will try to force the update to 20H2 and see if the issue persists.
Edit:
Just updated Windows to 20H2 (build 19042.572) running 3.4.2066.86 (64 bit) and still have no Tasks option on right click in the Vivaldi icon on the taskbar.Unpinned Vivaldi, went to the install folder, opened the file from there and no list. Closed Vivaldi and the update service, unpinned, open the .exe, pinned. No task list.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Vivaldi pinned to the task bar doesn't offer any option (eg. open Incognito) after the latest update:
@eduardomaio Do never pin by dragging a icon into taskbar, pin by context menu of icon appearing in taskbar.
That works for me in 20H2.I never said anything about dragging icons. I open Vivaldi and then I pin it to the task bar via context menu.
But hey, maybe the problem is with my installation on both these computers where I'm having issues. I dusted off my old netbook, removed Firefox from it and installed Vivaldi. On the first run of Vivaldi I don't have any tasks when I right click on the browser icon on the taskbar, only Vivaldi, Pin to taskbar and Close window.
So I pinned the icon to the taskbar and I only have two options available when right clicking it: Vivaldi, Unpin from taskbar.
Tasks list like New tab, New Window, etc are still missing. This is on a computer that never had Vivaldi installed, so it's a brand new profile without any modifications or old data.
Vivaldi 3.4.2066.86 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision 35fd8d89a6af7a936295daa3894925225a32ccf7
OS Windows 10 OS Version 2004 (Build 19041.264)
JavaScript V8 8.6.395.17
Flash (Disabled)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.112 Safari/537.36
Command Line "C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --save-page-as-mhtml
Executable Path C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
Profile Path C:\Users\Eduardo\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default -
I see the same problem in Vivaldi, both Snapshot and Stable:
Vivaldi
Firefox
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Uninstalled Vivaldi, updated the netbook Windows version to 20H2 and installed Vivaldi again. Same issue.
So, with me having this issue in 3 different machines, one of which never even had Vivaldi installed, plus the reports of @Marrakrush, @WolvenSpectre and @Pesala and the other threads under this subforum I think it's safe to assume this is an issue with Vivaldi.
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So, I read all the answers a bit. I already tried the workaround suggested by @Gwen-Dragon but it didn't work for me. I also tried a complete uninstall (even by removing the various registry keys and all the folders) but reinstalling Vivaldi I had the same issue. I am currently on Windows 10 1909.
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Still broken with the latest update...
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Even with todays update it still has the same behavior.
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Will this ever be fixed?
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@eduardomaio I can't reproduce your problem. But maybe if you file a bug, someone will be able to. Here, it works properly on two Win10 2004 towers, a Win10 1909 tower, a Win10 1909 laptop, and a Win7 tower. All of the machines are either HP or Dell. Haven't tried it on any other of my machines.
I wonder if you are installing Vivaldi differently than I do. I always install it "current user only" and standalone. I don't use an "all users" install, nor do I ever install it in a non-standard directory. In pretty much every case, I have 3 versions of Vivaldi on each machine - Stable, Snapshot, and the internal test version (which is updated 5 or 6 days a week as a rule). All of them are pinned to taskbar, and all taskbar icons behave as expected.
Also, I wonder whether you are installing the 64-bit version or the 32-bit version. I use only the 64-bit version, except on my old X86 Win7 box (which, being X86, is 32-bit only).
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No change here. Neither the Stable and Snapshot versions display the New Window / Incognito (Private) Window options. I see no Windows Taskbar settings to change this behaviour.
I use two monitors.
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I've 2 installations at different machines, both multi-user-installation, on both the speeddials are shown like it should be.
one machine is Win10 Home 20H2 x64, the other ist Win 10 Enterprise 1909 x64 -
No such problem here.
Latest Vivaldi Snapshot, latest Win10 update.
Single laptop monitor though. -
It's beginning to sound as though multiple monitors may be the key.
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All the computers I've tried this on are single display.
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@eduardomaio This seems to be a Windows 10 bug. It fails to recognize Vivaldi as an app. This can usually be fixed by removing pinned Vivaldi from the taskbar, opening it, and then pinning the resulting taskbar icon.
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I created an account just to reply to this.
I've had the same issues as others in this thread and unpinning and repinning the icon has never worked.
Then I stumbled across similar behaviour in an older version of Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/14579131?msgid=14828542
From here, it points to the files in the location [C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations] OR [%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations]
Originally, I located the file with AppID 969fa00ceac8236d. Opening this file with notepad revealed the task list for New Tab, New Window and New Private Window.
I then installed Vivaldi on a new machine and noticed that the jump list tasks were present and working.
Checking the same directory, the AppID appears to be different - 158aa8c19981b864.
So like the instructions in the thread, I made a copy of 969fa00ceac8236d.customDestinations-ms in the same directory, and then renamed the new copy to 158aa8c19981b864.customDestinations-ms.Then just like that, the jump tasks appeared when I right clicked on the icon in the taskbar.
Not 100% sure if this bug is with Windows, or with the browser, but hope this might help others who have had the same issue.
