A bunch of new features – Vivaldi Android Browser snapshot 2107.3
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Today’s snapshot introduces clear data on exit, possibility to disable WebRTC Broadcast IP, options to sort and reorder notes and bookmarks.
Click here to see the full blog post
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[Menus] History on long press of the back button in Vivaldi menu VAB-2688
You are amazing V-Team, thank you very much!
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[New] Add option to clear data on exit VAB-961
[New] Allow disabling WebRTC Broadcast IP on mobile VAB-2293Yes!!
[Menus] History on long press of the back button in Vivaldi menu VAB-2688
Doesn't look good (Address Bar at Bottom, dark theme), menu inside menu, very confusing.
But there is an android back button??
Is it intentional that V-menu is activated by a long press? Because it obviously conflicts with swipes on the panel.
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Thanks for fixing a minor problem
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@Gwen-Dragon That's the thing I've been waiting for since the last desktop snapshot came. Didn't want to update to the last one because of the bugs and regressions.
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@stardust: "But there is an android back button??"
Not if you navigate by navigation gestures.
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@Gort right, didn't think about gestures
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@mariap Clearing data on exit is great, that was one of my requests. But its usefulness is being diminished without providing an accompanying exception/white list for specific domains. I hope this is planned too.
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My only wish left is that I don't have to reach my finger too high above to close tabs in Tabs Manager (yes I know tab bar is a thing but still...)
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@NguyenNam here is a FR https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/53074/easier-to-reach-tabs
I like the Firefox for android implementation.
Check this out: -
By the way, why can't be notes opening in a tab? Would be much nicer that the current convoluted way to access them.
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Can support android autofill?
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Clearing data on exit
has just surprised me. Is this a bug, or intended behaviour? If intended, then i request that the design be changed.In Settings, for this new option, i have all boxes ticked [same as always for the older setting we've had for ages]. When i have finished my browsing session & then close V, it then appears to be doing what i expected [albeit, i do wish that during its Closing process it would place a brief screen notice that it is clearing my data, like Firefox does].
However, this morning for the first time since this new feature arrived, upon the next V launch i chose to not browse, but instead press the V icon, then press the "Recent tabs" option in the dropdown menu. Obviously i expected this to be empty, as that is aka "History", which was supposed to have been cleared already.
It was not empty, holding instead a plethora of prior tabs. What?
When i expanded it to "Show full history" [which by definition should be empty], the damn thing gave me many dozens of tabs spanning the past three days.
Unhappy.
More info:
Manually clearing it all out, still works fine. That's what i've done for all the months prior to this new feature, as my final act before then closing V. I stopped doing this once i'd upgraded to the new version, as i trusted that this new feature was working as expected. Afaik that probably explains why that history went back 3 days. I've now manually cleared it again, but it seems that until this bug is fixed or the design is changed, this will be an ongoing task. -
Seems working fine for me, no history
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@Stardust Ta for testing & replying. Unfortunately then it appears that you & i are experiencing entirely opposite results. Prior to my post today i tested it three times. I retested it after writing the post but before actually posting it. Having just read your reply now i have tested again.
100% of my tests have given the identical outcome; V's new feature to supposedly clear data on exit, for my phone [2014 Motorola Moto G, 2nd Ed, Android 6], is NOT removing the History. For me the only way which works, is to continue manually clearing it before i close V, ie, for me, this new feature might as well not exist.
How can we understand these opposite outcomes?
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@Steffie said in A bunch of new features – Vivaldi Android Browser snapshot 2107.3:
How can we understand these opposite outcomes?
What about cookies, cached images, open tabs?
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@Stardust said in A bunch of new features – Vivaldi Android Browser snapshot 2107.3:
What about cookies, cached images, open tabs?
Pls note this from my OP:
@Steffie said in A bunch of new features – Vivaldi Android Browser snapshot 2107.3:
In Settings, for this new option, i have all boxes ticked [same as always for the older setting we've had for ages].
Ie, your pic is identical to my settings, per my OP.
I have absolutely no proof of this; it's purely wild speculation... but i wonder if V's design of this new settings relies on some Android capability not present in my comparatively old version [6] ?
If nobody else is able to confirm this problem, then i suppose i can't really proceed to officially raise it via a Bug Report.
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@Steffie Tried to clear vivaldi cache and/or data from android? I solved some glitches in past doing that.
I don't think the feature depends on Android Version, but who knows. -
@Hadden89 Good idea -- i do this regularly anyway, but had not done it for a while today so attended to it now.
Discovery -- this IMO proves that this V function is broken on my phone.
- Launched V
- Checked History -- bloody well heaps there again, grrrr.
- Went to my Android's Settings, checked current storage for Vivaldi - many tens of MB cached. Left it alone, for the moment.
- Toggled back to V, manually wiped its data then closed V.
- Toggled back to Android Settings - as expected V's cache now only a few kB.
- Relaunched V, did more browsing.
- Rechecked Android's V cache - back to tens of MB.
- Closed V without manually wiping.
- Rechecked Android's V cache - was still tens of MB, grrrrr.
- Relaunched V, checked History -- bloody well heaps there again, grrrr [ie, the previous session, which i'd not manually wiped]
- Manually wiped the data in V then closed it.
- Rechecked Android's V cache - as expected is now back to being only kBs.
Conclusion:
On my phone, for dog-knows why, manual data clearing works but the new delete data on exit absolutely does not work.