Hide tab bar on tablets

crossLain

It would be really useful to be able to hide the tab bar on tablets. I own an 8 inch tablet and the tab bar consumes a big portion of the screen. I could not find any workaround or hack. It would be great to have a "Show Tab Bar" switch which is available for mobile devices.

I don't really understand why it's been removed in the first place...

johnnyGitar

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johnnyGitar

Tip: normally all bars are hidden when you scroll down a web page with your finger; for this you have to use the following setting:
@crosslain said in Hide tab bar on tablets:

look here:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/69437/option-to-hide-the-tab-stack-bar-in-landscape-mode
search for ([strg]+[F] or [F3]): @habusan johnnyGitar 10:26 02.01.2022
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#Tip - Translation
#Tip - Original German

Tip: normally all bars are hidden when you scroll down a web page with your finger;
for this you have to use the following setting:

Go to: Vivaldi menu button Vivaldi menu > Settings:
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Always Show Controls | out |

#Tip - Original German
Tip: normalerweise werden alle Leisten ausgeblendet, wenn du eine Webseite mit dem Finger nach unten scrollst;
dafür mußt du folgende Einstellung verwenden:

Gehe zu: Vivaldi menu button Vivaldi menu > Einstellungen:
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Bedienelemente immer anzeigen | aus |

jo7ueb

I also need this feature.

I have an option to enable/disable tab bar in mobile phone.
But when it comes to tablet, my option disappears.

Users shoud have the option, not to be forced to use tab bar.
This is not Vivaldi-like behavior.

DrPoncho

@jo7ueb said in Hide tab bar on tablets:

I also need this feature.

I have an option to enable/disable tab bar in mobile phone.
But when it comes to tablet, my option disappears.

Users shoud have the option, not to be forced to use tab bar.
This is not Vivaldi-like behavior.

Same here, I thought Vivaldi was all about user customization

thedimpause

Would definitely be nice on iPad - quite a bit of wasted (usually) space at top of screen for the tab bar.

abm0

@johnnyGitar said in Hide tab bar on tablets:

Tip: normally all bars are hidden when you scroll down a web page with your finger

That's too conditional, it's unreliable. Some pages put their scrollable content in some kind of container that makes Vivaldi think the page isn't being scrolled at all, and then the tabs bar just stays in place. We would still need a manual option to force-hide tabs (or go fullscreen) to cover also those situations (and I'm talking smartphone here, I'm not even using a tablet but still regularly run into situations where this is annoying).

And when the website has its own in-page oversized top bar that won't scroll out of view either, and if you want to try typing some message into that page in that situation, with the soft keyboard covering another half of the screen... good luck seeing even one line of text while you're typing. (I've resorted to making fonts smaller just to get some sliver of visibility in that kind of situation, and of course that landed me straight in "fullscreen YT videos are now cut off" land ).

Perrine

The lack of this option breaks the UI on folding devices. If you have tab bars disabled while on the cover screen of a folding device, it remains "disabled" on the inner screen. The tab bar is still there, but instead of displaying tabs, it's just solid colored, unused space. I thought this was a random glitch in the UI, but it just seems to be stubborn inflexibility of the UI for no reason.

Without this option being available for tablet-sized displays, you cannot hide the tab bar on the cover screen without having a broken UI for the inner screen. At this point it's not a discussion about implementing a feature, it's a discussion about fixing a bug.

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mib2berlin

@Perrine
Hi, if you think this is a bug report it to the Vivaldi bug tracker.
The forum is to get feedback from other user to verify such issues.

For information on how to report a bug, see this URL: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/report-a-bug-in-vivaldi-android/
Once that is done, please share the bug number (beginning with VBA-). Thanks.
On the form, you can add your email address. Once submitted, you'll get a confirmation. You can reply to this with any logs or further info.

Cheers, mib