Solved New tab extension blocks history, bookmarks, notes and calendar pages

nomadic

@smerugu28 That one required a bit more experience. If you haven't done any coding projects, you might not recognize where to look in the folder structure.

Good hunting @juanvase

Streptococcus

@jaytsecan
If you use chrome://bookmarks and chrome://history, those work. They may look like protocol vivaldi:// in the address bar, but using chrome:// works. You can also access the bookmarks and history from Tools > Bookmarks and Tools > History.

ZEROIC

I've installed a styled newtab extention from chrome store these days and toggle the "controlled by extentions" option under Settings>Tabs>New Tab Page,then the history page was unavailable.
When I open vivladi://history,it only shows a blank page.
But once I untoggle this option, history page works again.
It's so confused that settings for newtab page would affects history page.

Pathduck

@zeroic Hello and Welcome to the Vivaldi Community

Unfortunately this is a known bug in Vivaldi. But there is a workaround, I need to know the extension full name and URL.

ZEROIC

@pathduck Well it's infinity new tab pro,and installed from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/infinity-new-tab-pro/nnnkddnnlpamobajfibfdgfnbcnkgngh
Thanks for your works

Pathduck

@zeroic OK workaround until bug is fixed:

Use URL chrome-extension://nnnkddnnlpamobajfibfdgfnbcnkgngh/newtab/index.html (keep in mind that the URL will be different for other extensions)
In Settings > General, set Homepage = Specific Page (URL)
In Settings > General, set Startup with = Homepage (or what you want)
In Settings > Tabs, set New Tab Page = Homepage (or what you want)

You can play around with settings, depending on how you want it, for instance you can use another site as Homepage, and instead set New Tab Page to Specific Page (URL). Vivaldi is very flexible here.

//MODEDIT: marked as "solution" for better visibility

ZEROIC

@pathduck said in History page unavailable if "controlled by extentions" is toggled:

chrome-extension://nnnkddnnlpamobajfibfdgfnbcnkgngh/newtab/index.html

Good idea!History available again.I don't need to install more extentions to get its funtions back.

iTolyan

The bookmarks manager no longer works for me. Has anyone else had this problem?

It's literally just a blank page. {see screenshot}

I love Vivaldi but really need to access the 'manager' or some sort of workaround.

Thanks in advance for any help

+Travis

Pesala

@itolyan Do you see any bookmarks in the Bookmark Panel?

luetage

@itolyan What Vivaldi version are you using and are you running any new tab extension?

iTolyan

@pesala Yes the bookmarks panel works but I have a lot of organizing I need to do and the manager is so much better (when it worked haha)

iTolyan

@luetage Version 5.1.2567.66 (Stable channel) (x86_64)

I'll double check my tab extensions again. I may have missed something previously.

luetage

@itolyan A “new tab” extension changes the new tab to something loaded by the extension. You would see it immediately when opening a new tab. There’s been a bug that disabled bookmarks/calendar/notes/history pages when using such an extension. So yeah, check all your extensions and try disabling them. Then report back whether any extension messes with the internal pages and provide a chrome webstore link to it.

iTolyan

@luetage It's the "Momentum" extension that replaces a new blank tab. I never thought to check it because the bookmarks manager is a destination/setting, not a 'new tab' (in my mind).

I really like that Momentum extension so I guess I'll just have to disable it when I use the bookmarks manager (or turn off 'new tab controlled by extension' works also).

Thanks for getting me thinking and ultimately finding the conflicting extension.

luetage

@itolyan Yeah, it’s a known bug, you will have to wait for a fix. And yes, disabling »new tab controlled by extension« is a good workaround. But you might as well install an extension manager extension to toggle extensions quickly, without visiting the extensions page.

edit: see also this topic ☛ https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/539225 and the manual workaround

iTolyan

@luetage Nice! Thank you! Your extension mgr will make it super easy now!

TheBetterStory

Regardless of how I navigate to my bookmark and history pages (quick command, keyboard shortcuts, etc.), I only get a blank page with my theme's background. I'm getting an error message when I try to upload a screenshot, but there's a Gyazo screenshot here of the "history" page: https://i.gyazo.com/c232c556846850352acde29967c21e8c.jpg

It hasn't been a major issue so far because I can just use the sidebar to access my bookmarks, but it occurred to me today when I tried to view my history that there isn't actually a way to do that right now, as far as I know.

Pathduck

@thebetterstory I'm guessing you're using a new tab extension? Which one?

This is a known bug, hopefully it will be fixed in next release, there's certainly been enough posts about it.

There is a workaround you can use until then, but I'll need to know which extension to figure out the URL to use instead.

TheBetterStory

@pathduck Ah, thank you! I didn't see anything from a cursory search for "history," I should have looked harder.

I figured out how to add my history to my side panel, where it's visible, so that's sufficient for now. Disabling Tab for a Cause made both pages work again; I suppose I can just turn it off whenever I want to access them the normal way. It's good to hear that this has already been brought up, hopefully a solution is being worked on.

TheBetterStory

If it helps, this started as soon as Vivaldi themes were introduced and I tried my first custom one.