Want "Select All Tabs"
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I often have two or three dozen tabs open and need to reload them. Doing a group select in the tab column seems to be the only way, followed by choosing "Reload xx tabs" on the right-click menu.
I want a right-click option to "Select All Tabs".
Or make Ctl-A work, as is standard for Windows. -
@Vivipop Use the Window Panel. Select the Window, right-click, Reload.
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@Vivipop
Hi, Firefox has this feature, as workaround choose the first tab > choose the last tab with Shift = all tabs are selected.Cheers, mib
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That's what I'm doing, and when I have to scroll to catch all the tabs it's a pain. Hence my feature request.
TBH I think "Select all tabs" and / or Ctrl-A working should have been in already. They've got to be almost trivial to add, relatively speaking. As would be "Reload all tabs".
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That's what I'm doing. And with dozens of tabs it's clunky and error-prone. Hence my feature request.
I just want a simple "Select All Tabs". And / or Ctrl-A working in the Tab group.
Then btw I plan to use right-click and the existing "Reload xxx Tabs" to achieve my actual goal which is "Reload All Tabs". I have a separate request in for that.
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@Vivipop If you want a workaround until something like this gets implemented, then an extension should be able to handle these functions easily; both selecting all tabs and refreshing them.
Take a look and see if there is one that works for you, otherwise, maybe I can write up a quick one.
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Thanks for the offer! I had searched earlier and seen discussion of an extension for this (from 2018) but that sort of petered out in some concern over Chrome API details. And I got the idea that an extension would be lost each time Vivaldi updates.
In that same thread I now see that 'otto' pointed out use of the Vivaldi's Window panel. With that open, one can right-click on the top listing of a group of tabs and Reload them altogether.
So I can use that as a workaround, though it eats up a lot of screen space.
If you did write an extension I think it would be lost with each update --? If not, and if it's actually easy (vide the Chrome API concerns) then yes, that would help me and others that have occasionally wanted this.
Thank you
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@Vivipop said in Want "Select All Tabs":
If you did write an extension I think it would be lost with each update --? If not, and if it's actually easy (vide the Chrome API concerns) then yes, that would help me and others that have occasionally wanted this.
@LonMand@luetagein the thread you mentioned were talking about JavaScript modifications to Vivaldi's user interface rather than extensions. UI modifications do get lost after each update, but an unpacked extension, which is what I would make, would basically work like any other extension you download from the Web Store. And there are no concerns with Chrome API availability. Most of the APIs work in Vivaldi other than a few troublesome ones (none that I would need for this extension).The only thing you will need to do is enable developer mode on
vivaldi://extensions/and use theload unpackedbutton to load the extension I write.
I will try to make it tomorrow. Should be quick since I have a few other simple extensions that are similar enough.
How are you wanting to trigger the refresh? Using a keyboard shortcut? Clicking the extension icon? Or using a context menu item (would probably have to be on the page context menu because I don't think you can put it in the tab bar menu)?
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Clicking the extension icon would be fine. Hotkeys are great but (a) I forget them and (b) I have no idea which one to suggest since Vivaldi & Chrome must already have many assigned.
Thanks for help on this. I was using the Window panel work-around today and while it's much better than manually selecting my tabs, it does take about 20% of the screen space I have available for Vivaldi. So an extension will be great.
Feature creep ideas... some people wanted "Select All" tabs whereas I want "Reload All". Of course the latter is only another menu pick from the former. But maybe "click" on the extension button would Select All, and "shift-click" would Reload All.
I'll be happy with either one. Thx again.
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@Vivipop said in Want "Select All Tabs":
But maybe "click" on the extension button would Select All, and "shift-click" would Reload All.
The button click listener doesn't return any modifier keys being pressed. It might be possible to hack something together, but it would make it much more complicated.
Would a right click context menu option on the extension button work? I could also make a basic options page to toggle which function is on the main click and which is in the context menu.
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@nomadic I certainly don't want to make it complicated and will be very pleased with whichever method you decide on. A couple of mouse clicks are nothing compared to accurately selecting a long list of tabs. Thank you.
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Hello, @Vivipop
One way to select them is also by clicking and holding Control, there you can configure all tabs and reload them periodically, move them or just close them, whatever you want!
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@RealMat0s I work with long tab lists - often dozens. And I need to reload them all very often. But - under my control... I can't have them reload periodically, which would really mess up my work in any one of them.
Manually selecting many tabs accurately is the tedious part. Once that's done I can right-click and choose "Reload". So a button for "Select All" will be very good, and others want that too.
Optimum for me is a button that will "Reload All" but that's a nice-to-have in addition to "Select All".
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@Vivipop Well, you know how I said Chrome Extension API support wasn't anything to worry about, that unfortunately wasn't true...
It looks like selecting tabs (also known as highlighting) via the API is broken. I did get the refreshing of all tabs working, but some more testing needs to be done to figure out what is going on with selecting.
Here is the extension in it's current state:
https://github.com/ortiza5/reload-and-select-all-tabsI disabled the select all tabs option for now, but the refreshing works based on my limited testing. It should refresh all tabs in the current window by clicking on the icon. It can be changed if you want it to refresh all windows at once (it will likely be an option once I figure out the selection problem).
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Your "Reload All Tabs" extension works great! One left-click and all my tabs are reloaded, and no need to have the Window pane open. That's all I personally needed - so thank you very much.
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@Vivipop Guess I will scrap all the "selecting all tab" code since it doesn't work and you don't really need it.
You can switch to that version once it is done if you want a cleaner extension without all the dead code.
Edit: It is now all cleaned up. https://github.com/ortiza5/reload-all-tabs
Also, do you want a specific icon for the extension (would probably just change it to a reload icon with a colored background circle)? Or a specific color for the background circle?
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Got it, and it too works fine. And the icon is perfect... Thanks again.
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