Bug: Ctrl + Tab does not cycle tabs in recent order
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This highly annoying issue is still there. Any comments from developers?
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No developer comments of which I'm aware but I did submit a bug report (ref VB-97892) about this today. I regularly use Vivaldi on 2 macOS devices and 1 Linux desktop and the issue is present on both the Macs, but not the Linux computer.
FWIW, here is a screen recording of the issue. It's easy to reproduce.
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@rucker Forgive my ignorant intrusion (this isn't a topic that intrigues or bothers me!) but — I just downed a can of Foster's Premium — and decided to take a fresh view of the CTRL-Tab behavior...
Ya know what my inebriated self saw?
Each successive use of the shortcut adds its results to the queue... Looks random, but it ain't!
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@OakdaleFTL Thank you sir, and thank Foster's for your perspective! It does seem like something along those lines is going on (but without removing anything from the queue/stack). Interesting!
Although when I have an existing session with many tabs (as I typically do) and I open a new one when the current tab is somewhere in the middle, the tab order gets even more confusing.
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@rucker (Don't confuse me!
) Perhaps freezing the queue at the 1st invocation of Ctrl-Tab would yield the behavior you expect... But how to determine when successive invocations have stopped? 
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Side-note: Keeping to a single tab stack (or perhaps a workspace...)
wouldshould give you the sort of tabs history that single tabs have, via < and >. But the premeditation required somewhat defeats the purpose of the function...Oh: But simply taking the queue directly from the (book-marked by the invocation...) browsing history would do the job!
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@OakdaleFTL not always. Sometimes recently used tab is just sent to the end of the cycle list
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Up.
The problem persists and affects my productivity greatly. While I could use keyboard only, I have to switch to mouse and back.
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Same here. Happens seemingly at random, and quite frequently, but some pages seem worse than others - e.g. with GitLab it happens all the time. My tab settings are all default I think. MacOS, Vivaldi 6.1.3035.204 (Stable channel) (arm64)
Anyone found a workaround? Any open bug issue we can follow?Found several other reports about this issue as well:
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So happy I'm not alone in suffering from this maddening behavior.
I have the feeling it happens more often when I quickly try to use ctrl-tab to go back and forth between to tabs. It works once or twice and then suddenly the tab I just came from is at the end of the list instead of the next position. -
And this bug is still with us. It is a biggest issue in Vivaldi at all.
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We must ensure that this software bug doesn't go unnoticed. I'm on Vivaldi version 6.2.3105.51 (Stable channel) (arm64) and bug still persists.
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I'm sad that this issue hasn't been addressed in the latest version.
I've posted about this in another thread on this forum, but I wanted to share my observations here as well.
The problem seems to occur randomly when pressing Ctrl + Tab, but it actually appears to be influenced by the timing of the key press.
To reproduce the issue, assign a single key, like F1, to the "Tab Cycler Forward" shortcut.
( you can also enable "Single Key Shortcuts" and choose any single alphabet key. )Then you should be able to reproduce the problem more easily.
For tab history ordered as A, B, C, and D, I expected them to rearrange to B, A, C, D after using the shortcut. However, they shift to B, C, D, A.
Additionally, mapping "Tab Cycler Forward" to a mouse gesture yields the same outcome.
Hope this brings a bit more clarity to the topic.
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@jon I'd even like to donate to get this bug addressed. Vivaldi is a powerful working tool, I use many of it's features to manage a dozen of projects and it helps me dramatically to get my job done. But this bug is just ruining my work process sometimes.
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Would not this entire discussion lapse, if the algorithm for the function were published?
(But keep in mind that one definition of "bug" is "an undocumented feature"!)
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Strange, for me this bug was fixed months ago.
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@Truemotion I face it every day or two.
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This bug is really annoying, I run into it all the time, and I'd be willing to make a donation to fix it too.
Ignoring bugs like this, Vivaldi is the best browser. -
What is set here? Try to change
Just realized that it was about Tab Cycler. Which always was in load order, not recent. -
It's not about hotkeys as the bug is not 100% persistent and happens from time to time
