Previous/Next history gesture too sensitive
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Hi, I'm having problems with the gesture that goes back/forward in history in Vivaldi. I keep activating it accidentally when scrolling and it's getting really annoying, especially with pages like Facebook, where you are then doomed to scroll for a long time to get where you were after reloading the page. Don't get me wrong, I'm really grateful that you added the feature, it's just that it didn't use to happen to me with Chrome.
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I agree with you.
Some time this feature is annoying, is there a way to turn it off?
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Hi,
I didn't ever had such problem with mouse gestures. How exactly do you use gesture by an accident? I mean gestures are activated by right mouse button and move, so please descripe steps, what exactly you did.
Also you can try to adapt mouse gesture settings: Vivaldi \ Tools \ Settings \ Mouse.
- Edit gesture action: History Back / History Forward
- Remove gesture action: History Back / History Forward
- In worst case even Disable gestures completely: Allow Gestures
Hint: Mouse gesture actions can be configured in latest Developer release, not in Stable release (1.1.453.59 (Stable channel) (64-bit)) yet.
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I'm not speaking about that gestures. I disabled them already.
I'm speaking about gestures which are active by using 2 fingers on the trackpad, often scrolling left to right accidentally activate the gesture to go to previous page.
Actually Safari does the same. -
Hi,
then I guess you should change settings of your Touchpad drivers/application. Because as I get it, it has nothing to do with browser itself.
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Hi,
then I guess you should change settings of your Touchpad drivers/application. Because as I get it, it has nothing to do with browser itself.
You right! It was a setting of OSX! I finally found a way to disable them from Setting!
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You're welcome! I'm glad to hear that it's working now ;).
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Sorry for not responding!
I'm indeed dealing with the Macbook's trackpad. Sure, I can disable it but it's very useful. It's just that to activate it in Safari/Chrome, you have to actually swipe left to right (90°), meaning it's hard to activate it by accident, whereas in Vivaldi, 45° is enough to activate it. :((
Btw. I'm using the latest SS and the latest OS X.
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I agree that disabling the feature system-wide is not really an option. When implemented correctly, it is actually really useful. The problem with Vivaldi's implementation is that even a small, slow two-finger swipe triggers history back. This has two consequences:
- you can't scroll left on a page or within page elements
- since the gesture is much more sensitive than in other browsers, it is very easy to trigger it accidentally
In Opera, Firefox, and Safari, those issues are not present.
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Hi guys!
I would like to precise that i did not disabled all the gestures from mac os x, but only the back swipe with 2 fingers to reload previous page, all the other gestures are enabled.
I agree that gesture are useful, i can still rotate, zoom-in, move windows with 3 fingers and so on…
so if you really find it too sensitive you can disable it from System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Other Actions, here just disable the option that allows you to scroll back to previous page with 2 fingers.
Hope it can be useful!
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@ChimeraTech:
Are you on a Mac? This post makes me think you have not tested OP's problem on one. It is entirely too sensitive and as the person above me said, it makes it hard to scroll left within page elements
Hi, no, I'm not on OS. As I didn't know in what OS problem appeared, I tried to use some general tips to help. But from comments I'm not sure if it's problem of browser or OS setting itself.
So if problem is related to OSX only, I can't help you more with it. Maybe try to report this bug here -> https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/. -
I've experienced problems with the Navigate Back being triggered when scrolling vertically as well. Almost any horizontal movement seems to return me to the previous page when using the two-finger scroll. It gets very annoying after a while.
As t3knomanser mentioned as well, horizontal scrolling is messed up when trying to view overflowing text in fixed sized container boxes. Scrolling to the end of the text on a line is fine but trying to scroll back to the beginning triggers Navigate Back when it shouldn't.
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ChimeraTech said:
"Swiping left on a magic mouse on Mac no longer goes back to the previous page. Anyone else on 1.2 stable?"
Well… Same problem here. And, unfortunately, it's also happening with version 1.3.501.6 (Snapshot).
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Just wanted to chime in that this is a big frustration for me too. I have given up using Vivaldi since this sensitivity issue showed up. I can't make my way scrolling through an article without accidentally triggering Previous. I'm on 1.2.490.39 (OSX).
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one more thumbs up to fix this issue, see also my other thread on this.
Please please fix this asap. This is really a deal breaker in daily heavy usage for the browser.
Thx
Gasgeber
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The issue with two finger swiping on a trackpad being too sensitive should definitely be fixed in current developer snapshots (e.g., v1.3.501.6).
What is not entirely clear yet is whether the issue is the same for trackpads and Magic Mice or not. If you are using at least v1.3.501.6 and it is still extremely easy to trigger 'history back' by scrolling down with your Magic Mouse (or other input device), please let us know.
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@Te0sX Magic Mouse support has been problematic on Vivaldi for me too. It's also problematic under Chrome/Chromium as well but works fine on Safari and Firefox. It also looks like Google is trying to fix and refactor some of their touch gesture code.
With the latest Chrome 56-beta, the Magic Mouse still isn't working quite right. It used to suddenly stop responding to swipe gestures. Now its sometimes either too sensitive or not sensitive enough. Sometimes only rapid swipes are recognized. All of these issues in the same browsing session!
I have no idea whether these issues with Vivaldi are due to problems in the Vivaldi code, the Chromium code that Vivaldi is built on top of, or both. I've provided feedback on both the Vivaldi and Chromium issues.
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I've had this problem as well, but slightly different. I've always had the back/forward gesture to three fingers instead of two in System Preferences. Vivaldi still treats it too sensitively -- for me, the problem is that it goes back or forward more than one page if I do anything but an extremely tiny swipe.
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Strange. For me, with the v1.8.770.46 snapshot on an older MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6, back/forward swipe gestures finally seem to be working perfectly again, with both the Trackpad and Magic Mouse. I also get the "arrow indicator" showing that the swipe gesture is about to hit the threshold where it triggers the back/forward function, and it doesn't trigger until I actually lift my finger(s) from the mouse or trackpad.
Swipe gestures are also handled properly on pages with horizontal scrolling; e.g. the back function no longer triggers when I scroll and hit the left edge of the page.
Sorry, I know this is of no help to you but the Vivaldi folks also need to know that this is at least working right somewhere.
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Kudos to @Vivaldi-Team (and everyone involved) for all their hard work to resolve this really annoying issue! I'm tagging this thread as
Resolved, if there are no objections.Cheers!
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