Please, add the option to decrease the tabs width when you have too many tabs opened.

[LineSlayerArt]

Hi, it's me again!

Having too many tabs in Vivaldi, turns into a problem, when you are in horizontal tab mode, because regardless of how many they are, their width don't decrease, leaving you with a looooong strand of tabs, that you either go scrolling, searching for the one you're looking for, or it force you to open the "Windows" side panel to find it faster.
Sometimes it doesn't matter if you can read most of the tab title, but just being able to see it's icon (of the site to which it belongs) and maybe some of the first letters (but most of the time that's not even necessary for me).

What I'm asking is for an option on the tab menu, to automatically decrease the tabs width after you reach 10 on your workspace.
Maybe with an optional slider to set a minimum width (just in case someone needs it).
Leaving the choice on the users hands, if they want to be able to read the tabs names or they want to be able to scroll faster through them.

Thanks!!!

[Barruel]

Hi, @LineSlayerArt.

Disable horizontal tab scrolling and your tabs will shrink to fit the tab bar.

[LineSlayerArt]

Hi there, @Barruel!

Thanks for the idea, but that is not an option for me, because as I mentioned, I have way too many opened tabs, and if I do as you say (in other words, reverting to the way the browser were displaying the tabs by default) I couldn't find nor move a single tab, because I have more than 200 tabs opened and they get squeezed tight and they shrink too much (they can't even show the icon of the website to which they belong).

That's why I'm requesting the developers to add this option, for me and every user that is used to browse and open a lot of tabs (I know there a lot of them out there).

Anyway, thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

[dude99]

@LineSlayerArt If you are constantly using more than 50 tabs, then you should consider switching to left/right tabbar position instead. Vertical tabbar will able to handle a lot of tabs at once much better than horizontal tabbar because it can display about 25 tabs at once (depend on your screen height) during maximized window mode.

[Hadden89]

@LineSlayerArt Never been a great fan of chrome tab shrinking which just seems to scream you are not supposed to do that. Btw, handling a lot of tab is better with vertical tabs or https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/25453/multiple-row-tabs
You'll never manage 200+ tabs with a minimum width option in horizontal/single row mode.

[Pesala]

@LineSlayerArt Please vote for the existing feature request. Minimum Tab Width.

I recommend organising your tabs better into stacks and workspaces. Opening 100s of tabs is not uncommon, but it causes many issues, and has been the reason for dozens of feature requests that many never be implemented.

Use Quick Commands (F2) to search for tabs by title.

[LineSlayerArt]

@dude99 I'm not "reinventing the wheel" here.
Opera, which was my previous secondary browser (before a somewhat recent update left it broken beyond hope, with bugs that erase ALL your tabs almost every time you close it, among other things), and it made my life quite miserable for some time until I said "enough is enough", and the other one is Mozilla (my primary browser), and both of them already have what I'm requesting.
Let me explain it to you:
In Opera when you have too many tabs open, they start to shink, but it with a limit (unlike Chrome which shrinks everything until you can't recognize anything), leaving the icon and the first letters of the tab's name visible, combined with the tab bar scroll, works amazingly well (I would even recomend you to see it for yourself, if it weren't so buggy and painful to use right now), and the scroll moves with acceleration, which allows you to reach the end of the row, pretty fast.
And Firefox works very similar to Opera in that regard.
In other words, what I'm requesting, already exists and works amazingly well with my pipeline of work, I just hope other people support this request, so one day they could add this feature to Vivaldi.

[LineSlayerArt]

@Hadden89 I'm not talking about the awful shrinking system that Chrome uses, which limits your browsing too much (aside the bottomless pit of resources that is that browser to begin with).

And to use the vertical tab mode is even less practical., because the tabs keep their lengh (and so does my screen) so in that mode you can see fewer tabs than in horizontal mode, which is not very convenient.

The upper horizontal tab is my preferred way to display my tabs on any browser I use, so, having to get used to a new mechanic seems impractical, especially, when almost every other browser has this feature.
But I chose Vivaldi because is the most similar to Opera, in the way you can organize your tabs (with workspaces and groups).

And regarding what you say about managing 200+ tabs in a single row with minimum (showing only the icon fo the site and the first letter of it's title) is what I used to do everyday on Opera, and with a few tweaks it could be possible in this browser too.

That's why I thought it could be reasonable to ask the developers to add this feature to Vivaldi.

[LineSlayerArt]

@Pesala Thanks for the heads up about the other request about tabs width.

Actually I've already been organizing my tabs in workspaces (I'm still trying to add the "stacks" feature to my pipeline of work though).
I know it's not uncommon (I know a lot of other users that do the same) to open 200+ tabs in a single row, I do it all the time (not all at the same time though), because I'm opening and closing tabs session after session of browsing, but I haven't encounter any issue regarding performance so far, which is nice.

What I'm using as an alternative for now, is toggling the windows panel (with a keyboard shortcut) to access the tab I need way faster than I could since I started using Vivaldi.

But I hope someday on the near future, the developers could add the features I need to have an even better browsing experience with this browser.

[iAN CooG]

@LineSlayerArt said in Please, add the option to decrease the tabs width when you have too many tabs opened.:

automatically decrease the tabs width after you reach 10 on your workspace

That's what it already does, but with tab bar "scrolling" disabled.
A new setting would be "Enable tab shrinking" under "Enable tab scrolling"

optional slider to set a minimum width (just in case someone needs it).

That's the actual important part of the request and I support it.
I'm not a tab hoarder but the problem is easily reporducible by opening 20+ tabs with no tab bar "scrolling" enabled, and everything that remains is just the tab icon.
We have only "Active tab minimum width", all it's needed is another slider with "Inactive tab minimum width".

[dude99]

@LineSlayerArt said in Please, add the option to decrease the tabs width when you have too many tabs opened.:

And to use the vertical tab mode is even less practical., because the tabs keep their lengh (and so does my screen) so in that mode you can see fewer tabs than in horizontal mode, which is not very convenient.

I did created 2 CSS mod to tackle this problem, but unfortunately I no longer able to support it since v6, so it's getting more & more obsolete for each update... It suppose to auto shrink the tabbar width when you don't need it, it looks like this:

or

But to each of their own, I hope you will get your request adopted by v team. Good luck!

[LonM]

Hi, Thanks for your feature request.

This looks like a duplicate of https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/85908/minimum-tab-width Please vote & discuss at that thread, thank you.

You can use the forum search first to see if you can find similar requests. If that doesn't work, I've catalogued all the requests here.