"Back to pinned URL" feature on pinned tabs
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A "back to pinned URL" context menu action/shortcut (or for example option+click on the tab icon) could take us back to the originally pinned URL on a given tab after we left it (intentionally or not) due to clicking on a link, using the address bar or whatever.
(background: Just moved from Chrome and Arc to Vivaldi again. Arc has some great, albeit disruptive ideas, but they did implement a great solution to the many "lost my pinned site" complaints on this forum. It would bring pinned URLs closer to bookmarks, and combined with Workspaces could turn into a very handy a per-workspace speed dial and help clean up what would otherwise be endless new tabs.)
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+1
personally I think this is the absolute best feature introduced by Arc. -
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@Pesala thanks for the suggestion, but this doesn't work for me.
Holding the Back button shows a set number of visited URLs. Once the list gets too long, the oldest URLs get deleted... including the pinned URL.I really the way Arc implemented this feature because it kinda gives me bookmarks & pinned tabs per workspace without needing a separate UI area. I don't need to open a menu, or a bookmarks bar that takes up screen space. And if I want to return to the pinned URL I just close the pinned tab with a single click or shortcut. Of course this is really subjective, but personally I feel like it the single feature that keeps me returning to Arc whenever I use my Mac. Still not enough to make me completely switch over from Vivaldi though...
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@finnolin If you are waiting that long to correct a mistake, then vote for Locking Pinned Tabs.
Use bookmarks to reopen the original URL in the pinned tab.
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@Pesala I am not sure what mistake you are referring to. Mind to elaborate?
I have already voted for the feature request you suggested. As well as several other requests that mention a comparable functionality (like bookmarks per workspace).
I commented on this one, because of all the browsers I tried, I think that Arc has the best implementation of pinned tabs. Again, this is of course completely subjective.Bookmarks are useful in their own way, but do not have the same functionality as mentioned in this feature request.
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@finnolin If I intentionally wish to open a link from a pinned tab, I will open it in a new tab (Shift+Click, Ctrl+Click, or Mouse Gesture).
If I do it accidentally, I go back with GestureLeft to the original URL, then reopen the link in a new tab.
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@Pesala sounds like you are trying to do the work that the browser should do.
The goal here would be to have pinned tabs that stay pinned to their original website and avoid losing them by closing them as normal tabs (see Arc)
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@guidod said in "Back to pinned URL" feature on pinned tabs:
sounds like you are trying to do the work that the browser should do
No. I just use the browser as it is, rather than wishing it was something it is not, Arc, Firefox, Chrome, or Brave.
Most feature requests will never see the light of day. Many will come eventually; a few will come sooner rather than later.
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@Pesala said in "Back to pinned URL" feature on pinned tabs:
No. I just use the browser as it is, rather than wishing it was something it is not, Arc, Firefox, Chrome, or Brave.
And that is completely fine. I love Vivaldi and I don't see myself switching to another browser anytime soon. If I would wish Vivaldi to be a different browser, then I would just use a different browser. I still think it is fine to recognize strong features in other products...
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@Pesala The internet is being dominated by Javascript and "single-page app" built by them, they use url for "routing" in the app without sending them to the server anymore, they are intentionally designed to be used in a single page, also opening multiple tabs for there complicated js-apps takes a lot of system resources.
Examples: Outlook, Gmail, x.com and so on.
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@finnolin said in "Back to pinned URL" feature on pinned tabs:
personally I think this is the absolute best feature introduced by Arc.
What is the point of pinning a URL without being able to go back to it? This defeats the entire point of pinning.
I think this feature and half a dozen others from Arc need to be copied into Vivaldi as soon as possible. I see an infinite amount of settings most of which are not in any way material.
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@alpercugun said in "Back to pinned URL" feature on pinned tabs:
This defeats the entire point of pinning.
In Vivaldi, the point of pinning is to prevent the tab being closed, not to prevent navigation to other links.
Vote for Locking Pinned Tabs if that is the behaviour that you want.
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@Pesala said in "Back to pinned URL" feature on pinned tabs:
In Vivaldi, the point of pinning is to prevent the tab being closed
That's bizarre. If you don't want the tab to be closed, don't close the tab.
Vote for Locking Pinned Tabs if that is the behaviour that you want
That's from 2018. Doesn't look like things are moving forward here.
Arc has half a dozen or so true improvements to core browsing and Vivaldi should copy them immediately.
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@alpercugun said in "Back to pinned URL" feature on pinned tabs:
If you don't want the tab to be closed, don't close the tab.
By the same logic, if you don’t want the URL to change in a pinned tab, Shift+Click on the link to open it in a new tab. -
@Pesala said in "Back to pinned URL" feature on pinned tabs:
if you don’t want the URL to change in a pinned tab, Shift+Click on the link to open it in a new tab
No, but it's called "pinned tab". Otherwise you can just drag a normal tab to the top of the list and have the same effect.
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Here's my idea:
Make middle-clicking a tab a per-tab Home button.
Middle-clicking returns the tab to the original URL.I have WhatsApp Web, Google Messages, Google Calendar, Weather, Trello, and Discord pinned tabs. I have a
folder in my toolbar with all of these in order. When a tab wanders to another URL (specific chat, message, forecast, board, etc) and I want to reset, I pull down the folder and click the corresponding link. I wish I could just middle-click to "re-home" the tab.This would work great for all tabs, come to think of it. Like ... you open a YouTube tab and instead of having to click a YouTube bookmarks again, you just middle-click to go back to the front page.
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I know how that works, but I don't want to open new tabs. I don't mind the URL of the pinned tab changing. I just want to be able to reset the pinned tab to its "home URL" with a middle-click on the tab.
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Said:
I just want to be able to reset the pinned tab to its "home URL" with a middle-click on the tab.
I just want to be him!
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