Automatically close tabs after a period of Time
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Please implement the ability to automatically close tabs after a certain period of day in the Windows version.
Vivaldi for Android has the ability to automatically close tabs after a certain period of day; the Windows version does not, so please implement this feature.
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I cannot comment as to the Windows or MacOS versions of Vivaldi. The Linux version also does not have this feature.
The feature may be specific (or unique) to Android.
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I would be furious if a tab closes without my consent, but probably the request comes from someone that hoards hundreds of tabs and never closes them
I suggest to change habits because in the moment a tab gets closed without your consent and you'll need it, you'll regret having this option.http://iancoog.altervista.org/
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@iAN-CooG At least with the Linux version, any tabs left open during the previous Vivaldi session, will automatically open again upon starting a new session. This is the default behavior.
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@edwardp said in Please implement the ability to automatically close tabs after a certain period of day in the Windows version.:
@iAN-CooG At least with the Linux version, any tabs left open during the previous Vivaldi session, will automatically open again upon starting a new session. This is the default behavior.
Apart that's just a setting in every version, "Startup with/Last Session" and I also use it, that doesn't have anything to do with the request on closing automatically tabs after some time. I don't see what your post wants to communicate.
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@iAN-CooG
Hi, it is a new feature on Android:
I have a tab with sync-internals always open, so I change the default to Never.
We have user with 500 tabs on Android, I guess they forgot what is in 300 tabs anyway, so they can be closed.Cheers, mib
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I second a wish for an auto close feature based on time since last visit on Windows. I have about a thousand tabs, which is totally unmanageable, so a little help in tab cleaning would be awesome.
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Hi,
Do you mean as Android?
Days / Weeks / Months or
Since you mentioned "Day" something like that:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/93849/auto-close-tabs-after-inactivity-inversion-of-control/ -
I would also like to set Vivaldi to automatically close tabs when they are not used after a certain time (like one day, three days, one week, one month and so on...).
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I've recently tried out Arc Browser, and this is somehow my favorite feature of that browser. It completely changes how I use a web browser. You can place tabs into a separate section within Arc's equivalent of a Workspace to keep them from closing, so you don't lose anything you care about, but the tabs that you opened and never got around to closing just disappear on their own.
I currently have 1500 tabs across four Workspaces, and there is no way I'm ever going to go back and vet all of them. I would love for Vivaldi to have been able to keep this from happening in the first place, so that I didn't have to be anxious about closing something I didn't mean to, if I were to just blow away everything.
I will admit, this could be accomplished by changing my workflow to move tabs I want to work on later into another Workspace, but that's not quite as automatic as Vivaldi cleaning up my trash for me, so to speak.
I also would imagine this would save on resources, since even if they're hibernated, Vivaldi has to keep track of those tabs and have them ready for if the user wants to load one.
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@AROAH In my opinion, this feature request is absurd. The case for Android is different to that for desktop due to UI space and system resources, battery use, etc.
There is already a Reading List in which to save tabs you might want to read later. Add a tab to the reading list then close it. Your workspace remains uncluttered, system resources are saved, and your bookmarks do not increase exponentially as the days go by. When a tab has been read, or is no longer wanted, just delete it from the Reading List.
The Reading List is basically a list of temporary bookmarks.
@AROAH said in Automatically close tabs after a period of Time:
I would love for Vivaldi to have been able to keep this from happening in the first place
That is what happens if you add tabs to the Reading List instead of keeping them open to read later (maybe).
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@Pesala I genuinely don't see the difference in usefulness between the mobile and desktop versions. I'm often bouncing between subjects so often that I have dozens of tabs open before I know it. In Arc, this takes care of itself. It may be lazy, but I would rather not have to think about needing to go back and delete all my unimportant leftover tabs.
I concede that this problem could likely be mostly solved with a change in workflow, but this feature is such a game changer for me that it keeps me wanting to use Arc in spite of the Windows version being, frankly, half-baked (understandably so, being openly unfinished).
The Reading List offers a potential solution, but it has only the most barebones of organization. I would want it to at the very least be divided by Workspace, but would prefer for it to have an actual folder structure. And even then, we're talking about yet more menu traversing when the browser could just... do it. I must also admit that every time I've attempted to use any sort of read-it-later solution, it's ended up just as cluttered as my tabs are now.
I would argue against the notion of the feature being absurd by pointing out that the given purpose of Vivaldi is to be a highly customizable browser, which contains a myriad of features that someone might find to be borderline useless. For example, why have Web Panels when we have pinned tabs and tab tiling? Why have tiling if we have Panels? Why have Workspaces when we have windows and tab stacks? Why have built-in ad blocking when uBlock is readily available? Why have a screenshot tool when every OS has a screenshot tool? Why have groupware tools built into the browser when everyone just uses webmail services, anyway? I could go on.
I have never once even considered using the RSS feed reader or calendar tools in Vivaldi, and I couldn't use the mail feature if I wanted to, which I don't. I personally see a browser as a browser. It's not a mail client, a calendar application, or a word processor, video editor, music player, etc.; and yet it absolutely is all of those things for numerous people. So while I do think most would find this feature to be as superfluous as I think at least a third of Vivaldi's features are, it's well within the spirit of the project to see what another browser is doing and add it into the amalgamation that is Vivaldi.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to then argue that this logic implies that Vivaldi should become the very essence of feature creep, because it does. If you ask me, that's just what browsers, in general, have become. If you want a product to be the perfect solution for everyone, then it has to have all of the features, even ones 80% of your user base will never touch.
I do also want to be clear that I don't think this is a high priority feature add. I'd much rather have things like Workspace and Panel syncing or pinned tabs that exist across all Workspaces. That doesn't change that I do very much want this feature.
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Plus 1 on this feature.
I love this feature on Arc, I have my most important pages pinned and to have the peace of mind that all other temp tabs closes by itself when closing down is nice to have.
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@Pesala said in Automatically close tabs after a period of Time:
In my opinion, this feature request is absurd.
I don't agree at all. And also it shouldn't be mandatory for every user. There should be an option under settings to decide how long before archiving the tabs or to simply disable the feature for those who don't want it (like Vivaldi already does on mobile).
Some people like me, are tab hoarders. I have real difficulties to close tabs when I'm researching a topic, and it leads me to procrastination and a lot of distractions the next day when I sit again in front of my computer. I tried also Arc and it helps me a lot to focus on my goals as I have to manually take action to save a tab from being automatically closed, instead of the opposite. For people like me, it's a godsend.
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Not sure how to vote on this (just an upvote of the original post?), so wanted to show my own support for this.
As the Arc browser is now abandoned (still functional on Windows but will forever miss a lot of Mac features), this is the perfect time for Vivaldi to add the feature and, in doing so, entice more users over.
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@joelcharig
Yes, use the like button in the first post.
I know the extension Tab Wrangler have this feature.Cheers, mib
