How to disable the "What's New" tab?
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@barbudo2005
Why are you reacting so aggressively with insults to a simple question? And who gave you permission to speak for everyone? At least that's how you behave. It seems like you don't care about other opinions at all. If you had listened carefully, you would have at least noticed that it was never about disabling "Whats New" information for everyone by default. No one said they were pointless in general. It was more about them pushing themselves to the foreground, and in my case at least 4 times each time. So an option or different behavior would help some. -
@barbudo2005 said in How to disable the "What's New" tab?:
I am presuming
..everything. For everyone. Assuming it's correct.
It's just you in your head, mate.
"If the Vivaldi Team thinks that showing every 2 or 3 months a tab with the improvements is a useful and necessary thing, then why give an option to remove it."
Because you wouldn't have a place to type that, if there weren't a clear and expressed demand for it.
Get off your high horse; it's drunk.
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In my opinion, it is a sensible feature to show What is New with every Stable release. Firefox shows a similar page with every update. Few people read the Help file before asking questions on this support forum, on Reddit, or Mastadon. Vivaldi now includes a Mastadon Panel by default. I never use it, so I have removed it from my Snapshot build, which is my default browser.
The point is, too many users ask dumb questions, because they did none of the above. If the What's New page can preempt at least some of those questions, or make users better informed, the volunteers will have more time to help users, and spend less time flagging duplicate threads, which then require the attention of Moderators to archive them.
If anyone already knows what is new in the latest version, and does not want to read it again, Ctrl+W takes only a second. Life is too short to let such trivial issues annoy the shit out of you.
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@enompado said in How to disable the "What's New" tab?:
If you had listened carefully, you would have at least noticed that it was never about disabling "Whats New" information for everyone by default. No one said they were pointless in general. It was more about them pushing themselves to the foreground, and in my case at least 4 times each time. So an option or different behavior would help some.
@Pesala
It seems to me that we are going round in circles because it seems that those arguing against it may not be reading exactly what the arguments are and what improvement is wanted. Can we please move beyond the misunderstood desire to remove the Whats New tab by default, but an option, e.g. hidden in flags and/or a less invasive notification?On the other hand, it also doesn't seem to matter at all since it's already been decided against anyway, as @pafflick has made clear. So it's probably a waste of time to discuss it further. I have now written a JS and remove the tabs automatically. I'll just call the Whats New up manually for big releases at a time I want to.
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@enompado said in How to disable the "What's New" tab?:
On the other hand, it also doesn't seem to matter at all since it's already been decided against anyway, as @pafflick has made clear.
Not sure how you came up with such a conclusion, as I never said anything even remotely similar to what you're saying. All I said is that there's no setting for that. But if you think we should add such a setting, you can submit a feature request.
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Wow ... a lot of emotions about this topic!
For me it's not a big deal to close the tab on the rare occasion when it pops up. Sometimes I even read it. Yet there is a slight problem with it, in my view: The information is useful, but it usually pops up at an inconvenient time (when I've just opened my browser/profile in the morning and am ready to get to work). Thus I dismiss it with with a slight frown because it is getting in my way. Some hours (or days) later I have a bit of free time and would have liked to read those news, so as not to miss out on the good stuff. But it's no longer there.
Yes, I know that I can go to Vivaldi's website and find it there (and I sometimes do), but that takes an extra effort and there may be something else to to that requires less "effort". The path of least resistance and all that ...
So ... (here comes the constructive proposal, finally) ... would it be possible to have a link to the latest release notes (not only for major releases) in the Help menu instead? It would then be readily accessible whenever I have time to digest it, and it would not even require a Ctrl+W when I'm busy and focused on something else. Maybe even a discreet notice (like the "Restart required" message) visible until I exit the browser, or for 24 hours, or whatever?
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@enompado If you don't mind, could you share that JS?
I'd very much appreciate this functionality being in Vivaldi, but based on this thread I'm not gonna hold my breath for someone to even understand the point.
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+1
People have to remember that some people use Multiple Profiles, so being able to disable it would be a useful feature. As they can keep it enabled in one of the profiles. I like to read about what's new... the first time I see the page.
Even if it is just some secret way.. like you type in a url and change a setting there.
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@182jd
It needs an extension like Tampermonkey.// ==UserScript== // @name Vivaldi What's New Removal // @icon http://vivaldi.com/favicon.ico // @match https://vivaldi.com/new/ // @match https://vivaldi.com/*/new/ // @grant window.close // ==/UserScript== 'use strict'; // Only close if there is no browsing history for the tab (automatically opened) if (history.length === 1) { window.close(); }
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@enompado said in How to disable the "What's New" tab?:
the @match needs to be modified depending on the language used in Vivaldi
Would this work?
https://vivaldi.com/*/new/
Being
https://vivaldi.com/es/new/
https://vivaldi.com/ru/new/
https://vivaldi.com/fr/new/
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Yes, would work. I will update that.
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Will test for V 6.8
Thx