V 6.7 | Vertical Tabs Thumbnail Size
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New (6.7) minimal height of vertical tabs causes inconvenient need to scroll
Hi,
I'm a user of vertical tabs (left) and this change in 6.7 is really making my life with tabs so much worse.
From the release notes:[Tabs] Thumbnails should have a minimum height when shown “left” or “right” (VB-77184)
I often have many more tabs than fit on my screen with the minimum height. I enjoy to have thumbnails when there is room, but given the choice between having to scroll and not having thumbnails, the scrolling is the far worse option. The thumbnails getting smaller and smaller actually provided a nice subtle feedback on "tab pressure", nudging me to clean up when it got to too many, now they just go off screen and might even be forgotten. Not all my stacks are visible anymore, making drag and drop to add a tab to them a potential nightmare, having to nudge my way to the right stack through the scrolling bar.
I'd love to be able to configure the minimum height.
For now, I think I'll switch off thumbnails completely.
I've seen that modding of the UI is possible via CSS, if anyone has some pointers on what to override to just get rid of the minimum height, I'd be delighted. If I find the time, I'll go do some research on that myself.Am I the only one bothered by this change?
Best wishes,
Philipp--
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Hello,
I've just updated Vivaldi (I rarely check for updates so I probably jumped a bunch of versions). I use vertical tabs with thumbnail, but their behavior has changed. Previously, their size would be reduced automatically to try to fit all tabs in the window, until the thumbnail is completely hidden. Now the tabs stick to their "normal" size so I have to scroll.
Is there a way to revert the old behavior? I looked into the options but didn't find the proper setting.
Thanks.
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@KooKiz Yes. It is an intentional change.
From the Changelog
[Tabs] Thumbnails in vertical stacks are compacted (VB-88695)
[Tabs] Thumbnails should have a minimum height when shown “left” or “right” (VB-77184) -
I see there's a way to set the minimal width of horizontal tabs, I don't suppose there's a way to set the minimal height of vertical tabs?
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@KooKiz Disable Tab Previews and Show Popup Thumbnails.
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That's not really the same thing unfortunately
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Same for me, and likewise I've disabled thumbnails for now. With the fixed height, the number of tabs that can be fitted in the screen without scrolling is way too small.
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Hi,
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Increase Max Width of Vertical Tab Bar -
I just logged in to the forum to bump this topic. Don't know why they changed something to make it worse
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Same here, this change absolutely breaks my way of working with this browser.
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Same here, completely puzzled on how you thought this would be a positive change, considering we used to have the best of both worlds (thumbnails when there's enough room, reverting to no thumbnail when there are too many tabs)
This was one of the main reasons why i use vivaldi at all.
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Yes, please can we please have an update introducing option to revert this, or does anyone know which update or version specifically introduced this so i can stay on old version until fixed?
The side panel with tabs and thumbnails is very important to me. -
@dodoslavn
Hi, just a hint, don't downgrade Vivaldi as you will get a broken user profile.Cheers, mib
