How to turn off "switch to this tab" function
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How i can turn off this function? It's so Irritating for me.
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@Klysu
Settings > Address Bar > Drop-Down Menu
Deselect "Open Tab". -
@Pathduck Thanks!
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Hello,
On the newest update of 6.8, a new feature was added for "Address Field Updates". The feature allow user to start typing on the address bar and the Best Result will switch to a tab that will be correlated.
I believe this is a good feature for a lot of people, but I am not a big fan of this feature for my workflow. Few reasons...
- The previous address bar autofill allow me to set up a behavior in the browser to type single letter and navigate to my most recent / frequent page (like 'y' for YouTube, 'r' for reddit, etc.), but the new auto behavior doesn't permit that
- I try playing with the settings, on the Drop-Down Menu Priority, the closest I got was unchecking Direct Match and Frequently Visited Pages. But it is difficult to say open 2 Google search page and compare results if the URL is the same.
- If I have to open my home page, on desktop I can press Alt + Home, but on a mac laptop, there is no Home key, so I cannot say open 2 home pages.
Please let me know if there's a method of disabling this option.
Thanks
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@YTKme
Hi, disable Open Tab in the Drop-Down Priority List of the address bar settings.Cheers, mib
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Thank you @mib2berlin! Yes that worked!
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This feature is kind of dumb.
I've had many tabs opened on my workspace and I wanted a fresh one to watch some streams, and after I've created the new workspace and wanted to open the desired webpage, Vivaldi did suggest switching to the already existing tab, that was in the old workspace, and since I was not aware of this feature yet, I did end up pressing enter and switching to the old workspace, which was exactly the opposite of what i wanted - thank you very much.Also on the old workspace I had the stream opened, and after i did switch again to the new workspace, the stream audio from the old workspace was still playing.
Personally I am not a fan of forcing features that completely change behavior that i am used to, without asking me to use it first. Especially when they work so funky like this.
Vivaldi starts to feel like W11, where I have to turn off so many things to make it usable instead of irritable.
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I can see this feature being useful for people that have workflow that need to search for tabs. It is different for different users I believe, but I am used to having to create fresh tab as well.
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@YTKme
Hi, check the settings for the Drop-Down Priority List, you can disable it or move Open Tab where you want.
Settings > Address Bar.
Choice is all in Vivaldi.
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No I realize, why I haven't found this option. Its translation is wrong.
In german, "Open Tab" can be translated to "Tab öffnen" (To open a Tab) and to "geöffnete Tabs" (Tabs currently open). Unfortunately it was translated to the first one.
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This is the most frustrating change for me and it took a bit of searching to find this thread.
My workflow --
- Create a new tab
- Type in part of a URL hit enter
- Enjoy using a fresh new tab to navigate the site
If I created a new tab, I want a new tab. Its really frustrating to have the tab I just created closed and the UI switch to another random tab. I understand the autocomplete probably says something about switch to TAB but I never see this because it takes well under a second to type and hit ENTER. Personally, I think if the user just created a new empty tab this should not be the default function.
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@syplex Surely, the purpose of the feature is to prevent the creation of duplicate tabs? There is already Clone Tab if you do want to create a duplicate.
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@Pesala that requires first finding a tab that matches the site I want to go to within the plethora of open tabs. Usually I have many tabs open on the same site (because each one has content/documents etc. open that I need to keep loaded) as well as several open on different sites. When I type in the first few letters of the site, the first match is an open tab to a specific document. I actually don't want to open that, I just want to open the base site URL in a new tab so I can navigate to different content, but it works fine as long as its in the new tab I opened. I've been doing this for over a decade by opening a tab and typing the first letter or two of the site followed by ENTER.
If I used duplicate tab:
- Search through many open tabs for one that matches the site I want to open
- Right click
- Select duplicate tab
vs.
- CTRL+T
- Type one or two letters ENTER
The time spent and brain compute is vastly different.
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@syplex
Hi, I am not sure I understand but you have Open Tab disabled in Address Bar > Drop-Down Priority? -
@mib2berlin said in How to turn off "switch to this tab" function:
@syplex
Hi, I am not sure I understand but you have Open Tab disabled in Address Bar > Drop-Down Priority?I do now!
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@syplex I don’t think you understand. If the tab is already open, then you do not need to search for it. Just start typing in the Address Bar and switch to the existing tab if it is already open.
If it is not open, that dialog will not appear, so you can go to the URL in the current tab, or Shift+Enter to go to it in a new tab.
If you do want to open another tab at the same URL, use Duplicate Tab instead.
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@Pesala said in How to turn off "switch to this tab" function:
@syplex I don’t think you understand. If the tab is already open, then you do not need to search for it. Just start typing in the Address Bar and switch to the existing tab if it is already open.
I would need to search for it, in order to use duplicate tab as you suggested to open a new tab for a given site. OR, I would have to pay close attention in the URL field that it is re-opening a given tab and then right click to create a duplicate. Any way you look at it, this slows things down and adds branch logic to the user's brain.
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Such a dumb feature. I know where I want to go, and if something else happens to have a similar URL pattern the top result is to go to an already open tab rather than do what you want...
C'mon guys, this is stupid.
Edit: looking back through my posts 90% of what I bitch n moan about are to do with "improvements" to the URL bar.
STOP FKING WITH IT.
Next update that stuffs up my URL experience I'm out, starting my own browser with hackjack and blookers.
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Bruh, it looks like they removed the "Open Tab" Drop-Down Menu option from the address bar settings. How am I supposed to turn off the annoying "switch to this tab" address bar suggestions now?
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@AbstractionMage
Hi, it is in the priority list settings of Settings > Address Bar.
