Vivaldi 5.1 Adds Ability to Scroll Through Browser Tabs Horizontally in the Tabs Bar

[bollman]

Firefox? That's my go to choice. Safari has been so terribly flaky the past year I can't trust it anymore. Chrome, I refuse to support that hunk of junk. Vivaldi I tried but it didn't work with my flow. I can't remember what it was but I didn't like it.

Jamf works in all browsers. Some more than others. No issues in FF.

Oh yes, there are issues. If you haven't noticed them, maybe you don't use "that" function. There are so many very strange "bugs" that turns out to be browser related as Jamf only tests against Safari. I had a very long support call with a tech that couldn't figure out what was wrong. He was about to give up and file an issue when he just had me try it with Safari, and hey, it worked!

Firefox, well, yes, maybe, but I don't know, I have a bad feeling about Firefox. Nothing substantial, it's just a feeling of unease.

 

[Wildkraut]

I get it, but they would just be creating a skin for iOS since it’s all WebKit anyways. Your reasonings though… are why I have stuck with Safari.

True, the webkit limitation is a huge anticompetitive issue, but it would be great to have Vivaldi(iOS) for e.g. bookmarks, reading list, logins, etc. syncing.

I’m not willing to maintain multiple bookmark sources in different browsers across multiple operating systems. The Safari Crap syncs at least with Firefox for Windows, but a Vivaldi for iOS could make me switch.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Keep adding tabs in Safari and eventually tabs will start disappearing out of view and be hidden offscreen with no obvious way to quickly access them. In older versions of Safari, after the window contains a certain number of tabs, a “>>” button appears in the tab bar. Clicking this button displays a popup list of the open tabs that you can click on and switch to that tab.

In recent versions of Safari, that >> button is no longer displayed. The Tab Overview feature does not always work well because all those preview pictures means extra scrolling to see all tabs. And having to render all those previews often results in laggy response. Some users eventually discovered that it is possible to scroll through the tab bar using a mouse scroll wheel or multitouch gestures on a trackpad. But the problem is that not every mouse has a scroll wheel. And not everyone knows about or uses trackpad gestures. In the same way that Apple‘s Human Interface Guidelines warns developers to not make secondary clicking and context menus the only way to access a command, the same should apply to mouse wheels and multitouch trackpad gestures.

Yeah Apple dropped the ball on removing that. You can open the sidebar and right click on the tab group to see a list of all of the open tabs. It's not a great solution though.

 

[PikachuEXE]

Just a reminder for those people with many tabs:

You can have vertical tab bar by updating Tab Bar position to left or right.

Tab Display | Vivaldi Browser Help

In Vivaldi, you can choose how to display your tabs in a few simple steps.

help.vivaldi.com

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

How many tabs do people have open at once that would require multiple rows of scrolling tabs? Seriously. I think the most I ever have is MAYBE three or four. I understand that not everyone works like I do, but I would think that if you have two rows that are filled beyond what your screen can show, you can't possibly remember all the tabs that are open, and the effectiveness of tabs gets lost. Just my personal opinion. I can see it being more useful on a mobile browser. But if people are happy with the feature, then congrats to them.

I currently have 56 open. Every now and then I do a purge of the ones that I realise I'm never going to bother use again, and bring it back to more like 20. But there's many that I use every single day, over and over. It's a 15" MBP though, so all one row in Chrome, and I can see all the icons, so know what is what.

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

Quite right, too. If only my wife's friend adopted this practise, it would have spared her some considerable embarrassment... I went round her house to fix an issue she was having with her iPad. Safari had loads of open tabs that I duly closed, one by one. Each and every one had a pron site open!

Women don't get much more blunt than this with their signals!!! Was she dressed sexy?

 

[dzhiurgis]

Browsers are kinda going thru renaissance, yet are so boring:

1. Safari tab management still kinda joke - can't swift+click select multiple tabs and drop between windows
2. Vertical tabs are just not existing
3. Ability to search multiple search engines at once - every browser has their feet warmed by some search engine. Being able to enter query and then easily flick between engines would actually bring some competition
4. Tab/Bookmark duality - like who cares about bookmarks when reality is your tabs keeps being open for years. Just move the tab to bookmarks. If it's resembles an article/document/paper - keep an offline copy. Photos can recognise every person on the planet, categorising websites you visit should be trivial.
5. Fuzzy search built in - power search to all my bookmarks, tabs, history.

So many more I can't remember, but one can go wild. Browsers are so boring.

 

[svish]

Very useful. Will try this out.

 

[MacBH928]

Whats the appeal of this browser? or Opera? I know Opera back then had some significant first ever features that implemented later by other browsers but this is no more.

I really like Vivaldi, but as I work on many different platforms, there was not much choice.
So, I have gone down the Edge route.
I must say, it's a capable browser, has not let me down yet, except in Jamf Pro, but that's to be expected as only Safari is really supported there.
Big bonus for being available on the platforms I need: Mac, Windows, Linux and iOS (and Android, although I do not need that). Wonderful to be able to sync between anything I sit down behind.

Firefox? That's my go to choice. Safari has been so terribly flaky the past year I can't trust it anymore. Chrome, I refuse to support that hunk of junk. Vivaldi I tried but it didn't work with my flow. I can't remember what it was but I didn't like it.

Jamf works in all browsers. Some more than others. No issues in FF.

Firefox works, but if you want a Blink engine browser(Chrome) you can use Brave instead. Its open source and privacy friendly and you a support a none big-tech company and increase comeptition by supporting more players in the market. It surely is better than Microsoft/Google that sells your privacy for a living.

Brave is like Chrome minus Google spy code.

This will definitely come in handy as I don’t mess around when it comes to Safari tabs.

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i never thought I would see it , but finally I do not have to be ashamed of the number of tabs I have open.