Vivaldi 1.16: new tab re-opening feature
The next version of the Vivaldi web browser, Vivaldi 1.16, includes a new usability feature that makes it easier to re-open pages you navigated away from.
Internet users who use desktop browsers have a couple of options when it comes to dealing with links they encounter. They can left-click on links to open the links in the current tab or use built-in functionality to open the linked resource in a new browser tab instead.
The latter can be achieved by right-clicking on links and selecting open link in new tab, or by holding down the Ctrl-key on the keyboard before the link is activated. All browsers support options to open links in new browser windows next to that either by utilizing the option from the right-click menu or by holding down the Shift-key before clicking on the link. Vivaldi adds to that an option to open the link in a background tab.
I don't know about you, but it happens at time that I left-click on links to open them in the active tab only to find out shortly thereafter that I'd like to re-open the page I clicked the link on.
Maybe because I activated a link on a search results page and discovered that the resource is not suitable, or because I left-click on a link accidentally.
A click on the back button (or forward) returns to the site but what if you don't want to leave the linked resource either?
It is relative easy in other browsers. If you use Firefox or Chrome, right-click on the back or forward button, hold down the Ctrl-key, and click on the page in history that you want to re-open.
Or, speed things by Ctrl-clicking on the buttons directly to open the previous opened resource in a new tab.
Vivaldi does not support options to click on previously opened resources using Ctrl or Shift. While you can right-click on the back and forward buttons, holding down Ctrl or Shift has no function in the browser so that the selected resource opens in the active tab.
Vivaldi 1.16 changes the process. All you need to do going forward is to hold down the Ctrl-key before you left-click on the back or forward button to open the previous resource in a new tab in the browser.
Even if Vivaldi would support Ctrl-key and Shift-key actions on the back and forward buttons, its new feature would still speed up the process.
Now You: did you know that you can Ctrl-click the back and forward buttons in Firefox or Chrome to open the previous resource in a new tab?
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.