Vivaldi challenges (open external link in new background tab, in my case)

[Eadwine Rose]

@Jerry3904 was wondering what challenges we are facing in Vivaldi, and now that Chrome is being annoying with their font rendering, I have switched to that.

I have gotten it almost to exactly what I like, there is only one thing that I cannot get to work and that is EXTERNAL links opening in a new background tab.


In Chrome I have an extension to handle that, "Force Background Tab". However, that one does not work in Vivaldi. Likely because Vivaldi has extensive tab options that just override that thing. Bummer, because when I went to open multiple things to read later from the feed reader I am now searching for the tab that I was actually working in before I went to the feed reader, because everything opened as plain new active tabs.


Waaay back in the day when I was running Opera you'd be able to use command line switches to do that, something looking like

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/usr/bin/opera --new background tab

or something like that.

You'd pop that in the feed reader preferences, and it would do exactly what I wanted.


Note that this is only the case for OUTSIDE the browser links. External links. Clicking links in the browser, those settings to load in the same window background tab, they work just fine. But when an EXTERNAL thing comes in it fails to do that. I wish I know how to sort it.



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[Jerry3904]

Not sure I get your use case correctly, but I use a middle click all the time to open a link in a background tab. Here is the Viv Wiki on that:

https://vivaldi-wiki.readthedocs.io/Set ... round-tab/

I really like Vivaldi so this thread could be very helpful. I have some items of my own...

[Eadwine Rose]

Yep.. and that is exactly what I mean with from within the browser it is all fine.


EXTERNAL links are giving the issue. So.. from a mail program, like thunderbird, or liferea feed reader, or... any program where you click a link that opens in an open instance of vivaldi. The link does not originate IN vivaldi.

[Jerry3904]

Ah. I see that as well, just haven't ever followed it up ... Does it still happen if the default browser is Firefox, for example?

[Eadwine Rose]

Chrome was my default. It happens there as well, I used the extension to make it work.

That extension doesn't work in Vivaldi.

[CharlesV]

I dont have Vivaldi loaded atm, but didnt I see a setting for Open in background in the settings? ( or something like that - turning it off maybe.)

Settings > Tabs > New Tab Position as I recall.

[siamhie]

What does this command show?

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xdg-settings get default-web-browser 

[Jerry3904]

I dont have Vivaldi loaded atm, but didnt I see a setting for Open in background in the settings? ( or something like that - turning it off maybe.)

Settings > Tabs > New Tab Position as I recall.

Yes, but that's when dealing with a link inside Vivaldi. I do see a possibility "New tab from link opens in background" that I just clicked but haven't tested:

[Eadwine Rose]

I have that set up Jerry, doesn't help.

[Eadwine Rose]

The default browser is set within MX AND using :

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root@eadwineMX23:/home/eadwine# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Been around the block with browser issues.


So.. of course.

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eadwine@eadwineMX23:~
$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser 
vivaldi.desktop

You'd know if that wasn't set to vivaldi Something else would open.