Vivaldi challenges (open external link in new background tab, in my case)
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2025 8:57 am
@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
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.
QSI for nags
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 tabYou'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.
QSI for nags
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Snapshot created on: 20250814_2247
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-38-amd64 [6.1.147-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-38-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7
dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.6_x64 Libretto July 31 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
(bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF B450-PLUS GAMING v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1607 date: 06/17/2019
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Ergo Multi-Device Trackball serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ gen: 2 level: v3 note: check
built: 2018-21 process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 0x800820D
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Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: safe RET
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telephony
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SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
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Info:
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v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
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