ask Vivaldi to review their sidePanel implementation.

[nonchip]

1. Bug Report:

• BUG:
  

  • Browser: vivaldi
  • HOW: start browser, wait ~5mins, the popup thingy adds itself as a webpanel and opens with 0 interaction. can be removed until next browser start. is a different instance (contains same settings/etc but no "runtime" stuff like which menu was open) from the actual popup that shows if i press the button.

More:

• Expected /preferred behavior: to not open anything unless i click the button.
• ImprovedTube Version: [this is NOT written at the top thanks to the most useless searchbar ever, but at least at the top of the specific settings submenu] 4.936
• Tested alone without other YouTube extensions or in incognito mode? without other extensions / even on fresh profile does the same; incognito mode obviously won't let me test because you have to load a profile to restart the browser.
• My Settings: [again, the instructions lie, "backup&reset" is a submenu of settings, not "..."]
  improvedtube.json

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- DOM: - OS: - Device:

yeah all of that is N/A and next time your browser extension has to ask for "Device" i'd instead suggest learning what a browser is.

[demom3b]

Yeah, it's a Vivaldi issue, I already reported this to vivaldi, waiting on them to fix it. You can try other extensions that support the side penal, they will popup right after you install them without asking for permission.

[nonchip]

You can try other extensions that support the side penal, they will popup right after you install them without asking for permission.

the problem there is that i have other extensions that support the sidepanel and but don't do that; and i disabled the side panel feature in this extension and it still does that...

[tuangd]

I have the same issue. On Vivaldi also.

edit: It's super annoying though until this resolve I will have to live without the IYT extension.

[xeophyte]

Same here. This appeared after one of the last updates, but I don't know if it was after the Vivaldi update (I use snapshots) or the IYT extension.

[demom3b]

i have other extensions that support the sidepanel and but don't do that

Which one, let me try it.

[YmerejO42]

Same here. This appeared after one of the last updates, but I don't know if it was after the Vivaldi update (I use snapshots) or the IYT extension.

I do NOT use snapshots and it started about a week ago. It is SUPER annoying, to the extent I was tempted to report the addon for abuse.

[ImprovedTube]

Yeah, it's a Vivaldi issue, I already reported this to vivaldi, waiting on them to fix it. You can try other extensions that support the side penal, they will popup right after you install them without asking for permission.

in public? did they answer? @demom3b

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For now you (or we) can also remove the side-panel declaration from our manifest.json. But generally it feels wrong that we keep doing things only for Vivaldi

(#2288) @tuangd @xeophyte @kolumdium @Gobbr The sidepanel was removed for now from Chrome Webstore in favor of Vivaldi ( v4.938, pending) (Even we dont know if 1 in 1000 of our Users also use Vivaldi.)

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"The side panel can be set initially from the default_path property in the side_panel key of the manifest to display the same side panel on every site."

not vivaldi's fault
blaming of the vivaldi team

"the same" as in "not a different one"
!== "must always/randomly appear" ( so maybe you discovered Vivaldi's big misunderstanding? ) (and this is how you could open a sidepanel programmatically https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/sidePanel#user-interaction, not through the manifest.json & not mentioned at first) @nonchip

PS who wrote that?!

(this is the toggle improvedTubeSidePanel, at ImprovedTube: General)

[xeophyte]

Even we dont know if 1 in 1000 of our Users also use Vivaldi.

You may have many more users using Vivaldi than you think because most Vivaldi browsers identify themselves as Chrome.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/user-agent-changes/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/vivaldi-to-change-user-agent-string-to-chrome-due-to-unfair-blocking/
For example, in my Vivaldi's settings there is this User Agent set by default as Google Chrome:

So unfortunately, the official browser popularity statistics do not show the true result.

[ImprovedTube]

hi! :) @xeophyte. Vivaldi actually got only 0.0x% market share, yet there might be significant correlation in our user-bases...

[thangcuoi]

@nonchip I appreciate all the info you have present, trying to get this issue resolve, but maybe tone it down a little. You might not be aware that you are coming across as being very aggressive and abusive toward the dev/owner of this project who is putting their time and effort in for free.

Pushing too hard will more than likely results in the dev stop listening all together.

If you have the capability, consider writing the fix yourself, or fork the project and merge the fix yourself.

For myself, I have switched to a similar extension. I might return when the issue is resolved.

[ImprovedTube]

@thangcuoi @nonchip @Gobbr. Side panel (on intentional click only), was undone (see version 4.938 in Chrome Webstore & #2288). Sometimes updates are pending for a while, keeping us from releasing other work and Chrome Webstore still doesn't allow to upload the next version already while the current one is pending(, which sometimes makes these decisions harder, to do something in favor of Vivaldi only, etc.(, which was one of the stranger feelings here a few times over the years, since maybe less than 1 in a million people actually use both Vivaldi and ImprovedTube)

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( As for making sure we had no bug in using the API, it can be efficient to watch the same "side_panel":{"default_path":"html/sidepanel.html" in other extensions, such as https://crxcavator.io/source/jdbnofccmhefkmjbkkdkfiicjkgofkdh/2.3.0?platform=Chrome
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lesezeichenleiste/jdbnofccmhefkmjbkkdkfiicjkgofkdh
Besides that no manifest.json options are meant to cause such a bug.)