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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      @jumper77 I agree with you while other browser have theses features already (include Open Bookmark in new tab) such as Cent, Vivaldi, Kinza (Right Click to Close tab), Whale. I wonder why developer team were ignore these features or this will make some trouble for browser? I don't think so. I think this matter for user behavior

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        A Former User @Guest last edited by

        @Mottanoi I'm guessing that it's a very popular feature, but no way for me to tell. I started out with FireFox and they had a great extension that would allow you to double click a tab to close it. And that was MANY years ago.

        With Vivaldi, it's built into the browser. You just check a box to allow the browser to do it.

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

          @Mottanoi They don't ignore, they probably just don't think it's necessary to add them, at least yet.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @leocg last edited by

            @leocg I'm not trying to make a big deal of it. I'm an old fart and remember when Opera first came out. I used it for a short while then. But guess why I went back to FireFox, 🙂

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            • A Former User
              A Former User @Guest last edited by

              @jumper77 I'm Firefox user bcoz of that features. In actually Firefox can edit some abilities in "About:Config" to enable "Open Bookmark in new tab" and "DoubleClick to Close tab" without install any add-on like that you can google it

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              • A Former User
                A Former User @leocg last edited by

                @leocg I think sometime it's not convinient to push on wheel in any reason if can use right click that will make it easier

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                  @Mottanoi Well, I've been doing it for, don't know, a couple of decades maybe. I already use the mouse with a finger on the wheel.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

                    @leocg I just found something just now. Opera has an extension that let's you use Chrome extensions. It can be found here.

                    I installed a Chrome extension that closes a tab if you double click the page (not the tabs)

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                      l33t4opera @Guest last edited by l33t4opera

                      Hi @jumper77, if you want, you can try also the "Close Tab by Double Right Click" extension - double right click on the page, working for webpages, not internal Opera's pages).

                      Alternatively, you can simply enable mouse gestures under opera:settings/shortcuts , hold down right mouse, and "Move down, then right" to close a tab.
                      There is also a keyboard shortcut to close the current tab - Ctrl+W (Windows/Linux) and ⌘+W on Mac, but you probably know that already. You can also change it to custom one.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User @l33t4opera last edited by

                        @l33t4opera Thanks. I appreciate the info, but I'm going to stick with the double click web page extension. I'm so used to doing it with the double left button click.

                        cheers!

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                          l33t4opera @Guest last edited by

                          @jumper77 Ok, I understand ;-)

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