Select multiple tabs and drag to a new window
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A Former User last edited by
This is my least favourite part of working with Opera. Chrome, Firefox, and even Microsoft Edge for Mac all support this. What's really weird is that you can highlight multiple tabs and then right click to close, duplicate, refresh them. You just can't move them, if you drag and drop, only the highlighted tab is moved.
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rif last edited byWas just going to suggest this when I found this thread.
I would love to be able to do this. I just tried it in the
latest Chrome and that works for me.Hope Opera adds this sometime.
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funinthesun89 last edited by
This is one thing I too have found lacking...you can select multiple tabs; but cant move them to a new window anything of the sort...
And coming from Chrome it.s a feature I miss dearly! -
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A Former User last edited by
Ugh. It's already been more than a year since I asked about this.
Please, please, please add this feature. Saving a group to speed dial isn't at all the same thing.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@okakosolikos We probably will only know when a version with it is released.
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A Former User last edited by
It's weird this elementary function doesn't work.
I select multiple tabs then right click and "save tabs as dial folder" then "open in new window".But it is not for everyday using as I am accustomed.
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sparky132 last edited by
Plus one for this from me.
What I find odd is that you can ctrl/shift + select multiple tabs, the UI does support this, yet you can't do anything with them!
Please add!
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A Former User last edited by
I was just about to post a similar thread/question. Please dev team @Opera do something about this. I ran into multiple occasions now where I wanted this functionality, this is something one would expect from a comprehensive browser as Opera.
Functionality like:- Select tabs by holding down shift and drag them loose; or
- Select tabs by holding down shift and have a right click option 'move to new window'.
Is something that would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
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PanicPug last edited by
It's so weird that this is still not possible. Even for workspaces there's the option to select mutliple tabs and send them to a workspace, but not with new windows? Where's the logic in this?
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sdgates last edited by
This one, obviously really-good-feature is still not implemented in Opera. There are several articles on the web about using selecting and dragging groups of tabs - or saving groups of tabs to a bookmark folder - but in every case Opera was not on the list in the how-to article. (An example: https://www.makeuseof.com/bookmark-all-tabs-chrome-firefox-edge-brave-safari/) I really like Opera but the one most annoying thing missing in Opera is the ability to select groups of tabs to bookmark into a single folder (and, of course, subsequently dragging bookmark folders around at will later which Opera DOES support). Without this one bookmark function I am going to, sadly, have to pass on further use of Opera. Since the original post on this topic was way back in 2017, maybe I will re-visit Opera every few years to see if the function has been implemented or not.
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A Former User last edited by
@sgunhouse Would not select, drag and drop multiple tabs to new window be an easy feature for Opera to implement?
We can do this with one tab, why not a selection of more?
Needing to save as Speed Dial Folder for moving tabs to a new windows is a large workaround.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@vegelund said in Select multiple tabs and drag to a new window:
Would not select, drag and drop multiple tabs to new window be an easy feature for Opera to implement?
Yes, it should be easy.
@vegelund said in Select multiple tabs and drag to a new window:
We can do this with one tab, why not a selection of more?
I consider it unfinished work on the handling of tab selections. As in, the tab-selection feature is not complete yet because of this and work on it stalled before completion. But, that's my opinion.
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franan last edited by
I really can't believe this feature still hasn't been integrated in Opera. Like others have noted, I am really struggling to continue working in this browser without this fundamental function.
I did want to add a solution that has been working for me. I tested out several Chrome extensions, and this one ("Move tabs between windows", linked below) is the only one I have found so far that actually works in Opera for moving multiple tabs at a time between open windows. I was specifically looking for an extension that moved tabs to other open windows, rather than just moving them all to a new window. To use this extension, select all the tab you need moved (holding down the CTRL/CMD as you select tabs for multi-select). Then press the extension in the toolbar, and open the window you would like the tabs moved to. After changing focus to the desired destination window, the tabs should appear in that window.
Unfortunately, this extension still doesn't replace the option to drag and drop tabs like normal, especially if you are simply trying to rearrange tabs within the active window (like some users note on here: https://forums.opera.com/topic/34453/suggestion-able-to-select-multiple-tabs-at-once-and-move-the-all-together/9). I really like using Opera and would hate to leave just because of this, so please add this feature!
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mrsomewhere last edited byI had been using a Chrome extension called "Tab Scissors" as a work around to this lack of functionality in Opera, but that extension no longer exists, and I haven't been able to find a comparable extension. The lack of ability to move multiple tabs to a new window seriously limits the usability of Opera. I don't want to switch to another browser--there is much that I like about Opera--but I just can't keep using it the way that it is.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@mrsomewhere The Tab Scissors extension is still available at https://www.crx4chrome.com/crx/75791/ (the "Download Crx File from Crx4Chrome" link at the bottom of the page). I extracted the CRX file and things look okay in general. But, maybe there's a reason it was removed from the Chrome webstore.
