Opera tab spacing changes

[mystyc-cheez]

mystyc-cheez @koksownik last edited by

@koksownik Unfortunately, this is a game-changer for me that alone would make me switch browsers because I often move windows from monitor to monitor and now there is no longer blank space to drag a window.

[koksownik]

koksownik @mystyc-cheez last edited by

@mystyc-cheez Yeah I can also see that, quite a bad change but perhaps we can expect a change to revert it soon.

[totalrandomusername]

totalrandomusername @koksownik last edited by

I'm frustrated by this change, too! Would like the new spacing to have at least an opt out.

Btw, for all who Windows users who didn't know yet, you can move windows across monitors with Win + Arrow Keys. This doesn't really work vertically though, so it's really not a good workaround.

Please bring back the old tab spacing, so we can at least drag our window.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

From the changelog of Opera 96:

DNA-105552 [Mac] Unable to drag window using the space between last tab and loupe

Opera Developer 98 no longer have the issue, so it's just a matter of time for the fix for Windows to reach stable channel.

[koksownik]

koksownik @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thank you for the great news! Is there a way I can download the unstable versions?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @koksownik last edited by

@koksownik

Opera Developer

Opera Beta

Desktop Team blog

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @koksownik last edited by

@koksownik Just go to https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/ and find the most recent Opera Developer post or you can also download it from https://www.opera.com/download

[bigmell]

bigmell last edited by

Ahoy!

One of the moderators on reddit answered and said you could change the flag manually, but it is not in the settings tab. You have to go to this URL
opera://flags/#scrollable-tab-strip

And set "Enable tab scrolling when many tabs are open" to Enabled. You will have to restart Opera then hopefully it should be back to normal from before the upgrade. It worked for me, I had so many tabs open I couldnt read them or tell them apart to click them but it is back to the same as pre-update now.

Thank God the other way is pretty much unusable especially with a lot of tabs open. This is the reddit link
https://old.reddit.com/r/OperaGX/comments/105pa4b/i_disabled_horizontal_tab_scrolling_on_opera_gx/

And thank God this wasnt one of the reddits that went dark, no way I would have figured that out by myself.

[EdithB]

EdithB @bigmell last edited by

@bigmell

Hello,
do you have an idea to restore the horizontal scroll arrows pointing right and left?

It worked fine in the previous version. But now it can't be found.
(The picture shows an older version in which the arrow was still visible.)

[golbat]

golbat last edited by

chiming in to say I hate the tab system. overnight my experience using opera went from an organized one to a complete mess, the tab line becomes borderline unusable with more than 20 tabs, and toggling the flag doesn't solve the problem, it only fixes the tab bar on the oldest tabs and doesn't move at all to show new tabs.