Has CTRL + TAB changed?
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Norby123 last edited by leocg
Opera One developer 107.0.5004.0
I usually have a lot of tabs opened (not just websites, but local programs running in a browser tab), and up until the recent update, I could easily navigate between tabs by clicking ctrl + tab, and (just like win + tab), it would bring up fairly large windows showing the actual websites, and just like with win + tab, I could scroll and click on the window (tab / page) I wanted to open.
But now mouse clicking no longer works, scrolling no longer works, and if I have 50 tabs open, and I want to get the to 30th one, I have to click the Tab button 30 times. And visually it's terrible, because the selected one is not in the middle, but nor it is the first one.... And - since I can't click the one I want to open, I always accidentally bring up the wrong page. It's so frustrating because I always think it's the 3rd one (the middle on the screen) where it's gonna jump.
It's also annoying how they changed to background. Before, it stayed on the page I was on, just dimmed it, made it slightly dark (or blurry?), but now it bring up a completely different look, a completely opaque page in purplue-ish indigo-ish colors. It's annoying, it's unneccessary. And I'm pretty sure it's also half a second slower.
Also, before the update I could press Esc to cancel this, but now it recognized it as if I pressed ctrl + Esc, and it brings up the Windows Start Menu. Soooooo frustrating.
Is there any way to switch back to the old, better way of the ctrl + tab method?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
If you have the flag on at the URL
chrome://flags/#component-based-tab-cycler, you can turn it off. -
Norby123 last edited by
Ahh, thank you so much! That did the trick.
God I hope they will not just suddenly stop supporting the good old way of tab cycling in the future.
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andrew84 last edited by
@norby123 Agree.
I don't use the tab cycler, but I checked it right now to understand what you mean and how it looks now.
I think that the bigger tabs thumbnails is good, but the fact that now it looks like a separate page is bad. I'm sure that the dimmed background should be returned + other issues you listed should work like previously. -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@norby123 I assume (and hope) that the new cycler is considered unfinished and a work in progress, and that it won't replace the old one till it's nice.
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Norby123 last edited by
Aaaaand, here it is, now it's made it into the main build, forcing users to use it by making it the new default.... Just great.....
If anyone want to go back to the old way of tab cycling, just go to opera://flags/#component-based-tab-cycler and disable this feature. Restart. And you are good to go.
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