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    • thelittlebrowserthatcould
      thelittlebrowserthatcould @rick2 last edited by

      @rick2 have you tried disabling "AI Prompts in text highlight popup" in Settings?

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      • browzer1
        browzer1 @neversaynotopanda last edited by

        @neversaynotopanda I am starting to think that Opera has officially "jumped the shark".

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        • KennyN69
          KennyN69 last edited by

          need to go back to firefox this browser is bloatware now

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          • mrtmidship
            mrtmidship last edited by

            What an irritation this is and there is no option to disable it. Come on Opera a lot of your users are grown-ups.

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            • wonghow
              wonghow @Rogue-River last edited by

              @rogue-river: naming tab island, is same as grouping, there is no point in naming them, because it is automatically grouped if came from the same source. Group tab is worse, you need to manually group them, waste of time, makes the titlebar a mess. That is why Opera has workspaces.

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              • wonghow
                wonghow @rick2 last edited by

                @rick2: purpose of tab island is to keep track of where you are reading from when you open a link in a new tab. I do not think you are going to use many of them. Tab island only shows when you need it, it is not you have to use it. There is no tab island when you just open a new tab, but you if you open links from a page into a newtab, that is when tab island activates.

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                • wonghow
                  wonghow @andrew84 last edited by

                  @andrew84 Edge using is not tab island ! it is grouping. It is a different design, different purpose. Why do you want tab island to become group??? Grouping is for grouping websites in tabs. Tab island is for temporary page tracking.

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                  • andrew84
                    andrew84 @wonghow last edited by andrew84

                    @wonghow islands can be created manually and automatically (automatic is optional).

                    @wonghow said in You can now decorate your tabs with Emojis in Opera 😎:

                    Edge using is not tab island !

                    So what's the difference when I overlap tabs in Edge to create a 'group' or overlap tabs to create an 'island' in Opera?

                    @wonghow said in You can now decorate your tabs with Emojis in Opera 😎:

                    Grouping is for grouping websites in tabs

                    In Edge tabs are grouped, not websites.

                    *Btw, Vivaldi also has workspaces feature and inside workspaces you can also group tabs. It can be called 'group' or 'island', but the logic is the same.

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                    • dennis87
                      dennis87 last edited by dennis87

                      Not possible to disable? Dont see any reason to use this and dont want to se a smiling shit emoji every time I hoved over my tabs. So please add a option to disable it or at least just add simple colors.

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                      • AlexKrycek
                        AlexKrycek last edited by

                        This is a very annoying feature, this ruins and opaque all the excellent things of this browser.
                        I want to disable it please.

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                        • Rogue-River
                          Rogue-River @wonghow last edited by

                          @wonghow: Tab groups can still be made and named automatically. You can use the originating tab for the name of the tab island. Also, have you seen the "Organize tab" feature in Edge? It uses AI to group dozens of related tabs with a single click. And it works!

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                          • Rogue-River
                            Rogue-River @wonghow last edited by

                            @wonghow: There is no difference between tab islands and tab groups. Wake up to reality. Tab Islands is just a marketing name by Opera. You can even use Chromium tab group extensions, and it will work with Opera tab islands, hence proving the point that Opera tab islands are still Chromium tab groups in a different appearance.

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                            • andrew84
                              andrew84 @Rogue-River last edited by

                              @rogue-river said in You can now decorate your tabs with Emojis in Opera 😎:

                              Tab Islands is just a marketing name by Opera

                              Exactly.

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                              • wonghow
                                wonghow @Rogue-River last edited by

                                @rogue-river that is why you are not understanding. Naming is for groups. Island is temporay use, you cannot save it, and not supposed to. Island is when you open links on a page into newtab, that is an action by human not AI. AI cannot know you opened a link from a page, then repeat again, and continue the same way. Edge AI grouping with a click is not grouping by links that came from. Eg. you open a link in gmail into a newtab, it is not related in anyway to be grouped by AI, one is mail and other one is not. It only can be tabisland, becuse you click the link into another newtab.

                                What is marketing name? Tab island design and purpose is totally different. You need to do some programming to understand.

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                                • wonghow
                                  wonghow @Rogue-River last edited by wonghow

                                  @rogue-river modifying a function using extension does not prove any point, that the design was the same, because is being modified. Tabisland is a group by links clicked nothing else. Group Tab is grouping websites by you and save for later use.
                                  Group tab is messy, shares same space as other tabs in the titlebar. Opera workspace is advanced tidy grouping of tabs.

                                  Group Tabs can even group unrelated websites, content. That is not tabisland, to say is the same is out of this world.

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                                  • leocg
                                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @wonghow last edited by

                                    @wonghow said:

                                    Naming is for groups. Island is temporay use, you cannot save it, and not supposed to

                                    Why?

                                    Island is when you open links on a page into newtab

                                    Nope, that's is opening a link in a new tab

                                    AI cannot know you opened a link from a page, then repeat again, and continue the same way

                                    That's what you get in Tab Islands if the option to automatic create them is enabled.

                                    If I'm on site A and start opening links from that page in new tabs, they will all be grouped in a "island" (you could also called it a group) of tabs.

                                    Tab island design and purpose is totally different

                                    It's not.

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                                    • wonghow
                                      wonghow @leocg last edited by wonghow

                                      @leocg island grouped from links is not group of tabs. group of tabs can group anything you put together, even is not related in any way.
                                      And what is wrong of being automatic? island is for tracking links opened in newtabs, group tab is for grouping. One is for tracking, the other is for grouping and you say is the same.
                                      Workspace already replace groups, and you still insist island is a group. You will always insist island is a group because you are requesting group features to island something that don't work like a grouptab. Did Opera called it Group, no, only you people insist island is a group, so to call it a Group

                                      And why do you need AI for simple as grouping tabs??? are people that lazy?

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                                      • Rogue-River
                                        Rogue-River @wonghow last edited by

                                        @wonghow: There was no feature to save tab groups in Chrome initially. Just because Opera added a single extra feature of automatic tab grouping through links doesn't mean it's any different. Besides, in Opera, you can Ctrl+click to select tabs and create tab islands of tabs that aren't even related by links! So, it's Tab Islands are just like tab groups but worse. Grouping tabs by links is a feature that already existed in many Chrome extensions before Opera even released Tab Islands. I don't understand why you insist that they are fundamentally different. They aren't. Tab Islands is just a bad implementation of the original tab groups in Chrome.

                                        Besides, having a feature where you can name tab islands wouldn't hurt. You will still be able to have unnamed tab islands just like unnamed tab groups in Chrome.

                                        At the fundamental level, Opera tab islands use the same concept as Chrome tab groups; it just adds a functionality of auto grouping by links while discarding other functionalities of group naming and saving groups. If the base code for Tab Islands and Tab groups weren't the same, then the same chromium tab group extensions wouldn't work in both Opera and Chrome, which they do!

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                                          • leocg
                                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @wonghow last edited by

                                            @wonghow said:

                                            group of tabs can group anything you put together, even is not related in any way.

                                            You can do it in tab islands too.

                                            And what is wrong of being automatic? island is for tracking links opened in newtabs, group tab is for grouping

                                            Automatic creation of tab groups needs to have some parameters. In a initial implementation, that parameter is the fact that the new tabs were opened from the same page. However, in the future, maybe it can be defined that they will be opened based on domain, date, whatever.

                                            If you disable automatic creation of tab islands, you can do those things manually.

                                            Did Opera called it Group, no, only you people insist island is a group, so to call it a Group

                                            Tab Islands do exactly the same that Tab Groups, created by Opera about twenty years ago, used to do.

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