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    • wonghow
      wonghow @leocg last edited by wonghow

      @leocg your reply is incorrect. you don't even know the basic working of tab island. And Opera already made workspace replaced groups, and you still requesting group features. Group is old. Workspace surpasses Groups.

      Tab island cannot group anything together. It must exist first by clicking on a link in newtab, is not suppose for you to drag any other tabs to it, even though you can. It is designed for tracking links. Group, needless to say again, can group any existing tabs.

      disabling creation of tabs by link, do manually is losing the function of tabisland.

      Do you think if you reply makes you correct? So there is no point in replying because Workspace replaces group. If you want to use groups use other browsers, is that simple.

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      • Thierry-Kowalski
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        • andrew84
          andrew84 @wonghow last edited by andrew84

          @wonghow So the islands are based on Chrome's groups but just modified to support automatic creation.

          When auto is turned off then it's 100% group, so those who use it in manual mode (and those who don't use workspace because it requires sidebar using) request naming, color selection and etc.

          As said before, Vivaldi also uses both 'workspaces' and groups but there it's called 'stacks'.

          The fact that many users request naming, color select and etc. tells that the feature is narrowly targeted and fully rely on auto mode (which is optional) instead of being universal feature. And all the current complaints were yet predictable at the stage of development.

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          • rick2
            rick2 @wonghow last edited by rick2

            @wonghow I know what Tab Islands are for, that's how I know I don't want them 🙂
            I have no use for Tab Islands amd I have disabled them in my config.

            Edit: sorry, sent the post before finishing it

            But! If I drag a tab and drop it on top of another tab, guess what happens?
            A new Tab Island is created!

            Again: I don't want Tab Islands, I have no use for them, it's very annoying when they're created by mistake, and Opera doesn't provide an option to completely disable them

            They're turning a browser I have used for years into a bloated PoS with every new "feature" added.

            I'm sorry to say this, I really am, but I'm seriously considering switching to Firefox because I feel I'm constantly battilng Opera, not using it.

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            • Healing-Cross
              Healing-Cross @andrew84 last edited by

              @andrew84 Yes, that's true. Vivaldi has them, too. And even for a whole lot longer than Opera (Chromium).
              I myself find them more pleasant to the eye in Opera, actually, as I realized lately, when I gave Vivaldi another shot. Vivaldi's tab stacks can be arranged in very different ways, only one "accordeon mode" might be correctly compared to Opera's tab islands.
              I myself don't rely on both very much honestly. I seldom open more than ten tabs per workspace, rather less than that. So for me it's more gimmicky than a real feature.
              In this sense I feel that Vivaldi has far to many customization options for people like me.

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              • rick2
                rick2 @thelittlebrowserthatcould last edited by

                @thelittlebrowserthatcould
                Yup, it's disabled from day 1.

                Now, I have received an update to Opera Stable yesterday (110.0.5130.66, I had missed the announcement) and at least in this text box and 2 others I tried, the Aria icon is not shown, so maybe they fixed it.

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @wonghow last edited by

                  @wonghow What is tab groups for you? It seems to me your definition of tab groups may be different from the one most known and accepted by people.

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @wonghow last edited by

                    @wonghow Workspaces are/were a way to group tabs that Opera implemented a while ago.
                    So, basically, workspaces and tab island are just different ways to group tabs.

                    Even opening different windows with different tabs are a way to group tabs

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Thierry-Kowalski last edited by

                      @thierry-kowalski English here please

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

                        @andrew84 If I remember correctly, tab stacks were the name used when grouping tabs were originally created

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                        • Excella
                          Excella last edited by leocg

                          If I can't get rid of the emoticons, I'll get rid of Opera!

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                          • Dave236
                            Dave236 @Opera Comments Bot last edited by

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                            Terrible idea need to be able to remove this

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                            • etrodrigues
                              etrodrigues last edited by

                              If this feature is useful for someone at all, it could just be disabled by default, opt-in.

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                              • Twigman
                                Twigman last edited by leocg

                                I have rolled back and locked in to Version 110.0.5130.49 until this stupid tab emoji bullshit has a "off" option. WTF were you thinking?

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                                • andrew84
                                  andrew84 last edited by

                                  You should make the emojis feature optional and make the tab hover cards toggles to work in Opera.

                                  Why the toggles in Settings but it doesn't work?
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                                  • leocg
                                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

                                    @andrew84 As far as I known, those Chromium settings were already removed.

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                                    • andrew84
                                      andrew84 @leocg last edited by

                                      @leocg I see in Stable (portable) but I don't see in Developer.
                                      But it'd be better to leave and put the options to work instead of removing.

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                                      • Excella
                                        Excella last edited by

                                        I just hovered over a tab and the Emoji's are still there.PXL_20240609_175853393.jpg

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                                        • leocg
                                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

                                          @andrew84 The first one is a duplicate.. The second could be added, but I don't really know if it would be that useful.

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                                          • wonghow
                                            wonghow @leocg last edited by wonghow

                                            @leocg
                                            I designed and programmed GTK and QT apps. I know what are widgets and containers.
                                            Workspace concept is not Group.
                                            Workspace is a new space. Groups share same space. So tabs and groups are in the same space.

                                            It may seem same to you because it is a browser, and all you see are tabs. Actually, your Groups and tabs are inside a workspace. The browser cannot do much in terms of workspace, is not fully utilised, that is why you think is a group.

                                            A better example is the Desktop workspace. Although developers set launcher and wallpaper to shared across workspace, it can be different all together. Can have different widgets on differet workspaces. Not just grouping apps. Is space, same as when you have two tables. Each table has a box(group as in browser) of papers, but box is not a table.

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