Do amazing things with tabs in Opera browser – split, trace, and decorate
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HealingCross last edited by
Split screen is a welcome addition to Opera. I've used this feature in Vivaldi very often. So I appreciate that Opera does it, too, now. I hope, they add some possibility to split at least one more tab to it. Nevertheless, a very handy feature.
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Sulei42 last edited by
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Hello all !
Still waiting for the possibility to manually create tab groups with a given name !
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Ezc1980 last edited by
My main challenge with island is identifying them. If I could give each island a name or favicon/emoji that would be very useful.
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Lightofscorpio last edited by
if you could also give us the ability to change the color of the traces, that would be nice.
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valtersuel last edited by
What is the shortcut for alternating between tab islands? For tabs it is ctrl + TAB
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@valtersuel There doesn't seem to have one: opera://settings/keyboardShortcuts
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john-viv last edited by
@Opera-Comments-Bot said in Do amazing things with tabs in Opera browser – split, trace, and decorate:
Hey there tab appreciators! If you’ve been using Opera for a while, you’ll be familiar with its penchant for innovating tabs. Ages ago, Opera was the browser that introduced the concept of tabs – a true innovation if there ever was one. And the Opera One developer release in 2023 delivered Tab Islands, an intuitive […]
Opera continues to innovate with features like Tab Islands, making tab management intuitive and efficient. It's great to see them leading the way for better browsing experiences
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aRandomdoggo last edited by
there is a bug where if you have multiple workspaces with their own tab islands and switch between them regularly, the workspaces that you were not on when you close the browser do not save the tab islands in them. So when you open up that workspace again, it's just a bunch of tabs with no islands
Has this bug been fixed yet? And if not, is there an estimate to when it'll be fixed?
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annoyed-at-updates last edited by
If you want a split screen with multiple windows, all you have to do is hit Windows + (arrow key). Eg if you want one window on left and another window on right, Windows + L arrow for one window and Windows + R arrow for the other. That way is so much simpler than this new feature, and the new feature makes the browser unusable for when I want to drag & separate tabs.
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besik33 last edited by
@annoyed-at-updates: try mouse gesture. It is more efficient.
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AnChill last edited by
@annoyed-at-updates: if you move tabs to an additional window just to create a split screen there's a chance of losing every open tab you had open. Power goes out, you close the "main" window without previously closing the temporary one, and now everything is gone. If there are tabs you haven't opened in a while they might not even show up in history for the last time you opened the browser. As for drag & separate - just release the tab above the address bar area, it's really not that hard to figure it out
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elieta last edited by
Emoji will be usefull but maybe a option for chose the color of group tab pls !?
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annoyed-at-updates last edited by
@besik33 I appreciate that suggestion! I personally stay away from mouse gestures, because they're too easy to trigger inadvertently when I don't want them - but they're a good option to have available to turn on or turn off, depending on how precise you are with your motions and/or how precise/reliable your pad is.
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annoyed-at-updates last edited by
@AnChill said in Do amazing things with tabs in Opera browser – split, trace, and decorate:
@annoyed-at-updates: if you move tabs to an additional window just to create a split screen there's a chance of losing every open tab you had open. Power goes out, you close the "main" window without previously closing the temporary one, and now everything is gone. If there are tabs you haven't opened in a while they might not even show up in history for the last time you opened the browser. As for drag & separate - just release the tab above the address bar area, it's really not that hard to figure it out
Two thoughts:
1 - I didn't state it in this thread, but my main complaint with this new tab-splitting feature in Opera is that it's introduced a new instability into the browser that wasn't there before. Ever since Opera introduced this feature, now any attempt to move or manipulate a tab with a Google Meet call immediately crashes the browser.
2 - We just have different experiences. I'm not sure how to account for that, I just know that my experience isn't the same as yours in a couple ways that are relevant:
-Releasing the tab above the address bar, like you suggested, has only worked for me if I turn off the split tabs feature in Opera.
-I've never had a situation where I visited a site, and it didn't show up on my history unless I specific set up the browser not to include it in my history - and I've never had a site removed from my history simply by dragging a tab or splitting the screen, etc. In other words, if I've ever had my computer go out for whatever reason while using two windows on split screen, I've always been able to restore my session by identifying the sites I was on as separate entries in my history.
