Vertical Tabs
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mattbizio last edited by
@parasite666 said in Vertical Tabs:
bump on this thread! vertical tabs are absolutely needed! vivaldi and brave already have them and we don't want to fall in competition, they are much neater and comfortable, less messy than horizontal top tabs, can be regrouped more easily and their sidebar can be hidden when not hovering on it to provide more space and resolution for the webpages!
Exactly! And now the devs have cool tools like cursor or claude code to make it happen...
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scrapefour last edited by
@parasite666 agree 100%. Unfortunately since opera doesn't want to adopt basic features that other browsers have I completely have moved off opera. Opera air was my favorite browser so far but the absence of basic things like vertical tabs makes it unusable. So I completely moved away from opera for the time.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by@parasite666 And why vertical tabs should be considered a basic feature?
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Mlipka Opera last edited by
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mixchild last edited by mixchild
@scrapefour https://forums.opera.com/topic/88263/chrome-comes-with-vertical-tabs-after-opera-users-complained-tab-islands-when
Good news Chrome listens while Opera ignores
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scrapefour last edited by
@mixchild This is the kind of thing that's going to hurt opera in the long run.
I've been a long time opera user and have now fully ditched opera for edge and chrome. I'm not a fan of chrome but they listen and are giving us the literally basic features that we requested.
Opera is the only modern browser left that does not have vertical tabs. I know there's a lot of buzz about this on reddit and users are leaving opera in troves. I hope they figure this out soon and fix this before there's no one left
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@scrapefour And why vertical tabs should be considered a basic feature? Why Opera should reintroduce vertical tabs in its browsers?
I'm not against vertical tabs, but I don't really see it as something urgent.
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scrapefour last edited by
@leocg Well for starters vertical tabs is actually considered a core functionality of a browser now. Opera is the only remaining browser that doesn't have.
I'd definitely consider this urgent given the declining market share and public outcry from hundreds of thousands of users on this forum, reddit and other socials that they would implement such a basic feature.
Honestly, it's a very bad look when the majority of the user base is asking for this one feature and operas stance is we don't care enough about our user base to do it.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@scrapefour And why it should be considered a core feature? Why should people even care about having vertical tabs on their browsers?
I don't really think that morre than 1%, maybe 2% of the users care or even know about vertical tabs.
There are just around 12 people asking for vertical tabs on this topic. Maybe there are another dozen around there in other topics.
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scrapefour last edited by
@leocg Because that's literal standard practice. That is a fact that unfortunately can't be change. This is a basic core feature in 2026.
It's honestly astonishing that after hundreds of thousands of users public outcry for this one feature the official stance of the opera development team is. We don't use it so we don't need.
For me and others this is why we switched off. I truly hate to say it but that mindset will be the downfall of this product unfortunately. The unwillingness to listen to user feedback and implement features that will actual retain users ultimately is what will keep driving users to leave.
Opera is already seeing a decline in users and is losing market share. Does the team seriously not care?
Edge, chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, shift, wave, even the perplexity AI browser has it.
Why is the opera team so vehemently against this feature? Opera is the last modern browser on the planet to not have this feature. What has made the opera take such a stance that it's willing to even forfeit it's market share??