Vertical Tabs
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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??
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@scrapefour said:
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.
Where? When? I don't even see a thousand people asking for it in Opera.
And Opera never said that they won't add vertical to Opera Air, but it won't happen now, maybe because Opera Air was not designed for that.
They also never said that they wouldn't put vertical tabs back on their main browser.
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scrapefour last edited by
@leocg Just look around. This is being discussed all over.
Based off your response and Mlipka vertical tabs isn't coming if at all.
Still odd to me that Air was designed missing core functionality.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@scrapefour said:
Opera is already seeing a decline in users and is losing market share. Does the team seriously not care?
Opera's market share always had its ups and downs. There's no way to say that an eventual decline is exclusively because of vertical tabs.
Interesting article, thanks.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@scrapefour I'm just an user, so what I say or not doesn't matter on Opera's decision about getting back vertical tabs after 15, 20 years or not.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@scrapefour Vertical tabs is not a core feature. It would be interesting to have vertical tabs? Yes, but it's far from being a core feature.
It seems to me that vertical tabs are a pet feature for some users, maybe, I guess, those that can't close tabs and always have hundreds of them opened.
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scrapefour last edited by scrapefour
@leocg Vertical tabs is a core feature. This has been widely agreed upon by web developers and had been implemented into all web browsers.
Regardless of how you feel you cannot change the fact that vertical tabs has been deemed an essential and core feature of a browser.
Closing tabs has nothing to do with vertical tabs. It's about readability and accessibility but opera has made its stance clear that's those things don't matter