<![CDATA[Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera]]>Can you guys at Opera please change the behavior of tabs when many are open to be scrollable sideways at fixed size instead of shrinking them till they become 2 millimeters wide? It's ridiculous. Opera shrinks them so far you don't even see any text on them anymore. And to make things even worse, if you're using it on a touch device like my hybrid HP X2 netbook, using touch to select a correct tab is like trying to press a keyboard button using Boeing 787 left wing.

Firefox has this far more elegant. Tabs remain fixed size, so they are easily selectable, you can see the title on the tab, close it with the X button on it and to access more tabs, you simply drag the tabs and they scroll left and right.
Why can't Opera use such system instead of idiotic one from Chrome? Google makes many good designs, but with this one, they totally missed all the GUI and UX design basics. Like, entirely.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/20712/tab-stacking-as-firefox-does-it-instead-of-this-shrinking-mess-from-chrome-operaRSS for NodeWed, 13 May 2026 14:01:51 GMTSat, 13 May 2017 17:25:41 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Wed, 05 Dec 2018 19:24:14 GMT]]>I don't think Opera uses the number of upvotes to decide if something will be implemented or not.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/160326https://forums.opera.com/post/160326Wed, 05 Dec 2018 19:24:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:13:26 GMT]]>Ey Guys!!!
Vote in the first post, giving the little hand up, +1, that makes it the most voted, the same ones that wrote here should have given the +1 and it would be up in the most voted!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/160308https://forums.opera.com/post/160308Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:13:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:25:43 GMT]]>@loganj
You can use tabs temporarily without having to keep them going forever. It is very easy to back up bookmarks.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/160019https://forums.opera.com/post/160019Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:25:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:17:46 GMT]]>@concretable
really?
i guess thats why programmers created tabs so that we can use bookmarks

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159840https://forums.opera.com/post/159840Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:17:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:26:26 GMT]]>I suggest using bookmarks. It is much easier.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159808https://forums.opera.com/post/159808Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:26:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:01:58 GMT]]>i know what you mean.
even if you don't use touch screen you still have to search all tabs for the correct one.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159507https://forums.opera.com/post/159507Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:01:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 07:25:25 GMT]]>@loganj It doesn't even have to be something as extreme as 300 tabs. Things get weird at 50 tabs already. On a 24 inch 1080p monitor. Now imagine you're doing this on a hybrid netbook with 10 inch screen and touch (even at 30 tabs). Tapping the right microscopic tab is really annoying task, not to mention you don't really see anything until tapped. No such problem with Firefox where they elegantly solved this by shrinking tabs only to a certain point and then they stop doing that and you have to slide them left and right to see them all. Some might see it as a problem but isn't really. It just works.

Or even better, Opera could offer both modes to users to choose from. "Shrinking" and "Sliding". So everyone can be happy using whatever they prefer. No other browser would offer this.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159500https://forums.opera.com/post/159500Sun, 25 Nov 2018 07:25:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Sat, 24 Nov 2018 11:36:17 GMT]]>and even after an year the opera has same stupid tabs. imagine
@concretable do that for 300 tabs and inform us how much time it takes to wait for each tooltip to show you the information
i find the matter of tab size to be very annoying and it kind of makes tabs useless when you stop being able to switch through them cause u can find the tab you need
for now firefox does a very great job with tabs. probably the best there is

Edit: i've just tested iexplorer. guess even iexplorer is much better that opera/chromium lol. im on w8 and have no clue how the "mighty" edge handles tabs

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159460https://forums.opera.com/post/159460Sat, 24 Nov 2018 11:36:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Sun, 11 Jun 2017 19:45:50 GMT]]>If I touch a tab on a tablet, I get the page.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/123240https://forums.opera.com/post/123240Sun, 11 Jun 2017 19:45:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Sun, 11 Jun 2017 18:12:58 GMT]]>

You do realize, don't you, that you can read the whole title of a tab by mousing over it and reading a tooltip?

Good luck trying to do that on a Windows tablet using touch...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/123234https://forums.opera.com/post/123234Sun, 11 Jun 2017 18:12:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Sat, 10 Jun 2017 20:26:37 GMT]]>You do realize, don't you, that you can read the whole title of a tab by mousing over it and reading a tooltip?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/123197https://forums.opera.com/post/123197Sat, 10 Jun 2017 20:26:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:25:50 GMT]]>I'd say add a scroll button to go left or right once the tab width is below a certain length. Seems like an oversight to shrink tab size until its almost unusable.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/123190https://forums.opera.com/post/123190Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:25:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Fri, 19 May 2017 07:45:58 GMT]]>Don't you think you're being selfish there? Just because YOU don't use it, that doesn't mean others don't. What exactly do you lose if tabs are fixed size and scrollable side to side opposed to getting shrinked into microscopic pixel when enough of them are open? Or like we agreed on top, being able to switch between both methods.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121202https://forums.opera.com/post/121202Fri, 19 May 2017 07:45:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Thu, 18 May 2017 15:30:01 GMT]]>I prefer the shrinking method and in no way want opera to adopt touch screen mechanisms. Too many touchscreen based UIs out there screwing up desktop apps.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121140https://forums.opera.com/post/121140Thu, 18 May 2017 15:30:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Wed, 17 May 2017 14:20:32 GMT]]>The thing is, I don't even remember to use that dropdown tab menu. I'm just so used to tab bar from Firefox it just doesn't even come to my mind...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120993https://forums.opera.com/post/120993Wed, 17 May 2017 14:20:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Wed, 17 May 2017 02:24:39 GMT]]>I could imagine it being problematic on touch screens, but I absolutely love the tab management in Opera. Plus, pressing the button on the far right will get you a list of all tabs to quickly find back that specific page you are looking for.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120942https://forums.opera.com/post/120942Wed, 17 May 2017 02:24:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Tue, 16 May 2017 18:03:17 GMT]]>I'd like to see the option to switch back and forth between those two options.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120911https://forums.opera.com/post/120911Tue, 16 May 2017 18:03:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Tue, 16 May 2017 16:53:28 GMT]]>You can open a list of tabs with the full titles from the button at the extreme right end of the tab bar.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120898https://forums.opera.com/post/120898Tue, 16 May 2017 16:53:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Tue, 16 May 2017 06:04:08 GMT]]>Only thing or option, just not this horrid shrinking nonsense. Open 20 tabs and they become so tiny you can't see what's on it or even use any kind of commands on it. Who even wants them like this? They serve absolutely no purpose when they become so tiny.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120870https://forums.opera.com/post/120870Tue, 16 May 2017 06:04:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tab stacking as Firefox does it instead of this shrinking mess from Chrome/Opera on Mon, 15 May 2017 22:02:51 GMT]]>As I have said before, that should be only an option.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120851https://forums.opera.com/post/120851Mon, 15 May 2017 22:02:51 GMT