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    • mrsomewhere
      mrsomewhere @PanicPug last edited by

      @panicpug said in Select multiple tabs and drag to a new window:

      It's also super weird, that even with the new "islands" feature it's not possible to drag and drop an island into a new window, still only single tabs and nothing else.

      I was thinking the same thing. I have a cautious hope that now that islands have been implemented, a future update will allow you to move an island to a new window, but considered that I made this request 6 years ago, I'm not holding my breath.

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      • BRAAAAAAAV
        BRAAAAAAAV last edited by

        It's weird, because you can select multiple tabs, but you can't move them. I think that there's some plugin, probably, but at least you can move tabs from one window to another. That's not to bad for me, seeing as I only have to do that with around 5, but it's getting increasingly more difficult. I'm thinking of saving my two different windows separately in some folder, but still, it would be very useful.

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        • Zincyman
          Zincyman last edited by

          Cmooon Opera. This is such a basic and necessary feature! Please get this done

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @Zincyman last edited by

            @zincyman Work in progress: opera://flags/#drag-multiple-tabs

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            • aleksod
              aleksod @leocg last edited by

              @leocg Glad to see the feature is worked on. I will wait for the official release with the stable feature. Thanks for letting us know!

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              • Zincyman
                Zincyman last edited by

                @leocg my king! So glad to hear 🙂

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                • sparky132
                  sparky132 @leocg last edited by

                  @leocg I have enabled this. I now cannot drag any tab out into a separate window. Not even a single one. Bug?

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @sparky132 last edited by

                    @sparky132 Nope, something expected as said

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                    • sparky132
                      sparky132 @leocg last edited by

                      @leocg So the expected behaviour is that I cannot drag a tab to a new window? There must be a misunderstanding, surely you can't be preventing this behaviour by design?

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @sparky132 last edited by

                        @sparky132 As said, when a flag is disabled by default, it means that it's not ready to be used. So the expected behavior of such flags are that they don't work at all

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                        • virtualmozart
                          virtualmozart last edited by

                          Is there anyway to "upvote" this topic?

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                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @virtualmozart last edited by

                            @virtualmozart Nope, but you can upvote the first post.

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                            • nadiayorc
                              nadiayorc last edited by

                              Recently moved from Chrome, and it's been 90% fine but was pretty shocked to see that such a basic feature as moving multiple tabs wasn't a thing. Basically everything I would need from chrome worked fine here, other than moving tabs. I use it constantly in Chrome and not having it definitely slows down moving tabs to another window massively.

                              At least it's supposedly being worked on but it should really have been prioritised a very long time ago for such an extremely basic feature thats in pretty much every other browser. I can't possible imagine why it wouldn't be a basic feature there from the start.

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                              • burnout426
                                burnout426 Volunteer @nadiayorc last edited by

                                @nadiayorc It works in Opera 110.0.5130.39 64-bit on Windows 11 23H2 when the "Drag multiple tabs" flag is on at the URL opera://flags/#drag-multiple-tabs is enabled (it's enabled by default). Not only does it work with multiple tabs outside of a tab island selected, but you can drag a tab island out of a window into a new window too and all its tabs go with it.

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                                • nadiayorc
                                  nadiayorc @burnout426 last edited by nadiayorc

                                  @burnout426 I was actually using Opera GX when I made the comment, in which it doesn't seem to work yet, but since making the comment I tried out non-GX and was happy to see it did indeed work exactly as I would like it to.

                                  Even though I do use my PC for gaming a lot I realised I personally don't really have much need for the GX-exclusive features but it would be nice if it worked in GX as well for the people using it.

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                                  • sparky132
                                    sparky132 last edited by

                                    This is working for me now on Opera version 109.0.5097.80. Finally! (opera://flags/#drag-multiple-tabs is enabled by default and working correctly). Thank you. It only took 7 years!

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                                    • mrsomewhere
                                      mrsomewhere @burnout426 last edited by

                                      @burnout426 I guess I should say thanks to Opera for finally implementing this feature, but I'm choking on those words a bit because it took 7 freakin' years to get it done.

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                                      • SuryaV369
                                        SuryaV369 @nadiayorc last edited by

                                        @nadiayorc Still sad that Opera worked so much to create a gaming version only to make it sub par and not usable for multi tasking. Why create a sub par product when you can make one product better?

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                                        • Emileafy
                                          Emileafy last edited by

                                          Someone let me know when opera GX finally lets you drag multiple tabs

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