Feature request: Keep empty tabs open on re-opening the browser

[jayaguru-shishya]

jayaguru-shishya last edited by admin

Version:            46.0.2597.57 - Opera is up to date
Update stream:	Stable
System:	        Pop_OS 17.04 (x86_64; GNOME)

Greetings,

I'd like to suggest a simple feature that allows the user to keep empty tabs open while re-opening the browser. in my work, I tend to have various tabs open (+40), and therefore I use empty tabs as bookmarks to separate between groups of related tabs (~ 5 to 7).

Now, after each time I boot my system, I have to manually re-open the tabs again in order to avoid further confusion.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Ps. I noticed a similar thread about the matter from June 2016 here: https://forums.opera.com/topic/15844/opening-where-left-off-no-longer-opens-speed-dial-tabs-since-update-to-38-0-2220-31

[rudrick]

rudrick last edited by

This is important. If I leave speed dial open (and selected) when closing browser, speed dial / start page is not open/resumed when relaunching the app.

[jayaguru-shishya]

jayaguru-shishya last edited by

@rudrick As far as I have understood, Opera development is on the maintenance mode at the moment. Therefore, major improvements are very unlikely to happen.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator last edited by

@rudrick As far as I have understood, Opera development is on the maintenance mode at the moment. Therefore, major improvements are very unlikely to happen.

This is not true. Unless you are on a no longer supported OS.

[rudrick]

rudrick last edited by @jayaguru-shishya

@jayaguru-shishya Just in the past 6 months Opera brought Reborn (UI) (albeit not 'finished' yet) and Snap. Under the hood Chromium advances continuously.

[rudrick]

rudrick last edited by

Speed Dial is not an empty tab!!

[jayaguru-shishya]

jayaguru-shishya last edited by @rudrick

@rudrick It is what it is, but the tabs still do close whenever I boot my system. Besides, if Speed Dial is not an empty tab, shouldn't it remain intact like any other non-empty tab?

Cheers mate!

[rudrick]

rudrick last edited by

Do you wipe some or all or profile before/after reboot?

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

Meanwhile, Group your Tabs and/or OneTab extensions may help.

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[jayaguru-shishya]

jayaguru-shishya last edited by @rudrick

@rudrick No, I don't wipe any of my profile before or after the reboot.

[jayaguru-shishya]

jayaguru-shishya last edited by @zalex108

@zalex108 Thanks a lot! Got to have a try on those! OneTab seems to be a Chrome / Chromium equivalent for the Opera OnlyTab, isn't tat correct? Hmm, it gives me the following output:

This extension is only supported in Opera 11 and 12. Download anyway

Does it work still nice and smooth with the latest version of Opera? Any experience, anybody...?

Cheers mates!

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by zalex108 @jayaguru-shishya

@jayaguru-shishya

Don't know about Only Tab, I use OneTab on all my 15.x< regular profiles.
You'll need Download Chrome Extension.

Both are chrome store extensions.

[jayaguru-shishya]

jayaguru-shishya last edited by @zalex108

@zalex108 Thanks chap! I wasn't quite aware of that! Let me keep trying from this stand, I'll let you know!

Cheers!

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by zalex108

@jayaguru-shishya

Depending on the browsing:

1 - Use Group Your tabs.
2 - Open those groups in new windows.
3 - Use One tab and group them in OneTab - then you can even share them as a web site -.

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

At the other hand:

A workaround for memory issues that may concern you too for many opened tabs.

[jayaguru-shishya]

jayaguru-shishya last edited by jayaguru-shishya @zalex108

@zalex108 I've been now testing Group Your Tabs, but it isn't quite what I was looking for. See, I do have many tabs open, but usually they are from various different websites and domains; the only thing in common is the theme. For example, when you are making Google searches and you right click many prominent websites open into a new tab, that's the kind of organizing / grouping I need in my work - and a lot.

Even an empty tab in all it's simplicity would serve my needs perfectly! But Opera has changed empty tabs to Speed dial, and everytime I boot my system, the Speed dial tabs close

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

Ok,

Maybe there is a "Parental tab grouper" extension.

At the other hand, if did not found any SpeedDial sepperator replacement, file:///C:/ or file:///C:/Users/Public/Desktop/ may help you - or the equivalents for your OS -.