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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      I'm one of those users who regularly have dozens of tabs open. For example,

      • I regularly search the websites of online retailers for certain products. From their result lists with often many dozens of offers, I then open possibly interesting product pages in a new background tab (CTRL+CLICK) to look at them later.

      • Here in the Opera forum (and in other NodeBB-forums as well) I always let me show the unread- or recent-list to open the threads that interest me from there in background tabs.

      • Online searches on scientific topics often lead to dozens of cross-references that are opened in background tabs.

      Saving all these pages as bookmarks instead is, of course, nonsensical. And for me, implementing the proposal discussed here would be very helpful.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @Guest last edited by

        @yanta This is slightly off-topic, but you can middle-click links to open in new tab. It might be faster than pressing Ctrl. Just click the scroll wheel.

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        • carehart
          carehart @Guest last edited by

          @concretable probably for the same reason that some people only scan a forum reply or email, and reply to it, raising an issue addressed already in what they didn't read. Different strokes...

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          • subanana
            subanana last edited by

            Yes, i too second the thought to have Ctrl-9 shortcut for the Last Tab.
            Developers, please implement asap.

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            • burnout426
              burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

              In Opera Developer, at the URL opera://settings/keyboardShortcuts, there's now "Switch to last tab". There's no shortcut set for it by default. But, to match other browsers, you can delete ctrl + 9 from "Switch to ninth tab" and add ctrl + 9 to the new "Switch to last tab".

              See https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-78/#b4079.0.

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              • carehart
                carehart @burnout426 last edited by

                @burnout426 said in Ctrl + 0 (zero)/Ctrl + 9 to send to the last tab:

                tab

                Thank you!

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                • burnout426
                  burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                  It's in the changelog for Opera Stable now.

                  https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-77/#b4054.146

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                  • carehart
                    carehart @burnout426 last edited by leocg

                    @burnout426 Thanks for the news, but I will say that I updated to the latest stable 77.0.4054.146 (Windows 10), and I did restart Opera, but I don't find any "switch to last tab" option listed in the shortcuts in settings.

                    And while that bug list does indeed show this being fixed in this version (as ticket DNA-93637), I couldn't find any further details on it.

                    Has anyone else gotten this to work?

                    I'm really looking forward to it. Sure, it's one less than doing ctrl+1>shift-tab, but since I do work in multiple browsers on multiple machines (that are usually other than Opera), I would love to see this work as it does every else on my main browser. 🙂

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer @carehart last edited by

                      @carehart Confirmed that "switch to tab" isn't shown in stable. Maybe it's an error in the changelog or something. Sorry. I'll keep you posted.

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                      • burnout426
                        burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

                        It was a mistake in the changelog. Sorry, the new shortcut is not in Opera Stable yet. I'll let you know when it is.

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                        • mmichel
                          mmichel last edited by

                          It seems to not work through workspaces. If last tab is not in current workspace, the shortcut does nothing.
                          But it can change (crossing fingers).
                          Either work cross-workspace or in the current workspace. Not working at all is quite frustrating.

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