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    [Implemented]Tab stacking, tiling and tab grouping

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    • sgunhouse
      sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @felipesantini-acr last edited by

      @felipesantini-acr Keep in mind, Leo and I are not Opera employees. This is the right place but we're not the ones you need to convince. We may suggest alternatives or suggest clarifications, but we can't implement anything. While Opera does read posts here, they seem to prefer not to reply most of the time.

      I will say though, we should try to stick to one request per thread. Stacks and groups can be considered the same request, tiling tabs and splitting the window is a separate request and deserves its own thread

      So to summarize, the argument for stacking or grouping as opposed to workspaces is that stacking doesn't hide your other tabs, and that some extensions allow you to group related tabs automatically. Anything else?

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @felipesantini-acr last edited by

        @felipesantini-acr Although I may even see your point, I still think that workspaces are Opera's approach to tabs grouping and I don't expect anything different to be implement anytime soon. However, I don't work for Opera, as said, and that's only my opinion as a longtime user.

        By the way, couldn't you just use several windows in your Work workspace, instead of creating several workspaces?

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        • RJF-Campbell
          RJF-Campbell @gizmogadget last edited by

          @gizmogadget Hi, I could not make that extension work on my Opera installation. Maybe a different version to yours? I have 79.0.4143.72 installed. Any thoughts most appreciated! Regards, R.

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          • youaredrink763
            youaredrink763 last edited by

            Howdy, I typically have numerous tabs open, around 10-15, and screw up with them. More often than not I use console alternate routes Ctrl + (tab number) to get around the open tabs, however it would be significantly more simpler if Opera GX had the component to see tabs one next to the other or stacked in light of the fact that two tabs from comparable subjects can be seen without being completely turned inside out okay, 👈

            The other one is tab gathering, which I think most programs have, so I needn't clarify how valuable they are.

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            • RJF-Campbell
              RJF-Campbell last edited by

              For some reason (I don't think anything I did lol) the extension is now working and it's great!
              Thanks to: Tab Resize by peterdotjs

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              • jlitz88
                jlitz88 last edited by

                Vivaldi feature of tiling tabs is nice. View multiple tabs in one window. Watch multiple videos ect. Opera should definitely add
                it. Can resize, scroll, delete add. Different layouts They use stacking tabs too which is handy. And their appearance customization is great.

                But they completely lack a decent workplace interface which is what I love about Opera.

                Screenshot of Vivaldi:
                https://i.imgur.com/oCaLE5j.png

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                • RJF-Campbell
                  RJF-Campbell @jlitz88 last edited by

                  @jlitz88 Agree. I have had a look at Vivaldi. Nice setup. But with the tiling extension I added to Opera, I get most of that now too. And, as you say, the Opera Workspace is far superior and more useful for the way I work. It's great though that there are so many browser options out there. I did try Brave recently, but the crypto stuff drove me nuts. I also love the Opera Flow option. Very handy

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                  • jlitz88
                    jlitz88 @RJF-Campbell last edited by jlitz88

                    @rjf-campbell i just added Tile Tabs WF It seems pretty good.. I checked out a few which on do you use?

                    Yes always looking at different browsers. Vivaldi does have a nice appearance modiier. But that in a minor thing. The workplaces in Opera are great.

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                    • RJF-Campbell
                      RJF-Campbell @jlitz88 last edited by

                      @jlitz88 I added this extension: Tab Resize by peterdotjs (you find it in the Chrome store).
                      At first it did not seem to work, but a few days latter was working fine. Never did figure out why?! Here's a screenshow of it in action: https://ibb.co/d6TMD7T

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                      • jlitz88
                        jlitz88 @RJF-Campbell last edited by

                        @rjf-campbell I tried that one out for a while settled on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tile-tabs-we/lbnnfjfjdijcnaakaebgcoemmlicjbnl?hl=en-US but always open to find the best.

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                        • RJF-Campbell
                          RJF-Campbell @jlitz88 last edited by

                          @jlitz88 Thanks for the suggestion. Will check it out later

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                          • martyfeldman
                            martyfeldman last edited by

                            I'm sorry, I find workspaces to be frustrating, and a bad idea when group tabs works so easily. There's not even a right click function to add an open tab to a workspace. So I open it up in the new workspace, or try and drag it over, which is a pain. Also, when I click on a workspace in another window, it's empty. Yet each workspace appears to be a new browser window. Mind you, I'm using GX, so it's implementation might still be buggy, but either way, it's not convenient to use and it's definitely driving me back towards a browser that has group tabs.

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                            • burnout426
                              burnout426 Volunteer @martyfeldman last edited by

                              @martyfeldman said in Tab stacking, tiling and tab grouping:

                              There's not even a right click function to add an open tab to a workspace. So I open it up in the new workspace, or try and drag it over, which is a pain.

                              When workspaces are enabled, a tab is always in some workspace. So, if you want the tab in another workspace, you right-click the tab, goto "move tab to workspace", and choose the workspace you want to move it to.

                              Or, are you saying you want to right-click a tab and have a "Create new workspace and move this tab to it" option?

                              Also, when I click on a workspace in another window, it's empty. Yet each workspace appears to be a new browser window.

                              Workspaces are a visual thing. The tabs from all workspaces in a window are still technically together on the same tab bar and are all from the same window they're in. When you open a new window, just like if you had workspaces turned off, you get a blank slate of tabs that's separate from other windows. So, since each window has its own tabs, the workspaces in each window only show tabs from their window. There's no sharing between windows as far as the collection of tabs in each workspace goes.

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                              • kisswd
                                kisswd last edited by

                                Enabling the tab group feature in the workspace would be really helpful.

                                I normally work on multiple tasks at the same time, so I use the workspace to manage them in priority. However, I also want to group all tabs that belong to a single task, so that I can easily see how many steps I have done for the task, and how many tasks are included in the current priority workspace.

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                                • davidgould
                                  davidgould @hien-reese last edited by

                                  @hien-reese +1 for Chrome-style tab grouping.

                                  The code is presumably public and all that needs to happen is to adapt it to Opera's style.

                                  Even with workspaces, it's still handy to have (sub)grouping. I literally have a dozen or more contexts of tabs. I don't want a dozen workspaces. I want to subdivide workspaces into groups of tabs occasionally.

                                  https://blog.google/products/chrome/manage-tabs-with-google-chrome/

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                                  • faridtnx
                                    faridtnx last edited by

                                    Tab grouping (stacking) is such a huge loss. Workspace is a different thing and I hope Opera come to conclusion that tab grouping should be back again.

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                                    • adcrkv
                                      adcrkv last edited by

                                      Even if user tab grouping is gone, I'd love an option to have the browser auto-stack tabs from the same domain - if I have six tabs open from Amazon, show them as one tab that expands on hovering.

                                      And there should be a setting to use two or three rows for the tab bar. Plenty of room on a lot of monitors to do it.

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                                      • emmomurari
                                        emmomurari last edited by

                                        cede8069-9c25-4019-a586-0d347105405a-image.png I've been using Opera for a long time and I really like the Workspaces feature, where I divide personal and work matters into different workspaces, but I'd like to group tabs within each workspace like the one in Google Chrome, for example:

                                        Within the workspace work, you can have groups of tabs such as search, news, tools... each with a different name and color for easy viewing.

                                        It would be interesting to have this feature native to Opera or some good extension that implements this feature. Worskspace with Tab Group would be awesome!

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                                        • PhyreLighter
                                          PhyreLighter last edited by

                                          Group tab stacking is the only thing not convincing me to move to Opera again. I used Opera for about a month a couple years ago and really enjoyed it... however, tab grouping was so important to me that I could give up all the features Opera provided just for tab grouping. So now I just use chrome instead. Please work on adding this feature. It has been years since it's been suggested and it is a very sought after implementation.

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