<![CDATA[Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me]]>@sarasc said in Tab Islands tips and tricks (Creation, Handpick Islands, Expand/Collapse, Shortcuts..):

To create a manual island, follow these steps:

Select multiple tabs on the tab strip by pressing Control+Left click.
These selected tabs will look brighter than the others.
Right-click on the selected tabs and choose 'Create Island'

Sorry, but no, no and no. Sometimes I truly don't understand you. Why would you make it so complicated? Just to remind you, 13 years (!!!) ago you introduced Tab Stacking. The simplest way to merge tabs together. Drag & Drop. And now? "Hold this key, click on all tabs, then right click and select ...."

Listen to us. I've been using Opera for over 20 years. Don't complicate things unnecessarily. It's awful. Change it ASAP.

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]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/63828/creating-an-island-manually-is-to-complicated-for-meRSS for NodeSun, 14 Jun 2026 17:16:20 GMTThu, 27 Apr 2023 21:47:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:50:18 GMT]]>@terryflorida Thank you for responding though!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/315863https://forums.opera.com/post/315863Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:50:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:31:21 GMT]]>@marqm What's wrong with them. Do they think their way is more convenient?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/315845https://forums.opera.com/post/315845Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:31:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:17:07 GMT]]>@marqm i got this weird bug where if you hit f11 and wait 6 seconds the screen will get saturated and the mouse button vanishes

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/315860https://forums.opera.com/post/315860Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:17:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 01 Jul 2023 14:32:58 GMT]]>@terryflorida In the current state of Opera One everything is temporary. Since the update to Opera One yesterday Opera has dumped all my tabs twice already. Even if I don't use any islands. It has reset every workspace to just a single start page tab, overriding the setting to retain tabs from the previous session.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/315838https://forums.opera.com/post/315838Sat, 01 Jul 2023 14:32:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:10:04 GMT]]>@teceerbe Okay, I'm now able to create the tab islands. However, when I started up my laptop this morning, they're gone. Are islands only temporary, just for that particular session? Thanks.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/315824https://forums.opera.com/post/315824Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:10:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:38:06 GMT]]>@ghirahim I'm using Opera Stable, and it's been just updated to Opera One.
I can confirm that you can create a tab island by moving one tab over the other for ~1 second.
A shared background will then appear behind them, after which you can release the tab.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/314156https://forums.opera.com/post/314156Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:38:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sun, 28 May 2023 01:35:23 GMT]]>@leocg

I don't know who I should be angry/upset with the most - myself or Opera for not relegating all the forum issues about a Developer version on a full Opera forum. Maybe that's why no one at Opera has responded to my issue - other than you and another moderator. I appreciate both your assistance and bringing me sanity and sedateness again!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311476https://forums.opera.com/post/311476Sun, 28 May 2023 01:35:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 27 May 2023 22:11:54 GMT]]>@terryflorida As said, you aren't using Opera One and that's why you are not seeing any tabs islands options.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311456https://forums.opera.com/post/311456Sat, 27 May 2023 22:11:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 27 May 2023 21:39:55 GMT]]>@terryflorida Opera One is still a Developer preview version. If you're running Stable or Beta you'll be running 99.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311455https://forums.opera.com/post/311455Sat, 27 May 2023 21:39:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 27 May 2023 18:06:09 GMT]]>@leocg I went to About and this is the uptodate version: Version:99.0.4788.31.

Seems I'm outdated, yet Opera says I'm up to date.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311447https://forums.opera.com/post/311447Sat, 27 May 2023 18:06:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 27 May 2023 17:42:36 GMT]]>@terryflorida But you are using Opera 100.0.4809.0? Check in Menu > Help > About Opera or in opera://about.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311429https://forums.opera.com/post/311429Sat, 27 May 2023 17:42:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 27 May 2023 15:20:08 GMT]]>@leocg I checked this morning. Not listed. I've reported this issue to Opera as a bug. Running the latest update of Opera, I don't know what else I can do...other than uninstalling/reinstalling Opera 😞

Thanks for your help.

I tried to find what build, but Opera doesn't make it easy to find out or impossible to search for it. I'm on Windows 11. Dell Laptop.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311417https://forums.opera.com/post/311417Sat, 27 May 2023 15:20:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 27 May 2023 15:06:33 GMT]]>@terryflorida Are you in build 4809? What OS?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311398https://forums.opera.com/post/311398Sat, 27 May 2023 15:06:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 27 May 2023 14:55:35 GMT]]>@burnout426

Thank you. I looked, searched but found nothing in settings for Tab Islands. I still cannot do this task. I've reported this as a bug. I'm running on the latest Opera update, so I don't know what I've done to miss this part.

Terry

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311397https://forums.opera.com/post/311397Sat, 27 May 2023 14:55:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Sat, 27 May 2023 02:44:22 GMT]]>@terryflorida

I have example.com, arstechnica.com, and hardforum.com tabs on the tab bar. example.com is focused. So, I ctrl + left-click arstechnica.com to select it too and repeat for hardforum.com. There are then 3 tabs selected. Then, I right-click on any of those selected tabs and choose "create tab island". That works fine for me and an island is created where those 3 tabs are moved into it.

At the URL opera://settings/userInterface, I have "Automatically create tab islands" enabled. If I goto https://forums.opera.com/category/11/opera-for-windows, right-click a link for a thread and choose "open in new tab", an island is automatically created where the current tab and that new tab are moved into it. If I open another thread link in a new tab, that one is added to the existing island.

So, all is working fine here for what it's worth.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311351https://forums.opera.com/post/311351Sat, 27 May 2023 02:44:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Fri, 26 May 2023 22:17:32 GMT]]>@terryflorida It should be in the User Interface section of the settings page.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311340https://forums.opera.com/post/311340Fri, 26 May 2023 22:17:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Fri, 26 May 2023 20:37:57 GMT]]>@leocg

🙂 I've no idea. Where is that option? I didn't even see that listed anywhere.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311339https://forums.opera.com/post/311339Fri, 26 May 2023 20:37:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Fri, 26 May 2023 20:12:27 GMT]]>@terryflorida The option to automatically create tabs islands is enabled?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311319https://forums.opera.com/post/311319Fri, 26 May 2023 20:12:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Fri, 26 May 2023 18:06:29 GMT]]>@leocg I've followed the instructions (ctl + left click) over a test of 3 tabs to "tab island," but they don't connect to each other. Maybe I'm misunderstanding this.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311316https://forums.opera.com/post/311316Fri, 26 May 2023 18:06:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Fri, 26 May 2023 17:50:11 GMT]]>@terryflorida Tabs island works here. If you say how it's not working, maybe someone can help.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311311https://forums.opera.com/post/311311Fri, 26 May 2023 17:50:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Fri, 26 May 2023 17:35:11 GMT]]>@ghirahim Ok. The "tab Island" doesn't work, nor does the "stacking". Edge can do this, why not Opera...or Firefox for that matter!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/311310https://forums.opera.com/post/311310Fri, 26 May 2023 17:35:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:08:35 GMT]]>@joannaczajka said in Tab Islands tips and tricks (Creation, Handpick Islands, Expand/Collapse, Shortcuts..):

Drag and drop to create an island it's a smooth way to create such a new group of tabs - we're working on it.

Lovely, nice to hear that!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/307969https://forums.opera.com/post/307969Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:08:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me on Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:21:19 GMT]]>@ghirahim Hi!

A tab island is created itself - effortlessly. Yes, you need to browse in a pattern when you, for example, scan a news page and open a couple of articles in new tabs to read one by one, or you search in Google and you open several results in new tabs. We learnt from our research that this is a very popular behaviour amongst users.

Drag and drop to create an island it's a smooth way to create such a new group of tabs - we're working on it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/307899https://forums.opera.com/post/307899Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:21:19 GMT