Creating an Island manually is to complicated for me
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JoannaCzajka Opera last edited by 28 Apr 2023, 14:21
@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.
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ghirahim last edited by 28 Apr 2023, 23:08
@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!
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terryflorida last edited by 26 May 2023, 17:35
@ghirahim Ok. The "tab Island" doesn't work, nor does the "stacking". Edge can do this, why not Opera...or Firefox for that matter!
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by 26 May 2023, 17:50
@terryflorida Tabs island works here. If you say how it's not working, maybe someone can help.
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terryflorida last edited by 26 May 2023, 18:06
@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.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by 26 May 2023, 20:12
@terryflorida The option to automatically create tabs islands is enabled?
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terryflorida last edited by 26 May 2023, 20:37
I've no idea. Where is that option? I didn't even see that listed anywhere. -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by 26 May 2023, 22:17
@terryflorida It should be in the User Interface section of the settings page.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by 27 May 2023, 02:44
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.
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terryflorida last edited by 27 May 2023, 14:55
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
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by 27 May 2023, 15:06
@terryflorida Are you in build 4809? What OS?
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terryflorida last edited by 27 May 2023, 15:20
@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.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by 27 May 2023, 17:42
@terryflorida But you are using Opera 100.0.4809.0? Check in Menu > Help > About Opera or in opera://about.
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terryflorida last edited by 27 May 2023, 18:06
@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.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by 27 May 2023, 21:39
@terryflorida Opera One is still a Developer preview version. If you're running Stable or Beta you'll be running 99.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by 27 May 2023, 22:11
@terryflorida As said, you aren't using Opera One and that's why you are not seeing any tabs islands options.
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terryflorida last edited by 28 May 2023, 01:35
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!
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teceerbe last edited by 21 Jun 2023, 14:38
@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. -
terryflorida last edited by 1 Jul 2023, 13:10
@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.
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MarqM last edited by 1 Jul 2023, 14:32
@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.
