Suggestion: pin tab islands/show tab icons on island

[ehlly]

ehlly last edited by

I love the tab islands, but if I could improve one thing about them it's adding the option to create islands for pinned tabs, or pin a whole island.

I also like the look of the pinned tabs, where only the website's icon shows. It's compact, but still allows you to see what is what at a glance. Would be nice if that was an option for islands, to make things even more compact and organized.

[MarqM]

MarqM @ehlly last edited by MarqM

@ehlly according to my experience, at least in the 2 latest Opera versions: version: 100.0.4815.54 and the previous one on Windows 11 Home, a group of pinned tabs is automatically treated as an island. At least there is the same pop up window as for an island when the cursor is placed at the very left side of the group.
Unfortunately islands are currently not a feature but a virus. Every time I create an island in a session I loose all open tabs in all workspaces at the next start of Opera. Avoiding to have them created helps for the moment.

Regarding your suggestion, I absolutely agree. This topic was already discussed here [https://forums.opera.com/post/315992] b.t.w.

[ehlly]

ehlly @MarqM last edited by

@marqm They are, but it's one group for all pinned tabs. You can't really organize them more than just being pinned tabs all together. At least I couldn't find any options.

Thanks, I hadn't seen that topic! Nice to know

[MarqM]

MarqM @ehlly last edited by

@ehlly you are right, pinned tabs groups have a very strange behavior for islands. They do not collapse and they are created regardless if the option to automatically create tab islands is enabled or not. The whole tab islands concept is not consistent.