How Vertical Tabs work in Opera One

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Hey all, When you’re browsing with several tabs open and frequently need to switch between them – be it for work, studies, research, or even some shopping – you might want to switch to the vertical tab strip in Opera One. It makes it easier for you to see which tab is which, as the […]

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[romasio]

romasio last edited by

YES!!!! The most waited for feature I think - and I was working already on the same extension, I see I can drop that and just enjoy the vertical tabs already built in!

[addams71]

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[ipit]

ipit last edited by

I just launched the app, and a message about the new vertical tabs feature popped up, but I don't see any options to enable them.

[expanderclone 0]

expanderclone 0 @ipit last edited by

@ipit: Refresh your browser again and it will be fine.

[defietstoerist]

defietstoerist last edited by

works well. Maybe you could add a button to switch between horizontal and vertical:

• horizontal bar: a button to the right of the '+' button
• vertical bar: at the top, next to the 'minimize' button
  No need to put this somewhere in a menu I think

[kuro-mujou]

kuro-mujou last edited by

Wishing for this feature so many years, now it alive

[Leeflang77]

Leeflang77 last edited by

Nice feature, looks good, thx.

[iceikam]

iceikam last edited by

Cool feature!
It would be even better if it stays collapsed, and only show the full name of the tab when I hover over the mouse (so it can hide automatically), but like it already!

[funkyeuphemism]

funkyeuphemism last edited by

Love this feature. It had made the Tab Islands feature actually useful for the first time.
You should add a Vertical Tabs switch to the Sidebar. It would be great to toggle between vertical/horizontal tabs with a single, easy-to-access button.

[beelzebub13]

beelzebub13 last edited by

yeah, it looks great, but one feature is unavailable - when I hover over a tab in horizontal mode, it shows me all the tabs of that kind eg yt - all youtube videos that are open, google results, gmail accounts etc. Could you make it work in vertical tabs too?

[hellorachel]

hellorachel last edited by

Love this feature also, but one more thing that I really hope it will work is the Tab bar (both in horizontal and vertical) can be auto-hidden, just like the Sidebar layout, to maximise the screen space 🥹

[voodj1n]

voodj1n last edited by

These side tabs are tight! But why can´t I have them on the right side

[Naltam]

Naltam last edited by

i think i could love vertical tabs, if only i can put them on the right side of the screen, and maybe also have a button that allow me to switch between vertical and orizontal way. at the actual state of things i will keep use the orizontal way, but it's promising

[kelos23]

kelos23 last edited by

thanks for finally bringing out this feature, I was waiting for it for so long as well.

[dowiew]

dowiew last edited by

Chrome does it better!

1. More copmact (less space among tabs).
2. You can see if a tab group is collapsed or expanded (right-side arrow icon on a tab-group bar. Critical! Why in Opera there is the number instead, and we can't tell the collapse-status???
3. We can clearly see which tabs are in a group - there is a vertical line on the left side. Opera has shaded color below the group - not that clear, combined with 4):
4. The active tab color is hard to distinguish from the shaded colors of in-group tabs.
5. The wonderful group buttons in the favourites bar, which can jump to other Chrome windows.
6. The last "New tab" tab is just "+", Opera "New tab" text looks like a tab name - misclickable.

[17misha]

17misha last edited by

1. Emoji support is also essential for vertical tabs to make it easier to locate the specific tab you need.
2. When switching to vertical tabs, the ability to move the browser window disappears completely; there is simply no space at the top to grab the window with the mouse and drag it.
3. It is high time to implement keyboard shortcuts (customizable by the user) for navigating to the tab on the right/left (or up/down) without using the mouse. Why aren't such hotkeys available in the browser yet?
4. A keyboard shortcut is also needed to quickly switch between horizontal and vertical tab layouts.

[romasio]

romasio @17misha last edited by

@17misha I think keyboard shortcuts are already implemented, have been for a long time. Hold OPT+CMD+ArrowKey and it will traverse. Similar on Windows too.

[17misha]

17misha @romasio last edited by

@romasio: Unfortunately, there are no such key combinations for Windows; I’ve tried to find them many times, but they simply don’t exist.

There are Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab, but they switch between active tabs rather than cycling through all of them in order, so they aren't useful. Plus, an awkward switching interface pops up; with over 100 tabs open, that makes it very inconvenient.

[swcm]

swcm @17misha last edited by

@17misha: I also don't like the default behavior of ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab, but there is a keybinds section in Opera, though it's super easy to miss. In settings, go to Features, then scroll all the way down. The very last option is "Configure shortcuts." When you click that, you'll probably be scrolled down the page of keyboard shortcuts a bit - scroll back to the top of the list. There's a special "Search shortcuts" field where you can find things easier. What you're looking for is "Switch right through tabs" and "Swith left through tabs" - set these to ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab. You may need to unbind the existing keybind for those - honestly, it's been so long since I set it, I don't recall if I needed to do that first. But now you can press ctrl-tab and move to the tab to the right, none of this last tab stuff. There's a few other annoyances I turn off in there as well. Hope that helps!